This summer season marketing affiliates are sure to have a good reason to rush to Australia as the Casino Affiliate Programs.com conference is taking place in Sydney this year. The CAP conference happens every year. The conference welcomes marketing affiliates from all around the world to come to the venue, communicate with others in the gambling industry and get to know about all the new worldwide events that may affect the online gambling marketing affiliate industry. The CAP Australian 2008 event is really a unique chance for affiliates to find their passports and merge with the best individuals in the online industry.

The conference is specially designed to have extended appeal all through the online gambling industry. It includes not only the affiliates, but also sellers and the marketing departments of leading gambling websites. Lou Fabiano, the founder of CAP.com, said that if you were an affiliate, an affiliate manager, or a seller, the conference would be an obligatory event for you and certainly for your team.

The event is held at the end of November that is really one of the most attractive times to see Sydney as the weather is pleasantly warm, there is a lot of sunshine, Sydney Harbor is sparkling. The conference is scheduled to start on 25th November. This conference will last three days and takes place at the five star Shangri-La Hotel. All the conference participants will have networking at the top of their route over some days as CAP anticipates that the event will draw some of the best online casino affiliate marketing companies from all over the world.

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Last year players at the Mansion gambling site got a good chance when the company started operating on the Playtech gaming platform. At the moment Mansion also offers online poker gambling services by means of Playtech. iPoker Network of Playtech has really grown for the past two years and the company features a great base of world’s poker players and all of them are participating on the iPoker Network. The reputation of Playtech continues to grow since the company guarantees strategic licensing deals and keeps on offering new products and services for the online gambling industry.

Mansion is a leading gambling company especially in the online gambling industry of Europe and they offer a variety of services including poker, gambling, and sportsbetting. Among the great selling points for iPoker Network is the fact the network services a global base of players and the software is purposely adapted for various languages, different currencies, and it allows region specific games to be adapted for a certain demographic.

Once moving to the iPoker Network, Mansion is completely hosted via Playtech for the internet casino and poker gambling products of the company at the point. Playtech has actually excelled during the past year and the company is sure to become recognized in the gambling industry for its prominent poker network and gambling products. In fact the iPoker Networks is currently one of the biggest in the world, that is not an easy thing for any software provider. Mansion online players won’t be affected much by moving to the new network and Mansion expects quite a seamless transition.

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The whole world has had to think over the meaning of the expression “illegal online gambling” during the past two years due to the uncertainty of the UIGEA. And even despite of the fact that all the politicians have expressed concerns about the UIGEA and have said about the effects that the act has on the international online gambling industry, there have not been any changes made to the UIGEA. The UIGEA is still a piece of mostly incoherent and protectionist act that do not allow foreign online gambling companies to operate on the online gambling market of the US. During the past few months a lot of public organizations, players and others have put pressure on Congress to refocus the UIGEA efforts on defining the definition “illegal online gambling” rather than the prior target at the development of enforcement regulations for the banning act.

Senator, Barney Frank managed to make some serious progress in order to make the politicians define what “illegal online gambling” is by means of the Payment Service Protection Act, HR6870. This act has recently passed through the House Financial Services Committee and soon is going to be examined in the House. Many in the internet gambling industry hoped that the House would examine the bill last week but because of the financial crises in the USA and the widespread debate about the $700 billion bailout bill were at the first place all the week.

The gambling ban has been a great debate over the past weeks and it is unlikely to pass easily through the House.

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The online casino gambling and betting market of Italy has increased in the past months. Moreover the state promises new gambling licenses into the market. In the light of all abovementioned Playtech has received most of the software provision deals with the majority of these new companies. Playtech gets 4 new licensing agreements with the companies that operate in the fast developing Italian online gambling industry whereas some of the other main software providers have been happy to secure one new deal. However, that is all coming to an end since Boss Media assumes responsibility and tries to find business inside the opening poker market of Italy.

Boss Media will possibly find an entrance into the Italian market by means of Boss Media’s parent company. GTech Lottomatica operates Boss Media and also the leading “white label” company in the online casino gambling market of Europe. By tradition, St. Minver has allowed smaller companies to open niche casino gambling and betting companies all around Europe whilst they are still having access to best quality gambling and betting software.

