Notably, the announced deals only cover online poker, even though Bwin.party has strong online casino offerings.
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Have you ever wondered how easy it would be for online casino operators to cheat?
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Microgaming Software Systems, based in the Isle of Man, created the world's first online casino 20 years ago.
The government reckons that online casino operators will be willing to come under the watchful eye of its regulators (and tax collectors) in exchange for more legitimacy with their customers.
The move follows a deal signed with bwin.party earlier this year to bring 180 online casino games including poker, slots and blackjack to the U.K. in the first half of 2013.
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That means Second Life is as susceptible to gambling laws as any other online casino, says Sean Kane, an attorney and author of the forthcoming book The Law of Video Games and the Virtual World.
Olympic organizers said after the event that the man was trying to send a love message home to his wife, but the Web address of an online casino painted on the man's chest told another story.
In recent years Bebb-Jones had been known for a stint on the online and casino poker circuit, winning thousands of pounds in prize money.
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However, a recently ruling by the Justice Department which enables states to allow online gambling could present a significant opportunity to Zynga to generate billions of dollars in revenue from casino games through online gambling.
The potential for online poker and other casino games in the U.S. is enormous.
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For years Ayre taunted and dodged U.S. law enforcement, specializing in offering online sports betting and casino games to U.S. gamblers.
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The MGM deal, which is contingent on a regulatory regime being established for online poker on either the federal or state level, helps define the competitive landscape as casino companies get ready to enter the online gambling business in the U.S. Boyd Gaming also announced on Monday that it has entered into an online poker alliance with Bwin.party.
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And last month, Sportingbet confirmed it was in takeover talks with internet poker and casino site promoter Empire Online.
Of course player identification would be required when a real-money, licensed casino mingles bitcoin with other online payment methods that include legal tender.
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The company noted that its international and online businesses were doing well, but lower casino revenues in the U.S., particularly in Atlantic City, weighed down its earnings.
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But now the casino industry is strongly pushing to get online poker regulation through Congress and lawmakers in states like Nevada and New Jersey are also trying to get something done.
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You can think of bitcoin as the distributed digital representation of a real world physical casino chip also making it extremely suitable for online casinos and social betting.
Late last year the online poker industry almost managed to squeeze through legislation that would have regulated online poker in the U.S. after the casino companies in Las Vegas decided to back the effort, tired of sitting on the sidelines and watching companies like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker earn hundreds of millions of dollars annually from the large U.S. market.
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Along with Nevada, which approved online poker, and New Jersey and Delaware, where other casino gambling passed as well, four states have pending legislation.
"I think it will be a domino effect, " said Richard Bronson, a former casino executive who now owns a firm pushing for online-gambling legislation in statehouses.
With the U.S. casino industry making a hard push to pass federal online gambling legislation, it is no surprise that Donald Trump has plans to seize the Internet.
Speculation has been running high that Zynga would move into online gambling particularly with its Zynga Poker game and its recently announced Casino series of games.
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The Atlantic Club casino would serve as a beachhead for PokerStars to reenter the online U.S. market, which remains the single most lucrative online poker market in the world.
With billionaires and casino companies rushing to get ready for the potential of regulated online gambling in America, MGM Resorts on Monday announced an online poker alliance with Bwin.party digital entertainment, which owns PartyPoker, the second-biggest online poker service in the world, and the World Poker Tour.
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Unlike the plethora of other Massively Multiplayer Online games, however, Chumba World is tapping into the explosive growth of social casino gaming by letting users customize a full suite of games, and even build and manage their own casinos for real-world income.
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Billionaire casino moguls like Trump and Steve Wynn have not publicly shown any interest in online gambling until this year, leaving the U.S. online gambling market, the biggest in the world, for offshore companies that operated U.S. facing web sites despite the fact that the Justice Department said all forms of online gambling were illegal, which has been a hotly contested issue.
Zynga is also applying for a gaming licence in Nevada, home of Las Vegas, in order to offer players a new suite of casino-style games on which they can bet real money, in conjunction with the online gambling firm Bwin.
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