Everybody knows professional poker gamblers had a hard job. Any poker pro must have a lot of skill and experience and also lots of luck whether at the online or the land casinos. One of the best poker professionals in the gambling industry was able to go out off the year of bad luck and big losses at the gambling tables at last. Though, it is enough interesting that Tom Durrr” Dwan never left off and went on betting big and playing often in spite of his repeated losses at poker tables since he was sure that it was just a matter of time prior to the fortune could smiled on him and he could get back some of the losses.

Last week, the casino poker pro turned his almost $1 million of gambling losses into a nearly breakeven situation. The winning streak of Dwan encompassed 2 of the major world’s poker online casinos, Full Tilt and Poker Stars and according to the latest information Dwan has compensated over $850,000 in winnings at the poker tables.

As expected there isn’t any telling how long Dwan’s will hit a winning streak but without any doubt Dwan will take part in more forthcoming online casino poker events and the range of main land tournaments as well. Soon the WSOP Europe event comes forth; Dwan will surely have some tough competition in the face of the best land and online poker players all over the world, all of them will try winning at the event.

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Online gambling companies in the United Kingdom were aware of the fact that the Gambling Act 2005 would be a double-edged weapon in many respects. In spite of the fact that the UK liberalized the online gambling regulations in the country, they also set up a strict Gambling Commission to watch over implementation and adherence to the latest regulations and legislation. More liberalization of the UK gambling market is expressed in the following: online casinos have more advertising privileges in the market of Europe. But together with this the Advertising Standards Authority oversees all the online gambling companies’ adverts.

The ASA has made news during the past few months due to the Association’s ban of some main advertising campaigns of honorable online gambling companies. The ads are regulated to guarantee that they don’t appeal to under age children, run within their particular time frames and don’t embolden addictive internet casino gambling.

The most recent prohibited ad from the ASA is an advertisement for Wink bingo – an online casino gambling site that has not experienced the controversy of an ASA inquiry before. The ad portrays a “cheeky, sassy, irreverent and wicked” situation of an exaggerated reality. The advertisement showed a maternity nurse who is ignoring a woman who gives birth instead of gambling on the online gambling site.

The ASA agreed that the ad tone was completely humorous and amusing, but noticed that the situation, showed an irresponsible online gambling habit – the nurse wasn’t doing her duties and was gambling online.

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For nearly a year the internet gambling industry has demanded for the identity of those who were involved in the biggest cheating scandal in the online poker gambling industry history. Absolute Poker along with Ultimate Bet, its sister site, were involved in sweeping fraud activity by former employees caused that the companies lost some credibility and a part of its established online poker network. Though the Kahnawake Gaming Commission conducted the investigation, fined, and up to had closed the cases against Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet, poker players are claiming that the sites give more information about these scandals and the involved employees.

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission and Tokwiro Enterprises, the parent company for Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet, released a diluted statement about the cheating scandal. This report left much to be wanted for the majority of poker players. All the information that was released to the public did not contain details and nobody has been named and arrested in concern with both of the scandals that were revealed within half a year of each other. This fact upsets the online poker gambling industry all over the world.

though the Kahnawake Gaming Commission and Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet didn’t give names and information, however, there is a source (in our age of internet is hard to keep secrets and information) that says that some persons supposedly involved in the scandals have been living it up outside Canada and therefore out of the Canadian government jurisdiction.

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BodogLife.com, known before as Bodog.com, has more problems than Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, the company’s new owners, are asserting. The processing of payment is getting slower and the number of employees that have left the company is decreasing quickly. With rumors the shell company was founded in Nevada for transferring funds and accounts of $24 million linked to Bodog and Zip Payments, the company has had no luck to find other methods to pay their customers. At present, the counterfeit Nevada’s companies are being thoroughly scrutinized.

In accordance with court documents, Bodog permitted the company to raise money and issue checks to US players won on the site. Hitherto, the IRS reports about $248 million involving entities connected with Bodog.com. The IRS started the investigation into financial actions of Bodog in 2003 and by 2006 it had enough data to open an official investigation. Just then the US government started to take measures on online casino gambling financial institutions, for example, Neteller and online gaming sites like Beton Sports. Bank and public records, informants, witnesses, and secret agents putting bets on football and gathering winnings were included in the inquiry.

