Online Casino and Gambling News: May 2009

Harrah's online gambling division to be Montreal based

Harrah's Interactive Entertainment, the new division set up by the giant US gambling group to handle its future online gambling enterprises, will be headquartered outside the United States in Montreal, according to reports this week in the Montreal Gazette.

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Australia's Tabcorp to offer fixed odds on all races

The Herald Sun newspaper in Victoria, Australia reports that Tabcorp is gearing up to answer the growing competitive threat of corporate bookmakers. It response is to give notice of its intentions to offer fixed odds on every race in all three codes by the end of the year.

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Follow WSOP players thoughts on twitter

With the 40th World Series of Poker just started in Las Vegas, a new service for poker fans is making an impression, using the trendy Twitter short-comment social network. Poker Road Nation came up with this clever and interesting application, which carries the company's branding and aggregates tweets (brief comments) from professional players involved in the action.

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2009 WSOP's first event more about the bracelet than the money

Event 1 of the 2009 World Series of Poker - the $500 buy-in Casino Employees competition - has passed into the history books with winner Andrew Cohen (39) appropriately commenting that it was more about the prestige of that WSOP bracelet than the money, although the latter was nice, too with the first placing prize at $83,778!

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BetStopper software designed to block underage access to gambling sites

The Chronicle Herald newspaper in the Nova Scotia province of Canada reports that new software effective in blocking underage gambling has been developed by an American company commissioned by the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation.

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Another Aussie wins millions with old lottery ticket

Earlier this week InfoPowa reported on the case of an Australian grandmother who managed to claim a A$2 million lottery prize after finding a four-year-old Powerball ticket during a clean-out. Days later, Australia produced yet another heart-warming story of an even bigger lottery win on an old ticket.

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Parlay reports disappointing first quarter revenues

The Canadian Internet bingo software developer Parlay Entertainment has reported another disappointing quarterly result in its numbers for Q1,2009, with revenues declining to $1 million (Q1,2008: $2 million).

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Governor Markell signs Delaware sportsbetting law

The legalisation of sportsbetting in Delaware successfully passed through its final stages into law this week as the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that the legislation does not conflict with the state constitution, paving the way for Delaware to become the only state east of the Rocky Mountains to allow wagering on the outcome of games.

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Eurosport broadcaster to launch sportsbetting in June

The giant satellite channel Eurosport is to launch an online betting service after being granted an Alderney e-gambling licence. The broadcaster has partnered with Serendipity Investment to set up Eurosportbet.co.uk under the umbrella name of Societe des Paris Sportifs (SPS) - a firm based in Paris and Guernsey - after being awarded a licence by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission.

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Legal expert argues American gambling firms could have US market to themselves

The blog at Reason.com provided some interesting reading on the impact of U.S. online gambling legalisation this week, airing some previously unpublished views by gambling law expert Prof. I. Nelson Rose, whom it quoted as saying: "...the federal government will end up doing nothing, except for a little unnecessary duplication of effort to make it seem like there is federal oversight." He added that once licensed, a site could serve customers in all 50 states, except those that choose to opt out within 90 days of the law's enactment.

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