The U.S. government recently seized $24 million from bank accounts linked to Bodog, the giant, illegal-under-U.S.-law Internet gaming operation founded by Canadian tycoon Calvin Ayre.

Quoted bookmaker Paddy Power will be hoping for bumper Galway Races starting tomorrow.

Financial Mail's Helia Ebrahimi finds William Hill's new boss is coming out fighting with a plan to revive the bookmaker.

Bettingjobs boss says Scotland should do more to encourage companies to do business

Victor Palmer plans to make millions of dollars by giving away money.

Victor Palmer plans to make millions of dollars by giving away money.

The third largest online poker network in the world was formed on Thursday, with UltimateBet and Absolute Poker combining user bases and features to launch CEREUS.

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC), which oversees numerous online poker sites using Kahnawake-based Internet services in Canada, has released an official statement regarding the unfolding situation on UltimateBet Poker. The statement follows by several months the KGC's earlier involvement in the resolution of a similar scandal at Absolute Poker.

It was played by ten million people and was making a fortune for winners and donating millions of pounds to good causes long before the National Lottery. The army of people who collected football pools coupons on the nation’s doorsteps became friends to the families who huddled in front of the radio or television every Saturday teatime to find out the scores.

London Capital Group Holdings, the online financial spread betting and trading company, has announced that FuturesBetting.com, the Gibraltar-based financial spread betting business it acquired in May, has re-launched and is now open for business.

Betting turnover remains strong despite weaker outcome than expected from Euro 2008.

The following testimony was deliever today by Senator Lesniak to the National Conference of State Legislators' Budget and Revenue Committee and Law and Criminal Justice Committee.

UNLV study finds online betting areas thick with bullying, foul-mouthed players, repelling some, enticing others

Normally, the most vociferous calls for legalizing Internet gaming come from the growing online poker-playing community, offshore gambling site operators, civil libertarians and a handful of select members of Congress.

Gaming operator 32Red Plc. said total first-half gaming revenues rose 26 percent to 6.6 million pounds.

North west bookmaker Fred Done has welcomed news that the Tote, the Wigan-based, state-owned betting business, will be put up for sale on the open market this autumn.

The government is preparing to sell the Tote in the autumn, sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe announced yesterday. However, longstanding uncertainty over the Tote's ownership was hardly diminished by Sutcliffe's written statement to Parliament, in which he emphasised that a sale would not go ahead if the likely proceeds were deemed too low.

The Government has been accused of continued dithering over the sale of the Tote after disclosing that its planned autumn disposal of the state-owned bookmaker may be postponed unless market conditions improve.

Sportech and Betfred are queuing up to put their money on the Tote after the Government yesterday said horse racing’s trackside bookmaker would finally be put up for sale this autumn.

Fluxx AG, the German parent company of UK sports betting operator Jaxx, which started operations last (2007) year, has moved one of its key executives to the UK in a bid to expand the firm’s presence in the region.