From The Telegraph Online gambling firms will be required to hold a licence in Britain in order to advertise and sell their games to British customers under new laws. The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Bill aims to give customers more protection when using online poker and other websites operated by companies based offshore. Gambling operators based in Britain are already required to hold a Gambling Commission licence but overseas firms are currently regulated in the jurisdiction in which they are based. Under the Bill, announced in the Queen’s Speech, all operators selling or advertising to the British market – whether…

From SBR Fifteen Sportsbook.com (SBR rating D-) players report waiting for more than $30,000. The bettors have waited in excess of the lengthy six to eight weeks time-frame advertised by Sportsbook.com. Sportsbook.com management has claimed that processor delays caused recent payment batches to be delayed. SBR reported on the Sportsbook.com payout issues in a video report two weeks ago. Sportsbook.com remains indexed on the SBR Scam Blacklist for their confiscation of more than $100,000 from winning players that profited through betting correlated parlays accepted by the software in 2006. FULL STORY

To step into club XS at the Wynn Las Vegas in Sin City is to enter the dream of a modern artist with fetishes for gold and bronze and bodies in motion. A golden-plated frieze made from casts of nude women sits atop a shimmering staircase. Waves of electronic dance music grow louder with each downward step toward a pulsating, football field-sized club where lasers cut the air above thousands of dancers. The revelers take their cues from the famous DJs onstage who are known to surf the crowd in inflatable rafts, throw sheet cakes at clubbers’ faces and spray…

From ABC News With legal gambling now moving beyond the casinos and onto the Internet, the industry is bracing for the most far-reaching changes in its history. A Las Vegas firm, Ultimate Gaming, on Tuesday became the first in the U.S. to offer online poker, restricting it, for now, to players in Nevada. New Jersey and Delaware also have legalized gambling over the Internet and expect to begin offering such bets by the end of this year. And many inside and outside the industry say the recent position taken by the federal government that states are free to offer Internet…

Ultimate Poker has registered thousands of online poker users from every U.S. state and 20 countries. That’s in just 72 hours. By Thursday evening, the website dealt its 100,000th hand of poker. Around 10 p.m., Ultimate Poker had 50 poker tables with action. “I would say we were the largest poker room in the state at that hour,” Ultimate Gaming CEO Tobin Prior said Friday. Company officials said the launch of Ultimate Poker, the nation’s first legally regulated pay-to-play online gaming website, has exceeded expectations. Ultimate Poker Chairman Tom Breitling didn’t want to reveal official numbers for the website’s first…

The British parent company of the PokerStars website says it still wants to buy an Atlantic City casino, even though a deal to obtain it fell through on Wednesday. The Rational Group said Thursday night it wants to try to save its deal to purchase The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel. The casino said Wednesday the purchase deal was dead, but declined to say why. Eric Hollreiser, a spokesman for the Isle Of Man-based company, said it had expected the closing deadline for the sale to be extended. “Several days ago the Rational Group received a purported notice of termination of…