A report released by Juniper Research the mobile gambling market, which is currently worth $13 billion a year, will be worth around $100 billion a year by 2017. Already William Hill, Ladbrokes and Paddy Power have all seen a 40% increase in online sports-books customer placing bets from mobile devices. A quick look at some of the biggest gambling operators easily reveals how much focus they're placing on mobile gambling. All Slots Mobile has just launched an HTML5 platform for Apple devices which brings 11 of its most popular mobile slots and video poker games to the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

"Even as Apple's storefront plays host to an increasing number of casino apps, the company isn't taking a cut of sales from gambling in its apps, Tom Neumayr, a spokesman for Apple, said. Games are permitted in the App Store as long as they comply with local laws, said Neumayr, who declined to comment specifically on Big Fish. "Apple wants to keep arms' length from this," said Paul Thelen, CEO of Big Fish. "They don't want to be the middleman in a gambling operation.""

"I started playing at 6 p.m. on a Friday and found myself still going at 9 a.m. the next morning…But wait, I needed to get a job! Hold on I had just found one! The low buy-in tournament I entered with my promo money was coming to a close - and I was in second place! $1850! Not bad for a night's work. And so, that's how I entered the online poker world. Back in 2006 these sites had so much traffic and the U.S. market was so wide open that the sites would essentially just give players free money to get them to play on their site"

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that poker is more a game of skill than chance and cannot be prosecuted under a law created to stop organized crime families from making millions of dollars from gambling. The decision by Judge Jack Weinstein in Brooklyn was embraced by advocates of card games pushing to legalize Internet poker in the United States. The judge relied extensively on the findings of a defense expert who analyzed online poker games.

"Mobile casinos and the mobile gambling industry at large will continue to boom in the five years through to 2017, on the back of growth in online casinos, lotteries and betting, according to the latest research released by Juniper Research."

"PokerStars has signed Gerry Dee, a comedian best known for his role on CBC's Mr. D. Dee will be representing the PokerStars.net site, which is a free play option. Dee will be representing the poker room in special television commercials as well as during live poker tournaments. In the deal, PokerStars will also be the title sponsor of Dee's comedy tour titled The Gerry Dee Comedy Tour."

"The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Zynga is working hard to try and push online gambling in the United States. The company has spent as much as $75,000 to lobbying policy which would make online gambling legal in the US."

"While Zynga waits to make a move into the online gambling space, other Internet casinos are all in - and have been for more than a decade. This infographic shows how much the industry has grown since 1998, from online bingo and poker sites to national and state lotteries."

"A real-money gambling app has been launched on Facebook - the social network's first."

"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 bill, called the Internet Gambling Consumer Protection and Public-Private Partnership Act of 2012, would allow for $30 million licenses for gambling outfits with whom Zynga could potentially partner to offer online poker to players within California. The California legislation stalled earlier this year, but may yet be reprised."