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July 24 – Ireland’s largest bookmaking outfit, Paddy Power, have today declared a holy war against online casino operator GoldenPalace.com who yesterday offered a bid of CAD$5,000 to purchase the holy tree stump of Rathkeale.

The Canadian based gaming company already own Pope Benedict’s old VW Golf along with a slice of toast allegedly bearing the face of the Virgin Mary and are now keen to add the Rathkeale tree stump to their portfolio of strange religious objects.

However Paddy Power have today launched an aggressive counter bid in an effort to secure the future of the revered tree stump and are offering €6,200 (twice the Canadian’s original bid) for the stump.

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Japan’s Masayuki ‘Mochy’ Mochizuki has been crowned as the world’s best backgammon player after beating reigning champ Lars Trabolt in the final of the Monte Carlo World Championship over the weekend.

Sponsored by online skill games community CasinoRip.com, the week-long 34th annual Monte Carlo World Championship was held at the five-star Fairmont Hotel and featured 173 of the world’s finest backgammon players competing for a share of a €200,000 prize fund.

One of the pre-tournament favourites, 30-year-old ‘Mochy’ beat Denmark’s Trabolt 25 to 20 in Sunday’s final to collect the winner’s cheque for €62,280.

Although recording superstar George Benson greeted competitors including Gus Hansen, Matvey ‘Falafel’ Natanzon, Francois Tardieu and Neil Kazaross during an opening gala evening, this year’s event will be best remembered for crowning Japan’s first World Backgammon Champion.
 

The past month has seen a surge of both established and not so established Internet Gambling and other gaming companies make a push into the Asia Pacific region.  Greg Tingle, Special Contributor to the Gambling911.com website and Australian correspondent, takes a look at the Internet gambling sector in that region.  He also looks at the online poker component.  Tingle is also the proprietor of Media Man out of Australia.

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It appears apparent that some of the gaming entities have more than just a casual interest in Australia, judging by some of the game titles. Tr

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Here is an interesting spin on the current state of the record industry and pirating downloads.

Pokerati.com on Thursday featured a great entry on something many of us have been expecting to happen for a very long time now and – quite frankly, we’re surprised it hasn’t happened sooner.

There’s a new company in the song (and video) downloading game – Zookz.com – and its entire business model is based on selling "pirated" copies of American songs and movies, as permitted by WTO sanctions against the United States for infringing on Antigua’s ability to compete in the online gambling industry.

From what we understand, ZookZ offers a subscription-based model for unlimited monthly movie and music downloads.

(Read the full post about ‘Zookz.com Record Industry Pirating Result of UIGEA’…)

Jadestone Networks, the Nordic based owner and operator of multi-player gaming networks GamArena and DiceArena, has signed the World Series of Backgammon for its new backgammon network. The official launch will take place on Friday July 24, 2009 in Cannes at the WSOB live event.

The backgammon network, built on Jadestone’s DiceArena multiplayer platform, was launched in June and already includes partners such as Bwin, Nordicbet and PAF.

“We’ve already seen that backgammon is a tremendously popular game,” said Robert Henrysson, CEO at Jadestone.

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Remarkably quite a few of the online gambling websites have either not offered British Open betting or done so sporadically leading into the weekend prior to Thursday’s start.  Much of this has to do with a "wait and see" attitude while other golf events take place. 

BetUS.com has been fairly consistent in keeping British Open betting odds up.

"It’s one of the most bet on events, at least in the United Kingdom," commented Payton O’Brien, Senior Editor of Gambling911.com. 

While BetUS.com focuses its attention on the US market, Sportingbet.com has also been consistent in offering the odds on this event for its UK clients and those throughout Europe and the rest of the world for that matter.

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May 2009 statistics released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board this week showed a moderating decline. Gaming revenues were down 8.34% in May and off 13.71% for the year to date, with revenue on the Las Vegas Strip down 6.36% for the month and down 15.31% for the year.

The May result compared with a statewide gaming revenue decline of 14.07% that was reported for April 2009.

“The revenues that came out today from Nevada indicated that the declines (on the Las Vegas Strip) weren’t as large as some other recently reported declines,” said Matthew Jacob, an analyst with Majestic Research. “I think there are some expectations out there that this is potentially the beginning of a recovery for the industry,” he added.

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New three-year contract will provide mobile online casino system.

Top 10 Bingo is going mobile soon (around June this year) based on a three-year contract with IGT subsidiary Million-2-1 which will provide it with a complete on-line and mobile casino system. When implemented, Top 10 Casino and Top 10 Mobile will be added to the already live Top 10 Bingo site.

Top 10 Casino will employ Million-2-1’s distinctive white-label casino logo and will give unprecedented access to over 70 exciting casino games including their bestsellers such as Elvis, Monopoly, Cluedo and Cleopatra. I

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Gambling911.com was on alert Tuesday with an expected announcement related to the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association’s challenge in a US Appeals Court to have the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA) overturned.

The US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals announced that it will hear oral arguments from lawyers representing iMEGA and the US Department of Justice (US DoJ), on this day (July 7) as part of the court challenge.

The three-judge panel that will decide the case was also announced: Judge Dolores Korman Sloviter, a Carter appointee; Judge Thomas L. Ambro, a Clinton appointee; and Judge Kent A. Jordan, a George W. B

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Now that Daniel Negreanu has bowed out of the 2009 World Series of Poker early, he can go back to blogging….assuming he can muster up enough strength to do so.

Don’t cry any tears for Negreanu.  Not only did he cash out at eight events of the 2009 World Series of Poker, he’s also putting more than $300,000 in the bank.  That’s more than US President Barack Obama’s yearly salary.  Way to go Daniel. 

Unfortunately he’s suffering from flu-like symptoms that may have played a part in his horrid performance.  Hopefully it’s not the Swine Flu. 

"Out of the WSOP and don’t really care. So si

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