If you are baffled by the online gambling situation in the U.S do not worry, you are not alone. Nobody knows how it is going to end. It’s rumored that after Obama was elected president several companies count on coming back on the American market. The UIGEA, which was introduced in the year 2006 by the Republicans in Congress, made many online gambling concerns leave the U.S market. However, after the presidential election many of these companies attentively observe the online gambling situation in the U.S. Recently the UIGEA has been implemented and its rules were published by the US Treasury. The act requires financial institutions to introduce different agreement letters to the clients. As for Obama, he has announced that after the inauguration in January 2009, he will rather focus on making the democratic administration more permissive, than on resolving online gambling issues. Read the rest of this entry

What new can the industry create after opening of the online casinos? Obviously mobile phones! Those who have an iPhone and Blackberry can now enjoy playing online casino games on their mobiles!

Both of the aforementioned brands are the leading producers of the ‘smart phones’. Although Blackberries are very popular among offices, it is the iPhone that attracts millions of users, mainly at the age of 18-25, with its high technology and ultra-modern accessories. However, the Blackberry Company has not given up and continues to fights for its users. Their latest Blackberry Bold and Blackberry Storm models seem to be up-and-coming. Read the rest of this entry

The Fish and the Ulliott’s DevilfishPoker site is about to enter the Eastern European market. Dave ‘Devilfish’ himself is already quite popular in those areas.

Recently this online gambling site has been granted with Paramin Poker player base, what resulted in quite a few new, Hull-born pro’s site players. Previously, the Paramin Poker belonged to the Poker Akademia, but afterwards they have signed an affiliation contract with the DevilfishPoker online casino. Paul Barnes, the Chief Executive of DevifishPoker, claims that starting this cooperation was a turning point for the Ulliott’s poker company. He said that it was a milestone for them and Paramin Poker players. Barnes has also admitted that they had acquired a large number of players and had signed next affiliation contract with the Poker Academia. He was sure that this would be a fruitful cooperation for both Devilfish and Poker Academia. According to Barnes Dave Ulliot is quite a popular personage in Hungary; hence they want to enter the Hungarian market and let its citizens relieve Dave “of some of his cash!”

Full Tilt Poker – top online poker room frequent by many serious poker players and other celebrities.
Just recently another VIP has joined this online casino. His name is Randy Couture and he is known from winning the Ultimate Fighting Championship for five times. After joining the Full Tilt Poker line-up Couture has gained a ‘friend of Full Tilt’ status. Such Ultimate Fighting Championship competitors as Matt Hughes and Mike Swick also earned this status. Full Tilt Poker became interested in Randy Couture last week, when he was fighting against the ex-wrestling champion, Brock Lesnar (who currently promotes the Full Tilt online casino). This fight has gone down in history as the biggest Mixed Martial Arts fight ever. If you want to see it please visit Full Tilt Poker site. And remember that although Randy is unrivalled in ring you can always try to beat him at the poker tables.

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) has made an announcement that they received promises from world’s largest online poker rooms regarding sending players to APT next year.

According to the APT, the iPoker Network, PartyPoker.com and EverestPoker.com the world’s poker rooms of from the top 10’th, have pledged to send their best customers to particular APT next season’s events. They also made an agreement with other well-known poker rooms like: PKR.com, JBetPoker.com, PokerTrillion.com, World3DPoker.com and 888.com alongside the Microgaming Network and the National Poker League.

The APT recently informed that From January 27 to February 1 2009 at the Dusit Thani Manila Hotel in Makati City will run its first event with a buy-in of $2,700.

After success of this year’s events the company stated it is sure about the growing strength and number of interested players regarding the scheduled 2009 events. Read the rest of this entry

CryptoLogic Limited, well known online casino software developer based in Dublin, made an announcement that at the beginning of the next year it will start the process of merging its main poker customers into Boss Media AB’s International Poker Network.

The Irish company said the terms of the five-year strategic Internet poker deal would see the connection to begin in the first quarter of 2009 along with its self-development plans of focusing on its branded games and online casino business. Company revealed that those movements in connection with other side-actions would certainly give $15 million saving per year.

“CryptoLogic’s aggressive action on its new strategy, as witnessed in several recent announcements, and our new agreement with Boss Media, is a major step in our journey back to growth, profitability and returning shareholder value,” said the President and Chief Executive Officer for CryptoLogic, Brian Hadfield.

