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The promotion means he or she will join an elite group of 445 human beings who have experienced weightlessness.

The InterCasino Space Race promotion will run for the next 13 weeks. The trip to outer space is just one of the prizes on offer in the casino’s benchmark promotion.

Until the end of May, anyone playing at InterCasino will earn stars which will count towards a variety of different promotions on offer.

The water cooler promotion is the ‘Win a Trip to Space’ offer. Every time a player wagers at InterCasino, they will earn a star and every star is worth one entry into a prize draw where one player will win the chance to fly into space.

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US-friendly virtual poker room VictoryPoker.com has launched a new promotion that is giving amateur players the chance to win $100,000 in tournament entries alongside cash, a car and a condo on the Las Vegas strip. Full details of this exciting promotion can be seen on this video and by keeping an eye on the Victory Poker website.

VictoryPoker.com launched in early-February and is a member of the Everleaf Poker Network. It also boasts its very own squad of 19 sponsored players in Team Victory, which contains Antonio Esfandiari, Danny Wong, Brian Rast, Andrew Robl, Sander Lylloff, Keith Gipson, Dan Bilzerian, Paul Wasicka, Lee Markholt, Alec Torelli, David Chicotsky and Playboy Playmate Of The Year 2007 Sara Underwood.

The brainchild of Dan Fleyshman, VictoryPoker.com’s Team Victory also has the motto of ‘We made it. (Read the full post about ‘Become the next Team VictoryPoker.com Pro – Online Casino News’…)

The Morongo Band of California Mission Indians were disappointed this week when the National Indian Gaming Association laid aside its proposal to block Barney Frank’s federal legislative attempt to legalise and tax online gambling in the United States.

The Morongo, in concert with Californian commercial poker rooms, had hoped to marshall tribal support to halt the Frank bill, clearing the way for it to set up an exclusive legalised Internet poker system within California.

Reporting on the proceedings of the National Indian Gaming Association conference this week, the publication Indian Country Today said that the divisive debate on Internet gambling closed with an anti-climatic vote to delay action on the Morongo resolution opposing the Frank bill.

“Tribal members of the National Indian Gaming Association voted 27-6 with one abstention to table what was intended as a compromise resolution in response to proposed bills by Rep.

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Online sports betting is once again under the spotlight in New York following police raids that have culminated a prolonged investigation by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown and his now experienced enforcement team. Two online sports gambling rings, one believed to be centred on the Jazz Sports website, are alleged to have taken in nearly $178 million in bets around the country in less than three years, prosecutors charged Wednesday after arresting 38 persons on enterprise corruption charges.

Suspected money collectors, agents and bookies were arrested in Nevada, Louisiana, Florida, New York and Arizona after a three-year investigation led by the New York Police Department’s organised crime division.

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Despite determined left wing political resistance, the French National Assembly has passed a bill to legalise online gambling and open up the French market to international operators. Virtual poker machines and games of chance are not included in the law because they are considered too addictive to be legalised.

On Tuesday the National Assembly passed the bill, which provides for regulation in a frame work described by observers as the strictest in Europe, reports the publication France24.

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Online gambling software developer Playtech chose April 1st as the launch date for its new real-money action Italian online bingo network. The company has already established a significant presence in the Italian market with the successful iPoker.it network, and its latest Bingo venture has been designed to fully comply with Italy’s gaming regulator, the Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato (AAMS).

The launch of the bingo network in real money mode follows several successful months of operation in fun mode. With existing operators migrating to real money mode, and more hopefully joining in the near future, Playtech’s bingo network is set to become a major player in the growing Italian market.

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The Swedish and Malta-based online gambling software provider Net Entertainment has landed another juicy contract for its CasinoModule product in the Italian market. Gioco Digitale, the major Italian subsidiary of Vienna-listed Bwin, is to use CasinoModule on the dedicated Italian sites of both Bwin and Gioco Digitale, which are claimed to command an Italian market share of 25%.

“The license agreement with Net Entertainment gives us access to a wide range of market leading casino games which is an important focus area for our continued growth”, said Paolo di Feo, General Director for Gioco Digitale this week.

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A new independent survey on Internet gambling in Canada and the United States, conducted by Ipsos Reid, shows that respondents were less clear on the legality issue than before. In 2007, 41% of Americans and 28% of Canadians said they knew online gambling was illegal. In 2010, that dropped to 37% of Americans and 23% of Canadians.

The online survey, which was conducted between January 4 and 7 this year and surveyed 1,006 people in the U.S. and 1,032 Canadians, has an estimated margin of error of 3.05 to 3.09 percentage points.

Half of Americans (49%) and slightly more than half of Canadians (55%) are willing to permit Internet gambling as long as government regulations are in place.

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At least one major online poker room has been experiencing problems sending wires, the result of an online bank that has prevented them access to their funds.

The bank is associated with a popular payment processor for online poker and other Web gambling websites.

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