Online Casino and Gambling News: 2008

Interesting industry weekend reading on Bodog and UltimateBet

There was some good weekend reading available for followers of the industry as InfoPowa went to press Saturday - a long article on Calvin Ayre and Bodog in the latest edition of Fast Company magazine, and a video-streamed interview with poker pro Annie Duke on the UltimateBet.com online poker scandal that continues to reverberate around both mainstream and industry media.

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WSOP day 1B of main event concludes

The 39th World Series of Poker rolled on at the Rio in Las Vegas regardless of the Independence Day celebration, although there was a distinctly patriotic flavour to the start of Day 1b as a total entry field of thousands was whittled down to manageable numbers in preparation for the Day 2 action.

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UK player wins first European bingo championships

The continuing popularity of online bingo was illustrated this week when more than 660 entrants registered for Paddy Power's inaugural European Bingo Championships.

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UK bookmaker Corbetts opens Playtech online casino and poker room

The UK land betting company Corbetts Bookmakers has diversified into the online gambling environment with a new Playtech powered online casino and poker website at CorbettCasino.com and BetterBetCorbett.co.uk. The operational management is through Inside Gaming.

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Notable eliminations on day 1 of WSOP event

The Main Event of the 2008 World Series of Poker - the $10 000 buy-in World Championship No-Limit Hold'em - has started with Day 1A at the Rio in Las Vegas, and there have already been some notable eliminations.

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Matt Graham wins the WSOP $1500 buy-in Limit Hold'em Shootout

Clearing the decks for the much anticipated 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event this week, the last of the preliminary events, the $1500 buy-in Limit Hold'em Shootout at Event 53 - came to a close with Matt Graham and Jean-Robert Bellande (of 'Survivor' fame) in an exciting but lengthy heads up.

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WCOOP back on September 5

Poker Stars.com has announced that its seventh PokerStars.com World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) will begin on September 5th with a guaranteed prize pool of $30 million – double the total of last years' event.

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Daneshgar scores in WSOP event 52

With the end of the individual tournaments in the 39th World Series of Poker now in sight, Event 52 - the $1500 No-Limit Hold'em contest - commanded attention as Californian pro Dave Daneshgar truimphed over a field of 2693 to take his first WSOP bracelet and the main prize of $625,443 after a tough heads up with Scott Sitron.

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Svenske Spel poker controls to be tightened

The Swedish government gambling monopoly Svenske Spel was under futher pressure this week as Finance Minister Andrea Borg called for tighter regulation of the online poker games operated by the company.

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Thai arrests for Euro 2008 gambling top 1000

More than 1000 people have been arrested in Thailand for gambling on Euro 2008 football matches, local police revealed this week, disclosing that $30,000 had been confiscated.

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