The French online gambling group Mangas Gaming’s Bet-at-Home internet casino and sports betting subsidiary reports that its Q1/2010 gross earnings have reached €13.8 million, a 35% rise on the comparable period in 2009.

Profit before tax rose 38% to €2.6 million while it held assets worth €25.4 million at the end of March, an 18% year-on-year increase.

Management revealed that turnover was up by just over 76% year-on-year to €314.5 million with gross gaming revenues growing by 54% compared to the first quarter of 2009 to €13.8 million.

“With increased marketing expenses of €6.7 million in the first quarter of 2010, a rise of 8.9% in comparison to first quarter of 2009, a further strengthening of the Bet-At-Home.com brand has been reached in many European countries, with the number of registered users reaching 1.9 million,” Management reported.

“Due to excellent revenue development, EBITDA significantly increased from €250,000 for the first quarter of 2009 to €2.61 million for the first quarter of 2010.”

The Pittsburgh Steelers opened up training camp on Saturday with a lot of uncertainties at quarterback heading into the 2010 NFL season. One thing is for sure though, they will be without their stating signal caller Ben Roethlisberger for possibly up to six games to begin the year. That leaves Byron Leftwich and Dennis Dixon to lead a team that finished 9-7 a year ago.

Despite missing all of spring and serving a suspension to begin the season, Roethlisberger played with the first string on the opening day of camp. Head coach Mike Tomlin warned that he will not be locked in with a set rotation at quarterback this summer.

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888.com Casino is giving away free scratch cards with guaranteed money prizes for all new UK players to celebrate the launch of the fresh 888 casino brand. All UK players receive this card on sign up and can use it to claim cash prizes of up to £1,000.

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UK casino aficionados might have seen the 888.com Casino commercials of the so-called Every Card Wins promotion on British television stations over the past weeks. The Every Card Wins campaign has already kicked off and will last until the 4^th of August.

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Until this date all new UK registrants at 888.com Casino will receive the scratch card and can win prizes starting from £5 all the way up to £1,000.

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 This is a guide to teach gamblers how to play online casinos. For years we have brought you the best down-to-earth casino and gambling guides, but it appears we have overlooked one of the most important – namely "how to play online casinos". Below you will have the necessary steps to begin playing the online casino of your choice.

 How to play online casinos – Step 1: Find the online casino
 To many, this may appear to be a trivial step, but actually is one of the most important decisions you will make in your quest to entertain yourself gambling on the web. Many people make the mistake to simply do a search for online casino and pick the first one that they come across.

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Citing other pressing issues including the current economic crisis, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has opted to back out of a lawsuit that promises to bring millions of dollars in revenue to the state.

But Gambling911.com saw this coming from miles away with New Jersey being rewarded the Super Bowl in 2014 as the NFL is dead set against any state legalization of sports betting, especially the online kind that NJ is proposing.  The NFL in fact aggressively went after the state of Delaware late last year in order to prevent it from taking bets on NFL games. 

New Jersey state lawmakers insist that the successful bid to land the 2014 Super Bowl in the state will not derail their efforts to bring legalized sports betting to NJ citizens. 

State Senator Raymond Lesniak (D) said at the time of the Super Bowl announcement: "I’ve continued to ask the governor to sign on. It

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Online gambling is apparently high on the agenda of Eastern European nations Romania and Moldova, primarily to generate tax revenues for the state, reports the publication Mediafax.

In Romania, Finance Ministry secretary of state Bogdan Dragoi, told Mediafax that online gambling might be regulated and authorised as a way to attract considerable sums of money to the national budget. The Finance Minister indicated that he wants to have an investigation carried out in a market where it is estimated that Romanians wager up to €500 million on online gambling sites.

The minister revealed that last year Romania amended the law regulating traditional gambling and increased gambling authorisation taxes, which triggered revenues totaling 550 million lei (€1=RON4.1756), compared to 120 million in 2008.

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12 hours and just over 4 levels of play concluded Day 1B of the $10,000 buy-in Main Event at the 41st World Series of Poker Tuesday night.

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Monday afternoon saw the start of the first heat of the 41st World Series of Poker Main Event kick off as 1,125 entrants for Day 1a action assembled at the Rio in Las Vegas. There will be three other Day 1′s as the field is reduced through to two Day 2′s and then the survivors are consolidated into one highly competitive field in Day 3.

Former WSOP Main Event champ Greg Raymer was given the honour of making the first ‘shuffle up and deal’ call, which he did with minimum fuss, saying simply: “We’re not gonna waste any time here. Let’s shuffle up and deal!”

Famous face spotters reported seeing a slew of big names around the tables on this first day of event 57, among them former WSOP main event champion Chris Moneymaker, Scott Seiver, Greg Mueller, Lee Watkinson, Chino Rheem.

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Thailand has joined other Asian states such as China, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia in cracking down hard on the rising tide of internet betting as the football World Cup in South Africa reaches the final eight teams.

Police spokesmen report that more than 1,100 punters in Bangkok have been arrested in a series of drives against illegal football gambling since the World Cup began on June 11.

Over three weeks, police have also arrested 27 illegal bookmakers and 29 punt runners in addition to 1,156 punters, who made bets totalling Bt 3,434,960.

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USA Loses To Ghana It was supposed to be a joyous day for online sports gamblers who predicted the US would beat Ghana and move on to the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup. Instead, these bettors ended up disappointed.

When Asamoah Gyan scored the golden goal in the first overtime of the USA vs. Ghana match, millions of dollars went down the drain for those who bet on the US. The Americans were favored at sports books around the world, but they were unable to deliver a win.

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