A prosecutor elicited testimony Monday coloring professional poker player Ernest Scherer III as a deceiving philanderer who kept the fact he had a wife and child even from a good friend, then, after his parents’ murder, borrowed money he never paid back and searched for safe-haven countries on the Web.
A former friend, a fellow [...]
While lawmakers consider the addition of table games as a source of revenue for the state, Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs is preparing for the day when gamblers can play poker, blackjack, roulette and craps in its casino.
Legislation pending in Harrisburg would permit the 14 state-licensed casinos to expand beyond slot machines.
In anticipation of its [...]
William Hill Online COO Peter Marcus has had to explain himself following comments he made earlier this week urging operators to eschew the use of rakebacks.
Marcus had appealed to colleagues in the Internet poker sector to clamp down on the use of rakeback by affiliates and poker skins, calling on operators to “get together and [...]
A much needed change of fortune has encouraged a 43-year-old UK mother recovering from cancer, with a GBP 2.5 million win on the UK lottery
Supermarket worker Nicky Cusack won last Wednesday’s Lotto jackpot with a line of lucky dip numbers but says she will still return to work after completing a gruelling course of chemotherapy [...]
The draconian ban on gambling actioned throughout Russia at the beginning of July 2009 has left many high-rolling gamblers in that country with a frustrating dilemma of where to gamble…but solutions are already starting to appear, reports the Moscow Times.
A week after gambling was banned in Moscow, viewership for televised poker shows is apparently [...]
Further to our earlier report on the winner of a $1 171 777 Mega Moolah progressive jackpot this week, Unibet has now released further details. A 48-year-old man in northern Sweden is the lucky winner…and he is the third millionaire player to emerge from Unibet’s online casino this year.
“Sleepless nights, but in a good way…” [...]
Details are still scarce, but it has been confirmed by the Microgaming Progressive Network that the progressive slot Mega Moolah has been hit over the weekend by an as yet unidentified player at Unibet for a bank account boosting Euro 1 171 776.63.
Elsewhere on the Internet, SusanH, a player at the Microgaming-powered Platinum Play Online [...]
Day 1D of the $10 000 buy-in World Series of Poker main event started badly, as hundreds of players were turned away by apologetic officials after the last minute rush for registration took entry numbers over the maximum that could be seated. Later, WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack had a meeting with disgruntled players who were [...]
The Gibraltar-based online gambling group 888 has announced the launch of 888Safe, a site dedicated to online safety and the protection of Internet gamblers.
Players can use the specially created 888Safe site to learn more about safe deposits, fair gaming, and data protection, in addition to access to ‘behind the scenes’ information at 888.com as the [...]
