Awaiting another opportunity in the gaming industry, he has temporarily returned to the opposite side of the betting counter.

Watch out for illegal horse-racing investments this spring carnival.

Leading rails bookmakers Simon Beasley and Alan Eskander are being sued by fellow bookmaker Kathryn Read, niece of Mark Read, International All Sports Managing Director.

Judgment Day: Should you buy shares in Party Gaming?

On terrorism, on politics, on your future. Why markets will have a say in almost everything.

A former Downing Street adviser lobbied the government to relax gambling laws and pave the way for valuable casino contracts on behalf of Kerry Packer, the Australian billionaire, newly released Whitehall documents have disclosed. 

"Whistle yourself to a win."

Poker champ cashing in on victory.

Betfair is spicing up the $8 billion Internet gaming market with its EBay-like strategy and talk of a possible IPO. Regulatory issues and a backlash from traditional gaming houses may sway the odds against it.

Learn the lesson of punters who backed Brazil four years ago by finding value before odds shorten.

The glorified life of a bookie can come to a crashing end. As the famous saying goes, "Las Vegas wasn't built on a bunch of winners."

The Lennon Government's close ties to big business and its apparent imminent plans to license a Kerry Packer-linked Betfair betting agency came under renewed fire yesterday.

Internet gambling stocks, which have been savaged since PartyGaming gave warning of slowing growth, staged a minor rally yesterday on the back of strong figures from Sportingbet, one of its biggest rivals.

Betfair, the internet betting exchange, is threatening to relocate to Malta if the Treasury moves to alter the tax regime covering gamblers' winnings.

Malta amassed more online gaming companies than any other Western European jurisdiction.

State gambling regulators said yesterday that a company proposing to broadcast casino games from Indiana probably couldn't be licensed to do business in the state and might not be able to find a willing casino partner anyway.

PartyGaming doesn't want strangers at its poker tables. Empire Online says it didn't want to play anyway. Who's bluffing? 

While it is illegal for an American company to operate a gambling site in the United States, it is not illegal to accept wagers from Americans if the company is based abroad.

The State Government appears to be in chaos over its Betfair proposals.

Prominent bookmaker Kathryn Read claims she was "bullied, pressured, totally humiliated and discriminated against" by her peers in a row over the traditional Melbourne Cup Call of the Card.