January 30th is L-day for the giant European online betting group Bwin – it marks the start of the group’s innovative and technologically advanced live betting interface which has been designed to give customers an intensified live experience. Cannily timed to coincide with the start of the second half of the German Bundesliga, the new service includes live commentary by Austrian football legend Toni Polster on the main match between HSV and FC Bayern later this week. “With its new offering, bwin is demonstrating its lead, pushing the limits of what is technologically feasible. We specifically harnessed the power of [ Read More ]
Archive for January, 2009
Following on the heels of the recent Pennsylvanian court ruling that poker is a game dominated by skill rather than chance comes a report from Colorado that a jury in that state has arrived at the same conclusion. The Poker Players Alliance has issued a press release applauding the decision, which is another important precedent for the legalisation of poker as a game of skill more than luck. In the release, the one million member PPA, which boasts 13,000 members in Colorado, commended the ruling in Colorado v. Kevin Raley, in which a jury found the organiser of a poker [ Read More ]
The controversial regulations supporting the U.S. Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, rammed through in the dying days of the Bush administration and only recently effective, are already causing waves where they were not intended, it appears. The regulations place the burden of enforcement on an already stretched US financial services industry, requiring it to dislocate payments to and from online gambling firms without specifying in sufficient detail what is defined as “illegal”. The predictions were that this lack of precision would cause confusion and result in financial companies erring on the side of caution to stop “non-illegal” transactions, and this [ Read More ]
