Brits Make up Nearly 1/3 of Europe’s 3.3 Million Online Gamblers

Recent government research has revealed that Brits make up nearly one-third of Europe’s 3.3 million regular online gamblers. Nearly 1 million Britons regularly log in and place bets.

Online gambling more than doubled in the last 5 years with regular European gambler spending an average of £1,000 a year in the online casinos. Europeans spend £3.5bn yearly on online gambling. The UK has 70 online gambling sites out of the 2,300 worldwide. The research was conducted before the US made Internet Gambling unlawful.

Source: Silicon.com

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Gamble on Your Cell Phone

Do you know you can gamble on your cell phone? Using Tropez Mobile you can play anytime, anywhere, directly from your mobile phone! Take a spin on the slots while on the train to work, or try your luck at a hand of video poker while waiting in the dentist’s waiting room.

Casino Tropez Mobile allows users to connect, deposit, and play within minutes from your cell phone. Waiting is now a thing of the past! Casino Tropez Mobile works exactly like the online version of Casino Tropez.

Go to www.casinotropezmobile.com, pick the game you want to download and enter your cell phone number. An SMS will be immediately sent to your cell phone with instructions. You can also download games directly to your cell phone at
wap.casinotropez.com.

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Casino Tropez Mobile Named Top Mobile Gaming Platform

Casino Tropez Mobile was recently named Top Mobile Gaming Platform at the 2007 Gambling Online Magazine Awards, recently held in London. The  award was presented to the online casino after hundreds of thousands of avid Gambling Online Magazine readers and website visitors voted.

The Gambling Online Magazine Awards are presented to the best online casinos and poker rooms, with the number of votes substantially increasing each year. The Gambling Online Magazine is currently Europe’s biggest and most read lifestyle and entertainment magazine for the Online Gambling market.

Casino Tropez Mobile is happy to win the award, expressing that 2007 had been an exciting year, starting with the launch of their innovative product, which offers their members the opportunity to play games online through their mobile phone technology.

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Titan Poker Increases Benefits for Top VIP Players

Online poker players who become VIP Club members at Titan Poker are generously rewarded with chances to win seats to its biggest guaranteed prize tournament ever.

An exclusive VIP satellite tournament will be held on February 29th. Titan Poker’s Diamond and Titanium VIP Club members will vie for six seats to the online poker room’s unprecedented $2,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Tournament on March 2, 2008.

Titan Poker previously rewarded 12 other skilled VIP players with free seats at the $2,000,000 Guaranteed. Opportunities granted to VIP players to win these seats do not require a cash buy-in, so players have a chance to win a share of $2 million without spending anything.

Special promotions are frequently arranged by Titan Poker for its loyal VIP players. The online poker room stages races and competitions, exclusive cash prize tournaments, and satellites to major tournaments, online and around the globe.

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Titan Poker Launchs its New Depositors Freeroll Series

Titan Poker is today launching its New Depositors Freeroll series. New depositors will receive one free tournament token entry, and they will be able to choose between five nightly tournaments (Saturday through Wednesday nights).

The tournament token is the same as the previous token, so all players with this token can enter one tournament. The winning player at each tournament will receive a $600 value digital prize. The VIP Department will contact the player and he/she will be able to choose which prize he prefers (dependent on availability and the player’s location).

The advantage for players is that instead of competing against 600-700 players for one $3000 prize, they will be able to compete in a more exclusive tournament with probably only 150 or so players.

The first New Depositors Freeroll awarding a digital prize will take place on Saturday, March 1, 2008. Tournament tokens are issued manually by the Tournament Team. Players who deposit on weekends should be told to wait patiently as they will receive their token on Sunday. (First Depositors also get entry to the Weekly Depositors tournament)

Full details including a list of the prizes are posted here:
http://www.titanpoker.com/first_deposit.html

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Titan Poker Gets Best Online Poker Customer Service Award

Titan Poker is being honored as the best stop for online gamers desiring the reliability of sound customer service. The Gold Award for providing the Best Online Poker Customer Service in the year 2007 was presented to Titan Poker after hundreds of thousands of Gambling Online Magazine readers and website visitors voted. Titan Poker has perpetually kept its customers satisfied with its “personal touch” for the second consecutive year. Titan Poker also beat out the competition in 2006 when receiving Gambling Online’s Best Customer Service Award in 2006.

Gambling Online Magazine’s awards have been presented to the top online casinos and poker room for the past seven years, with the response to the voting process increasing each year. It is currently Europe’s biggest and most read lifestyle and entertainment magazine for the Online Gambling market.

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Couple Pleads Guilty to Online Line Gambling Charges

Husband and wife, Daniel Clarin, 32, Melissa Clarin, 31, of Miami, pleaded guilty last Thursday to felony charges (in a Queens NY courthouse) to participating in an operation that processed bets through offshore computer servers and the Web site Playwithal.com.

The couple helped to operate a $1.4 billion /year online gambling business. The judge is likely to give Daniel Clarin 2 1/3 to seven years in prison when he is sentenced in April. While his wife will have to also forfeit $254,356. Without getting jail time Clarin will also have to forfeit $72,508 in illegal earnings.Prosecutors claimed the couple used a combination of old school bookies and new technology to take bets from tens of thousands of customers.