This week Bodog dismissed 300 employees more. The Montreal’s office is already reduced to a skeleton crew. Their plans to break into the European gambling market has been foiled by shortage of UK advertising licensing and the fact that the companies don’t want to process payments for the internet casino.

Industry experts think that some of Bodog’s troubles have emerged because of their inability to hide.
How long Bodog can keep its head above the water remains only to wait for.

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Now, online casino poker gamblers worldwide want to win a seat to the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe. The WSOP tournaments always attract the attention of the world’s community due to the prestige of the event and the fact that the best and the most skilled poker players gather together at WSOP events. The entries are usually rather big, but the prize pools are huge and the poker pros who are at the final table can bring home millions of dollars sometimes. This year’s WSOPE is just lasting for few months and the online casinos are already holding qualifiers and competitions for online poker players competing for a trip with all-expenses paid to the event.

The World Series of Poker Europe is much younger than the Las Vegas WSOP event that continue to draw the attention of all the online poker gambling industry and also the millions of land poker players all over the world. The Casino at the Empire in Leicester Square, London is hosting the WSOPE. And, though, the event is smaller of course than the month of events in Las Vegas, the organizers expect a considerable turnout of poker players from the land and internet-based casinos.

The start of the events is scheduled on September 19 and will be running till October 2. The highlight of the event is a World Championship No Limit Hold’em poker competition. It has the largest buy-in of an overwhelming £10,000. Many of the land and online casino poker players who took part in the Vegas WSOP will also compete in the WSOP.

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Some time ago TrillionPoker was kicked off its network by Boss Media for “rakeback violations”, and Trillion was trying to slander Boss Media and all that was an act of revenge more than a rightful court lawsuit. PokerTrillion has imposed effectively its litigation against Boss Media, the result of which is a ruling that may bring down all of poker activities of Boss Media in Malta.

Therefore, if you have wanted to open an account at any Boss Media poker room that is licensed in Malta, you need to think once again. According to Judge Gino Camilleri’s ruling, Boss Media must shut its servers in Malta by 18 September. And the problem is that Boss Media can’t lodge an appeal.

The Malta gambling authority is known to be the strictest internet gambling licensing and regulatory body worldwide, but nobody could have predicted that the court went so far. Boss Media told its players that a destruction of the company’s Malta operations was utterly unlikely and that an “award of damages” would also be unlikely with respect to the ?20 Million lawsuit lodged by TrillionPoker.

Boss Media has already assured players that they won’t shut down their operations and that assets are not frozen (TrillionPoker made this claim in the past). The Malta Lotteries and Gaming Authority hold all player assets under its control and they can’t be seized by a court.

However, Boss Media hasn’t confirmed nor denied if the freezing order applies to the company’s operations in Malta now.

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David Boden accepts another prominent position in the online gambling industry. David Boden is a highly experienced and respected gaming and leisure operator; he has a long history inside the online gambling industry. Recently The Devilfish Gaming plc announced that David Boden was appointed to the position of Executive Chairman at Devilfish Gaming. All that he has done previously in the industry, all his positions he had in top online casinos and gambling companies helped him to get this current appointment. The online gambling industry is in a steady flux due to its intense growth in the European and Asian regions. Worldwide growth in the online casino industry causes that some smaller online casinos can get big profits, as a result there is a great need for higher level executives and employees in general.

Devilfish Gaming has a high quality online gaming website that is backed by one of the renowned names in the online poker industry, David Ulliott, the company takes its name from him David “Devilfish” Ulliott. Ulliott is one of the best poker gamblers in the world. At present his company is growing rapidly in the online poker gambling industry of the UK.

The colossal experience of Boden in the online casino and poker gambling industries made him the major candidate for this position. Boden held the position of Managing Director at Rank Group Gaming and also was a Board member of Rank Group. Moreover, he has expertise in the internet casino bingo industry via the Bingo Association. He has been involved in the online gambling industry for more than ten years and now he is going to evolve The Devilfish Gaming plc into “a multi-channel gaming operator”.

