OnGame, the world’s 6th largest online poker network, has just brought on the largest sports betting exchange, Betfair. Though the biggest exchange betting site, Betfair has had little luck when it comes to the online poker arena. A sponsor of the World Series of Poker Europe, Betfair regularly lags in the number 16 spot of all Internet poker "real cash" ventures, just ahead of Bodog. They averaged just over 600 "real cash" players in the past 7 days. Betfair is scheduled to go live on Ongame Network’s P5 Poker Engine later this month, providing players with an enhanced gaming environment [ Read More ]
Archive for July 8th, 2010
TOKYO (AFP) – One of Japan’s top sumo tournaments began in Nagoya Sunday without live TV coverage and with fans staying away in disgust at a scandal over illegal gambling. The 15-day event opened only days after police raided 13 sumo stables and dozens of offices and houses for evidence linking wrestlers and stablemasters to gambling on baseball organised by yakuza mobsters. In Japan, betting is permitted only on horse racing, bicycle races and some motor sports. Hundreds of would-be spectators cancelled their tickets to the Nagoya tournament, one of the six competitions held every year in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka [ Read More ]
Attempts to legalise intrastate online gambling in the state of New Jersey entered a new phase this week as Democratic Party lawmakers called for a gaming summit to reconcile competing proposals to put sports and Internet betting to a public vote in a referendum this fall. Last week land casino operators in the state were unequivocal in expressing their opposition to a proposed intrastate solution to the online gambling issue. The Atlantic City Press reports that the call for a summit and dialogue comes 14 days before the deadline for release of a report by an advisory committee appointed by [ Read More ]
