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Argentina moving close to ban online gambling
October 13, 2008Yet another shocking news to our online gambling industry, now this time Argentina moving closer to put a ban on online gambling. The bill was proposed last week and if passed then it would make very difficult for the people of Argentina to gamble online.
Luis Alberto Mauri, the Councillor is the person responsible for proposing the new Bill. He is trying to put the burden on Internet Service Providers (ISP's) to block citizens access to gambling websites.
I don't know what kind of mentality these politicians posses. Why they keep interfering in our personal life I think all because of these local business.
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E-passporte Denies Online Gambling Payments.
April 14, 2008Another major blow to online gambling this week, one of the most important payment processor's of United States "e-passporte " withdraws it business from accepting online gambling payments from the U.S customers. First it was Neteller and now its E-passporte. There hasn't been any confirmation whether e-passporte will accept gambling payments from non U.S customers.
Cake Poker players, received an email from the cake poker that they have removed e-passporte as one of the payment processing source and will be getting some other payment processor in its place, for safe and secure depositing. Another poker room, 'Full tilt poker' one of the major online poker room in U.S has removed e-passporte symbol from all its main and sub pages.
Poker Stars, the worlds largest gambling portal also took major blow because of e-passporte decision to withdraw U.S market. One of the spokesmen of poker stars added that there is nothing to worry as poker stars players can deposit through e-checks which is one of the poker stars safest mode of payments.
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Online Gambling Growing In Germany.
April 08, 2008Despite online gambling loosing more than 80% of market share due to UIGEA ( Unlaw full Internet Gambling Enforcement Act ) in the United States, gambling has gained momentum through growing European markets. Worlds' biggest public listed online gambling firms like party Poker, pacific poker lost 90% of its business from U.S, but has comes back strong ever since they launched their advertising campaigns in attracting major chunk of players from Germany, Netherlands , Spain and other growing EU countries.
According to a research more than 2,00,000 to 29,00,000 players gamble online regularly in Germany, despite gambling being banned in the German country too. Netherlands along with Spain is even attracting handsome amount of player sing ups. In order to boost the popularity of online poker, famous German Tennis star 'Boris Becker' was seen in an online poker ad campaign.