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Titan Poker creates a furor and makes headlines with its extraordinary $2.5 million Guaranteed Prize tournament that will stage in the beginning of this September.

Two of Titan Poker’s winning players shared their plans in case they win.

Oliver Kaeser from Switzerland said that first he would quit his job and then he was not going to work for two years and would enjoy sunny holidays and deserved freedom.

Michael Wywrot from Canada thinks more rationally about his potential winnings. He wants to invest them in real estate, and has big plans to accumulate future interest on the winnings he could earn during the event.

The two players made a long way to the future event. And like their dreams, their ways to this big tournament were also different. The rise of Michael Wywrot was very swift. He just paid a $5 buy-in, and less than dozen days after he had joined Titan Poker, the player won at the P5 qualifying tournament. But Oliver Kaeser made a long way to the future event, it was slow and hard. The Swiss player had played with Titan Poker for a year, before he took first prize at a qualifying satellite, his buy-in to the event was just $150. In any case, both players are overwhelmed with the potential return on their initial investment.

The both player example shows that no matter what your poker style is or what your dreams are, it is possible for everybody to win at Titan Poker. At the moment less than three weeks are left till the $2.5 million Guaranteed Prize tournament, this is the time to turn your dream into reality.

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The online gambling group, Ultimate Bet has officially welcomed Tiffany Michelle into their company since the Poker News controversy has become old news. Now after the World Series of Poker event finished, Michelle has joined Ultimate Bet as the member of Star Players Team.

Poker News started controversy in the internet-based and land-based casino industry when they published their press release that disputed the decision of Tiffany Michelle to have additional logo during the WSOP. Poker News paid for Tiffany Michelle’s buy-in into the Main Event, they sponsored her all through the event. Michelle represented Poker News throughout the WSOP Main Event. When she impressed the world with the 17th place at the Main Event and caught attention as she was the last woman standing, Michelle wore an UltimateBet logo. Poker News had not known about this until Michelle revealed on national coverage of the tournament sponsoring another online gambling group, Ultimate Bet.

All this is already in the past for Michelle. Now she starts a prestigious poker gambling career at the traditional and internet-based casinos as a member of the Star Players Team. Michelle is going to play poker together with Annie Duke and other professionals at Ultimate Bet’s team.

The only problem everybody could note is that though Ultimate Bet is a strong name in the online poker industry still, the reputation of the company was certainly slightly spoiled by the cheating scandal which has been fully resolved just recently but till now it’s causing concerns with poker pros uncovered that scandal.

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The Platinum Play Casino is the second of the online casinos of Fortune Lounge Group which goes mobile. Now With the Microgaming mobile platform, Spin3, Platinum Play Casino can give their customers the opportunity to play from their mobiles.

Gambling from a mobile phone is the fastest increasing sector of the online casino gambling industry. Together with interactive digital TV gaming, mobile gaming has a considerable part of remote betting in the whole world. And taking into account the success Fortune Lounge has had since 2007 with the mobile platform at Royal Vegas casino, everybody is sure that mobile gambling that now will be available at Platinum Play will be a success.

It is worth adding that Platinum Play Casino is open to US players, but not all of the US players. Platinum Play Casino is a Microgaming Casino, so it doesn’t allow players from certain states in. To get any necessary information, see OCS’s US Microgaming Restrictions page. Though, if you do not live in qualifying American states, you can have a great chance to play at Platinum Play.

At the moment online gambling from a cell phone is not common in the USA. At present, in general, players from Europe and Asia use mobile phones for gambling online. But the more online casinos like Platinum Play Casino going mobile the more change we will see in the nearest future.

Concerning the platform of Spin3, it has 14 downloadable casino games now. They are compatible with nearly any mobile. The most favourite games are Roulette, Blackjack, Baccarat, and Three Card Poker. This mobile platform even gives a chance to play progressive video slots.

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