Top Internet Casinos Promoting 'Responsible Gaming'

Ensure online gambling is fair, convention told
PokerGazette 05/19/06 13:41
Online casinos must unite to ban cheaters, restrict underage gamblers and ensure fair gaming if it wants to lose its shady reputation, a champion of industry standards said yesterday.Only then will the Internet gaming world gain the respect of gamblers who stay away, Andrew Beveridge, chief executive of watchdog eCOGRA argued at the online gambling convention at the Palais des congres."The entire industry is not pulling together to address these issues," Beveridge said. Only76 websites among hun

WPT says online gaming rev could overtake TV show
PokerGazette 02/15/06 21:51
LOS ANGELES, Feb 14 (Reuters) - WPT Enterprises Inc. (WPTE.O: Quote, Profile, Research), which created the TV show World Poker Tour and operates a gaming Web site, said its online gaming business could eventually overtake its TV show as its top revenue generator, its chief executive said on Tuesday.Steve Lipscomb said at the Reuters Hotels and Casinos Summit held in Los Angeles that WPTOnline, launched last year, is a fast-growing division but is unlikely to overtake the revenues generated by it

AGA viewpoint changes significantly to back egaming industry
PokerGazette 04/29/06 14:41
The threat of prohibitive legislation in the US receded further this week after it emerged that the American Gaming Association (AGA) had shifted its position on internet gambling.In a statement, AGA chief executive Frank Fahrenkopf said that following a meeting of the board, the board “now strongly supports the creation of a one-year Congressional study commission that would evaluate the impact of online gambling.”The statement acknowledged that million of Americans now gambled online and noted