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Posts Tagged ‘Gamblers’
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
PokerStars will no longer be servicing the Washington State online poker market. PokerStars announced earlier today that the online poker site will no longer provide real money poker games to residents of Washington State.
This is a humongous blow to the online poker market in the United States. Up until now the poker site went ahead and offered real money online gambling to Washington Residents, and paid affilaites for traffic brought to them from Washington. That’s all changed now.
Before it was believed that the government in the United States could not legally and constitutionally regulate the use of the Internet to play poker, and that the government at the very least could not discriminate against online poker providers in favor of local land based operations.
What changed? The Washington Supreme Court ruled in favor the states ban on online gambling in favor of the censorship of their residents activities. Washingtonians, it’s time to watch porn and rated R movies, before someone says it’s immoral and you no longer have the option. In fact, have a cigarette, drink some caffeine, and hit on a Milf while you have some of your freedom.
When you’re done with all that. Either find a new way to accomodate Washington gamblers, or remove marketing for that state.
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
 The whole world’s going crazy!
Here we go again, just like France, Israel, Australia, and the United States, South Africa is trying to get rid of online gambling. The Gauteng Gambling Board has ruled the gambling using any digital product with South Africa is against the law.
There are gambling companies that operate out of South Africa, media programs, gambling sites, etc. Time will tell how these companies will proceed. Will they relocate established businesses to other countries, costing local citizens jobs? ? Ban South African IP addresses?
According to reports, both operators and gamblers are considered to be at in violation of the law when South Africans gamble online.
You as an Affiliate May Be Breaking The Law
In fact, according to some reports, affiliates and others that advertise or facilitate the advertisement of online gambling are also in violation of the law.
The penalty?
Up to 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of right around £1 million, the equivalent to R10 million. Mayhap South Africa is just looking for a big paydays?
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
 Norway recently created a ban that has affect gamblers in the country. Players of online poker and other online gambling methods can no longer participate at online sites due to a new ban. The ban is on financial transactions between the residents of Norway and online gambling websites.
The government of Norway submitted the proposal of the financial ban in 2008 to parliament but the European Free Trade Association was not happy with this. The EFTA commented in 2008 that the proposal is an ‘unjustified restriction of the freedoms of the internal market for gambling services’.
Norway is part of the European Free Trade Association with Iceland, Switzerland and Lichtenstein. Despite the EFTA’s commented Norway went ahead with the plans for the ban and on June 1st the ban came into effect. Now credit card companies and online payment processors are not able to make any online gaming transactions in the country.
The EFTA is now working to challenge the new laws on Norway. The government of the country commented that the ban was created to help with fraud and gambling addictions. Many are opposed to the ban and Clive Hawkswood a Chief executive of the Remote Gambling Association has commented on the ban by stating:
“It is difficult to believe that the aim of the proposed measures is to protect consumers and restrict gambling given the Norwegian monopoly’s appetite for recruiting new players and the extent of its marketing campaigns. The Norwegian authorities appear to be more motivated by the need to protect revenues from gambling, but this is not a valid justification to restrict the internal market rules.”
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
The domain name Slots.com recently came up for sale on the internet gaming market and has been announced that the Bodog Brand is the new owner of the domain name. Bodog had to pay $5.5 million at an online auction to obtain the gaming domain.
The auction took place at Snapnames online and it was the founder of Bodog Calvin Ayre who bid on the name. Ayre was at the L’Atelier restaurant when he began bidding. Bob Rains an SEO specialist gave Ayre the information he needed about the availability of the domain name.
Ayre felt that he paid a good price for the domain name as it is a very generic name. Other similar generic gambling domain names have sold for millions as well. Slots games are one of the more popular choices for online gamblers and so the potential for the Slots.com domain name are really limitless.
Currently the domain name has about 15,000 people a day visiting the site but with the Bodog name behind the site, the potential for traffic becomes much larger. Ayre commented on buy-in Slots.com by stating:
“After Casino.com, we feel that Slots.com is the best gaming domain in the world. Bigger even than Poker.com because there are no strong brands in this space and slots are far more universal than poker. Just look at the amount of space a casino devotes to slots over poker, added to which it’s simple to spell and easy to remember.”