Boss Media does not want to launch quietly. This week the online casino poker and betting software developer has announced that it is launching an extraordinary poker network that will face Italy. Their plans are ready now and the poker network of Italy will expand slowly in order to include other online poker players. Boss features a very stable gambling platform. Boss Media software powers some very outstanding and powerful poker gambling companies all over Europe including Eastern Europe. The above-said network will be completely opened in the forthcoming months.

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Last Tuesday the Hanover administrative court threw out the suit against lower Saxony instituted by Bwin, Austrian online gambling giant. The suit was targeted at overturning the 2007 German ban against offering internet gambling to players in Lower Saxony.

This is the second strong blow for Bwin this month. Earlier the company lost a similar case in north Rhine-Westphalia. Bwin relies on Germany for a third of its sales, looked for courts in that state that would suspend execution of the prohibition till a federal court could solved the case. However, Rhine-Westphalia’s judges rejected the suit on 11 September.

Germany is one of the few remaining members of the European Union to ban on its territory online gambling with institutions and companies based outside Germany. Regardless of the fact that the ban violates EU trade agreements, foreign companies including Bwin keep on suffering since it was enacted by each German state individually, not by federal government of Germany.

The prohibition gives an exclusive monopoly to the countriy’s state-run lotteries. Approved by all 16 states of Germany in 2007, it was renewed this January despite EU mandates that require the free movement of goods and services through EU members. So, EU regulators have started proceedings against Germany.

Courts in Hesse and Bavaria have supported Bwin’s right to operate inside state borders stating that it would be impossible for the company to locate its customers.

Kevin O’neal, Bwin spokesman stated this ruling did not correspond to EU law. The company will appeal the ruling in lower Saxony and they are sure that EU law will be adhered finally.

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For a long time The Poker Players Alliance has asserted that there is a difference between the online casino industry and online poker gambling. The Alliance has looked for legislation to legalize online gambling in the United States proving that online poker is a skilled game that has some element of chance. And though the PPA has also upheld legislation at the federal level that could legalize internet casinos that would operate on a regulated base in the United States, the PPA is most concerned with legalizing online poker. Recent situation in Kentucky when Steve Beshear, Governor of the state, decided to confiscate the domain names of several online poker gambling sites was much criticized by the PPA.

John Pappas, Executive Director of the PPA, has recently released a statement on the current situation in Kentucky that outlined the PPA’s position on the proposed anti-online gambling legislation in the state. Pappas said that the Kentucky’s actions were not only extreme, but causeless in that it could be proven clearly that poker is really a skilled game and not chance and thereby online poker sites should not have been part of the said action.

This sentiment goes well together with the primary argument of PPA that internet casinos and poker sites are two different entities to which different rules and regulations should be applied. The Franklin Circuit Court Judge has extended the judgment till 7th October in view of all of the juridical action and arguments in support of the online gambling industry rights.

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In August we published a news article concerning litigation brought upon Boss Media, Swedish online gambling software provider, by Poker Trillion. At the moment, Poker Trillion appears to have withdrawn its claims against Boss media. Actually, a short message was even posted on Trillion’s website, saying that they have pulled all their claims and that legal dispute has finished.

At first sight, someone might think Poker Trillion withdrew their case because of the lack of substantial arguments of their accusations. But, Poker Trillion has evidently been quite successful in their evidence to make Boss Media pay up. Therefore, Poker Trillion managed to secure a judgment in the First hall Civil Court, Malta that would efficaciously allow Malta to forfeit gaming servers of Boss Media and effectively destroy their promising poker network and internet casino licensees.

That ruling was made in August, and afterwards Boss Media quickly undertook a counterattack, saying that Poker Trillion just wanted to revenge Boss Media since Boss Media had expelled Poker Trillion from their poker network for rake back violations. Moreover, Boss Media guaranteed that in spite of the danger of a fund seizure, balances of all player accounts were guaranteed and safeguarded.

At the very least it is a very mysterious case. Poker Trillion had more than once tried to cause a panic by issuing a press release saying that Boss Media’s funds had already been seized, when it was not the case. Surely there was some hostility between the above-said companies. Boss Media and Poker Trillion have not issued any statement that can explain the reasons for the withdrawal.

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