Following last week’s suspension of Full Tilt Poker by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, Victor Chandler Poker today turned up the heat by offering entry into one of two New Player Freerolls comprising up to €20,000 in prizes in each event, to brand new players who open an account with Victor Chandler by Sunday July [...]

Titan Poker, the leading online poker room in Europe, has increased the first deposit bonus offered to new depositing players to 200% up to $2,000. In addition, Titan Poker has improved its bonus redemption rate, allowing players to receive bonus cash in their accounts faster than ever before.
The generous offer, which demonstrates Titan Poker’s stability [...]

The American enforcement noose may be about to tighten around the Internet’s second largest online poker site, Full Tilt Poker, according to reports over the weekend in the respected Financial Times newspaper in the UK.
The newspaper claims that a Manhattan federal grand jury is probing the online poker company to determine whether there has been [...]

It’s official….poker in now a sport in the Baltic state of Lithuania, which is also making progressive moves toward the regulation of Internet gambling.
On March 20, the government’s Department of Physical Education and Sports issued an official decree recognising the Lithuanian Sports Poker Federation as an official sports federation.
This is extremely important step in our [...]

Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG, the world’s second-biggest online bookmaker, posted a second quarter profit and reaffirmed its forecast for a profit in 2009 after wagers climbed.
Net income in the second quarter was 126,000 euros ($179,216) compared with a 6.7 million euro loss the year before, the Vienna-based company said today on its Web site. Betting [...]

It’s head-butting time between Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and developer Jeff Jacobs, who suddenly has come forth with a proposal for creating a big convention center hotel complete with a casino in downtown Cleveland.
In an open letter to civic and business leaders in Northeast Ohio, Mr. Jacobs has urged them to oppose a proposed [...]

RENO, Nev. — Max Baer Jr. is considering buying a closed hotel-casino in Sparks and turning it into Jethro’s Beverly Hillbillies Hotel and Casino based on the television sitcom he co-starred on during the 1960s.
Sparks Mayor Geno Martini confirmed Baer has met with city officials about the possible purchase of the Silver Club.
The former actor [...]