Gambling News Blog

Pressure on the UIGEA is becoming greater and greater, more companies and people joining the fight against the ban on gambling. The NFL (National Football League) wants nothing to do with change. That is why they hired full-time lobbyist, to maintain the UIGEA and defend the rights of the NFL. A lobbyist, is a person [...]

On March 20th, the historic 200k March Mania Slots Tournament came to an end but April will bring a couple of great games with it as well. April Fools’ FunStart your fun at Noon (ET) on April 1st with the $5,000 Guaranteed April Fools’ Slot Freeroll Tournament. There’s no entry fee, re-buys are only $1.99 [...]

Popular online casino GoCasino.com has announced a series of slots tournaments over this weekend. They are available to all new and pre-registered players, without the need for sign-up codes or passwords. In a slots tournament, the players pay a fixed fee for a certain amount of tournament credit. The aim is to essentially get lucky, [...]

Paul Kusznirewicz (55) of Ontario, Canada is a bitterly disappointed and frankly angry gambler following a devastating disqualification of what he thought was a life-changing slots win. And he’s not taking it lying down after he was offered a consolation prize of four dinner coupons by the Georgian Downs Casino in Innisfil, Ontario. The Toronto [...]

Veteran online gambling software development company Cryptologic announced its financial results for the three months and full year ended December 31, 2008 this week. The results reflect a transitional year in which the company’s new management team repositioned CryptoLogic’s business, signed 10 new customers and advanced a restructuring plan to return the company to profitability [...]

Massive progressive jackpot wins appear to run in the family for a British duo, which has seen the family fortunes increase by a total of $2,122,213.82, reports Party Casino in a statement this week. In a remarkable coincidence, the father and son duo – who wish to remain anonymous – scooped up two significant jackpots [...]

The Jackpot City online casino group continued its charity fundraising this week, offering players the chance to help others and at the same time win a share of a weekly $100 prize pool between the 4th of March and 6th of April 2009. The Freeroll Slots Tournaments Prize Pool of $100 will be shared between [...]

Last week a legislation bill, very similar to the U.S. Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement was introduced by Narciso Santiago of the Minority Alliance for Rural Concerns. He proposed making online gambling illegal with the exception of licensed horse-races an the official Philippine Sweepstake Lotto. The bill would make it illegal to place or receive bets [...]

French budget minister Eric Woerth recently reported positive progress on draft legislation aimed at opening up the hitherto monopolistic French gambling market, estimating that the initial liberalisation will take place early 2010. One company that intends to be in the forefront of those seeking a licence to operate is Intralot, according to statements by CEO [...]

Further details are emerging from Thursday’s press conference in Paris on the opening up of the French gambling market. Budget minister Eric Woerth told reporters at the conference that France will open its gambling market to competition and begin to grant online betting licenses in 2010, seeking to stem ‘illegal’ gambling and safeguard billions of [...]