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Vietnam Looks to Gambling to Increase Tourism
The Asian gambling industry is thriving and now Vietnam is considering loosening its gambling laws in order to attract some of the action. In 2012 Chinese travelers spent $102 billion on their trips abroad and now Vietnam would like to try and draw in some of this revenue. The Vietnamese National Assembly is due to
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The Future of Online Poker in Florida
Earlier this month the Florida Senate Gaming Committee discussed a draft of a gaming reform bill that should be introduced during the 2014 legislative session. The bill is designed to amend Florida’s gaming laws based upon recommendations made in a report commissioned from Spectrum Gaming. The bill is set to establish a gaming commission to
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Garden City Group Refunds US Full Tilt Players
This month will see $82 million transferred to the bank accounts of 30,000 former Full Tilt Poker players in the United States. It is the first round of repayments being made by the Garden City Group, the claims administrator in charge of reimbursing US players who lost their funds on Black Friday. Non-US players had
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CasinoBitco Acquires Ultraplay Websites
CasinoBitco, the bitcoin online gaming service, has purchased three websites, Bit777, Peerbet, and Peerdice which were all previously owned by Ultraplay. CasinoBitco has been in operation since May of last year, it runs an HTML5 platform which offers a huge range of virtual casino games, slots and a mobile sports betting platform. Since launching, the
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