Betfair announced its continual support of British racing with a voluntary donation of GBP 6 Million to the sport, this week.
The donation is in lieu of the 50th Levy Scheme payment it would have been required to make had the company remained under a UK licence.
Betfair is said to be the first major operator not [...]

Ten years on from its initial introduction to poker players, the analytical tool PokerTracker has been updated and improved in the fourth version of the popular software, due for release soon.
PokerTracker 4 has been designed around player suggestions and recommendations, according to material released by the company.
Company executive Steven McLoughlin said of the new version: [...]

With two bracelet wins and 11 cashes already to his name in the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker, Daniel “djk123″ Kelly held both the hot hand and the chip lead heading into the final table of the WCOOP Main Event’s final table on Monday.
Momentum, it seemed, was on the New York native’s side. [...]

When the World Series of Poker made the decision to move the Main Event final table to November last year, it changed the dynamic of the entire tournament. The final table participants now had to go through a four-month pause in which they had to deal with interview requests and ESPN cameras poking into their [...]

Real Time Gaming Software has added a new video slot to its fast-growing repertoire of casino games that have become one of the most popular software platforms with U.S. players and progressive jackpot hunters in the last five years. Called “The Mayan Queen”, this 5-reel, 25-payline bonus slot is the latest progressive jackpot game to [...]

During filming for Full Tilt Poker’s televised Million Dollar Cash Game this week, Tom Dwan won what is being reported as the biggest televised poker pot ever at $1.1 million, an impressive amount eclipsing even his previous record of $919 600 won during the Season 5 High Stakes Poker show whilst playing against Barry Greenstein.
On [...]

PKR Live will make its highly anticipated return on November 20-22, and this time promises to be bigger and better with an expected $180,000 in prizes to be won.
Following the success of its predecessors, the third incarnation of PKR Live will now see the three-day festival kick-off with a welcome party on Friday November 20. [...]

More than five years after taking over the casino employee registration program from local law enforcement, state gaming regulators have moved the process online in an effort to cut costs and streamline the work card system.
The Gaming Control Board Technology Division, using internal resources and staff to develop the process, created the program, which went [...]

Ivobank, the dedicated gaming bank started by the Genting group, has announced that it has signed up Betsson, a prominent Scandinavian gaming company, as a new merchant.
Betsson joins a tier one group of gaming merchant clients that includes Unibet and Expekt, consolidating Ivobank’s position as a payment solution for online gamblers across Scandinavia.
Betsson’s customers [...]

Minnesota officials who tried to have ISPs block hundreds of sites that allowed state residents to gamble online have decided to drop their efforts, for the moment. The officials backed off after federal free-speech lawsuits were filed against the state’s point man in the anti-gaming effort.
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety had asked ISPs to [...]