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The Swedish operator, Jadestone Networks, developed the DiceArena gaming network. On this network, players can find titles like Dice Hold’Em and Shoot The Moons. DiceArena became very popular among the players and has many fans now. Recently all those players who love this gaming network can find those games also on Betfair.
Betfair agreed to join a list of distribution partners of the gaming network DiceArena. This list contains already operators like NordicBet, Bwin, Gala Coral and PAF.

Betfair expressed their intention to integrate DiceArena onto its site after the summer. Jadestone revealed that the move will mean an incredible increase in player liquidity levels.
The Managing Director for Betfair Games, Steve Ives, claimed that he is very excited about the agreement with Jadestone to offer the DiceArena their 2 million registered customers.
Betfair is really proud to offer such an opportunity to Jadestone, because it will enhance the customer experience even further.

Jadestone is the recent winner of the Top Innovation Award 2008 from Gambling Online Magazine.
Andrew Pegler, UK director for Jadestone, announced that they are very pleased to be a future partner with Betfair on the expanding DiceArena network. He also claimed that Betfair represents to them another top-tier operator keen to tap into their supply of next-generation, multi-player games.

There is a rumour that the Everest Poker is going to be sold to PartyGaming. Everest Poker is now owned by GigaMedia Limited and it’s a leading online poker website.
This joint venture could cause a direct competition between PartyPoker, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.
These poker sites are the largest ones in the world, considering its players and traffic.

PartyGaming is being very successful after the settlement of the long-standing dispute with the U.S. Department of Justice. The company really seems to grow really fast by using all opportunities that help them to expand.
The situation changed in favour for the company also because of the new online gambling regulation legislation in the U.S., this makes the company even stronger.

According to the UK’s Guardian news the U.S. authorities are planning to crack down PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, what would mean that PartyGaming will have even a better market position.

Other rumours say that PartyGaming may become partner also with Harrah’s Entertainment. Harrah’s is the huge US and-based casino chain that probably will also enter to the online game world.

Don Cheadle, who is a famous international actor and a charity fundraiser and activist, became a partner of Full Tilt Poker.
Full Tilt Poker is really proud to have a partner like Don Cheadle, whom they appreciate a lot.

Don Cheadle is the co-founder of the Ante Up for Africa No-Limit Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament, his partners are the poker pro Annie Duke and also Norman Epstein. This organization asks the players to donate 50% of their winnings to the charity. The money is being distributed to different organizations such as Not on Our Watch, Enough Project, and also the International Rescue Committee.

In 2007, the Ante Up for Africa event took place for the first time and over 170 celebrities participated. Among them were Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Poker Pros Andy Bloch and Chris Ferguson.

This year’s Ante Up for Africa will take place on July the 2nd at 2 pm in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino during the 2009 World Series of Poker.
Before the life event begins, FullTiltPoker.com will be running a private charity tournament to support the big event.
The entrance fee for Ante Up or Africa will be $5 and also this price will go to the charity. Until today, the Ante Up for Africa charity raised over $ 2 million to support the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Read the rest of this entry »

The National Football League is convinced that legal online gambling will compromise the integrity of their game.
The NFL is one of world’s most powerful professional sports organizations and while the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is working on a plan how to repeal the UIGEA by the U.S. Congress, the NFL is trying to block the PPA, hoping the law could stay unchanged.

Brian McCarthy, a spokesman for the NFL, claimed that by overturning the UIGEA, the illegal gambling on professional football games will increase. Already now the gambling on games is a multi-billion dollar industry.
He also affirmed that they want to oppose the Internet betting on their games, because it compromises the integrity of the game and also all the values the game represents.

PPA’s chairman, Al D’Amato, has used some strong words by responding on NFL’s protest against the legal online gambling. He claimed it’s not on their business what he is doing in his home on the internet.

The NFL is not the only sports organization that is fighting to keep the UIGEA active. Other organizations are the NCAA and the leagues for professional basketball, hockey and baseball.
The NFL dared more and has been the most vocal on the topic and still it’s fighting to win the cause over the Congress.
It came out that the league has opposed gambling already in 1960.

Recently the New York Times analyzed the situation around bill, concerning legalized online gambling, Barney Frank proposed. It’s an anti UIGEA bill.
Millions of people all around the world gamble online and it also brings a lot of money to the countries every year, but still people don’t really like to talk about it in the mainstream media. It’s like it would be a kind of taboo or something like that.
But sometimes the newspapers New York Times and Washington Post report something about the subject. Mostly it’s an analysis about the speculation whether to legalize online gambling or not.
A couple of days ago, The New York Times published an article about the legal situation behind the online gambling, and also the possibility that the UIGEA could be overturned.

