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Antigua and Barbuda, which licenses Internet gambling companies, has waged a long battle in the WTO over U.S. efforts to keep Americans from patronizing offshore betting sites. Last week’s shutdown of the three biggest online poker sites has the Caribbean nation ready to go another round. It contends U.S. crackdowns against foreign betting sites are [...]

Update: Bloomberg reports Disney’s ESPN Drops Poker Programming After Websites Are Charged. “We are aware of the indictment only through what has been announced publicly,” Bristol, Connecticut-based ESPN said yesterday in an e-mailed statement. “For the immediate future, we are making efforts to remove related advertising and programming pending further review.” On Friday, 11 people, [...]

The owners and founders of the three largest online gambling sites in the United States have been indicted and charged with bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling offenses. New York prosecutors say they’ve issued restraining orders against more than 75 bank accounts in 14 countries used by the poker companies, which they say will [...]

Collaboration by two of the world’s most respected news organizations reveals how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. That’s because managers of the mostly-unregulated $18 billion Internet gambling industry failed to respond to their complaints. The results of the four-month investigation by 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft, [...]

According to pokerlistings.com, Kahnawake reserve near Montreal, home to about 400 online poker and sports-betting sites, including Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, is thought to have the third-largest number of gambling operators of any jurisdiction in the world. The Canadian federal government may be looking to quash online gambling sites based on the Kahnawake [...]