Beneficiaries of Friday’s Online Poker Busts Already Becoming Clear

Who were the major beneficiaries of this past Friday’s indictments and subsequent shutdowns of the three largest US-facing online poker rooms?

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UB.com Principal Not Charged With Most Serious Counts

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Does ESPN Take in More Than a Million From Online Poker Industry?

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Full Tilt Poker Supports Poker Players And Its Chief Executive

Dublin Ireland (April 15, 2011)- Full Tilt Poker is saddened by today’s charges against its CEO Raymond Bitar and offers its full support to Mr. Bitar and Nelson Burtnick.

Online poker is a game of skill enjoyed by tens of millions of people in the United States and across the world. And, Full Tilt Poker remains as committed as ever to preserving the rights of those players to play the game they love online.

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SunFirst Bank Under Watchful Eye of US Authorities

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Hustler Online Casino Launches Same Day As Online Poker Crackdown

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Wynn Terminates Alliance With PokerStars Following Indictments

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Report: Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney Close to Signing Paddy Power Deal

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Blackberry Playbook Units Odds (Number Sold)

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William Hill to buy US-based Sports Betting Businesses

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Rift Between Founding Shareholders of 888.com and Gigi Levy Reason for Sudden Exit

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888 Holdings Chief Executive Officer Gigi Levy Steps Down

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Full Tilt Poker Aligns Itself With Station Casinos, UFC Founders

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Huge Shakeup at Betfair and Concerns Over LMAX

Robin Osmond, the chief executive of LMAX, resigned from the financial platform he helped launch for Betfair.

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Deckmedia, SlotoCash Online Casino Affiliates Screwed

Deckmedia and its online casino brand, SlotoCash, has decided it can no longer pay out its affiliate partners. 

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Macau Gambling Revenue up 48 Percent in Month of March

(Reuters) - Casino revenue in Macau, the world's biggest gaming market, rose 48 percent in March to 20.1 billion patacas ($2.51 billion), the Macau government said on Friday.

Macau's casino industry is booming on robust demand from gamblers from mainland China, who account for the bulk of the territory's visitors. The former Portuguese enclave is the only place in China where mainland Chinese can legally gamble.

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Bwin-PartyGaming Chief: “No Competitor Out There who has a Scale to Attack”

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888 Ladbrokes Merger Talks Still Ongoing

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Bwin, PartyGaming Complete Merger: Makes Market Debut

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Online Poker Traffic Falls 3.3 Percent

PokerScout.com reports that eight of the top ten online poker sites lost ground in the past week, contributing to a 3.3 percent decline in overall traffic.

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Online Gambling Business: Victory Poker Moving to Cereus Network

Victory Poker is looking to make yet another move to another network it seems based on reports surfacing this past week. 

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PokerStars Spokesperson: The $20 Billion Mistake!

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Wynn Partnership with PokerStars Would be Win-Win for Both Companies

The Vegas marriages are starting to heat up, only they’re not taking place in tiny little chapels with would be ministers.

Casino giant Wynn Resorts announced Thursday its newly formed alliance with online poker’s biggest firm, PokerStars, following word that the Nevada state regulatory body had approved a similar arrangement between European i-Gaming behemoth 888.com and Caesar’s Entertainment.  PartyPoker and MGM had entered into a similar alliance last year. 

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PokerStars Makes Little Headway With Its Backed Nevada Internet Poker Measure

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Cake Poker Forms Strategic Alliance With PokerListings.com

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Gambling Business: James Packer Won’t Pursue Vegas Again

The sharp as a sharks tooth James Packer has dismissed a return to the the embattled and politically red hot American gaming market. At least, for the near future, but never say never.

The likable executive chairman of Crown Limited issued the statement in the hard to forget aftermath of the firms horrendous AU$3 billion (US$2.99 billion) expansion into the United States before the global financial crisis. You know, the one that George W's leadership saw in, and the same one that Barack Omama inherited.

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PokerStars Goes All-In Nevada: Obstacles Are Great

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