The flotation of the controversial internet poker company gave its four founders a combined windfall of about £797 million and valued their remaining shares at about £3.3 billion.

PartyGaming priced at 116 pence a share and closed at 129 pence.

Everything in a Nevada casino and more is available on the Internet. Slots. Dice. Cards. Sports. It's all there. And it has never been easier or more acceptable to gamble online.

Tiburon woman hits jackpot when her company goes public in London.

Illegalities are the centerpiece of PartyGaming's business plan.

An interview with Noam Lanir, Empire Online Chief Executive.

Online poker has fast become a huge business, and PartyGaming, the leading poker website, is about to float its shares in London, in an offering that values the company at more than $9 billion. But online gambling is controversial—indeed, it is illegal in its biggest market, America. Ironically, this has helped PartyGaming to stay ahead of the pack.

Antigua and Barbuda is looking at “strategic alliances” with UK companies to boost its online gambling industry.

The betting exchange to move its operations offshore if the Treasury will introduce a heavier tax rate.

The problem facing programmers is to create a computer that is capable of cheating and lying, a technique that has so far eluded artificial intelligence experts.

The Porticus phone bet system uses GPS technology and can process calls one of three ways: straight to the ticket writer, to a separate call center (on site or off) and to an automated, interactive answering system that the caller accesses with phone buttons.

Industry experts said US law enforcers are unlikely to directly pursue online gambling companies due to unresolved legal questions.

PartyGaming's best hope of protecting its spectacular profit margins was not to tell anyone about them.

It is a golden rule of poker that if you sit down at the table and cannot spot the sucker who is liable to lose his shirt, it is probably you.

Betting on the colour of the Queen’s hat on Royal Ascot’s Ladies Day was suspended yesterday morning after a rush of money for brown.

The secretive but colourful entrepreneurs behind PartyGaming.

With the invention of internet poker, you don't have to wait to be invited along to a game. You can log on and be gambling within seconds.

Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl is planning to go yet another round in his decade-long fight against Internet gambling, but critics say the industry is far too lucrative and elusive to be corralled by Congress now.

US lawmakers may propose a study of the internet betting industry.

If you were to go to top 20 popular poker sites and count the number of players currently, there would be at least 300,000 players online worldwide.