The French online gambling market has been expanding greatly since deciding to legalize and regulate the industry. The latest addition to this growing market is Titan Poker, the pride and joy of the iPoker Network.
Peter Eastgate, winner of the 2008 World Series of Poker Championship, shocked the world last summer when he announced his untimely retirement from an intensely successful professional poker career. He did it again last week when he decided to auction off his 2008 WSOP Championship Bracelet on eBay.com.
So many online sports betting enthusiasts rely on the self-professed brilliance of outside handicappers. How do you know how brilliant they are? Did they really do research on the competition, or did they flip and coin and post their picks? And how do you know if you can trust the win percentages some of them boast?
The online gambling industry has maintained its hold as one of the top revenue yielding e-commerce industries in the world for many years running, but it seems that at present, online sportsbooks are taking the lead among related companies by leaps and bounds.
Ladbrokes, the UK's largest bookmaker, revealed its earnings for the third quarter and realized a 128% increase in revenue from last year’s Q3 reports, a fantastic rating considering its overall progress as of late. Ladbrokes attributed the overwhelming swell to “higher net revenue performance and lower operating costs.
The online poker industry has become fiercely competitive of late, not that it wasn’t always competitive before, but it seems all of the major online poker rooms are vying for licenses in once restricted or isolated territories. The most recent regional penetration comes in the form of a sister site to Party Poker as its parent company, PartyGaming, just received a license to legally operate in Venezuela.
As so many online gambling operators are fighting for rights to market their products in Western Europe, its rather surprising to find that at least one major online sportsbook is actually threatening to leave the eastern-most portion of the continent. Betfair Sports is threatening to do just that, talking of pulling out of the United Kingdom due to inequality issues among operators.
Computerized blackjack programs are nothing new to us. We’ve been playing these types of games since the 1970’s; online blackjack since the 1990’s. But as is always the case, technological advancements will continue to produce more expedient and true-to-life ways to play blackjack, online and otherwise.
Swedish online sports betting operator Svenska Spel has held an aging monopoly in the region for many years now. With no competition to speak of, the company has grown exponentially as time wears on. But a recent accusation of cheating on the sports betting site’s part may soon change all of that.
Online bingo heavyweight Tombola Bingo has been steadily working its way up the industry totem pole, but a fresh promotional approach may be just the necessary kick the company needed to realize its full potential among such a competitive UK market.
Poker pros are known to cash in big and drop massive chunks of change in a very short amount of time. It is the nature of their profession as high rolling gamblers. The best poker pros win more often than they lose, but this week, one ill-fated green-felt specialist suffered a tremendous downswing that cost him $1.5 million – in a single week!
Euro Palace Casino has barely finished celebrating its grand opening and is already rejoicing over yet another big cash winner. Maria P. won an awesome €28,572.91 playing the classically famous online slots, LotsaLoot.