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"Renowned online poker site PokerStars has just launched a new survey related to online casino gaming and sports betting. The survey might indicate the poker company's intention to expand into other areas of the online gambling market. Just recently, online poker site PokerStars has launched a new survey that was mailed to all of its online poker players. The survey asks poker players various questions related to online casino gaming and sports betting. One of the questions of the survey is whether or not the player in question was engaged in an online casino or online sports betting activity during the recent past. If the answer to this question was yes, then a list will appear from which the player will have to select the brands where he or she has been playing in the past. "

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PARLIAMENT yesterday unanimously voted through a controversial bill regulating gaming, which includes a ban on online casinos and exchange betting. Betting exchange is where players bet among themselves with the mediation of a company, which receives a commission from the transactions. The provision had been removed in committee but was resubmitted and pushed through by a respectable margin

FOUR out of every five problem gamblers in South Australia are addicted to pokies - despite the growth of online and sports betting. A profile of problem gamblers treated by the Flinders University School of Medicine shows less than 1 per cent said they had a problem gambling online but 83.9 per cent admitted to poker machine addiction. Flinders University Professor of Psychiatry Malcolm Battersby said experts did not know why a boom in sports betting and online gambling had not yet translated to an increase in problem gamblers.

"Big Fish Games Inc. is introducing a version of its gambling application Big Fish Casino with real-money betting in the U.K., where it is legal, the Seattle-based company said. It will arrive in Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s App Store in the coming weeks, and Betable Ltd., a London-based partner of Big Fish, will process bets in the program."

The answer to the question posed in the title of today's hearing - "Is There a Safe Bet?"- is a clear yes. That safe bet can be found in the licensing and regulation of online poker. The risky bet would be to leave unchanged current law that leaves consumers, minors and those with gambling problems vulnerable to unregulated offshore companies.

AUSTRALIANS could get access to legal online poker tournaments and a wider choice of online sports betting options under proposals to liberalise the internet gambling sector

Strip casino giant MGM Resorts International isn't planning to open more multibillion-dollar integrated casino-resort complexes anytime soon. Instead, MGM Resorts will in June launch myVegas, a free-to-play social gaming casino where only virtual money is bet to win only virtual prizes. Think of Farmville meets Bellagio.

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- Go ahead. - [Narrating] I just got top two pair on the flop,            and I want to keep him in the hand.            Against your average guy, I'd set a bear trap, hardly bet at all.            Let him walk into it. But KGB's too smart for that.            So, what I've got to do is over-bet the pot,            make it look like I'm trying to buy it.

"Social game developers have all the ingredients that the gambling guys are missing," Mr Griffin said. "They have good user experiences. They have a huge install base of a billion players, but they don't have access to monetisation." Betable has not announced any specific contracts, but said the platform could be used by the popular Facebook or social games like Zynga's Farmville.

"Strood woman Collette Smith's marriage in tatters by racking up £16k debt in husband's name after going on online betting binge "

"But one of the more intriguing use cases for Big Data involves the gambling industry, a sector that's so reliant on number crunching and intelligent prediction that it's been left with little choice to grab a hold of its masses of data and exploit it to the max."

Boosted by growth in the UK and other key markets, mobile gambling is going to devour a bigger slice of the gambling pie by 2017 According to a new report from Juniper Research the value of mobile gambling could reach $100 billion by 2017. Growth will largely be fuelled by an expansion in mobile lottery games in certain international markets and an increase in sports betting and social gaming in the UK. http://www.jackpotcity.co.uk/mobile-casino/ already offers a mobile site complete with all its casino games. It is looking to make its mobile play even more socially minded in the future as are other major players in the gaming industry. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/05/4884031/mobile-gambling-predicted-to-reach.html#storylink=cpy