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IGREA Gaining Support

Oct 24, 2007

Gaining support slowly but surely, the IGREA, Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007, has had lawyer, Steve Cohen who is a Tennessee Representa...

UK CEO Comments On UIGEA

Oct 24, 2007

Joe Saumarez-Smith the CEO of Sports Gaming has written about his thoughts on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and has used the title "Inte...

Will European Union Talk With US

Oct 24, 2007
Some of the online gambling operators have asked the European Union Trade Chief Peter Mandelson to speak with United States legislators hoping he can convince them ...

Opening The French Market May Be off

Oct 21, 2007

Many have waited to see what the response would be from France after the their appearance in front of the European Union, their has been speculation that they ...

Poker Rules From The IRS

Oct 20, 2007

The United States Internal Revenue Service has announced that casinos and other sponsors of poker tournaments are go...

France Has A Stranglehold On The Online Gambling Industry

Oct 19, 2007
France's monopoly of online gambling, including government owned lottery Francaise des Jeux and the PMU betting organization may over shortly. They may no longe...

Antigua and Barbuda In Front of WTO Again

Oct 17, 2007
Antigua's lead attorney Mark Mendel said, "So far, we have been the only ones willing to negotiate, and it takes two to get a deal done. That is what ...

Hearing in Geneva on WTO Compensation

Oct 17, 2007
The World Trade Organization are holding a hearing on October 18th to work out just compensation for the nations who were affected by the United States withdrawal of ...

1st Technology Petition Denied

Oct 12, 2007
Its been nearly seven weeks since Bodog Entertainment Group S.A. has lost control of their previous domain name. This happened due to an improperly obtained default...

Antigua Speaks Out

Oct 9, 2007
Antigua's Finance Minister is speaking out; Errol Cort stated that the United States is ignoring the World Trade Organizations ruling against the online gamblin...

Concern Over European State Gambling Monopolies

Oct 9, 2007
The recent talks at the European Gaming Conference and Expo in Barcelona of devising an online gambling code to protect online players, problem gamblers and minors ...

Norway Ban In Plans

Oct 5, 2007

Recently there has been mention of an online gambling ban in Norway; the Ministry of Culture feels online gambling has the potential to harm their citizens and a...

UIGEA Regulations Made Public

Oct 3, 2007

The day that many have been waiting for has arrived, the United States Treasury department and the Department of Justice have finally published a fifty-two pages...

Antigua Asking for $3.4 billion in Commercial Sanctions

Oct 2, 2007
The small Caribbean country Antigua, are looking to the US for $3.4 billion in commercial sanctions. This is brought on by the United States failure to follo...

United States Holding Ground on Illegal Online Gambling

Oct 2, 2007
While there has been no clear cut, black and white, set of rules as to the bans and laws on online gambling in the United States...there soon will be. Steps are being...

France Bows To Pressure In Online Gambling

Oct 1, 2007
It has been reported that the French are backing away from the position they held as to their online gambling regulations and seems as if they won't withstand t...

Online This Week UIGEA Regulations

Oct 1, 2007
This is the week that many have waited for since the Unlawful Internet Enforcement Act came in to effect banning American online players. The regualtions will make ...

The Battle Continues Between U.S. AND EU

Sep 30, 2007
Earlier in the week the United States and the European Union talks had come a stand still, Friday the United States came back with their offer which the European Un...

European Union Claims US owes $100 Billion

Sep 29, 2007
Because of the ban on online gambling companies in the United States, online gaming sites in the European Union say that the US owes them about $100 billion ...

U.S. Regulations To Be Made Public

Sep 29, 2007

It seems that the official word will be made public shortly about the regulations that the United States has in the Unlawful Gambling Enforcement Act and there i...

Will Norway Be Next To Ban Online Poker

Sep 28, 2007

Just a few weeks ago one resident of Norway Annette Obrestad made news as the youngest winner of one of the largest poker tournaments in Europe, and now word fro...

Lobbyist for the American Gaming Association

Sep 28, 2007

Political Lobbyist are required to divulge information for actions taken or services rendered that could influence members of the executive and legislative branc...

Massachusetts Representative Delahunt Supports IGREA

Sep 27, 2007
William Delahunt signed on as a cosponsor for his fellow Massachusetts Representative Barney Franks online gambling bill. This will be the 37th signature since the bi...

Dusk Till Dawn is the UKs First Legal Poker Club

Sep 27, 2007
Dusk Till Dawn received its casino license on Wednesday September 26th making it the first legal poker club in the UK. It will also be the largest poker club in Weste...

Antigua Battles the US - The WTO to Follow

Sep 27, 2007
The dispute between the small island governments of Antigua and Barbuda fought the US to a standstill, in the continuing dispute over the US unilateral withdrawal its...

