June 27th, 2010
One of the largest consulting firm’s which specialize in software security and quality, Cigital, has announced that it has confirmed the reliability and security of the RNG that PokerStars’ online poker site uses to shuffle cards, showing that the results either meets or exceeds best practices in generating statistically random and unpredictable values when dealing [...]
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June 22nd, 2010
You Tube are set to allow videos which advertise onling gambling for the first time, According to new guidelines which have been published on their site “licensed entities located in England, Scotland, Wales, Italy, France or Spain” will be allowed to run the adverts.
To be eligable to view these adverts, viewers must first confirm that [...]
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June 18th, 2010
The $2,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em WSOP tournament has been won by Will Haydon who netted $630,031 early on Thursday morning. Haydon, who has been playing poker proffesionally for about 4 years now, dropped out of school to play full time poker and had been offered a full college scholarship in golf before he turned [...]
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June 18th, 2010
The 27-player field set to play in the 2010 WSOP Tournament of Champions are Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Chris Ferguson, Allen Cunningham, Scotty Nguyen, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth Jr., John Juanda, Erik Seidel, Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, Huck Seed, Dan Harrington, T.J. Cloutier, Sam Farha, Johnny Chan, Howard Lederer, Joe [...]
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June 16th, 2010
Sammy Farha has won the $10,000 buy-in Omaha High-Low Split championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker and with it his third WSOP bracelet.
After a 13 hour final table, which included this years $1500 buy in Pot-Limit Hold’em bracelet winner James Dempsey and also 2 other bracelet winners Abe Mosseri and Michael Chow [...]
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June 15th, 2010
$102 Million USD has been seized and 3600 people arrested after a clampdown on online gambling during the 2010 World Cup being held in South Africa.
Among the arrests, which happened in China, were 180 people who have been linked to gambling operations in Macao, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
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June 15th, 2010
One lucky player has netted himself £63,791.38 after hitting the Jackpot on Casino UK’s Cash Splash online Progressive slot game.
The player only known as M.W, won the Jackpot, (which totals $92,170.77) on the online slot which offers both 5 reel video and a classic 3 reel variants, both versions offering different ways to win the [...]
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June 15th, 2010
After CCTV footage was used, a man who stole chips at Resorts World Sentosa casino in Singapore has been fined $2,000,it has been reported.
The man stole 5 chips from a 57 year old woman by convincing her friend that the chips actually belonged to a friend of his, the report stated.
The man was facing [...]
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June 9th, 2010
The World Series of Poker Academy, the educational provider of the WSOP, has announced today that they have been awarded the final sponsors exemption seat for the WSOP Tournament of Champions 2010. The Academy are to hold a one table sudden-death tournament for nine of the players who were not eligaible for [...]
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June 8th, 2010
RedKings.com have launched their online sports betting site which is called BetRedKings are now taking World Cup bets.
BetRedKings’ launch includes live betting, competitive odds, a great World Cup Predictor game (which is free) with great cash prizes and also a series of $1000 World Cup freerolls which are to be held at Red [...]
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