To prevent any chance of fraud, betting on the BNP Paribas 2007 Tennis Masters tournament, to be held at the Paris Bercy Palais Omnisport from 27 October to 4 November, will be subjected to close scrutiny.
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Accused of breaching the French gaming monopoly, Petter Nylander, the Swedish CEO of the online gaming operator Unibet, has been arrested and held by the Dutch authorities after a European arrest warrant was issued by France!
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Mark Davies, the President of Betfair, has announced in an interview that his group is ready to take on the challenge of doing business in France.
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The British group PartyGaming has recently announced that its online casino was examining the takeover offers submitted by brick and mortar casinos in Las Vegas.
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The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has officially declared that its country is preparing to enact an anti-gaming law based on the American model that would outlaw any financial transactions with companies offering online casino games, poker or sports betting.
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The Englishman Julian Thew won the EPT Pokerstars tournament in Baden after overcoming the challenges of more than 282 players. This earned him the tidy sum of €670,800.
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The organisers of the European Poker Challenge have been jailed in Sweden for organising a tournament without government authorisation.
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Pokerstars is again ready to host the first Austrian round of the EPT classic in Baden. The fourth edition of this tournament started on Sunday 7th October.
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The Lucien Barrière Group, the leading French casino operator, has applied to the public authorities to request the authorisation of casinos on the Net and is preparing to launch a website in 2008.
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Joseph Mouawad, a player of Lebanese origins, won the London European Poker Tour Open tournament at the Victoria Casino on Sunday 30th September.
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