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Friday 9th May 2008
GUKPT Heads North
The 5th leg of the 2008 GUKPT takes place at the Grosvenor casino in Newcastle next week from Wednesday 14th to Sunday 18th May. The five day poker festival gets underway with a £200 NL...


Friday 9th May 2008
Titan Poker Announce Inaugural Live Tournament
Titan Poker, billed by some as the fastest-growing poker site today, have announced they are to host a live tournament. Like many sites before them, they will be staging a live 200-player...


Friday 9th May 2008
Cryptologic Secures Agreement with 888 Holdings Plc
May 8, 2008 (Dublin, IRELAND) –


Friday 9th May 2008
MGM Profits Plunge
The world’s second largest gaming company, MGM Mirage Incorporated, has announced that profits for the first quarter of the year fell by 30 percent due, in part, to the struggling American...


Friday 9th May 2008
Patrick Could Reintroduce Legislation
In America, the Governor for Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, has announced that his bill to legalise casino resorts in the eastern state could make a return despite a recent high-profile defeat. In...


Friday 9th May 2008
Tropicana Entertainment Files For Bankruptcy Protection
Kentucky-based casino operator Tropicana Entertainment has filed for bankruptcy protection underscoring the decline in the fortunes of the land-based industry. The Chapter 11 filing by the...


Friday 9th May 2008
Gaming Giants Join Forces In Three-Year Deal
Software developer CryptoLogic Ltd and online casino giants 888 yesterday announced the successful signing of a three-year contract between the two companies. This agreement means that 888 will...


Friday 9th May 2008
888 Casino Announce Profits Up
The 888 income report for the first quarter of this year saw that their bets were well placed – a £33m profit is a dramatic rise on the £24m taken in the same period last year. That figure...


Thursday 8th May 2008
Riviera Holdings' casinos suffer revenue hit
The two casinos owned by Riviera Holdings have fallen victim to the current trend sweeping the casino industry. It was announced today that revenue from both venues fell during the first three mon...


Thursday 8th May 2008
Swiss casino industry's profits increase
Casinos in Switzerland made more money last year than they did in the previous 12-month period, it has been revealed. Swissinfo.ch quotes statistics from the Swiss Casino Association (SCA) that sh...


Thursday 8th May 2008
Full Tilt Online Poker Series Has Begun
Full Tilt kicked off the eighth instalment of its Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) yesterday with a $216 buy-in six-handed no-limit Hold’em event with a $750,000 guarantee. The first...


Thursday 8th May 2008
Cryptologic’s Millionaires Club™ Adds A New Millionaire
May 8, 2008 (Dublin, IRELAND) – CryptoLogic Limited, a leading software developer to the global Internet gaming market, has made another lucky online casino slot player an instant...


Thursday 8th May 2008
Another Two Resign At Svenska Spel
Svenska Spel, Sweden’s State-owned gambling monopoly, has announced that another two executives have resigned following the departure last week of Chief Executive Officer Jesper Karrbrink. ...


Thursday 8th May 2008
Entraction Signs GoldBet Deal
Swedish online gaming software provider Entraction has announced a deal that will see it supply poker software along with access to its established network to Austrian gambling company GoldBet...


Thursday 8th May 2008
Gambling Commission Releases Latest Study Results
In the UK, a study from the Gambling Commission has found that the proportion of adults participating in remote forms of gambling has remained static at 8.8 percent for the year despite the lifting...