The world of online gaming held the most important conference and exhibition last 16th to 18th May, which also collected more than $130,000 dollars for charity throughout the event.

Anyone who had the dream of becoming a croupier will now have the opportunity to learn every trick of this trade at the first casino training school in Scotland. The project will be launched this year, and the learning center will be located in Glasgow.

Ladbrokes’ employees with more than a year's experience will receive free shares in the company after the bookmaker recently announced that it had boosted profits in the first four months of 2006 by 5%.

In casinos everything is designed to encourage players to stay gambling as much as possible. The objective, according to psychiatrists, is to create a state of trance in the players. If you’ve been to a casino in Las Vegas, you have surely seen it: the lights, the music, the absence of clocks, the position of slot machines or roulettes.

Betmaker.com has released its first online casino and sportsbook in Spanish, just on time for the sport event that is exciting everybody: the FIFA World Cup.

European authorities are investigating whether these seven countries restrict free circulation of services in the gambling field and demand an explanation about the extent of their policies observance of community legislation. In case they do not respond, the punishment procedure will move forward to economical penalties.

Despite being a new building, just 12 or 13 years old, the Grand’s Island View Hotel & Casino was recently demolished. Its architecture and design were nothing special, they represented Biloxi’s casino past, before Katrina destroyed most of the area.

A Kentucky man who lost $75,000 at the Caesars Indiana Casino has filed a lawsuit against the casino because he claims he was drunk when he accepted the credit line. “They kept serving me till I was totally intoxicated”, Jimmy L. Vance said. Mr. Vance explained he doesn’t even remember losing the money.

It’s undeniable that the online gambling market has experienced an amazing explosion in the last few years, specially as a consequence of the arise of new and more secure methods for administering electronic money, as well as the existence of simpler online payment methods.

The company F-Secure has detected a “back door” in Rakeback Calculator, a system that is widely used by online poker players. This tool is distributed by the site Checkraised.com. The authors of the software used a rootkit technology in order to hide the malicious program.