Campbell, 53, allegedly attacked his wife Olga Pleguezuelos, while she was sleeping, after reading a text message on her phone that her lover has sent.

Pleguezuelos was reported dead last year after police found her lifeless body in her London home. The trial of Campbell in the case is currently underway.

The prosecutions arguments lie with Pleguezuelos waking up in the middle of the attack and attempted to defend herself against her husband. Campbell then proceeded to stab his wife to death. Prior to calling an ambulance, Campbell has slit his own wrists.

A week prior to the murder, Pleguezuelos had reportedly told her husband that she would be leaving him and moving to Las Vegas, where with her new man and new job she would be “starting afresh”.

The prosecutor stated that there was “nothing sudden or temporarily about it; that one could see from his own writings recovered from a bin, that he has been rationalising this situation for a while”.

Proceedings in the trial continue.

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The software developer has taken up arbitration proceedings opposing the comic designers. The reasoning behind their actions is stated due to Marvel apparently breaching their provisions as stated in the licensing agreement.

The partnership that began in 2005 between these two power-house brands was set to continue ‘til 2013 with Cryptologic holding exclusive licensing rights that would have let them use any of the Marvel-inspired superheroes as characters and themes for a collection of their slot games. To date, 17 various slot machines have used many characters including Spiderman, Blade, the Hulk and more.

However, in 2009, another deal was signed between marvel subsidiary (Marvel B.V) and PlayTech, which is in direct competition with Cryptologic.

In recent reports, it was said that Cryptologic had attempted to resolve the issues with marvel away from the courts but found themselves faced with an uncooperative Marvel. The software developer sees this legal action as a final resort in order to protect their licensing rights.

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Nominations for the awards can be made up until 10 April 2010; eleven days thereafter, the announcement of the official ballot will be made.

All potential female nominees are required to be an active poker player for more than 15 years as well as contributed to the poker industry in a meaningful manner.

2010 also marks a new nominating arrangement which sees candidates having to be a proponent of the women’s game of poker. Regardless of whether the candidate players are not, she only has to show her support. This year, the general public and not only members will have the opportunity to vote.

Upon completion of the final ballot of names, the voting process will also be open to the public. Public vote will count for about half the final determination, with members of the Poker Hall of Fame and enshrined members counting for the other half.

The final winners and newest inductees into the Hall of Fame will be announced on 3 September 2010 at a popular Las Vegas casino venue. Jan Fisher will also be on hand for the grand event as the Master of Ceremonies for the night.

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The UK National Lottery has just release a list of all of the first names which have proven the most common lucky winning recipients of the lottery.

These results come hot off the heels of the most recent winner claiming $35 million.

The most common male names who have won more than $50k are:

• John
• David
• Michael
• Peter
• Robert
• James
• Paul
• William
• Stephan

The most common female winners are:

• Margaret
• Susan
• Patricia
• Christine
• Elizabeth
• Jean
• Janet
• Linda
• Karen

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Police are currently investigating the death of Kenneth Weitzner, the founder of ThePrescription.com (therx.com); the company he sold eight years ago for more than $2 million. This followed with the inception of the online casino portal EOG.com (Eye on Gambling) which he founded. He was also a frequent punter of big sports books within Las Vegas; he was also a good friend of one of the states betting sharks, Billy Walters.

Initial investigations have revealed that both Kenneth as well as Jackie, his wife had committed a double suicide. Police officials have however also stated that the exact cause of the deaths had not been established, with investigations into the deaths still an ongoing process.

Rumours have circulated in various casino communities that Kenneth owed many people quite a bit of cash. The cause of this debt could possibility be due to gambling, but it is still up for debate as to why Jackie would have been considered a target.

As mentioned, Kenneth is the latest casino owner to be found dead. Andreas Oscarsson, the founder of pokerlistings.com was found murdered less than a year ago. It has been noted that Andreas had received a death threat due to the testimony he gave in the trial of a man attempting to extort over $2 million from him.

The news of Kenneth’s death is set to create a lot of buzz within gambling circles, and until police finalise their investigation into the couple’s deaths, the interest in the case is sure to continue.

