The beast scores in Maryland
The lucky number in Maryland’s pick three state lottery last week? The number of the beast itself: 666. Triple sixes were drawn much to the chagrin of the Maryland State Lottery Agency and despite the group’s description of the number as ...
California on the road to decriminalization
The reels of progress, to riff on a cliché, spin slowly; California’s online poker players have reason to be optimistic, though, provided they have the patience to wait out the sausage-making legislative grind. Relief for the Golden Stat ...
Blackjack dealer, version 2.0
Technoweenies and online gamers alike surely had the attention grabbed with GPS Global’s Thursday opening of beta testing for its “Live Dealer Elimination Blackjack Software.”
Online gamblers on the couch in psychological study
Media sympathetic to the online gaming cause have rallied around findings in a recent study out of the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business by June Cotte and Kathryn A. Latour entitled "Blackjack in the Kitchen: ...
Quote of the year, or, who is Claude Alexander?
“If we put all of the land-based casinos in the world out of business, including Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and Macau, we could reduce our carbon footprint by several billion units per day.”
Playtech works the voodoo
A little economic voodoo (or is that voodoo economics?) for you today, as Playtech is proud to announce continued financial growth in the second quarter. The announcement follows the scintillating business newsbite of last month that the company woul ...
Ireland sees opportunity in US refusal to regulate
“The recent United States casino prohibition of payment mechanisms for gambling online, presents a window of opportunity for Ireland ... Should this opportunity be grasped within the appropriate timescale, Ireland, as a gaming friendly centre o ...
Googling "online casinos" down
In the days of internet dominance, judging the hip has nearly neatly come down to a science that may rely on a single barometer: Keyword search counts.
B-I-N-G-O in the UK
Not only does the UK have by far the fastest-growing online bingo market in the world, a recent study undertaken by industry authority Joe Saussure-Smith states that the Queen’s Land’s online bingo market is the “most intensively de ...
Milestone reached in Dutch online gaming? Welllllllllll...
In news that may have slipped under the radar of all but the hardest core of European Union politics fans, independent Dutch testing laboratory NMi yesterday awarded its first-ever certification to an online gaming company. “A true milestone,&r ...
The LCD endorsement for US President (Part One)
Imagine you’re a one-issue voter; perhaps not so difficult, as so many ‘Stateside voters make their election selection based on a candidate’s stated stand on abortion rights, healthcare, gun control and environment. Here at LCD, of ...
Online gaming bigger in Norway, Singapore
Official bodies in a pair of nations have recently reported continued growth in popularity of online gaming, and together tell a tale of the need to regulate online gaming as opposed to merely illegalizing the amusement as in the United States.
House Resolution 5767 defeated, UIGEA unchanged
Last week saw defeat in the US House of Representatives for legislation that would have eliminated certain regulations in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA). UIGEA made the transfer of funds from financial institutions to ...
Abercrombie and Lynch on board to sink UIGEA
America’s online casino gamers were surely cheered by the news of a little recent legislative action on House Resolution 5767. The resolution calls for a moratorium on enforcement or further implementation of the Unlawful Gambling Enforcement A ...
John C. breaks the King, wins $800,000-plus
Count John C. as June’s first huge progressive jackpot winner. The folks over at Jupiter Club Casino announced that June 5 saw a massive payout fall into user John C.’s lap. How huge? A nice round total of $818,403.30 (approximately &poun ...