Online Casino and Gambling News: October 2009

Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment reports that it has signed up Microgame - arguably the largest remote gaming provider in Italy - for an online casino on the popular CasinoModule platform.

Back in 2007 the drive by US federal authorities to disrupt online gambling by attacking financial companies that processed gambling transactions netted close to $19.2 million in seizure orders impacting the Canadian-based Optimal Group Inc., more familiar to online gamblers as 'FirePay'.

Wracked by recent political corruption claims, the Polish government is reported to be taking a populist approach in its latest proposals for new gambling regulations, and these may not be online gambling-friendly.

Ladbrokes Casino is currently involved in an innovative marketing initiative to discover 'Britain's Sexiest Croupier', teaming up with the popular 'lad mag' publications Nuts and Loaded to achieve maximum coverage across a readership that numbers some 1.7 million.

The Moscow Times reports that gambling operators are still determinedly trying to circumvent the government's ban on gambling in the city, with the latest wheeze being touch screen console offerings which purportedly are lotteries supporting unspecified charities.

The Ruby Royal online casino has become the first operation using Rival gambling software to receive Technical Systems Testing (TST) certification.

The latest press material from the UK-based online gambling software provider Wagerworks - a subsidiary of American gambling equipment giant IGT - provokes speculation that the company is optimistic about the chances of a more liberal and progressive Internet gambling policy evolving in the United States.

Decriminalising many forms of Internet gambling in the United States would raise nearly $42 billion for the U.S. Treasury over the next decade, according to an analysis conducted by a non-partisan congressional scorekeeper, the Joint Committee on Taxation.

The Maryland-based federal task group pursuing cash processors suspected of facilitating online gambling transactions has struck again, according to the Baltimore City Paper.

The independent Australian company Commonwealth Securities Limited (CommSec) has released some startling figures on the gambling funds spent by Australians in relation to other essential living costs like water and electricity. Analysing data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Commsec found that on average the Aussies live up to their international reputation as big gamblers, spending more money on gambling than they put aside for gas, electricity bills, phone bills, water and petrol.