Online Casino and Gambling News: January 2009

Canadian online gambling software provider Chartwell Technology has announced audited financial results for the year ended October 31, 2008, turning in a solid tenth anniversary year performance that included:

The Australian gambling group Tabcorp's latest financial results reveal a massive negative hit to the company's bottom line - the result of a dud cheque for A$11.5 million from a high-rolling gambler at one of the company’s casinos.

January 30th is L-day for the giant European online betting group Bwin - it marks the start of the group’s innovative and technologically advanced live betting interface which has been designed to give customers an intensified live experience.

The Dutch Justice Minister, Hirsch Ballin was in the news again this week with more threats designed to warn off online gambling companies that may be a threat to the state's monopolistic stranglehold on betting in Holland.

The UK-based online betting exchange Betfair Group Ltd. has completed its acquisition of the US-based TV Games Network from Macrovision for $50 million in cash.

Online gambling software provider Microgaming's unique player-customisable video slot Myslot, launched early December 2008, is proving a big favourite with the players according to an independent study.

Online gambling marketing affiliates were surprised this week to receive notifications from the Rival Internet gambling company, believed to be owned by Canadian residents, that it intends to exit the Canadian market within the next few days - effective February 1st 2009.

Parlay Entertainment is making all of its popular side games available in the embedded mini-game format, which allows players to play mini-games within their bingo game window, the company announced this week.

Following on the heels of the recent Pennsylvanian court ruling that poker is a game dominated by skill rather than chance comes a report from Colorado that a jury in that state has arrived at the same conclusion.

This year's World Series of Poker epic in Las Vegas will again feature a four month break before the final table action takes place in the NLTH main event, and there will be a new one-time $40,000 buy-in tournament at the start of the series to commemorate its 40th anniversary of the championship.