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About Mark Newman

Mark Newman - was born in 1971 in Pictou, a town located on the beautiful Northumberland Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1998 he graduated from Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Wolfville) with the Master’s degree in social studies. Mark simply adores his wife and sons. Considers poker to be one of the most exquisite kinds of art and rarely misses his chance of practicing.

Executives Discuss Law Issues

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The World Online Gambling Law Report Summer Retreat 2009, scheduled for the end of June in the UK and to be sponsored by several top games in the internet gambling law sector, is a great opportunity for executives to meet woth other industry executives and discuss legal issues facing the online gambling industry today.

Hambach and Hambach, a law firm based out of Germany, and the GamingLaw.eu site are the tops on the list of sponsors of the upcoming event.

The main issues to be discussed in the course of the event are the regulations and internet gambling bans in some countries, media and information laws, advertising and other related to the gambling industry mediums.

888 Announces Full-Year Results

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888 Holdings has reported its excellent performance throughout the year of 2008. The company explains their success thanks to the employment of sound growth strategy.

Their pre-tax profits are up 6%. The company’s revenues rose to Euro 135.1 million – it comes to a 14% increase in annual revenues from the site in 2007. As for internet poker, 888 did not perform that well. A 4% drop in revenues is being noticed.

As for the compay’s performance in 2009, 888 is rather optimistic, despite the slowing economy and lower Q1 profits.

Get Ready for Online Bingo Summit

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The first Online Bingo Summit took place in 2006. It attracted 85 companies. Nearly three years have passed since then, however the Summit this year is believed to attract over 350 companies.

The Online Bingo Summit will take place on June 16 – 17, 2009 at the Gloucester Hotel in Kensington, London, UK. Bingo room operators and webmasters will be able to form new partnerships, find the information required for updates and a technical section highlighting new forms of online wagering. Besides, attendees can also participate in some fun networking parties.

A lucky Player can Get it All from UltimateBet.net

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Following a deal with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Inc, UltimateBet.net has been announced to be the official sponsor of the 25th anniversary WrestleMania event that is to take place on the 5th of April in Houston.

One Canadian player will be rewarded with an all expenses paid trip for two to the this event by UltimateBet.net.

Starting on the 16th of February, UltimateBet.net is running a series of Texas Hold’em qualifier tournaments. The prize is a return airfare to Houston for two, hotel accommodation and $500 to spend. Besides that, the site offers tickets to the anniversary event, 2 replica WWE championship belts and a framed WrestleMania 25 poster.

Chartwell’s Platform Gets Stronger

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The gambling market is getting more and more competitive. Software development companies constantly look for new technology, release new games on the regular basis, do their best to be able to compete.

Version 7.0 is a new gaming platform developed by Chartwell Technology. The platform offers 17 new games with various themes, higher odds, extra bonuses and huge payouts (new Bounty Hunter game, two new fixed-odds games and several new verions of the company’s popular table games). Players will also enjoy more slots action, Chartwell’s better graphics and technology.

CryptoLogic Lost One of its Members

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Playboy Poker, powered by CryptoLogic was shut down on January 29th of this year. It has been confirmed that Playboy gaming will no longer have a poker site and won’t be moving to another platform.

Playboy Poker has been in operation since 2007. Having various links between players and the Playboy world, with players’ points that could be redeemed for Playboy merchandise and trips to Las Vegas Playboy Club, the site, unfortunately, has not managed to achieve great results.

New Gambling Project for Russia

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Gambling in Russia is changing. The land casinos have been pushed out of the big cities. At the same time online gambling has been gaining more and more popularity.

Thanks to the new agreement between Net Entertainment and Delta and PCP Electronics, Russia will get a new kind of gambling – a hybrid form of gambling in which elements of land and online gambling are combined. It will be a new CasinoCafeTM to be launched in Russia in more than 500 business places. The benefits of the CasinoCafeTM concept combine “the cost efficiency of electronically distributed gaming with the business volumes of land based casino operations”.

Both Net Entertainment and Delta and PCP Electronics will bring their specialty knowledge to make their project a success.

Ultimate Bet Coming Back

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Everything changes in this world, so does the gambling industry, and in particular internet gambling sites. Within a few days they may fall down from the top of their games to the total crash often caused by the cheating scandal.

As a result of the cheating scandal, the Ultimate Bet online casino poker gambling site has faced lots of negative attitude over the past year, and now it is doing its best to come back. Having switched to the new Cereus Network, the online gambling sites hopes it would be able to recover. A series of increasingly high profile and huge prize pool tournaments to be launched in the nearest future is another thing Ultimate Bet relies on in its recovery.

The online poker gambling site is running the promotion right now. No doubt, online casino gamblers will be excited to take part in any of the 22 special events scheduled at the Ultimate poker tables with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool.

Betsafe – Cryptologic’s Latest Loss

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Betsafe, a popular online casino poker gambling and betting brand that for two years has been working on the Cryptologic network, is known to be switching to the high quality Austrian OnGame Network.

The latter network, owned and operated by Bwin (a fast growing company on the OnGame Network offering unique products and features) is already regarded as a successful software development company for such online casino poker gambling sites as Poker Room, Red Kings and Hollywood Poker.

The reason why Betsafe decided to switch to another network is not clear, but it’s evident that the company has preferred OnGame Network, a perspective software developer offering a wide selection of tournaments, promotions and innovative software.

Online Bingo Turns into Online Gaming Phenomenon

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If you think that there is no difference between the bingo game played in the bingo halls or churches and the one offered by online bingo sites, you are mistaken.

With the popularity of bingo growing, more and more sites consider the opportunity of offering bingo to their customers. To say more, they offer different variations of the game online.

The old game of bingo involved players holding cards and checking off numbers as they were called, while bingo sites give bonuses of free play for new customers which can be used to try out all of the games on the site. Besides, lots of bongo sites are now offering cash back rewards similar to those offerd by credit cards. Online, bingo fans can also find games with multiple game boards, cutting edge graphics and much more.