Archive for Mobile gambling

The US government may have arrested a British Internet casino owner, David Carruthers, and 10 others in connection with fraud and other related charges, but the bilionaire Canadian owner, Calvin Ayre, of Bodog.com, an online gambling website, says he’s not worried. Forbes magazine lists Ayre as amongst the 1,000 richest men in the world.
Ayre says […]

According to an article in IDD (Investment Dealers Digest), several top Wall Street investment banks have financial stakes in a number of international businesses that have online gambling ventures in their own operations. The article says this is due in large part to the fact the online gaming industry has grown to US$12 bln/yr as […]

Here are some poker-related short news snippets, including news and discussions of possible bans on Internet gambling:

(1) The 36th Annual WSOP  (World Series of Poker) takes place in Las Vegas near the end of June and runs into early August. [Via PokerNews]

(2) Fayetteville Online posts their view on US House Speaker Jim Black’s suggestion to […]

If you can’t wait for mobile poker units in Vegas, there are numerous sites that now allow you to play from your cell phone or smartphone/ PDA. After a bit of searching, I randomly picked two. Unfortunately, I wasn’t impressed, but that’s just my experience because I didn’t like the setup process. I’m only writing […]

The AP (Associated Press) has a story on new gaming rules in Nevada that, if passed, will allow gamblers to move about a casino, and continue to play a game whose table they just left. The positive aspect of such a ruling is that you don’t have to lose out in a game that you […]