Gambling News Blog

If the US government is going to continue to try and stop online gambling, it may have a much more difficult task starting next year. Juniper Research claims that state lotteries will have mobile apps by next year, and that in the future, mobile gaming will near $50 billion in the US. The Unlawful Internet [...]

Playtech (AIM: PTEC), the leading international designer, developer and licensor of software to the online and land-based gaming industry, is pleased to announce that it was voted International AIM Company of the year at the 2010 AIM Awards. The Awards, which took place yesterday evening, Thursday 15 October 2010, recognised the achievements of Playtech in [...]

Beleaguered gambling group Leisure and Gaming plc has still not closed a deal in negotiations to sell off the Betshop subsidiary to Grupo Pefaco, and failure to do so could have negative consequences for the company, reports Sharecast this week. On Monday, the firm said a possible share purchase agreement with Grupo Pefaco was unlikely [...]

The Czech land and online gambling group Fortuna Entertainment Group NV’s plans to list publicly in Prague and Warsaw valued the group at up to €230 million ($319 million) this week, reports the Bloomberg business news service. The company will start book-building on October 11 for the sale of a 35% stake, with a final [...]

The UK internet gambling group Sportingbet released its annual financial numbers this week for the year ended July 31, reporting a 27% increase in revenues, but a slide in net profit of 69%. Nevertheless, the report boosted share prices by over 3%. Financial stats published by the group showed that net profit fell 69% to [...]

A relatively unknown young player from Scotland, David Vamplew, has taken down the Pokerstars European Poker Tour Main Event in London after five tough days of intense competition against some of the world’s top players. The young Scot, who is a recent math graduate and a member of the University of Edinburgh Poker Club, played [...]

The trend for individual governments to regulate, license and tax online gambling is now firmly established, especially in the more progressive environment of Europe, and that’s a good thing, opined Roger Raatgever this week. The energetic chief executive officer of veteran industry software developer Microgaming was speaking at the Isle of Man launch of his [...]

The US player-friendly online gambling operator Rushmore Casino has released a new 5 reel, 25 pay-line video slot custom made for it by software provider RealTime Gaming. The online casino is titled and themed on the famous mountain sculptures of past US presidents at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, USA, and the new slot follows [...]

Leading poker publication Bluff Europe has revealed that it is giving players the chance to prepare for next week’s Baller Strip Poker Championships by releasing a comprehensive set of tournament rules online at BallerStripPoker.com. The inaugural Baller Strip Poker Championships will take place at London’s Stringfellows Covent Garden nightclub on September 21 from seven o’clock [...]

Inspired Gaming lived up to its name this week, signing major online gambling operators Paddy Power and Victor Chandler to three-year deals that will see the company providing its virtual racing products, including horse racing, greyhound racing, speedway, motor racing and football. The contracts follow a string of new land-based and online deals for Inspired [...]