A month after the US Congress signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, the United Kingdom hosts an online gaming conference to find solutions on how to prevent criminals from defrauding internet gamblers, protect children by preventing their access to gambling Web sites and to prevent money laundering.
Representatives from 32 countries will meet at the […]

Online Gambling and Poker company, PartyGaming, lost 75 percent of its revenue when it closed its US sites to comply with the new law enforcing a ban on Internet gambling. Chief Executive Officer Mitch Garber had this to say:

“Chaos breeds opportunity and we will seize that opportunity’’ Garber also said the following when he laid […]

A huge UK group is to invest 3 million Pounds Sterling in a megabucks poker tournament.
The massive resources of UK betting group Ladbrokes will be behind a revamped version of the popular Poker Million tournament planned for next year in a bid to create a European rival to the famous Harrah’s World Series of Poker […]

Following a ban on Online Gaming, Sportingbet revealed its exit from the U.S. market would cost the company 210 million pounds sterling ($393 million dollars).
The internet gaming company left once lucrative US market last week. It sold its sportsbetting, casino and poker operations to Antigua-based Jazette Enterprises Ltd. on the day that President Bush signed […]

PokerStars
The biggest company to announce that it will still do business with the U.S. is PokerStars. In response to the signing into law of the The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 the company stated:
“These provisions do not alter the U.S. legal situation with respect to online poker…. It is important to emphasise that […]

The following is the latest (as at October 14) list, for the benefit of readers, of internet gambling operations that have notified U.S. players that they can no longer accept their business due to the enactment of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act:
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32Red Casino - [MG]

50 Stars - [Ptech]

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LONDON - Britain is thinking about bring in new legislation that will allow London-listed online gambling companies to move their headquarters to Britain.
A prominent newspaper in the UK has claimed to have seen documents in which the government said the move would provide Britain’s internet gamblers with “a safe, well-regulated environment.”
The paper also said that […]

A few days ago, Congress passed a bill — the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act (UIGA) — which will attempt to make existing anti-gambling laws easier to enforce against Internet gambling. On Friday 13th, President Bush is expected to sign UIGA into law.
As UIGA’s preamble accurately notes, “traditional law enforcement mechanisms are often inadequate” in this […]

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