Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), a law passed that essentially made it “unlawful” to play poker online. Bodog’s payment processing infrastructure was nearly crippled for a prolonged period of time while management scrambled to find new payment solutions, and perhaps the worst blow of all – Bodog lost its coveted domain name (Bodog.com) in [...]

The first two operational venues under a white label deal between Kamay Holdings and 888.com have launched under the brands of online poker website LuckyAcePoker.com and online casino website LuckyAceCasino.com.
Elsa Sterckx, a marketing official from the new sites was canvassing possible affiliates this week through the new program Lucky Ace Partners.
In a deal announced in [...]

The online gambling community has renewed hope for one of the candidates running for US President, and she just happens to be the favorite to win. With the Nevada Caucuses taking place this Saturday, The Las Vegas Sun reports that Democrat Hillary Clinton supports a study to determine if Internet gambling can be fairly regulated [...]

Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health plans to introduce an amendment to Finland’s online gambling laws to enable Internet gamblers to claim back their losses by being paid by either the firm providing the online poker services, a credit card company, or the winning player in the game.
The Ministry feels that if such a [...]

American Idol fans get ready. As if you did not already know, Idol mania starts back up tonight. The latest edition of the popular show kicks off its new season with a two hour premiere tonight.
Sports books are already trying to cash in on the craze and nobody even knows who will be competing yet. [...]

On the latest example of US authorities’ crackdown on internet gambling, 12 men who helped run a multi-million dollar Costa Rica-based sports betting website were arrested and charged with illegal gambling and money laundering.
The US attorney in the Southern District of New York, which charged the group, said that the websites had gathered millions of [...]

Signs of a crackdown on online gambling in the US emerged last July with the arrest and indictment of David Carruthers, former chief executive of London-listed online gambling company Betonsports, which was also based in Costa Rica. Mr Carruthers, who is British, is awaiting trial in Missouri.
Betonsports and other internet gambling companies had hoped that [...]

The United Kingdom’s new online gambling laws were put in place to regulate the industry and to encourage responsible gaming. Online casinos were given the green light and can now even advertise on television.
But there is still a problem. The number of online casinos and bookmakers taking their business overseas are still increasingly, why? it’s [...]

Full Tilt Poker started 2008 on the right foot by overtaking PartyPoker in the crucial online poker market.
Still accepting US customers, the online poker website Full Tilt Poker real cash players came in just shy of 10,000 over a 24 hour period average while the peak just narrowly beat out PartyPoker, which has been struggling [...]

As part of a promotion, new sportsbook BigJuicyOdds.com has announced that it will pay out to players turned down on another online gambling site, SBGGlobal.com.
Just recently, the funds of up to ten players were recently frozen and seized by SBGGlobal. SBGGlobal stated that the event which occurred were due to allegations of the participants running [...]