The Gibraltar-based online gambling group 32Red.com has launched a new, rummy-dedicated website, offering one of the widest selections of downloadable online rummy games on the Web, including the popular Gin Rummy, Oklahoma Rummy and many more.

The site offers full information on each game, including rules and strategies, with a visual demo to get players in the groove. The five different gamestyles available are Gin Rummy, Oklahoma Rummy, Kalooki 40, Kalooki 51, and Traditional Rummy.

The company is offering new player welcome bonuses on the site, which joins a 32Red stable that includes online casino, poker, spreadbetting, bingo and mobile gambling services.

Heading into Sunday morning, typically Gambling911.com experiences little in the way of any significant Web traffic.  After all, everyone is out partying into the wee hours of Sunday morning.  They sleep until 2 pm (i.e. Gambling911.com’s Jenny Woo) or they go to church.  Few people are ready to bet on a 2 pm EST game during the summer time.  But USA vs. Brazil is changing that mindset.

It’s the first time in a long time that the U.S. finds itself in a soccer final of this magnitude, against mighty Brazil no less.

Most of the bets are going USA’s way among the US-facing online sportsbooks. 

Traffic was already off the charts (at least by late Saturday evening standards) heading into Midnight.

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Ladbrokes The trading week has finally come to a close and it could not happen quick enough for Ladbrokes. The gaming company had their stock drop by almost four percent on Friday, closing the week down over $10 a share.

Ladbrokes entered trading on Friday at $185.25 a share. By the close of the day, the stock had dropped $7.25, or 3.91%, to $178. The stock started the trading week at $188.25, but fell steadily throughout the week.

William Hill suffered a similar fate. Their stock also dropped over $10 for the week, closing on Friday at $194.75. Read the full post …

In a revelation that has sent shockwaves through the online gambling sector of Antigua, news broke that the Caribbean nation’s top bank regulator had been paid $100,000 by Allen Stanford to conduct fake audits and mislead U.S. investigators, according to an indictment unsealed Friday.

"This will hurt Antigua’s reputation in the world of banking and online gambling," said Payton O’Brien, Senior Editor of the Gambling911.com website.  "For year’s Antigua was known as the first jurisdiction to license Internet gambling companies through fairly stringent terms and a rather large regulatory fee.  The nation also worked hard to erase its image as a haven for hiding monies offshore."

In recent years, Antigua has fought the US successfully through the World Trade Organization, which found that the United States violated International trade law through its prohibitive measures against online gambling. <

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