Ayre also commented on how the Slots.com site will work for them. He stated: “Slots.com will work for us on a number of levels, not least in generating global traffic to our Bodog branded properties but also to form a number of other targeted websites including one that will be created by and for the female gambler.”
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
 At the recent Global iGaming Summit and Expo, Bob Rybak a spokesperson for the Atlantic Lottery, stated that the Lottery, Loto Quebec and British Columbia Lottery have completed the creation stage of a shared online gambling and poker platform. Rybak commented that the platform should be ready to launch later this year.
Rybak went on to outline the future of online poker and gambling in the country during the expo. Those attending the expo found out that Manitoba and Ontario are also going to offer poker but they are a little further behind with launch dates.
Rybak commented that about $800 million was spent by Canadians last year online and the majority of the money was going offshore. The provinces of Canada would like to see the majority of the money coming to them so they worked together to create the large network to serve online gamblers in Canada.
Rybak also commented that the public would need to see that operators are going to keep underage player from accessing the platform before they would give their blessing. However some critics are not convinced that the operators will be able to keep young kids from accessing the site. Shane Simpson a gambling critic stated: “internet gambling is potentially the most problematic for people who have gambling addictions…and yet the government is expanding there without offering any other support.”
Simpson stated that the new platform will be marketing itself to a younger audience who would benefit from gambling on the go. The young people would also have access to the new platform via their mobile devices.
Tags: Atlantic Lottery, British Columbia, British Lottery, Canada, Canadians, Expo, Gamblers, Gambling Poker, Internet Gambling, Launch, Loto Quebec, Manitoba Ontario, Mobile Devices, online gambling, online poker, Poker Gambling, Provinces Of Canada, Quebec Lottery, Shane, Spokesperson, Young Kids
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
 Dusk Till Dawn, a famous poker club in London, recently announced they have dropped Cryptologic as their software provider for their online poker room. The group has decided to switch to GTechG2-Boss Media Software for their casino as well as online poker operations.
Rob Yong is the head of the site that is owned by DTD Limited. The Dusk Till Dawn Poker site has been around for quite a while and has become quite popular with casino and poker players online. The new deal with GTechG2 will run for three years and the company will be providing the website with their Webdollar Cashier payment system which offers gamblers the opportunity to enjoy both the casino and the poker room with one wallet.
Nick Whiten of Dusk Till Dawn commented: “The new deal with GTech G2 marks the end of a successful three and a half year affiliation with Cryptologic, which started before the land Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club venue opened in Nottingham. Cryptologic has changed its business model to focus on the internet casino sector and, with DTDPokerClub continuing to be primarily a poker business, a natural and mutual end to the partnership has transpired.”
Tags: Boss Media, Business Model, Cashier, Club Venue, Cryptologic, Dusk Till Dawn, G2, Gamblers, GTechG2, Half Year, Internet Casino, Media Software, New Dawn, New Deal, New Software, online poker, Poker Club, Poker Players, Poker Room, Software Firm, Software Provider, Wallet
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
 Betsson is an online gaming operator who offers gamblers a large number of betting options. A casino, Sportsbook, poker room and bingo room as well as other offerings, are found at Betsson. The gaming operator has purchased Betfriends to increase their poker revenues.
The poker division at Betsson has been suffering for some time now as their revenues have been significantly dropping for months. Betfriends was purchased in the hopes that it will the company see an increase in their poker revenues.
The purchase comes just a short time after Pontus Lindwall the CEO of Betsson promised to improve the poker revenues. Lindwall commented: “This transaction is a step in order to chance Betsson’s trend in poker, as the poker business has shown a negative trend for some time.”
It is not known if the ownership change will affect the network home of Betfriend or the future of those employed at the poker room such as the management team. More details should be revealed in the future. The brand has over 4000 active poker players and also offers a casino and sportsbook.
The operator revealed this month they had a 17% increase in their first quarter 2010 revenues to SEK367.7m from SEK315.5m. This was driven by an 89% year on year increase in the sports book turnover to more than SEK1bn.
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