The latest annual National Annenburg Survey of Youth shows that the incidence of youthful Internet gamblers remains at the low levels experienced following last year’s “precipitous decline.” First conducted in 2002, the annual study is frequently used as a reference by US politicians attacking online gambling, such as Republican Representative Spencer Bachus.
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The current report, released [...]
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Youth Internet Gambling Low In The USA
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DiceArena Network Signs Up Bwin
Sweden’s Jadestone Networks has made another major partnership deal for its DiceArena multiplayer games network, signing up the Vienna listed online gambling giant Bwin Interactive barely two weeks after clinching a deal with Gala Coral (see previous Online-Casinos.com/InfoPowa report). Bwin will join the network early in the New Year, a spokesman said this week.
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At launch, [...]
Build Your Own Online Slot Machine
Isle of Man based online gambling software provider Microgaming has released what it claims is the industry’s first ever customisable online slot game, demonstrating groundbreaking technology and innovation with its brand new product “My Slot.”
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Software innovation on the game allows players to create their own truly unique slot machine, importing their own personal pictures, colour [...]
Online Poker Sunday Millions A Big Draw
The major online poker websites Poker Stars.com and Full Tilt Poker.com continued to attract large numbers to Sunday tournaments this week, generating impressive prize pools and high value prizes to the winners.
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At Poker Stars, Peter “twirlpro” Turmezy took down the top prize of almost $200 000, with his heads up opponent ‘fratzl’ also taking home [...]
Cereus Poker Websites Opt Out Of Kentucky
Tokwiro Enterprises’s sister online poker sites, Absolute Poker.com and UltimateBet.com, have banned Kentucky residents with immediate effect, joining other online poker networks like Cake Poker, Merge Poker and Microgaming Poker in excluding residents of the state.
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Emails to Kentucky-resident players on the Cereus poker network where UB and AP action takes place read “?We regret to [...]
Gambling Battle Lines Drawn In 2009 Congress
The Bush administration’s final tilt at online gambling - the last minute “midnight drop” style publication of the regulations supporting the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act - has drawn the battle lines for next year’s Congress, according to a report in the Birmingham News this week. And the industry’s wannabe arch enemy, Alabama Representative Spencer [...]
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Washington Post Article (Update)
The Washington Post has published its full five page article on Internet poker, titled “Players Gamble on Honesty, Security of Internet Betting” and written by Gilbert M. Gaul, who worked with Sixty Minutes television producers in preparing Sunday’s program on the same subject (see previous Online-Casinos.com/InfoPowa reports)
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The full article can be read here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/29/AR2008112901679.html
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St Minver Signs Up With Wagerworks
The UK online gambling software provider WagerWorks has announced that it is to supply premium branded game content to St Minver, the white label online gambling operator associated with Boss Media.?
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Gibraltar-licensed St Minver is the operator of two of Europe?s major poker and bingo networks and a supplier of fully-managed ?white label? gaming solutions to [...]
Tran Wins PartyPoker Premier League III
Poker pros JC Tran and TonyG battled it out in the heads up of the 5 day long third edition of the PartyPoker Premier League, which culminated over the weekend.? The tournament saw twelve of the world’s top internet and land players pitted against each other in a series of heats leading to the final [...]
Sixty Minutes Could Have Been Worse
Early consensus of online poker players on the poker message boards seems to be that the widely publicised CBS “Sixty Minutes” television program Sunday did not make the industry look as bad as it could have done. Despite having rather confused perceptions on the ‘illegality’ of the game in the United States, and some negative [...]
