The EGR Awards are a little bit like the Oscars or Césars. Each year they recompense the game industry and the online games. The winners are chosen. (more…)

The most of the online poker rooms have a team that represent them during the poker tournaments. Partygaming creates a new team with Ian Frazer as team leader. (more…)

The European Union (EU) declared that the American legislation on online games and the arrest of the leader of the European gaming company are illegal and blocked the laws of the European World Trade Organisation (WTO). (more…)

Barack Obama, the 44th President in the history of the United States, took office on 20 January 2009. And no-one can deny that the new President has more pressing issues to deal with during the current crisis than the question of online poker. Nevertheless, this issue concerns millions of players in the United States.
The UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) Law, adopted in 2006 by the Bush administration, prohibits financial transactions outright between online poker websites and American banks. It was intended to bring an end to online poker in the USA. In a more general manner, numerous measures have been taken to combat online poker in the United States over the past 2 or 3 years. (more…)

The Belgian group Circus will be offering record prize money of 1.2 million euros for the final round of the Belgian Poker Championships at the Namur casino from 17 to 25 November.
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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 “BluffBot 2.0” software program, specially designed for Limit Hold’em poker, has recently won a No Limit tournament between computers in Canada.
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Following discussions with the American justice system, PartyGaming and 888 could be forced to pay fines… of 900 and 120 million dollars respectively !
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