A penny slot machine at the Fortune Valley Hotel and Casino in Colorado awarded visitor Louise Chavez a huge US$42 million jackpot - or so she thought. Ms. Chavez, a resident of nearby Thornton, saw that her machine displayed a message that she had won the nationwide progressive jackpot, one of the biggest in Colorado [...]

Bonne Chance NV, the holding company that operates a large number of online casinos powered by Rival gaming, has launched two new brands. These are Supreme Play Casino and VIP Club Casino. Supreme Play is definitely being operated by Silverstone Overseas Limited. It can be presumed that VIP Club is also being operated by Silverstone [...]

The third oldest newspaper in the United States, the Philadephia Inquirer, has entered into a business agreement that will see it using modern fantasy sports betting technology to boost revenues.
Philly.com has inked a deal with fantasy sports provider FanDuel.com that will see it becoming the first online news publication to use the power of daily [...]

If you’re one of the legions of Blackberry-toting constant communicators, you may want to know that Aim Productions has announced the arrival of four new games in the Blackberry Synch Store….one of them a poker game.
Ladies Poker Night in Blackberry’s Poker Room is where you can play heads up against 3 hot young women who [...]

The UK Gambling Commission has released some interesting statistics estimating the remote (online) gambling market in that country to be worth GBP 896 million in 2008.
The Commission used information from gambling industry trade bodies, the Department for Culture, Media And Sport and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in arriving at the statistic, as well as [...]

GameLogic Inc., the American company that introduced the PlayAway concept of online and land promotional gaming in the restrictive US gambling market, has launched a complementary product - Poker Play, a tournament-based poker system specifically developed for regulated U.S. casino and lottery operators.
“The tremendous popularity of poker requires that the game be a part [...]

The ambience at EiG may have been optimistic and even buoyant regarding the future legalisation of online gambling in the United States but it is apparently not shared by all the experts.
Speaking at the International Masters of Gaming Law conference in Amsterdam this week, the respected Las Vegas-based online gambling legal expert Tony Cabot appeared [...]

Nevada gaming revenues sunk in June to their lowest single month total in almost five years.
State casinos collected $818.2 million from customers during the month, a 13.8 percent decline compared with $949.3 million collected in the same month a year ago according to figures released this morning by the Gaming Control Board.
The total, the [...]

As reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer: “The state budget showdown is over.
“After a 10-day standoff that had Ohio’s government running on borrowed time, Gov. Ted Strickland and legislative leaders cut a deal Friday for slot machines at Ohio’s seven horse-racing tracks without a ballot vote.
“…Strickland will sign an executive order authorizing Ohio Lottery [...]

Shareholders in Charter International, the maker of welding equipment, should shield their eyes. Only six weeks after telling investors that trading was on track, Charter admitted yesterday that it had taken a turn for the worse. Sales in May, usually one of its strongest months, were unexpectedly poor. Revenues from so-called consumables - welding materials, [...]