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About Ildebrando Pugliesi

Ildebrando Pugliesi – was born in 1980 in Apple Valey, MN, USA. Today he is happily married, adores his wife and two little daughters. His Italian background and hot temper made him a poker fan from the early years of his life. After graduating from Crossroads College, MN, and receiving a prestigious job in Councelling Psychology he started playing poker professionally. Ildebrando enjoys improving his poker skills and sharing ideas about it.

Play Bingo for Free with Daily Record Bingo.com

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Daily Record Bingo.com is offering really free daily bingo games with real prizes. To play the games, you have to register at the Daily Record Bingo site, and the registration is also free. Having registered, the players can participate in the free games on offer.

Everey day for 12 hours Daily Record Bingo.com offers a range of games from British 90-ball bingo to the American counterpart – a 75-ball American bingo. The games can be played daily between the hours of 10:15 am to 10:15 pm. Please, note the games run on London time.

Bingo enthusiasts can also find cash games on the site including other bingo, keno and scratch card games.

Will Online Gambling Market Expand in Russia?

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In view of the fact, that all land gambling venues have recently been pushed out of the major cities in Russia, it might become rather hard now for the online casinos to enter the Russian market. To say more, the Russian Government is going to crack down on the prevalence and influence of gambling in the country. Thus, recently, the Russian Ministry of Youth, Sport and Tourism has announced that poker is not classified as a game of sport in the country any more which will definitely lead to the fact that the internet poker industry, like the land casinos, will be pushed out of major cities.

Norway Strengthens Online Casino Gambling Monopoly

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The new Norwegian regulations designed to strengthen the state monopoly and block financial transactions with foreign internet casinos are due out in August.

The EU Commission and other EU member states have been in negotiations with Norway, but so far, unsuccessfully.

Still, some experts hope that the situations might change, as the EU Commission is supported by the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) and the ESA has already sent a warning notification to the Norwegian government in regards to the implkementation og highly questionable laws.

Sports Betting Companies can Adopt Best Practice Charters

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Online gambling in France is expected to be soon regulated. Meanwhile, the online media group known as “Geste” has released 2 charters seeking to give European online gambling operators a standard by which to follow, thus making sure the French online gambling industry is viewed as socially responsible and legitimate.

In the following years to come, lots of people will be watching France’s online gambling industry, whether the regulation fails or not in the country.

One of the countries that has got a similar experience is the UK. Since the UK Gambling Act of 2005 calling for an increase in land-based betting destinations has been passed, they have noticed an increased number of problem gamblers and gambling debts. The UK is in a good shape, and at the moment it is looking for the better ways to treat problem gambling.

As for France and its gambling regulation to be, many people like thos from Geste are doing their best to make the online sector a favorable environment for both consumers and businesses.

New Study – Fresh Ideas

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The expansion of online casino industry is inevitable, as well as underage gambling concerns. Lots of nations speculate on the problem using it as a chance to ban online gambling completely. However, working towards understanding of underage gambling problem, its motivations and implications is required. This is what the UK is currently working at.

A study into underage gambling in the UK has been comissioned by the National Lottery Commission. The study will give the information in comparison with the results of a similar study made in 2006. Besides, “the new and fresh insights into the motivations and factors playing a role in youth manipulating the system to participate in both legal and illegal internet gambling”.

Cocoa Casino Gets Updated

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Cocoa Casino, an online casino, has made their home page more modern and slicker and is now planning to improve and make additions to their 3-reel slot games. It has already been admitted that now their site looks more updated and professional.

As for the updated games releases that are coming soon, they are thought to be better for players – full screen animations where the size of the win will determine the type of animation that will be seen.

Conferencing in LV is not a Luxury

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Las Vegas is known to have lost approximately $166 million over the past severl months in revenue due to the cancelled conferences. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has announced that even more jobs are endanger in the region because of that. It is natural that not only the convention centers lose money, but the hotels lose bookings and the casinos lose in gambling revenues.

The LVCVA has nothing to do but to organize a promotion of conference travel to Las Vegas. If nothing is going to change in the upcoming months there, there will be layoffs.

Bodog Implements New Growth Strategy

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CalvinAyres, the founder and former CEO of Bodog Entertainment has got growth and development plans for the company.

First of all, the company is moving into Asia with a deal with Haydock Sports. Then, they are planning to have a brand licensing deal in Europe, re-brand the company and products and, finally, Bodog is going to enter the European internet gambling market.

In addition to that Bodog has got a new news portal that is to offer news and professional analysis on the situation in the industry.

The revealed plans indicate that Bodog is implementing a very good growth and diversification strategy.

Flash Gaming Thorugh Parlay Entertainment

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NextGen Gaming Pty Ltd. and Parlay Entertainment Inc. are known to have partnered. The partnership is believed to be a success and enhance both companies’ brands and gaming products. A joint product based on the international Parlay platform will soon be offered at the gamblig market.

Some details of the partnership agreement have been revealed. It turned out that Parlay’s interest was in NextGen’s newest, but already popular, Flash gamig product that lets players play some of their favorite games not downloading the content.

Better Bet Has Pulled the Advertising Campaign

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Oly a few days after the end of the advertisig campaign where the former Arsenal and Asto Villa player Paul Merson becam a new face, Better Bet announced they were pulling the campaign, as the firm had received lots of complaints.

The reason for that turned became the fact that Paul had addictions to alcohol, drugs and gambling in the past. It’s been revealed that Merson had kicked his addictions to alcohol and drugs but was still fighting his gambling addiction.

During the campaign Merson was meeting customers, signing autographs and many other things, but he never had any complaints unless the campaign was over.

Better Bet would not want Paul Merson to see it in the way that they did not want work with him, but they would like to work with Merson in the future.