Ladbrokes’ employees with more than a year's experience will receive free shares in the company after the bookmaker recently announced that it had boosted profits in the first four months of 2006 by 5%.

In casinos everything is designed to encourage players to stay gambling as much as possible. The objective, according to psychiatrists, is to create a state of trance in the players. If you’ve been to a casino in Las Vegas, you have surely seen it: the lights, the music, the absence of clocks, the position of slot machines or roulettes.

Months ago, the actor had embarked on a very ambitious project: building a casino in Las Vegas. Now, the news about Clooney’s would-be casino have drastically changed. His plan for a super casino, elegantly designed with an old Las Vegas style, has finally been dropped.

Betmaker.com has released its first online casino and sportsbook in Spanish, just on time for the sport event that is exciting everybody: the FIFA World Cup.

Despite being a new building, just 12 or 13 years old, the Grand’s Island View Hotel & Casino was recently demolished. Its architecture and design were nothing special, they represented Biloxi’s casino past, before Katrina destroyed most of the area.

A Kentucky man who lost $75,000 at the Caesars Indiana Casino has filed a lawsuit against the casino because he claims he was drunk when he accepted the credit line. “They kept serving me till I was totally intoxicated”, Jimmy L. Vance said. Mr. Vance explained he doesn’t even remember losing the money.

Representatives from the Judiciary of the United States approved recently a draft of a law designed to prohibit any kind of online game that includes money gambling. The law is known as “Law of Gambling prohibition on Internet”.

Gamblers from all over the world are betting big amounts of money through the Internet, trying to guess the results of the next presidential elections that will take place in Mexico this year.

Trump Entertainment Resorts’ CEO described a renovation plan for their three old casinos. Last week, the executive declared in a press conference in Las Vegas that the company will try to capitalize the different styles of each of them in order to attract a great number of players and bring their trademarks back lo life.

The development of the online casino industry is becoming more and more important every day. Gambling and gaming have already turned into the fifth investors in the online advertising industry. Besides, 39% of these ads are published in general interest and leisure portals.