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: