Playtech acquires Gaming Technology Solutions
Playtech, a London Stock Exchange-listed firm and online slots software industry leader, has announced the acquisition of GTS (Gaming Technology Solutions) in order to expand their online skill games and sports betting repertoire, one of the fastest ...
Playing cards: Their meanings, symbology and history
Check out how the deck of playing cards we enjoy today has gradually evolved from the 1300s today. Do you know who the first great manufacturers of prestige decks were? Or who changed the knave to the jack? Or why the suicide king is clean-shaven?
Come on down, Nelson Rose!
Professor Nelson Rose of Whittier Law School offers a few thoughts and insights into bills in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Robert Menendez (D-Nev.), that might overturn the current state of online gambling prohibition in ...
Busted in Maryland: Look out, online casinos!
While folks in Delaware are expanding individuals’ rights to gamble, neighboring Maryland is apparently having none of that, as its newly formed “Assets Forfeiture and Financial Crimes task force” is already targeting online gamblin ...
Playtech online casinos set to host superheroes
Marvel Comics superheroes coming to a Playtech casino near you: Chasing up the company's highly successful Gladiator slot, Playtech software will be releasing new slots games based on The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man in September, with many more to c ...
Eurolinx, Linx Casino, Bet On Bet kaput
Linx Media Group, an online gambling group consisting of Eurolinx.com, BetOnBet.com, and LinxCasino.com, closed its virtual doors for good on Friday, leaving hundreds of players in the lurch while liquidators figure out what to do with the insolvent ...
At USPGA, Yang beats Tiger, Paddy Power beats self
Cheeky Irish bookmaker Paddy Power was more than slightly embarrassed when it lost a bet against itself – a big bet – when Y.E. Yang caught Tiger Woods on the final 18 holes of the USPGA Championship, then beat the world’s greatest golfer in a playof ...
Howard Stern tunes into the PPA for National Poker Week
Howard Stern was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2006 and was once ranked as the planet’s 7th most powerful celebrity by Forbes; yesterday, he became an undoubtedly marked presence by taking up arms ...
Famous and Gambling, but What and Where?
You've seen some on celebrity poker TV series and heard tell of wildness in exotic casinos, but who are Hollywood's true-bluest casino players? Taking a closer look at famous folks who play, from A-Rod to Timberlake.
EC vs. US re: UIGEA, NATO
The European Commission, regulatory branch of the European Union, has released a report on United States federal laws regarding online gambling, calling US business practices in violation of WTO regulations.
Gamblers are all different -- no, really.
Sometimes it takes a scientific study to prove to the general public what those in the know could have told you for free. To wit, the “Qualitative follow-up of the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007,” a study commissioned by the UK Gambling Comm ...
666 Lucky or Unlucky? (or, The Invention of Roulette)
A brief telling of the Blanc brothers' invention of the single-zero roulette wheel, plus some factoids and trivia.One of the most famous and popular of all casino games is roulette, a game that people have been playing since antiquity. It is know ...