Samvo Group Steps Up to the Online Poker Challenge
PR.com (press release)
Samvo Group along with PurpleGob.com have acquired new specialist marketing and promotions tools to take on the online poker industry. London, United Kingdom, May 18, 2012 –(PR.com)– Samvo.com hosts its poker room on the highly respected Microgaming …

Gate To Wire Enters Into an Agreement to Acquire a Poker Company
MarketWatch (press release)
The Company's poker management team will be led by Herb Van Dyke, an experience poker room and casino operator with over 35 years of experience in the casino gaming and poker industries. "This is an exciting opportunity for G2W and we look forward to …

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Poker Hall of Fame Members Part Fourteen
Yahoo! Sports
He is famous for bringing class to poker and becoming the youngest (at the time) WSOP world champion, which occurred in 1978. Baldwin is also known as a billiards player and casino executive. He first entered the casino industry as a consultant in 1982 …

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Samvo Group Steps Up to the Online Poker Challenge
PR.com (press release)
Samvo Group along with PurpleGob.com have acquired new specialist marketing and promotions tools to take on the online poker industry. London, United Kingdom, May 18, 2012 –(PR.com)– Samvo.com hosts its poker room on the highly respected Microgaming …

AFL to help clubs sell off poker machines
Sydney Morning Herald
AAP The AFL wants to help clubs rid themselves of their links to poker machines. The AFL is seeking consortiums to buy the poker machines and take over the leases, Nine's The Footy Show reported on Thursday night. AFL chief Andrew Demetriou revealed …

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Social gaming to gambling: states inch forward
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It feels like an eternity that the casino industry and makers of games like Zynga Poker have been waiting for states to flip a legal switch that will let them turn virtual gaming into real gambling. The legal logjam could finally break in coming months …

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TV stations turn back on anti-pokies ad
Ninemsn
The GetUp ad features a woman shopping in a supermarket paying for groceries at a cash register that becomes a poker machine. The ad satirises the Woolworths' fresh food people slogan – "We are the pokies people." The advertisement calls for $1 maximum …

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Macau Poker Cup: Another visit in the Grand Waldo from June 9
Poker 777
Place that marked the development of the Asian poker industry, the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino will have the privilege of hosting a stage of the Macau Poker Cup 2012 during the Red Dragon tournament, a series to be held from June 9 to 18.

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TV stations turn back on anti-pokies ad
Business Spectator
The GetUp ad features a woman shopping in a supermarket paying for groceries at a cash register that becomes a poker machine. The ad satirises the Woolworths' fresh food people slogan – "We are the pokies people." The advertisement calls for $1 maximum …

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GetUp! anti-supermarket pokies ad refused airtime by TV networks
MuMbrella
Australia's major TV networks have refused to run a crowd-funded ad by activist group GetUp! that attacks supermarket big boys Woolworths and Coles for, the ad claims, owning “more dangerous poker machines than the five largest Las Vegas casinos”.

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