Due to the economic crisis, lawmakers could probably change their minds, whether they want to enrich the black market with all the billions of dollars that come out from online gambling every year or they want to be taxed.

Many European Companies believe that the U.S. is starting to change its mind about the subject and that soon it will enter the market legally.

Gavin Kelleher from H2 Gambling Capital Ireland, claimed in an article, that people continue to gamble in the United States without entering any income to he government and that’s why the lawmakers now begin to think, they could use that money really well. In the article he also wrote about Barney Frank’s anti UIGEA bill, which should come out within days. This is bill is at the center of new push for legalization. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s a new bingo site launched by Svenska and Virtue Fusion. The news has been announced by Virtue Fusion Alderney, which is very pleased to launch this multi-lingual, multi-currency, networked software with Sweden’s newest and eagerly awaited site. The site is operated by Svenska Bingo.

The Virtue Fusion Alderney CEO, Bob McCulloch, affirmed that Svenska’s players in Sweden will play in Swedish and the prizes will be converted in SEK and they will be able to access the same networked prize pools that the players in the UK enjoy for a long time. That gives a possibility to the players to access on more attractive jackpots.

This is a great development innovated by the Virtue Fusion. Launching the product in Sweden in this time where the market is moving towards European and networked prize pools id really an awesome step.
Svenka’s Bingo Manager, Philippa Hellberg, claimed that their aim is it to give a chance to their players to play in a trustworthy entertaining environment. And the other aim is it to make Svenska’s Bingo the most popular bingo site in Sweden, Hellberg added.

On May 1st this year, Seneca Allegany Casino and Hotel (SAC&H) became 5 years old. There have been ceremonies to commemorate this moment.  Chairman of the Seneca Gaming Corporation (SCG) Board of Directors, Cochise Redeye, told that this year’s Board’s reform agenda will focus on two main initiatives. The company has 4 000 employees and the initiatives concerns directly them. We are talking about the employee grievance policy and an employee bonus policy.

SGC’s chief operating officer and acting principal executive officer, Catherine Walker, opened the celebrations and welcomed all employees, members of the SNI (Seneca Nation of Indians) and attending officials.
Barry E. Snyder, the SNI president, thanked o all the employees for working hard and bringing the company where it is now. It’s also thanks to them that the Nation has such a great impact on the Western NY region.

Cochise Redeye, who has been elected chairman recently, expressed his pleasure and gratitude to all SGC employees and he explained that that’s the reason why he wants to improve the employee culture, to do in return something for them.

Who decide what is actually right and what is wrong and what’s normal and what isn’t.
All around the world the Governments try to figure out how to regulate interactive gaming. It’s not that easy as it seems. Many issues have to be considered, as for example any regulations are needed and how to deal with the fact that the internet knows no boundaries. South Africa is already a step further than the USA. While the US is still considering how to approach regulations of the online sector, South Africa already published the National Gambling Board’s (NGB’s) draft online regulations for public comment with the Department of Trade and Industry.

The point is, did South Africa really need to regulate the online gambling? Online gaming groups like Silversands and Piggs Peak are very successful also without any regulation. But there has to be a reason why at the end the country decided to regulate it. Actually there are some: one reason is that it was important to create an equal opportunity for all operators. Piggs Peak and Silversands have played out the lack of some online gaming laws to steal a border area on the South Africa land-based casino groups who had a lot like to lose, like their licence for example, by playing fast.
Another reason is also the issue of consumer protection and money laundering, which happens when South African players use a nominated account to gamble online. Now these accounts will have to comply with the normal banking and Fica requirements. Besides, now the players will be protected from themselves and also from operators who could control how they spend their money in these accounts.
Easy credit seems to be the biggest danger with online gaming.
An important issue is also the revenue, a big temptation for the government, with SARS charging a 6 % tax on all gaming revenue from operators to be licensed in terms of the new regulations.
Of course there are some difficulties too like for example the foreign exchange controls.
The Reserve Bank worked with the National Gambling Board to draw up the regulations and the Bank is aware of the internet not knowledge about the national jurisdictions and the free flow of money that will e crucial for the success of a local online industry.

Professor Nelson Rose, who is considered the world’s leading expert on gambling law, recently wrote a book called Gambling and the law: Proving Poker is a Game of Skills. In his book, first of all he explains that the state of California is the draw poker capital of the world, because the state enacted laws taken in the 19th century. Those laws outlawed several games, like faro and 21, but left draw poker off the list.

Rose explained that in Florida when lawmakers authorized commercial cardrooms, they put a limit of $ 10 on the size of pots. This limit was really low of course and him as an expert he immediately recognized that a game with such a limit could not be poker. Read the rest of this entry »

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