HeadsUp Entertainment (the company behind the Canadian Poker Tour) has signed a sponsorship agreement with Poker Tax Rebate, a tax recovery firm. The new deal is expected to form a fruitful business relationship, but is also meant to benefit Canadian poker players. In Canada, poker players are not required to pay taxes on their winnings,…
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Hot on the heels of the Black Friday crackdown, Canadian poker brand HeadsUp Entertainment is launching a new poker championship series. To give displaced Canadian players an outlet for their poker needs, the new Poker Championship in Canada is expected to be an exciting, high-energy event for poker-playing Canucks. Satellites for the poker championship will…
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Recently, Canadian gaming commissions have met with a great deal of controversy, failing to keep problem gamblers involved in self-exclusion programs out of casinos. Now, casinos across Canada are using facial recognition technology in order to aid problem gamblers in their fight to overcome their addictions. By the end of 2011, The Ontario Lottery and…
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After a disappointing performance in the Women’s World Cup tournament, the Canadian soccer team has fallen to #8 in the worldwide in the FIFA women’s world rankings. Canada will host the tournament in 2015, but failed to impress spectactors after making a first-round exit, losing to Germany. Our neighbours to the South still rank highly…
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In the most recent issue Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Howard J Schaffer of Harvard Medical School has set out to disprove popular myths about the online gambling market. While many states have bolstered their arguments against online gambling with claims that it encourages gambling addiction, Schaffer disagrees. In his article “Disordered Gambling: Etiology, Trajectory…
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The District of Columbia was coming cloe to being the first American state to legalize online gambling but, as expected, a wrench has been thrown in its plans. The state’s plan was to launch pay-for-play online gambling by this Fall, but it has just been announced that it has been delayed ‘indefinitely’. Originally, the state…
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The digital climate changes rapidly, and with each new month a shift occurs in the mobile and online gaming realm. A new development sees an increasing number of smartphone users downloading digital media like online games, outnumber the rate of online users that do the same. According to Magid Media Futures: Mobile 2011, smartphone users…
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Bodog is one of the most popular online betting companies in the Western world, and now the brand is coming to Europe, after being granted a license from the UK's Gambling Commission. It will be three months before the new UK-facing website will be up and running, and the wheels have been set in motion…
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The United Kingdom has been known to have steep online gambling taxes, forcing many formerly UK-based companies to relocate to offshore locations. A loophole in the UK's laws allow for offshore operators to operate in the country without paying any additional taxes, but that could change when the UK's gambling reform takes place. After the…
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With rumours circulating that Full Tilt Poker has been bought by a European investor, online poker players are considering going back to play at tarnished poker website. According a new study, players have stated that if Full Tilt Poker were to resume operations, they would return to play. Of over 1200 respondants, 21% stated that…
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