Bookmakers were up in arms at Rosehill yesterday when their telephone betting service crashed, costing them millions of dollars in lost turnover.

As news reaches us that Richard Branson is joining the card table, Mark Tran asks Virgin Poker to show its hand.

Australian punters will be able to legally bet against each other online within weeks, after Tasmania's upper house yesterday approved a licensing regime for betting exchanges.

Tasmania looks set to license Australia's first betting exchange.

Empire Online, the internet poker firm whose shares have slumped almost 60% below June's flotation price, announced yesterday the collapse of its second set of takeover talks in three months.

Insider trading, as opposed to match-fixing or other scams, has become a feature of GAA betting, according to leading bookmaker and former Fine Gael minister, Ivan Yates.

Wildly popular, yet still illegal in the U.S., Internet gaming has earned vast sums for its creators. Meanwhile, a wave of IPOs in Britain has left American banks out of the action.

Betfair, the internet's principal betting exchange, is to poll its 40,000 racing customers over possible changes to its ante-post markets, following controversy in the wake of the fatal injury to Best Mate at Exeter earlier this month.

As the blaring headlines told us last week, the more liberal regime for casinos in Britain will mean that we will turn into a nation of compulsive gamblers in double-quick time.

Maltese Internet company in legal battle with France's largest betting syndicate.

Walter Scott, chairman of the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC), has ordered an immediate investigation into the circumstances which led to the dismissal of its case against Spiros Athanas, whose internet gaming operation was shut down last year.

Bookmakers are predicting the biggest weekend of betting on reality TV triggered by tomorrow’s launch of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!

Leading trainer Lee Freedman yesterday joined the anti-Betfair forces, questioning its impact on the TAB.

The Australian Racing Board, with the support of Racing Victoria, will launch a concerted anti-Betfair publicity drive backed by leading trainers and jockeys.

eMarketer looks at the online gambling industry's creative marketing efforts, which are subject to a host of regulations.

So many Americans use their computers to gamble on overseas Web sites that if those virtual casinos were to be regulated and taxed by American authorities, tax revenues would be in the billions of dollars. 

Racing Victoria claims Betfair will "throw in the bin" 150 years of stewards supervision if it is licensed in Tasmania.

Betting agencies in Australia are protecting themselves against a fairytale run by the Socceroos at next year's World Cup finals in Germany.

The referee who took bribes to fix soccer games in Germany was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 29 months in prison.

Buffalo Bills great Jim Kelly has endorsed products ranging from pain relievers to phone service to pizza in his career as a celebrity spokesperson. But his latest business relationship has raised some eyebrows.