Betfair.com is breaking new ground in Asia by becoming the first gambling company allowed to host a poker tournament in Singapore. Asia has yet to succumb to the poker bug thats hit the US and Europe...

The World Cup has caused a 50% increase in online betting with Thai gamblers - according to Thai Webmasters. Online betting is illegal in Thailand but that hasn't stopped thousands of Thai's...

Partygaming, the owners of partypoker.com may make a surprise bid to enter the competitive sportsbetting market. They are about to unveil plans to acquire one or multiple sites using the proceeds of...

Poker's World Series started this week at the Rio - over a month of poker tournaments culminating in the Main Event - with a $10,000 buy-in USA Today have nicely gone through the numbers for the...

The Hong Kong Jockey Club controls all betting in Hong Kong and in 2003 legalised football betting - as long as it was made through them alone. Since the world cup has started, over 100 people have...

It may have appeared as if the poker boom was starting to fizzle out. TV ratings had plateaued, poker gifts were not top of anyone's Christmas list and TV schedules overflowing with poker shows...

$100,000 isn't much for the $100 million heiress Paris Hilton but it'll be interesting to see if she's interested in a small game of heads up poker. Clonie Gowen, a 33 year old poker pro...

A new report by Price Waterhouse Coopers is predicting an annual global rise in gambling of 8.8% - from $82 billion in 2005 to $125 billion in 2010 Macau will see the biggest rise of 14%, whilst the...

Match fixing, illegal betting, referee manipulation. All is not well in Italian soccer. The scandal potentially involving a number of big Italian clubs broke a few weeks before the World Cup. Now...

It looks as if New York City may finally be sorting out its access to Atlantic. Its always been a bit of a nightmare travelling from NYC to the centre of East Coast gambling even though its only...

The Australian World Cup were embroiled in a betting scandal as it was revealed they bet amongst themselves to who would be the first goalscorer. Tim Cahill won the bet - as he admitted many of his...

Washington State conjurs up certain images - National Parks and volcanoes, Boeing, Starbucks, the sitcom Frasier and of course Microsoft. Fairly progressive state. You'd think. But clearly, with...

Gambling is all in the brain - literally. According to a new study published in Nature Magazine, there are 2 separate conflicting regions in the brain that do battle between risk and a sure thing....

Eight people were arrested in Sydney for allegedly operating a betting ring. Six men from Hong Kong and two Malaysian women who flew into Australia a few days ago had set up in the Metro Hotel. On...

Ever wonder why some poker sites are massive and some just don't get off the ground? Apparantly you have to entice them by keeping the site fresh with new and original offers. It may sound...

The World Cup is finally upon us and the entire world, except the USA, will no doubt be glued to their sets for the next month. The finals seems to have been all about injuries so far - with...

Its not easy being a $315 million Powerball lottery winner these days. Jack Whittaker won the huge jackpot back in 2002, but is being sued by casino giant Caesars for allegedly bouncing cheques worth...

82% of Hong Kongers surveyed thought that Brazil are a given to reach the World Cup final - whilst 63% think they will win. Brazil are current 9/4 favourites with most bookies. England are a distant...

He may hit the jackpot on the silver screen, but for George Clooney, plans to become a casino mogul have all but hit the dust Clooney paid $90 million last year for prime Las Vegas land near the...

Maxim Magazine is the latest men's-focused brand trying to storm Vegas. Dennis Publishing is to lend its Maxim name to a $1.2 billion hotel and casino - scheduled to open in 2010. This follows...

Washington State clearly couldn't wait anymore for the US to decide whether to ban online gambling or not - so they've gone ahead and done it themselves. From June 7, if you're found...