Biggest Poker Tournament In New Orleans Won By Andy Hwang

The final World Series of Poker Circuit stop of the 2011-2012 season, that will be held at Harrah's New Orleans located right next to French Quarter. This year clash series runs from May 10-21, 2012.

New Orleans became a favorite destination of the players and regulars on the WSOP Circuit. For the past eight seasons, it has been the last whirl of a long poker symphony. 

However, this year, it covers up seventeen WSOP Circuit event; the reason of thousands players all over the United States have been attracted. This is the last chance of the players to earn points, and to qualify for this year's National Championship.

Failed Online Gaming Bill To Be Reconsidered

When it comes to “sin” taxes, Mississippi has a public policy behavior and long track record of contradictory political behavior. The status of Mississippi, as the “gold buckle of the Bible Belt” and nationally active in evangelical clergy at the state Capitol, the “wages of sin” are enjoying by the taxpayers to tune of some $536 million that annually collected on drinking, smoking, and gambling. It also produces additional sales taxes that exceed $100 million under the sale of “sin tax”.

The last fiscal year in gaming, they generated $277.8 million in taxes, in the form of $130.9 million to country and $146.9 million of the state's portion. The total of gaming provided is 3% of the general income.

Online Gambling Games Industry News

We all know that gambling is the venture of money or something of material value to an event with an uncertain outcome with primary intent of winning or losing money or a material you bet for. Some of the gambling is a legal; examples of legal are the casinos and the illegal gambling have a syndicate or something.

Now on our days, we have a networked gambling, or we called the e-games (electronic games). Before the online casinos discovered, the first entirely functional gambling software was developed by micro gaming, an isle of man based Software Company. Safe transactions became viable and led to the first online casino in 1994.

Treasure Island Slots Launched by Bodog Casino

One of the top listed and best online casino websites in the industry, Bodog Casino has just launched its new version of online slots called Treasure Island Slot. This game comes from this great story of a sexy and infamous captain name Neri who is being chased by the Navy because she broke out of prison. Together with her loyal crews, she is not just running out of nothing, she is looking to reclaim her treasure that she hid in the so-called “Treasure Island”.

This is what makes this game very exciting because Bodog casino players will be her opponents in getting those treasures by intercepting the treasure maps on the slots reels, get Neri's booty for them to be able to rule the seven seas!

You can see the reels of the video slot in the deck of a pirate ship where captain Neri and the crocodile deckhand can be seen beside those reels. The ship's wheel serves as the spin button and you must watch out for the barrels because payout tables come from those things. You are going to be offered high payouts when two or more aligned on active paylines.

2,000 Gambling Addicts In Ireland Seek Help In Just a Week

Gambling addiction in Ireland has been a fatal crisis because it has already reached the so-called “epidemic proportions” because more than 2000 have been struggling with gambling addiction and attending counseling meetings weekly. An anonymous gambling group in Ireland confirmed that the numbers of addicts have been doubled in the last 10 years.

The group claimed that more meetings will be held in the upcoming weeks to provide for the demand because the problem is growing fast beyond they expected.

The support service has said that the addiction was shared beyond both sexes, with over a hundred women who seek help for them to overcome their struggles in spending too much in casinos and bingo halls, as well as wasting their primary savings on scratchcards and lotteries.

WSOP Tournaments: Battle Of The Sharpest Minds

Back in the indistinct days of gambling, players were playing poker just for fun and pure entertainment. Money is not that a big issue and people enjoy this game as their past time. 

However, when Lester “Benny” Binion, owner of Horseshoe Casino had an idea of making a battle between Moss and the Greek in 1970, he invited the most prominent poker players that he know and open the first official World Series Of Poker tournament in Las Vegas. And the face of poker changed when the clash of the sharpest minds in began. That was also the time when the biggest names of poker arose and made histories with their own styles of playing, and unpredictable theories which nowadays became a great foundation used by almost all players around the world. 

That was also the time when the WSOP tournament became so popular and continued to produce world-class players such as Doyle Brunson, Jhonny Moss, Brian “Sailor” Roberts, and many more. In online casino world, the tournament was still the outstanding among other online poker tournaments because of it's great foundation.

Kyrgyzstan To Ban All Casino Opportunities Completely

Kyrgyzstan parliament – or the so-called Kyrgyz Republic is one of the well-known countries which has the largest city capital named Bishkek. This country has never been headlined in gambling news for quite a long time until an unexpected news has risen. Kyrgyzstan will be having a proposal to prohibit all types of casinos in their country. This proposal will cover all types of casino gaming like playing all land based and online casino games.

Therefore, This means that all gambling operators will be required to shut down all their gambling operations as soon as the proposal is passed. This is also to remind everyone that Kyrgyzstan will not be the right destination for any kind of gambling.

