While all the talk over the weekend was about the 6 month delay in the enforcement of the 2006 online gambling ban in the U.S., the markets did not react in any particularly strong fashion to the news when they opened today. Most of the major brand names within the online casino industry had a [...]

Many bookmakers are reporting stronger that normal numbers on the back of the English Premiership’s weekend fixtures. Saturday’s games saw higher than average action across the board and the two big games from today also generated some very healthy numbers. In particular, the Liverpool V. Everton derby game at Goodison Park saw a lot of [...]

The entire online casino industry is buzzing about one story today. The Obama Administration has delayed the full enforcement of UIGEA for a 6 month period. Before this announcement there had been a tricky situation developing where the momentum behind Barney Frank’s proposed bill to regulate online gambling had been growing and at the same [...]

One of the critical infrastructure elements for websites that deal with money is security. In recent times there have been a number of high profile incidents where personal financial details of large quantities of people have been stolen when the security on the databases of large websites have been hacked. Obviously, online casino and gambling [...]

History has a terrible habit of repeating itself. We have at this stage, a comprehensive list of examples from history that should show clearly how and why prohibition never works. The history of the modern world is lettered with perfect examples of where the concept of prohibition intersects with the reality of human nature and [...]

Wednesday November 25th 2009 saw some nice positive movement across the online casino sector. As a whole, the sector experienced a nice positive set of midweek numbers with the majority of the major brands experiencing gains and the average certainly very positive. Let’s take a look at some of the companies that exemplify this trend. [...]

While the online casino industry has suffered from all manner of difficulties related related to online gambling bans in different jurisdictions, one of the things it has always had in its favor is the fact that for the most part online casinos are extremely profitable. This has always been the case but it has not [...]

After some of the more volatile type of trading that we have seen in the online casino sector, today was relatively quiet by comparison. The numbers for most of the major players were a little on the lethargic side but not hugely damaging. Monday November 23rd 2009 saw PartyGaming get a lift. At the start [...]

One area of online betting that has scene huge growth over the last couple years is betting on the outcome of reality television shows. Apart from viewers phoning in to vote for particular contestants, these types of shows have seen a massive growth in online betting as well. Some of this is taken up with [...]

The English premiership is always very attractive to punters from a sports betting point of view. That said, this weekend’s games have seen a higher than usual level of interest from the sports betting market. It is unclear as to what exact combination of different elements have conspired to create the situation. For example, there [...]