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A US land-based casino that accidentally sent vouchers to more people than it could afford to has been forced to ask thousands of customers to give it a break, reports Associated Press.

The repeated and unequivocal use by the recent 60 Minutes television program of the claim that online gambling, and specifically poker, is illegal in the United States was made despite the producers receiving advice to the contrary from legal expert Professor I. Nelson Rose of Whittier College

The latest annual National Annenberg Survey of Youth shows that the incidence of youthful Internet gamblers remains at the low levels experienced following last year's "precipitous decline."

Two California gamblers who sued the Google and Yahoo search engines in 2004 for carrying gambling ads after they lost $100000 at the tables were defeated in a California court last week.

The current World Series of Poker champion Peter Eastgate (22) apparently stands to lose much of his $9.1 million first prize to Denmark's taxman, according to the well informed poker writer Thomas Somach on Poker Helper.com.

The Washington Post print stories and the 60 Minutes television coverage of the UltimateBet and Absolute Poker cheating scandals published on Sunday continued to evoke wide comment and exchanges of opinion on industry message boards and in the media this week.

Online gambling software provider Top Game has announced the imminent release of four new games to its licensees, with 7 Spins.com likely to be the first to offer the games.

One of the most frequently rolled out justifications for state gambling monopolies - that these are good for sports funding - has been put under the comparative spotlight by a new survey commissioned by the European Gaming and Betting Association and published this week.

The feisty move by Swedish online gambling company Betsson to challenge Swedish monopolistic practice by opening a land betting shop in Stockholm as reported previously continues to generate headlines.