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Online Gaming News
Bodog Poker Open launched
5 Mar 2008
Over the next seven days, online poker players will be competing for huge cash prizes and major bragging rights in the inaugural Bodog Poker Open.
WSOP pre-registration opens
5 Mar 2008
Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. said
today pre-registration for the 2008 World Series of Poker Presented by
Milwaukee's Best Light is now open.
TimelessPoker.com joins Everleaf Gaming
4 Mar 2008
TimelessPoker.com joins Everleaf Gaming Ltd Network and launches new affiliate program offering 50% revenue share for life time.
Pokerstars begins WSOP satellites
4 Mar 2008
Pokerstars has just announced they have started the satellites and qualifiers for the 2008 WSOP Main Event and they will be sending more players than any other room online.
High-rollers boost Ladbrokes in tough year for the bookies
3 Mar 2008
International News Brief: Bookmaker Ladbrokes posted a 45% jump in profits, thanks to rapid growth in over-the-phone bets.
Rank takeover 'inevitable' after it sells off pension plan
3 Mar 2008
International News Brief: Rank has removed a key obstacle for potential buyers by agreeing a deal to hive off its pension plan.
Jeff Simpson explains why he doesn't think Signature towers buyers will win in court
3 Mar 2008
Jeff Simpson on the folks who are suing MGM Mirage because they believe they were misled about their purchase of condo-hotel units at the Signature towers at MGM Grand.
'Bringing Down The House' goes Hollywood
3 Mar 2008
Ben Mezrich's best-selling book about an MIT blackjack team has been adapted to the big screen as "21" premieres this week. Watch the movie's trailer and find out how the relationship between Mezrich and the book's main character - Jeff Ma - led to the creation of this motion picture and changed their lives forever.
Titan Poker runs 2nd European Championship of Online Poker Series.
3 Mar 2008
Titan Poker is guaranteeing $3,500,000 in cash prizes in its second European Championship of Online Poker Series.
Represent Bluff Europe in the eSport-Poker League
3 Mar 2008
Bluff Europe magazine is entering a team into Europe's first eSport-Poker league, and would like Bluff Europe readers to help prove that they're the best poker players in Europe.
Inside gaming column: Board seeking air-tariff controls
3 Mar 2008
Las Vegas Sands Corp. is proceeding with plans to retrofit two former passenger airliners to serve as modified flying casinos, on which high-end customers can pass the time gambling while being shuttled between Asia and the company's Strip casinos.
Nevadan at work: Exec sees diversity as tool
3 Mar 2008
Debra Nelson, the MGM Mirage vice president of corporate diversity, communications and community affairs, sees diversity as a tool to help businesses get foothold and thrive.
Gaming sector caught in market skid
3 Mar 2008
Volatility continued to plague gaming industry stocks in February.
PKR.com rises in rank
3 Mar 2008
PKR.com has solidified its place in the online gaming hierarchy by jumping both Betfair and Ladbrokes to become the 17th biggest poker website.
Harrah's joins Climate Leaders
3 Mar 2008
Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.
announced today that is has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's Climate Leaders.
Phil Ivey wins L.A. Poker Classic
3 Mar 2008
Phil Ivey scored a resounding victory at Commerce Casino's L.A. Poker Classic and walked away with $1,596,100 -- and a pretty big grin.
Fourth person claims Millionaire's Raffle
3 Mar 2008
Joseph K. Yentz of
Pittston, Luzerne County, was revealed today as the fourth person to claim
a $1 million top prize from the Pennsylvania Lottery's Millionaire Raffle.
Kentucky Derby logo at NASCAR race
3 Mar 2008
Churchill Downs and UPS unveiled a special Kentucky Derby 134 paint scheme that will be featured on the #44 UPS Toyota Camry during the Aaron’s 499 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
Galaxy Entertainment moves towards online gambling
29 Feb 2008
International News Brief: Galaxy Entertainment Group is making moves to capitalize on an eventual legalizing of internet gaming in the Mainland, said the deputy director this week.
Rank chief pessimistic about UK casino plans
29 Feb 2008
International News Brief: Ian Burke, CEO of Rank said he expects few of Britain's 16 planned new casinos to be built, as he flagged a tough year ahead.
$20 million guaranteed on paddypowerpoker.com
29 Feb 2008
Millions of dollars are up for grabs this March as paddypowerpoker.com prepares for the biggest month in the site's history.
Scientific Games signs Italian contract
29 Feb 2008
Scientific Games has signed a contract to provide 25,000 "next
generation" Leonardo/WAVE terminals to Sisal S.p.A., a leading gaming
company in Italy.
Congressman sponsors internet gambling act
29 Feb 2008
Congressman George
Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Democratic Policy Committee and the
House Education and Labor Committee, has signed on as a co-sponsor of the
Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act.
Scientific Games reports results
29 Feb 2008
Scientific Games
Corporation reported fourth quarter 2007 revenues of
$268.0 million, up 15 percent from $232.1 million in the fourth quarter of
2006.
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