IMEGA and Ogilvy Working Together To Bring Awareness

Sep 27, 2007
The company of Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association has hired Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, and while iMEGA is a non-profit organization their ...

Could There Be Light At The End Of The U.S. Ban

Sep 27, 2007

It has been reported that talks between Washington and two UK online gaming companies, PartyGaming and Sportingbet have broken down. The talks with the EU attorn...

Poker and Obama - Things That Make You Say Hmmm

Sep 25, 2007

2008 Democratic Presidential Candidate , Obama Barack does not accept political contributions from lobbyists or political action committees.  However, when ...

United States Low Ball Antigua Over Poker Ban

Sep 25, 2007

Pertaining to the claim, the United States has maintained the position that the requested 3.4 billion dollar estimate is unreasonabl...

US Responce to the Online Gambling Ban Claim by EU

Sep 25, 2007

The European Union has been contesting a number of trade areas with the United States for the last number of years. As the United States released their brief and...

iMEGA v UIGEA to be heard

Sep 24, 2007

Lawyers representing the United States government agencies met the deadline to file a brief outlining why the case brought against t...

Lee Rousso v Washington State Update

Sep 23, 2007
The Washington State Lawyer, who is challenging the validity of the states online gambling law, has hit a bump.

Evidently the State of Washington is in...

PPA Let the campaign begin!

Sep 23, 2007

In an effort to stay on top of lawmakers apposed to the online gambling industry, the Poker Players Alliance has moved its headquarters to Washington D.C.

Poker Expansion in US State of Illinois

Sep 22, 2007
A new method of funding for Illinois State construction projects and more has been approved, a...

UK Gambling Commision Report Supports Regulation

Sep 22, 2007

Recently the Gambling Commission released a study regarding internet and other new forms of gambling. As these items have become more readily available, the ex...

104 Year Old Gaming Law Challenged

Sep 20, 2007
Five men arrested Saturday Sept 8th, during a friendly Texas Holdem game with a $100+$10 buy in, appeared in court on September 13th. The men were arrested fo...

IGREA on Hold, but not dead

Sep 18, 2007
The Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act (IGREA) has stalled in the United States House of Representatives, as was recently disclosed by Congressmen Barne...

Did Online Gaming Get Their Man?

Sep 17, 2007
Word is out that there might be a replacement for Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General who will be leaving office this week since resigning. This replacement leads a...

Skill Game Protection Act Gets Another Supporter

Sep 15, 2007
Robert Wexler introduced the Skill Game Protection Act on June 7th of 2007. At that time the bill only had 1 sponsor, and now 3 months later it has reached 13. One of...

The Supreme Court, Arkansas and Gambling

Sep 14, 2007
Thursday was a big day for gambling in the state of Arkansas, the voters and the Family Action Council Committee. Each side brought their evidence and opinions to the...

China Makes a Firm Stand Against Online Gambling

Sep 13, 2007
North East China is seeing a rise of illegal gambling, however recently there was a mass arrest of thirty-two individuals for playing online. The total amount of yuan...

California Gambling Control Commission Loses Revenue

Sep 13, 2007
After a recent court hearing it has come to light that the California Gambling Control Commission did not approach the California casinos that are run by the twenty-e...

Support Builds Against UIGEA

Sep 13, 2007
On April 26th of this year, Representative Barney Frank proposed the bill that will overturn the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA). This bill...

Betfair.com Wins Court Case

Sep 12, 2007
A court case has been won by Betfair, which is a part of Sporting Exchange, the online gambling company against their former CEO of operations in Ireland. Although Be...

IMEGA Anti-UIGEA Hearing Postponed

Sep 10, 2007
According to IMEGA, all parties, including - the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors agreed to the las...

Internet Gambling Takes a Trip to Washington

Sep 8, 2007
This week Washington will see the arrival of people who are representatives of online casino gaming, this trip is planned so they can make their voices heard for not ...

France Gets More Time

Sep 7, 2007
France has been given more time by the European Commission to make changes in their gambling regulations; this extension will give France until October 29 of this yea...

A New Bill For California Poker Players

Sep 6, 2007

Its been a year since Senator Dean Florez wanted to pass a bill that eliminate the amount of money that could be wagered in card rooms in California; he now want...

Light At The End of The Tunnel

Sep 5, 2007
In the past year there has been much controversy in the United States, there has been Bills passed that have all but devastated some online gambling companies, specif...

Salvation Army Concerned with Gambling Act

Sep 4, 2007
The Salvation Army is concerned with the Gambling Act 2005, which has gone into effect as of September 1, they as well as other charity organizations fear that the ad...
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