Global Online Gambling News: Latest News

WSOPE registers its third home in its short seven-year history

European regulators meet again to discuss regulatory cooperation, with shared liquidity still an open discussion.

New Facebook deal means bingo, slots and casino products for real-money will go live in the UK; Poker could follow soon after.

Closing a loophole in current UK legislation means changes for online poker operators and players.

Draft legislation, proposing the end of the UK whitelist and the adoption of a point of consumption tax, will affect all online poker operators.

Reworked deal has implications for Zynga’s plan to bring real-money poker, slots and casino games to UK customers on bwin.party’s platform.

Despite reports to the contrary, operators are not required to withdraw from the market prior to regulation next year.

Heads of the European online gambling industry criticize the EU Commission for lack of action following the bwin.party co-CEO detention last week.

The last two remaining states North Rhine Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein will join the treaty, which grants a restricted number of sports betting licenses but no online poker.

Following recent inconclusive elections, the Netherland’s Prime Minister Mark Rutte has announced a coalition agreement…

Gateway services provided to include transfers, fraud protection.

Zynga to enter real money poker in the UK—as a skin for PartyPoker—in the first half of 2013.