Business & Financial
Kiplingers: Playing Poker Can Make You More Successful
Pokerati.com had an interesting report on how Kiplinger's Magazine featured a three article series on poker and how playing the game helps individuals
Recession Over In Las Vegas? 2.9 Percent Hike In Nov. Visitors
It may be too soon to call but the good news for Las Vegas is that Sin City had experienced a 2.9 percent increase in visitors during the month of November.
Ladbrokes CEO to Step Down
By LILLY VITOROVICH
wsj.com
LONDON--Ladbrokes PLC said Tuesday Chief Executive Christopher Bell is leaving after nine years at the helm of the U.K. gambling company.
Mr. Bell, who has agreed to stay on into the summer, has come under fire over the past 12 months "for overseeing a difficult period in the group's history, culminating in a punitive equity raise in October 2009," said Daniel Stewart analyst James Hollins said.
Boomaker.com Featured on Two Popular TV Shows
Daily 10 (E!): This fast-paced, half-hour show is sure to keep even the most obsessed pop culture addicts up-to-date.
Will Griffiths Appointed President of Doyles Room
Global Marketing Director moves up the ranks to manage operations of DoylesRoom.com and DoylesCasino.com in 2010 and beyond
North American Poker Tour Exposes PokerStars
A lucrative sponsorship deal of the North American Poker Tour will further help to boost market share for online poker's largest room, PokerStars.com. The
Decimal Odds to Become the Norm: Fractional Odds Out
There are three primary odds used by bookmakers: Fractional, Decimal and the so-called American Odds, which are among the most prevalently featured here at Gambling911.com. Fractional is pretty
College Bowl Game, NFL Playoffs Traffic Way Up
Good news for online sportsbooks as College Bowl game betting traffic as well as NFL Playoffs betting traffic appear to be way up based on Gambling911.com stats.
Traffic on New Year's Day, which features several major College Bowl games, was up a whopping 67 percent over last year. January 2 traffic was up 41 percent over last year. January 3 traffic was up 39 percent over last year. January 4 traffic was up 37 percent over last year.
Business Week: Casino Sector Continues to Rise
Shares of casino operators traded mostly higher Tuesday -- led by those with properties in Macau -- as investors remained upbeat about the latest gaming revenue figures for the Chinese enclave.
Online Poker Traffic Rises Half Point This Past Week
Odds are good that online poker traffic will continue to rise even more this week with a brutal Arctic blast taking over much of the U.S.
Ron Paul Man of the Year, Ben Bernanke a Travesty
Frequent contributor to the Gambling911.com website and one time running mate for US President on the Libertarian ticket, Wayne Allyn Root voices his outrage over Ben Bernanke being selected as Tim
Online Poker: Less Sharks, More Fish
Microgaming Online Poker, most noted for its rather large number of professional players, has become the latest room to implement a "Less Sharks, More Fish" policy.
Online Gambling Company 888.com Loses Two Co-Founders
12 year old 888.com (previously known as Cassava Enterprises) has lost one of its founding directors, Israeli Shay Ben-Yitzhak. The Non-executive director Shay Ben-Yitzhak, has resigned with imme
Casino Stocks Soar on Strong Macau Showing
HONG KONG, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Shares of Macau casino operators rose on Tuesday on reports that gambling revenues in the enclave in December rose 48 percent from a year earlier, signalling sustained
Sands China a “Buy” Says Citi, UBS
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Shares in Sands China (1928.HK) climbed as much as 6.3 percent to their highest level in more than two weeks after Citigroup and UBS initiated coverage on the Macau unit of U.
PokerStars Still Keeping Full Tilt Poker a Distant 2nd
At time during the past two months, Full Tilt Poker looked as if it could eat away at a fairly significant chunk of number one online poker room,
Calgary Flames and Online Poker Room UB.com Forge Deal
The leading online poker site has signed a sponsorship agreement with the National Hockey League's Calgary Flames, and to celebrate, they are giving away tickets to the Flaming C's March 11 home ga
Poker Will be Dead in Great Britain in 2010?
No more poker in 2010 in Great Britain.
That's the suggestion made by Victoria Coren of the Guardian Newspaper as part of her predictions for the year 2010.
Philly.com: Harrah’s Exec Seeks to Revitalize Atlantic City
By Suzette Parmley
Inquirer Staff Writer
Online Sports Betting: Skybook Finally Pays
Following Gambling911.com's report that online sports betting website Skybook.com was having difficulty paying a he
Online Gambling Consolidation: Bookmaker.com Acquisition
The consolidation within the online gambling sector continues as more solid companies like Bookmaker.com continue to grow bigger, acquiring smaller enterprises that find it more difficult to sustai
The Best of 2009: Most Popular Poker, Online Gambling Stories
You may see a few of these "Best of 2009 Poker and Online Gambling Stories" elsewhere, but Gambling911.com has the real heavy hitters, those stories that scored huge traffic wins. Yes,
China Economic Review: Macau Rising
It is ten years since Macau returned to the People's Republic of China as an SAR and since then it has had almost nothing than phenomenol growth.
The 2008 per-capita GDP of Macao, which lies west of the Pearl River and is China's second special administrative region on the southeast coast of the country, stood at $39,036, a figure that ranks it second in Asia behind only Japan.
Harrah’s Chief Wants to Bring Caesars Palace to Macau
Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Harrah's Entertainment Inc.
888.com to Buy Bingo Company for £60 Mln
LONDON (Reuters) - Online gaming firm 888 <888.L> has agreed to acquire Wink Bingo from Daub Ltd for up to 59.7 million pounds and said current trading had remained strong and in line with ex
Ladbrokes Gives Italy Another Shot With Online Poker
Having failed in its attempt to set up land-based betting shops in Italy, the United Kingdom's biggest bookmaker will try once more by marketing its online poker and casino platform to the country.
World Series of Poker 2010 New Schedule Scrutinized
Not everyone is happy about the 2010 World Series of Poker schedule that was released this past we
Slow Pay, No Pay Online Sportsbook Skybook.com
Gambling911.com has received information that the long established but troubled call center sportsbook, Skybook.com out of Costa Rica, has been slow paying or "no paying" some of its clie