Twenty seven defendants, from New York, New Jersey, Florida and Nevada, were charged in the case last year following a two-year probe. The man charged with leading the ring, a professional poker player named James Giordano, is Melissa Clarin’s father. He has pleaded innocent and is awaiting trial.

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Rep. Frank May Try to Repeal US Online Gambling Ban

An online gambling savior maybe here! Rep. Barney Frank stated that in the coming week he plans to provide details on possible legislation to repeal a ban imposed last year on online gambling.  The Chairman of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee said he is in no hurry and plans to consult with others on the matter.   According to Mr. Frank, “I’m not ready to give you more details, but I will be by next week or so. We’ll talk more about it later. There’s no urgency on it.”

Last year Internet gambling in the US was banned last October by President George W. Bush when he signed legislation outlawing gaming financial transactions.  The ban has killed online gambling stocks such as England’s PartyGaming.  PartyGaming shares jumped 5% on the London Stock Exchange because of Mr. Frank’s remarks.

U.S. prosecutors have launched an investigation into Internet gambling and the U.S. Department of Justice has demanded information from several big investment banks as part of the investigation.

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Alberta’s Alexander First Nation Considering Online Gambling Legalization

Alberta’s Alexander First Nation, Canada is studying whether or not to legalize online gambling but Canadians are up in arms about the prospect.

According to reports, “”Alberta’s top cop is warning a Cree band to halt plans to set up an Internet gambling haven on their reserve near Edmonton.”
Solicitor General Fred Lindsay stated that he’s aware of the Mohawks advising the Alexander First Nation. The Mohawks Khanawake Reservation has online gambling establishments outside of Quebec, Canada since 1999, including Sports Interaction.

Lindsay stated he has no intention to allow the Alberta band to copy the Mohawks, who operate a web hosting company to facilitate more than 400 Internet gambling sites around the world.

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Truth Behind Online Gambling Ban

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US Ban Causes PartyGaming Profits To Drop

The US government ban on online gambling took a big bite out of PartyGaming profits. The company reported today annual profits dropped by 57 per cent. Ouch!

The company stated yesterday that they took a one time hit of $243.2 million from exiting the US while pre-tax profits fell to $138.9 million.

The recent law signed by President George Bush to shut down online gaming in the US by making it illegal to handle the payments caused 71 per cent of PartyGaming’s business to be lost.

PartyGaming, the world’s biggest poker company, has since restructured and currently gets about two-thirds of revenue from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It posted a 13 per cent rise in total sales to $1.1bn following its expansion beyond the US.

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Britian To Welcome Foreign Online Gambling Companies

The UK wants to become the Mecca for online gambling. Gordon Brown, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, wants to encourage online gambling companies to relocate to the UK, with full regulation and licensing.

On the flip side, the US wants to rid itself of the evil online gambling industry through the introduction of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). Britain is planning full regulation of the industry.

The British government wants a piece of the pie generated through online gambling by companies such as PartyGaming (Party Casino and Party Poker) and 888 32 Vegas Casino-on-Net.

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Online Gambling In Spain Is Exploding

The online gambling market in Spain is exploding. The market is expected to grow to a whopping $5 billion by 2010. Spains gambling market is potentially the fastest growing market in the industry, with the potential to grow to around $50 billion by the year 2010, with online gambling expected to contribute $5 billion to the estimate.  The online gambling industry has suffered in recent times in countries like the USA, Germany and France. There is an increasing attraction for online
Prestige gambling companies to be based in a less restrictive jurisdiction such as Spain.

Following Spain’s decision to regulate the gambling industry last year, there have been a flood of applications for the licenses on offer.

The report listed the following reasons why Spain is perceived as an attractive jurisdiction:

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Antigua & Barbuda Helping BetOnSport Settle Debt

The Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) of Antigua and Barbuda has stepped in to assist and supervise BoS (Antigua) Ltd’s efforts to settle debts. BetOnSport (BOS) is about to get some help.

The website shut shop last year following a legal trade issue with the United States which was seen to be clamping down on offshore online gambling operations used by Americans.

Settlement of accounts by the online gambling website, BetOnSport (BOS), is to get underway shortly.

“The process has been implemented under the supervisory authority given to the FSRC in order to give extra reassurance to organisations that funds returned that will be properly used in the settlement of creditors in line with legal requirements, as well as assuring that BOS creditors will be paid in a fair and balanced manner,” the Commission stated.
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DoylesRoom.com Not Welcome To U.S. Players

Another one bites the dust. DoylesRoom.com, the largest poker room on the Doyle Brunson Poker Network (DBPN), has announced that U.S. players are no longer welcome on the site. A spokesperson for DBPN management said in a release, “In view of the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act and the cessation of operations by NETeller and other payment processors, the management of the Doyle Brunson Poker Network has reluctantly decided not to permit online real-money play by U.S.-based players at DoylesRoom.com,” .

Effective immediately, U.S. players are no longer permitted to sign up for real-money play or deposit funds into existing accounts. Beginning March 1, all U.S. play on DoylesRoom.com will be blocked, though players will still be able to withdraw funds from their accounts.

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