Most gaming people are already aware of this move, but any opportunity you have to say the name Dikshit you have to take it… Hey Dikshit! Nice move Dikshit! Hope you don’t regret it Dikshit! Dikshit! Dikshit! Read more.

Mike Sexton: poker legendMike Sexton, who was instrumental in the rise to prominence of Party Poker, has been inducted into the poker hall of fame. He’s also had more than a gambling tale or two to tell, as Linda Johnson tell us. Read more.

Even more exciting than Jenny Woo’s “To Do” list, Card Player has released the top 10 most talked about poker stories of 2010. Find out why Party Gaming’s purchase of WPT, Joe Cada’s WSOP main event championship, and the UIGEA delay made the list. Read More: Part one, Part two.

Champ-ing at the bitParty Gaming’s World Poker Tour is returning to France for one of its premier annual European tour stops, the WPT Grand Prix de Paris. The French have been off the circuit for the last four years but will be back with a bang in May, at the world famous Aviation Club de France on the Champs-Elysées. Je t’aime. Moi non plus and so on, etc. Read more.

Party Gaming and Bwin are refusing to feed into the gossip surrounding their possible merger. While everyone’s trying to figure out what’s going on, their reps won’t even confirm that the two operators were in merger talks. Fair enough but come on, throw us a bone here. Gossip is only so exciting when you need to make half of it up. Read more…

Italy is a buoyant marketPartyGaming have struck a three-year deal with the Italian gambling operator Fueps to strengthen their online poker hand. Read more.

William Hill are looking set to finish the year on a high, as it has regained its standing as leading bookmaker in the UK. For a long time this year Ladbrokes was top dog with a stock price at over 244.80 a share. Since then though the bottom has fallen out and the Magic Sign is now valued at a distinctly unmagical 131 a share. Hills meanwhile is flying high at 180, although Party Gaming is looking very healthy indeed – just in time for a swoop on the US market – they hope. Read more here William Hill are set fair for the year .

Online poker is floundering in UK Friday’s extraordinary decision by the American authorities to hang fire on banning internet gambling is not just a huge shot in the arm for gaming companies in the US, but also those in the United Kingdom. After years of continual growth in the UK, figures emerged recently revealing that online poker peaked last year and is beginning to take a turn for the worse. A study by market research company Mintel revealed that between 2004 and 2007 the market mushroomed by 72% yielding gross (actually they were quite nice, thank you) returns of £265m. But the research...

Will online poker be back in the US soon? The decision by the US government to delay the ban on gambling is a huge decision for the ‘Land of the Free’ although most investors have taken the Winston Wolfe approach to the decision for the time being. That said, there are one or two companies who are rubbing their hands at the prospect of internet gambling returning to America; namely Zynga Inc and Party Gaming… Read More