Betting exchange Betfair has announced the appointment of Michael Bischoff as Director of Information Systems.
Bishoff joins Betfair from a role as Director of Global Technical Services at LCH.Clearnet, a financial instrument clearing house serving international exchanges and OTC markets.
Key aspects of the position include leading a team of 120 technologists and the co-ordination of [...]

Australian interactive media company Two Way Limited confirmed the launch of its TV wagering service TAB ACTIVE in Southern Australia this week.
The service has been offered to Tabcorp customers in Victoria and New South Wales since 2008 and has been extended to TattsBet customers in Queensland this month.
Viewers of the three Sky Racing channels [...]

RealDealPoker, the only online poker site to deal real cards, demonstrates the revolutionary system at the Casino Affiliate Convention in Amsterdam this week. People trust what they see and what they see at RealDealPoker is a mechanical dealing machine like the ones in Vegas dealing brand new decks of actual playing cards. Paul Gambrill, Affiliate [...]

As reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer: “A man was fatally injured after falling from the escalator at the Pier Shops at Caesars, a mall connected to the Caesars Atlantic City casino.
“The accident happened about midnight Saturday, Atlantic City Police Sgt. Angelo Maimone said. The man was taken to the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic [...]

A group of secondary lenders for the bankrupt Fontainebleau Las Vegas filed a motion on Friday asking to do something the court itself has already indicated could happen: Move the case to liquidation.
The motion notes that the project has been in bankruptcy for three months and the developer has made no meaningful progress with [...]

The tiny Caribbean island of Antigua & Barbuda has long been known as a haven for offshore online casinos seeking to do legitimate business. In fact, Antigua, along with the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, was the first legitimate licensor of online betting destinations, ranging from sportsbooks to online poker rooms, back when online gambling first started [...]

Taiwanese anti-gambling demonstrators protested outside the country’s Ministry of Education building in response to the department’s policy of subsidizing university courses that teach students on how to staff and run casinos. The group claims that the government is wasting the taxpayer’s money and leading people into dangerous gambling addictions. The protestors are also responding to [...]

bwin will be amongst the first GTECH G2 licensees to offer the new Casino Dice mini-game developed by GTECH G2’s subsidiary, Dynamite Idea. Both the new Casino Dice and the popular Triple Chance Hi Lo are now offered in full, mini and mobile versions at bwin and will soon be available at other GTECH G2 [...]

AsianLogic, owners of the Asian Poker Tour, are delighted to announce a historic first for poker in Asia. The hotly anticipated Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival, taking place 12-23 August 2009 at the Galaxy Starworld, will be featured in a ground-breaking Chinese language poker movie. Many believe the film will have a similar impact on [...]

Sometimes the best strategy in poker is the simplest one. And nowhere was that more true than at the World Series of Poker this week, where Leo Wolpert, J.C. Tran and Greg Mueller all won WSOP bracelets by keeping things simple.
Wolpert beat European Poker Tour co-founder John Duthie to win the $10,000 Head-up No-Limit [...]