The first UFC event of the New Year is Saturday from the organization's Fight Island in Abu Dhabi.
Facebook fertile ground for online poker prospectors
If traffic on their own websites is dwindling, Facebook is clearly the market for online operators to tap into in order to attract new players
Ladbrokes mobile internet World Cup takings up 400%
Ladbrokes has already taken four times more bets via mobile internet on the 2010 World Cup than it did during the whole of Euro 2008
Vitruvian Partners seal Inspired Gaming deal
Inspired Gaming Group plc has been de-listed from the London Stock Exchange and bought out by Vitruvian Partners in a £75m deal
Cristiano Ronaldo announces birth of Ronaldinho
Portuguese footballer Ronaldo has sired a baby boy with a mystery American woman and announced sole custody of his new son and heir
Russia losing war with underground gambling
A year on from Russia's clampdown on internet and bricks and mortar casinos, the authorities are struggling to catch up with illegal gambling
World Cup coked up
Diego Maradona may have packed his bags and Adrian Mutu may not have even made it to South Africa but the World Cup is nonetheless full of cocaine
Bookies play Wimbledon weather sympathy card
Never mind the killing they are making on the World Cup, the bookies are claiming that the hot weather at Wimbledon has handed them a "hammering"
Australia takes Federal action on money laundering
In Australia orders are being drawn up to stop criminals laundering money through casinos and gambling venues