Dave Zamzack

Veteran heavy metal band Motorhead is making the final preparations for its new 24 date North American Tour set to kick off on August 28th in Minneapolis, Minnesota and continuing until October 9th at the House of Blues Las Vegas.

Kerry King, member of the legendary thrash metal band Slayer and famous freestyle motocross and X Games medalist, Mike Metzger, will get together in Las Vegas on next weekend to sign autographs at the Jägermeister pit area during the AMA Supercross event scheduled to take place at Sam Boyd Stadium on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009.

Online sportsbetting site Sportsbook.com, has launched an extraordinary NCAA bracket contest paying $12 million prize to any player who correctly predicts every winning team in the Bracket and scores a perfect 192 points.

While the US has launched a witch hunt and legal crusade to ban all forms of online gambling, spending millions of dollars in preventing its citizens from using, operating or dealing with online gaming sites, dozens of other countries have successfully applied measures to legalize, regulate and generate tax revenue from this activities.

Online poker room, TitanPoker.com announced today the launching of Club Titan, a new and innovative reward program exclusively created to recompense all its poker players regardless of their skill level and time invested.

BodogLife Casino's Jackpot Piñata Slot has recently reached the $1 million dollar mark, positioning itself as one of the biggest Online Progressive Jackpots available to online casino players, including U.S residents.

The Palazzo and The Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas will welcome the 2009 in style with a series of special New Year's Eve festivities at LAVO, Sportsbook Bar & Grill, Dos Caminos, SUSHISAMBA, Salute Lounge, The Concierge Lounge, TAO, La Notte, La Scena, Venetian Ballroom and V Bar.

Everything is ready for the Party Poker Premier League season 3 and the tournament’s line up is finally complete. The event, which will take place in London from November 24^th to 30^th, has recently filled the remaining 3 seats with the addition of Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Ultimate Bet’s poker Brat and WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth and the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Peter Eastgate.

Full Tilt Poker and the Poker Players Alliance have been pushing insistently, asking the online poker community and players in general to contact their Senate and Congress representatives and urge them to stop any actions that would allow the government to enforce the ban.

Only a few days ago, the online gaming company and online casino software developer, Microgaming, announced that it was going to stop providing its service in 13^th states inside the U.S. Last week, the company also announced the implementation of a new rule in where residents of any states bordering Kentucky are needed to send proof of residence to keep their accounts from being blocked. Unfortunately, it seems that things are getting tighter for U.S players and now, several gaming companies and online casino affiliates associated with Microgaming have extended the banning from 13 states to the whole American Union.

This holiday season, the Las Vegas rock station Xtreme 107.5 will host its famous Holiday Havoc ‘08 annual rock concert event at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on December 19^th, 2008 7:00 pm.

A Kentucky judge has ruled today that 141 online gambling domain names will be turned over to the commonwealth of Kentucky on November 17^th unless the real owners of the seized domains show up in a Frankfort, Kentucky circuit court to show that their websites restrict and block residents of the state of Kentucky.

Michael Martin has become the second U.S player to achieve a major victory in the European Poker circuit after John Juanda’s stunning performance at the WSOPE in London, England, winning the fifth PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London Open and a record £1,000,000 first prize ($1.960.000.)

The 2008 World Series of Poker Europe has crowned a champ; the £10,000 ($18,400) No Limit Main event is finally over and for the first time that an American player has taken the continental title since the WSOP was introduced in Europe.

EverestPoker.com exclusive "Live the Dream" promo has given the chance to more than 10 players from all across Europe to play at some of the most important poker tournaments in the world under EverstPoker exclusive sponsorship.

ARIA, the resort casino at CityCenter project on the Las Vegas Strip, has assembled a spectacular team of chefs and restaurateurs to run its culinary scene.

For the first time in about two years, the Las Vegas oddmakers have listed the New England Patriots as the underdog for the upcoming game vs. the Jets.

Hollywood Poker has announced that its biggest monthly tournament, The Grand, will return to this month with $1.000.000 in prizes.

Most of the Las Vegas casinos and sportsbooks quickly pulled all of the Jets' betting lines off the board just a few minutes after the deal was revealed to the media.

The Olympic Games are only a few days from starting and the entire sportsbetting industry is already prepared for a couple weeks of intense betting action.

Moneybookers is a popular funding method used in dozens of online poker sites, sportsbooks and casinos and represents a great advantage for all online casino players looking for the safest way to deposit money online.

Fans of rare and collector car from around the world will gather in Las Vegas from October 15^th to the 18^th for the Barrett Jackson Auction Company at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino for the first time since the auction was created in 1971.

The 2008 World Series of Poker continued on Day 6 with a series of notable eliminations including Phil Hellmuth, UltimateBet’s poker brat and probably one of the most bigheaded players ever seen on the WSOP.

Full Tilt Poker has announced the schedule for the Full Tilt Online Poker Series IX, which will be running from August 6^th to August 17^th, 2008.

The WSOP organizers have announced that the top prize at the 2008 World Series of Poker main event will be $9.12 million, the second biggest in the history of the WSOP.