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Online Betting Company To Sponsor Top Snooker Tourney

Dafabet takes on the Masters Tournament for 2014 UK snooker's most prestigious invitation tournament, The Masters, will be sponsored by online betting firm Dafabet for the first time this season, reports the publication World Snooker. The Dafabet Masters runs from January 12 to 19 at Alexandra Palace in London and features the world's leading 16 players, including defending champion Mark Selby, World Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan, world number one Neil Robertson, Chinese ace Ding Junhui, Judd Trump and John Higgins. With

By Casinomeister Jan 10, 2014

Online Bookie Murdered In Frankfurt

HappyBet director shot execution-style at entrance to office Oliver Frolich, the fifty-year-old director of the German online and retail sports betting firm HappyBet, has been found shot execution style at the back entrance to his offices in the Sachsenhausen district of Frankfurt. He had two bullet wounds to the head and was found by a local resident on Friday. The Frankfurter Neue Presse reports that police investigating the murder are offering a Euro 5,000 reward for information on the killing

By Casinomeister Jan 10, 2014

Online Casino Games Now Offered On Poker Website

Full Tilt Poker varies its offering Pokerstars sister site Full Tilt Poker has started offering a selection of real money online casino games to its clients in a bid to offer more variety to the punters. The roll-out will be done on a gradual and controlled basis in order to fully evaluate and test the new initiative, which is an innovative move for a parent group that has focused on poker in the past. Pokerstars will for the foreseeable future

By Casinomeister Jan 10, 2014

Online Gambling Company Sponsors U.s. Sports Teams

PartyPoker signs agreement with US professional ice hockey and basketball teams The Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA and the New Jersey Devils of the NHL have become the first major U.S.-based professional teams to sign a sponsorship deal with an online gambling company, according to reports in the US media Wednesday. Party Poker, a subsidiary of the European online gambling group Bwin Party Digital Entertainment, is the online poker company behind the multi-year sponsorship agreement and has an operational subsidiary

By Casinomeister Jan 10, 2014

Online Poker Momentum Building In New Jersey (update)

Borgata-PartyPoker site attracts an encouraging peak hour crowd New Jersey online poker players are visiting the newly regulated and licensed websites in growing numbers, reports the independent online poker monitor Pokerscout, noting that the facilities offered by the Borgata-PartyPoker partnership over last weekend topped the 24-hour peak player statistic of 640. To give that number some perspective, it beats the Chico network's 529 and is well on the way to challenging the Merge network's 767, although Borgata still has a

By Casinomeister Jan 10, 2014

Online Poker Network Allows Virtual Currency Deposits

The Winning Poker Network takes on Bitcoin The Winning Poker Network has announced that it will accept Bitcoin deposits. The network, which includes major skins like Americas Cardroom, has said it will accept deposits in the virtual currency, which will be converted to dollars at the tables, but that withdrawals will remain in US dollars for now. The online poker network is not the first poker company to accept Bitcoins (see previous InfoPowa reports) but it is certainly one of

By Casinomeister Jan 10, 2014

Partypoker Wastes No Time In Leveraging U.s. Sports Sponsorship Deals (update)

Dream Seat promo will give online punters a chance to win courtside and VIP box seats at sports events and concerts PartyPoker has wasted no time in gearing up promotions associated with its new sponsorship partnership with the Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Devils and Prudential Center, almost immediately launching its Dream Seat offer. The Dream Seat Series offers players the chance to win regular, courtside and VIP box seats to every New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia 76ers home game. Players

By Casinomeister Jan 10, 2014

Playtech Confirms Deal With Holland Casino

Industry rumours confirmed by official announcement The rumours that online gambling software provider Playtech plc has secured a lucrative deal with the Dutch operator Holland Casino have been confirmed by an official announcement from the software provider Wednesday. The announcement notes that the agreement is in anticipation of the legalisation of the online gambling market in the Netherlands. "This agreement builds on Playtech's major customer relationships in regulated markets with other successful operators such as RAY of Finland and many

By Casinomeister Jan 10, 2014

Poker Pro Makes Unproved Allegations Against Opponent

High stakes players argue over Omaha 8 program claims...but Hansen says he's not calling SallyWoo a cheater Online high stakes professional players Gus Hansen and an opponent known only by his internet handle as "SallyWoo" have clashed over the former's online and unsubstantiated allegations that SallyWoo used an Omaha 8 software program to defeat him. Hansen is reportedly one of the biggest monetary losers in recent online poker history; according to the High Stakes Data Base he is down $8.46

By Casinomeister Jan 10, 2014

Positive Coverage For Online Gambling On U.s. Television Program

Bloomberg TV's "Street Smart" laughs off Adelson objections The widely respected Bloomberg business television program "Street Smart" briefly but positively examined the legalised online gambling phenomenom in the US this week, in the process dismissing land casino mogul Sheldon Adelson's controversial campaign to ban the pastime altogether on moral grounds. Trish Regan, Cory Johnson and Alix Steel of Bloomberg were joined by Greg Rayburn, a managing and founding partner at the respected consulting firm Kobi Partners. Graphics onscreen during the

By Casinomeister Jan 10, 2014

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