“This partnership provides our poker customers with access to one of the largest poker networks in the world while helping CryptoLogic reduce costs substantially. Also, it will allow us to focus on the continued development and licensing of the Internet’s most innovative casino games and to leverage our lead in branded content games in partnership with the world’s top entertainment brands,” he added.
Boss Media is a part of the bigger America’s GTech Corporation which is one of the leading gaming technology and services in the world, which is itself a part of Lottomatica, the operator of commercial lottery in Italy. Read the rest of this entry

Recently at PayNoRake.com you could visit new online poker site from Norway’s Playsafe Holding. It offers one of the highest commission and rakeback rates, which surely should attract players and make this site very popular.

PayNoRake.com is run by Playsafe subsidiary Ecom Enterprises NV and licensed by the Kahnwake Gaming Commission. It offers double-weekly $10,000 tournaments to make celebrations of opening even easier to remember alongside seats to the European Poker Tour placed in Monte Carlo worth $21,000.
“We are looking forward to the industry’s reaction,” said Director of Affiliate Marketing for PayNoRake.com, Shaun O’Neill.

Operators of the PayNoRake.com are sure that players will be happy from the site that offers such rakeback levels not to meet on the different sites. Other poker operators are not convinced about the rakeback potential, however PayNoRake.com crew is sure that their competitors will be upset. Read the rest of this entry

Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker’s final event took place fourth time this year on Sunday night, when Danish player ‘hahila’ won the grand prize and walked away with $229,500.

This championship was described as the longest European online poker championship. It had started on October 26 with 15 days of tournaments which include: no-limit, fixed and pot-limit Texas hold’em, pot-limit OMAHA and pot-limit OMAHA high-low including a combination of freezeout and re-buy structures. It ends big $120,000 Masters Event in which prize pool was worth $918,000.

‘We attracted a good field and the money added generated a record-breaking prize pool of gigantic proportions for the 600-plus runners,” said Edward Ihre, Managing Director for Poker.Ladbrokes.com.

Poker professionals who are the best in spotting the most valuable tournaments online ensure that they have their places in the last night event of the LEOCOP. Among that crowd of poker pros you may notice former World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winners, finalists of the WSOP and the WSOP Europe. No one would like to miss the LEOCOP IV main event with its huge online prize pool. Read the rest of this entry

After yesterday match, when British tennis player Andy Murray defeated Frenchman Gilles Simon and make himself clear way t the semi-finals, he has become favorite of the online bookmakers as the winner of the season-ending ATP Masters Cup in Shanghai.

Earlier this year Dunblane’s player win at the ATP Master Series events in Madrid and Cinncinnatti and now he could go into the next season with additional $625,000 gathered in the 2008 year.

ToteSport.com listed 21-year old Scot at 8/5 while Coral.co.uk placed the odds of 13/8. Other sport bookmaker related sites like Ladbrokes.com, BlueSq.com, Sportingbet.com, PaddyPower.com, SkyBet.com and 888Sport.com give Murray odds of 7/4 and 15/8 at StanJames.com, VictorChandler.com and Betfair.com.

Second place player is Switzerland’s Roger Federer, and after today’s match where he meets Murray the 27-year old five-time Wimbledon champion receives odds of 9/4 at Ladbrokes.com, BetDirect.com, StanJames.com and Bet365.com. Odds of 12/5 could be found at VictorChandler.com, PaddyPower.com and ToteSport.com while 5/2 at BlueSq.com, SkyBet.com, BetFred.com, WillHill.com and Boylesports.com. Read the rest of this entry

Peter Eastgate, Danish poker player, has been crowned the youngest WSOP Main Event champion after defeating the “November Nine” and winning $9m yesterday.

Three months before the final table set become known, Dennis Phillips, American, lead the game as play started, with sensation of this year Russian, Ivan Demidov on the third place. But no-time Russian took the chip lead and Phillips felt down.

The first one who was eliminated was Kelly Kim, and soon after that Craig Marguis followed him. Next were “Chino” Rheem; Darius Suharto; Scott Montgomery and Ylon Schwartz. In the end only three players left – former leader Phillips, Ivan Demidov and Peter Eastgate. Read the rest of this entry