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Casino Tropez is excited to announce the launching of the latest addition to the mobile casino world - iTropez Games Pack. The Casino Tropez iPhone and android application are set to hit the market this month. With this new iPhone casino, players are able to enjoy some of their favorite online games from Casino Tropez on their iPhones, in a format similar to Flash - which means that No download...

UltimateBet has recently gone through the process of an overhaul. The website was completely overhauled, as was its poker client, and even their name. Instead of being called UltimateBet, the site has been re-launched with the name UB. The UltimateBet poker room will now be UB.com. The name was originally used by those playing on the poker site, who used UB as a nickname for their favorite poker...

Nicholas Zicarelli is the fourth online gambler in the United States that has recently been held in contempt of court for refusing to cooperate with the Department of Justice’s investigation into various online gambling operations. Legal authorities in the US began seizing online gambling funds that were being transferred between players and online gambling operations via various financial transaction processing companies. In the past, the online gambling world itself was...

Golden Casino, one of the more popular online casinos that has, until now, accepted players from the United States, will no longer be doing so. The online casino will continue operations, but will not be accepting players from the United States beginning December 1st, 2009. Golden Casino is one of the latest casualties in the US online gambling world. US law enforcement officials have targeted a number of online gambling...

Beacon Bingo has made a name for themselves in land-based bingo halls, and have now decided to take their good name and join other bingo operators online. While they are still operating their offline bingo halls, they have brought with them an online experience that gives players the feeling of offline comfort, on their computer screens, in their own homes. The new site is set up in such a way...

There's a new poker player in the online world who is making massive waves and upsetting just about all of the poker glitterati. And unlike Luke Shwartz, this new player isn't annoying people just by being a loudmouthed jerk – instead, he's doing it by being an accomplished player and taking hundreds of thousands of dollars off the game's best players. The new player is known only as Isuldur1, a reference...

Audrey White works in the Palace Bingo Club in Felixstowe, UK, where she's the assistant manager. As such, she's seen her share of winners pass through her doors, but never imagined she'd be one of them. Now she's £1 million richer Her amazing win didn't take place at the Palace, however. Ms White was on her way home when she stopped at her local supermarket to pick up some odds and...

It's been a lucky week for players at online casinos powered by Microgaming software. In the last few days we've seen three of Microgaming's progressive jackpots pay out, making four online slot fans richer and happier. For the uninitiated, a progressive jackpot slot works just like a normal slot, but with a key difference. On every spin, or every hand, a small portion of the bet is squirrelled away into a...

November means the final of the World Series of Poker, and this year it was taken by 21 year old Joe Cada from Michigan – the youngest player to ever win the tournament. Cada outlasted the final table, and defeated Darvin Moon for his first ever bracelet, and a phenomenal $8.5 million cash. After playing more than 14 hours to whittle the field down to 2 players, Cada and Moon went...

Towards the end of August we reported that the good people at Gala Bingo were going to attempt to climb Mount Everest to raise money for Sue Ryder Care, an organisation that gives care to people with long term conditions. Well, they've more than succeeded in what they set out to do, and they've actually gone one better. The original plan was to use the assault on Everest as a focal...