England’s failure to defeat Montenegro at Wembley Stadium sealed a night of woe for punters according to bookmaker Ladbrokes – but the Three Lions are still at odds of 1/6 to qualify from their group. With Northern Ireland failing to beat the Faroe Islands and the Republic of Ireland being held to another draw by Slovakia, bookmakers were left celebrating. David Williams, spokesperson of Ladbrokes, said: “It was a dismal night for England and their punters, but the 0-0 draw was wonderful news for the bookies. It would have been too much for us to ask of Scotland to halt [ Read More ]
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Betfair proved its naysayers wrong this week, with its proposed IPO of ten percent of its shares over-subscribed in the first 24 hours Friday. British business media quote sources close to the IPO as saying that just a day after the launch of the prospectus, investors had placed orders for all of the shares being made available, and at the prices Betfair asked, valuing the company at some £1.48 billion. There are reports that on Friday the banks putting the public listing together told their sellers to cease offering the stock as the order book was already full. The prospectus [ Read More ]
Three years on from the draconian Russian decrees that banished gambling to remote areas of the country, regional politicians are still arguing over the location and development of land casinos in the designated areas. On October 1, the second legal casino, the 1500 square metre Shambala, opened its doors in the Azov-City gambling zone in Krasnodar Territory. The Krasnodar Territory invested a billion roubles in developing the infrastructure of the gambling zone, and the Rostov Region invested a further 170 million roubles, reports the Russian media agency Tass. Despite this, on October 5 a bill was submitted to the State [ Read More ]
The New York Times kept the legalisation of online gambling front-and-centre over the weekend with a generally positive article on the current state of play in the United States. Author Bradley Bower of Bloomberg News opined: “Many of the country’s largest casinos, long opposed to gambling games like poker on the Internet, are now having second thoughts” before going on to examine the latest developments, noting that internet gambling is enjoyed by millions of Americans. He reports that the American Gaming Association has accepted that online gambling could be regulated, and that it is still working on “a proposal that [ Read More ]
Online gambling software provider Boss Media in the GTechG2 group is responsible for the puzzling ban on Canadian players by several major internet gambling companies recently. This information came not from Boss Media, which remains silent despite several invitations to comment, but from licensee Bwin Interactive, one of the companies that has been advising Canadians that their action is no longer permitted. In an email to a player this week, the Austrian company wrote: We regret to inform you that in light of the recent announcements by the British Columbia Lottery Corporation, Loto-Québec and the Atlantic Lottery Corporation regarding the [ Read More ]
Monday’s fourth day of World Series of Poker Europe Main Event action saw the end of any dreams that Phil Ivey and Viktor Blom may have had of a bracelet in the prestigious competition. Both were eliminated before reaching the final table, along with a slew of other big names. The 22 players who started the day were all that remained of an original starting field of 346, and when the chips were bagged up for the day only nine players remained, making up a final table of: 1 Dan Fleyshman 1,946,000 (USA) 2 Ronald Lee 1,899,000 (USA) 3 Daniel [ Read More ]
Crystal Bowersox rose from obscurity to fame in less than a year when her journey on American Idol almost ended in a reality series win. Bowersox became one of the gambling favorites along the way, with many fans believing she would win the finale. Now, Bowersox is preparing to bet herself. The singer has become engaged to fellow performer Brian Walker, a move that stunned many of her fans. Bowersox and walker have only been dating for a couple of months, but felt that the time was right to tie the knot in October. The quick announcement of the engagement [ Read More ]
Party Casino is giving away cash prizes and bonus gifts to its loyal customers in the Fruit Medley Promotion that runs until Oct. 20, and gives all players a 10% cash-back bonus on every dollar lost on Roulette from Sept. 27 to Sept. 29. Rewarding Loyal PlayersThe Fruit Medley Promotion is especially designed to reward loyal Party Casino players. To enter the promotion you must have been a real-money member for at least 30 days before the promotion period started (on Sept. 21). The PrizesOn October 25th Party Casino will hand out cash prizes and bonus gifts, to be claimed [ Read More ]
Microgaming-powered online casino RoyalVegas.co.uk has announced that it is set to make the impending winter months much more enjoyable with a special range of games, promotions and tournaments. RoyalVegas.co.uk is operated by Fortune Lounge Group, which is also responsible for sites including PlatinumPlay.eu, DesertDollar.eu and 7Sultans.eu, and revealed that depositing players can take advantage of 1,000 free spins courtesy of its Free Play For A Day offer. “This provides a great way for players new to the casino to experience all the entertainment and casino games first-hand and right from the get-go,” read a statement from the Malta-licensed site. “Free [ Read More ]
Online gamblers are no different from most other Internet users in their antipathy to the legions of crooks and villains who debase the Internet by using it to spam and defraud the innocent. So it always leaves a warm feeling when news breaks that some of these miscreants have been hammered. Just such a story came out of the United States this week, where the New York Post reported that four Queens residents have been detained by federal authorities on charges of operating an international email lottery scam that suckered 30 to 40 gullible internet users around the globe out [ Read More ]
