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Friday 12th November 2004
Gaming Portal Going Continental
Gaming Promo, the recently re-launched gaming portal, has quickly upped its game by translating two of its casinos into French and Spanish. The 68 games available across the two sites will now be ...


Friday 12th November 2004
Fortune spreads its luck
Fortune Lounge Group has announced the addition of three casinos to its already large portfolio of online gaming portals. To celebrate the new additions, all Fortune casinos are offering a 300 per...


Friday 12th November 2004
William Hill Launches Online Fruit Machines
If you log on to the William Hill Online Casino this afternoon, you will have even more chances to win as Hills have launched a new selections of games, including a chance to play the first ever on...


Friday 12th November 2004
Busted for Betting Online
Jeffrey Trauman has made history. As best I can tell, he is the first, and only, person who has actually been charged and convicted of online gambling. From the email Jeff sent me, I know that all...


Friday 12th November 2004
6 Minute-Old Online Gambler Wins $286,609 !
It’s a record jackpot at InterCasino.com, not because it’s their biggest winner ever, but because no one has ever won a MEGA-Jackpot so quickly. A just-out-of-the-box online gambler going by the us...


Friday 12th November 2004
Gambling tycoon donates £50,000 to Labour
Figures in the Electoral Commission published this Tuesday show the director of a large Online Casino company gave £50,000 to the Labour party in the months before the Gambling Bill. Peter Coates...


Friday 12th November 2004
Chartwell and UKbetting Seal the Deal
Rapidly expanding Canadian software company, Chartwell Technology, has finalized an agreement with UK internet bookmakers UKbetting plc to provide its portfolio of flash based in-browser casino an...


Friday 12th November 2004
Jowell Backs Down Over Bill
UK Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has bowed to pressure from her fellow MP’s over the aspect of the Gambling Bill which would welcome a number of ‘super’ or ‘regional’ casinos to the country’s sho...


Friday 12th November 2004
Horseshoe Runs Out of Luck
Binion’s Horseshoe, the spiritual home of poker for over fifty years, is to be consigned to the annals of history, following the announcement that MTR gaming will be taking over the reigns from and...


Thursday 11th November 2004
WTO rules against US in Internet gambling fight
Antigua and Barbuda, the Caribbean island nation, won a World Trade Organization ruling that US legislation criminalizing online betting violates global laws. The 287-page ruling claimed the proh...


Thursday 11th November 2004
New casinos get eCogra seal of approval
Bosses of eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eCogra) chose the European Interactive Gaming 2004 conference in Barcelona to announce the five new online casinos to get its seal. ...


Thursday 11th November 2004
Fortune Lounge Group Expands to Nine Online Casinos
ALDERNEY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004 - The Fortune Lounge Group, http://www.fortunelounge.com, announced today the addition of Desert Dollar, Vegas Towers and Havana Club to its online casino group. The e...


Thursday 11th November 2004
Chartwell Signs Ukbetting plc
Calgary, Canada, November 10 2004, Chartwell Technology Inc. (TSX: CWH) a leading provider of gaming software systems and entertainment content to the online and mobile gaming industry is pleased t...


Wednesday 10th November 2004
More Casinos Join eCogra Player Safety Initiative
Speaking from the European Interactive Gaming 2004 conference in Barcelona, Spain, the directors of eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eCOGRA) have announced the award of its Sea...


Tuesday 9th November 2004
Race is on for first gambling dedicated TV channel
Inspired by the success of gambling related television shows, it is rumoured that there are now several groups of investors competing to be the first to launch a new TV channel entirely dedicated t...