UGC – Increased Online Gambling Popularity Problems

Online Gambling popularity has grown according to United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UGC) poll. They released a report that the so-called remote gambling is on the rise and still on its way to reach the pinnacle of its popularity. For some instances, all form of online gambling are under remote gambling like playing online casino games using PCs or laptops, WAP enabled phones, or even gambling through mobile phones.

In the recent studies, it reveals that UK consumers are spending most of their waking time in using their mobile phones, watching TV, internet, and other communication devices specially those ones that are powered by the latest technologies.

Ireland Hustles On Online Gambling Tax

Ireland, November 10, 2011


Minister of Ireland Michael Noonan said that they are still working on gambling legislation to tax online gambling bets placed in Emerald Isle, Ireland. The main reason of this is to regain revenues that are going outside their country and they are hoping that something will be accomplished this year. But Noonan have said that they will be having a hard time in getting those taxes and they were still working on something for them to regain those revenues.


He said that it's really a tough work because when Irish citizens start to gamble at online casino sites, online poker rooms, and sports betting sites that are located overseas, the transactions are automatically processed outside Ireland and Irish people are required to follow the jurisdiction of a foreign government.

Online Gambling News Updates In Greece, Germany, and Spain

In the past few months, online casino gaming news in some European countries have became the hottest news in online gambling market. And as I search for another information about them, I have found out that there have been some improvements and re-sessions happened in their online gambling regulations. 

We all know that Germany, Greece, and Spain became the headlines for quite a long time because of the issues that they faced few months ago. These countries are on the edge of some form of adjusted online gambling regimes. Let's see what developments these countries have made:

Online Gambling Resolution In Denmark

Danish players and the Denmark gambling authority who were expecting for their online gambling regulation will now have a response from the European Union and might not wait too much longer. I was searching for online gambling news when I passed through this one and it got me. Denmark is doing it's best to convince the EU to allow them to compete in online gambling market.

 Denmark have released reports that they were very confident that the European Union will give their statement about the online gambling law that the Danish Authority has proposed by the end or early after this year. But few months back, the European Court was expected to have control on a discrimination complaint in June but the EU decided to delay it. However, the court now is back in session and it is expected to give more priority on that particular complaint.

Online Gambling Advertising On Facebook

Facebook is one of the biggest and   popular social networking sites in the world nowadays. Multi-million users are so attracted in this networking site. And this past few days, I've got an information that it has opened up an online gambling advertisement on their site. And yes! It was confirmed! This is a great news for gambling lovers and it was totally amazed me because Facebook is so strict and not allowing any advertisements that pertain to gambling.

I've learned that they want to increase their advertising revenue that's why they have decided to change their policies and allow gambling advertisement. For an online casino site owner, this is really a good news because they will have the opportunity for their site to have a great exposure. However, there are still lots of rules that need to be followed if you want to get their gambling advertisement service. The good thing is, the rules are very reasonable because they are more likely the same with the local gambling laws.

Free Online Poker Site Launched By Jamie Gold

It's a good news for online poker fans out there because a new free poker site has been launched by a former World Series of Poker main event winner. Are you guys familiar with Jamie Gold? For some who don't know him, he is an American T.V. Producer who won one bracelet in the WSOP in 2006. He joined many poker competition before deciding to open his own poker site. He also became one of the biggest names in poker when he won the grand prize of $12 million which was considered as the largest main event grand prize ever won.

Jamie Gold launched his free online poker site at FreeGoldPoker.com which offer players the chance to play and compete for the monthly prize pools of up to $100,000. He has decided to open his own poker site for all online casino games enthusiasts in the United States, specially for poker lovers. The black Friday that took place and shut down the America's top poker sites in April was the reason why he opened his own online poker room in addition to the remaining poker sites in the United States.

New Online Bingo Software To Be Released

Microgaming and Rival Gaming, two of the most popular and biggest internet casino software providers in online gambling industry have just recently announced new online bingo software. The giants of online casino software announced new online bingo games that will be available in the upcoming months. They have not announced the exact date of the release but they assure everyone that these software will offer unique spins and will bring intense excitement for online bingo enthusiasts, and just like the other online gambling news sites, I will look forward as to when they are going to release those casino software officially.

Online Gambling News In Germany

In the past few days, there have been online gambling news involving the biggest countries and cities, like Italy, Greece, and few states in the United states of America that shocked the online gambling world. Also included one of the biggest and popular poker sites in the world, the Full Tilt Poker who have undergone lots of big troubles few months back.

So while I'm all up to date with those countries and some particular online casino sites, I realized that I have not heard some gambling news in Germany in a while. So I think It would be much better for me to check what is happening out there.