TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian gambling software company CryptoLogic Inc. and Playboy Enterprises Inc. will expand their relationship by launching the first Playboy-branded online poker Web site, the companies said on Monday [...]

David Carruthers and half a dozen others are due in court in St Louis, Missouri this afternoon for an arraignment hearing regarding their indictment on racketeering and tax evasion charges. The Department of Justice will also apply for a further extension to the restraining order on BetonSports’ operations or have the order made permanent.
Sources say, [...]

A recent campaign has been launched in Japan to legalise both online and land based casinos, and has been backed by the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
An arm of the committee on tourism has suggested that the legalisation of online gambling in Japan would provide an economic boost for the country, in a move [...]

The Grand Gaming Group has announced that it has teamed up with Jon-Jon Keegan to launch the G3 Partner Affiliate Programme and the biggest Microgaming powered casino www.GrandMonaco.com.
The team behind the new venture boasts more than 35 years experience in both land based (MGM, Harrah’s, Beau Rivage) and online casinos (Fortune Group, Belle Rock). The [...]

Tiger Woods was not the only one in tears after a stunning victory in the Open at Hoylake.
He left the layers weeping into their beer – no champers this time – as they paid out in the region of £10 million on his second successive victory.
That is a record loss on any golf tournament and [...]

WASHINGTON, July 27 /PRNewswire/ — The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a grassroots organization dedicated to promoting and protecting the game, announced today that membership of the organization has more than doubled since the U.S. House of Representatives voted to ban online poker. Today, the PPA boasts more than 75,000 members coming from every corner of the country [...]

GIBRALTAR, July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — There’s a monster on the loose in poker. And it is very, very BIG.

The PartyPoker.com Monster has been unleashed, the largest and most exciting freeroll series in the history of online poker, slated to enrich more than 40,000 cash winners over the next 11 months. 32 $100,000 Weekly Freerolls and eight Monthly $1 million tournaments, followed by a Grand Final with a massive $5 million prize pool that is expected to keep growing! The PartyPoker.com Monster begs to be called the behemoth of freeroll poker tournaments-a beast that will change the game forever [...]

CLEVELAND, July 27 /PRNewswire/ — Statewide leaders committed to defeating the Learn and Earn Casino Gambling Amendment today formally filed the Vote NO Casinos committee with the Ohio Secretary of State.
The Vote NO Casinos committee is co-chaired by Ohio Auditor of State Betty Montgomery and David Zanotti, President & CEO of the Ohio Roundtable, a [...]

The rise in popularity of online gambling throughout Asia has been well documented recently, and while there are those who are committed to erasing Internet gambling altogether such as China, there are also those who aim to take advantage of the particular economic opportunity it provides.
A recent campaign has been launched in Japan to [...]

LONDON, July 25 — The Board of Directors of BETonSPORTS plc announced that on 24 July 2006 the contract under which David Carruthers acted as CEO of the Company was terminated. As a consequence, the Board has removed him as a director [...]