Poker News – Svenska Spel, a state-owned gambling regulator in Sweden, has denied the accusations made this month by Tidningsutgivarna CEO Per Hultengård that it is not doing enough to fight gambling addiction. “Svenska Spel has for many years been very active, and still is, to prevent compulsive gaming,” a representative of Sweden’s gambling regulator told PokerNews, adding more fuel to the debate over the future of Sweden’s national monopoly. After the criticism Per Hultengård moved against Svenska Spel’s operations in Sweden’s leading financial newspaper, Dagens Industry, the regulator decided to talk to PokerNews and explain its views on some…

iGaming Business – Bookmaker William Hill has announced that its ‘Cash In My Bet’ cash-out option is now available to access on mobile devices. Cash in My Bet allows customers to cash in on their bet before a sporting event has finished, enabling them to take profit if the game is going in their favour or get out with some of their stake still intact. The service is available for every football match in each league around the world. Customers can access the service pre-match, in-play and on both multiples and singles. The service can also be accessed in accumulator…

Courier Mail – A protest group wanting to stop sports betting ads during broadcasts has threatened to launch a children’s gambling app unless laws to stop them are enforced. The dummy site Sim Bet  “Sports Betting Fun for the Whole Family” has been set up by a group calling itself SimBet to show how it would make good on its threat if the Federal Government did not act by a February deadline. But welfare workers and gambling academics have warned against the strategy because it could backfire and encourage gambling. The site features so-called endorsements from children such as “Me…

Online Poker Traffic – With initial revenue numbers for regulated online gambling in New Jersey coming in a bit lower than anticipated, market watchers are wondering if the industry will be able to bulk up enough in January to move in line with expectations. Current online poker traffic trends suggest that they will. Data from the latest Scouting Report – a daily analysis publication produced by PokerScout.com covering the global online poker industry –  shows that New Jersey’s regulated online poker rooms are building upon their record-setting traffic levels of last week. While traffic has fallen from the peak set the weekend of…

Philly.com – Jamie Kerstetter is in her pink slippers with the pom-poms. And why shouldn’t she be? It’s a Sunday morning, and she’s settling in to a long day during which she won’t leave the apartment. The cards are dealt, on the screen, four tables going at once, a far cry from the 20 poker games this former tax lawyer used to fire up on her computer screen in Mexico, where she would spend hour after twitchy hour playing online Texas hold ’em. “My boyfriend and I would sit all day and not talk to each other except when one…

The Street – You may not know it but inside the U.K. Facebook (FB_) is in the online gambling business. Facebook added real money gambling a little over a year ago. Up until recently it was limited to bingo and online slots but now, through a partnership with Zynga (ZNGA_), Facebook users in the U.K. can play online poker for real money. None of the games are available in the U.S. yet. Legal hurdles including the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 have, until recently, kept almost all forms of online gambling outside of lottery ticket sales underground and…