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In a post dated on the 11^th of April 2010, Warne tweeted about how his followers on the social network site could receive $8 free poker money with a link to the 888 poker website.

Warne has had a partnership with 888 for a number of years now and has become a popular face of the brand and the gambling industry as a whole.

Criticism has been placed heavily on Warne in terms of the fact that he has a huge 47,000 followers on his Twitter account – some of which are presumably minors. Concerns by some reiterated the influential nature sporting figures have over children, and that it should not be forgotten that children are bound to read a lot of what is put on the internet and in public domains.

The tweet will unlikely cause to much of a headache for 888, but it does bring about the important point that although online gambling is indeed safe and secure, and will deny access by underage people, there are a small group of people still concerned with the nature of gambling online; that see it as negative.

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The 708-strong competitor list took their seats at the Burlington Hotel for a jam-packed poker competition.

Familiar faces from previous competitors were also present, which included last year’s winner Christer Johansson, as well as Neil Channing, Dan Harrington and Brian Townsend.

With a €600,000 first place prize up for grabs, players and spectators alike were on the edge of their seats throughout the four-day long competition to see who would walk away victorious.

The final consisted of nine finalists, and each one of them brought their individual flare to the poker table, as they vied it out for top honours. Among the nine finalists, Ben Roberts, a veteran cash game player made his mark straight away, but hot young player James Mitchell did not lag far behind.

James Mitchell, the Black Belt Poker protégé of Neil Channing, the former Irish Open champion proved to hold the superior chip lead by the start of the final table.

During the course of the heads-up battle with Paul Carr, Carr began with the upper hand forcing Mitchell to go all-in while trailing with pocket queens against A-6. Mitchell’s luck changed when and ace on the river saved him and began his turn around. Mitchell had eventually caught out the bluff of Carr and capture the title.

Mitchell was visibly overwhelmed by his win and thanked everyone in the crowd for their great support throughout the tournament. This win is Mitchell’s largest live poker win so far.

Together with Mitchell, eight other players reached the final and walked away win big cash rewards, the list of winners were as follows:

1^st place: James Mitchell (€600,000)

2^nd place: Paul Carr (€312,600)

3^rd Place: Santeri Valikoski (€205,200)

4^th place: Rob Sherwood (€163,300)

5^th place: Ben Roberts (€130,600)

6^th place: Edmund Sweeny (€100,800)

7^th place: Declan Connolly (€75,000)

8^th place: Peter Murphy (€56,300)

9^th place: Yann Dion (€37,700)

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A recent investigation conducted by the BBC World Service using telephone recordings revealed just how serious the situation actually is. The extent to which match fixers were willing to go in order to take control over matches was tremendous, even resorting to drugging players to get the results they were after. These results they were after saw as many as 200 football games being fixed.

Further insight into the world of match fixing thanks to these tape recordings, revealed that match fixers actually set out and usually targeted the weak or vulnerable player.

Although efforts are in place to combat this growing problem, match fixing is still very much on the rise; and with the World Cup just around the corner, one can only imagine how match fixers will try and use this football spectacular to their advantage in some way.

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With the popularity of the Mac-attack taking over, there has been an abundance of new ways to include to Mac user into the online casino mainframe.

It may seem like a slow process, but online casino operators are continually making the move to include No-Download casino options together with the download casino versions as a way to include the Mac users. Flash technology is used with No-Download casino software, which means that all the games are based on the individual’s browser instead of any software download requirements.

Due to this transition still being in the beginning stages, the possible games selection that Mac users are given is not as expansive as the selection PC users can expect to find. But, in terms of Instant Play casino games, casino operators have taken the time to include only the best game options; the games that have proved themselves the most popular and the highest paying games.

As a Mac product, the iPhone is also proving a popular product to play casino games from within the mobile option. This is done so using Java development software. Through Java software, mobile phones can access all casino games in virtually all operating systems.

In the not-too-distant future, Mac-users will be able to take part and experience a wider selection of games, but alas, until such time, casino operators seem very committed to offering Mac-users compatible software that allows then great 24/7 gaming.

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The cold has just sped up the process of gamblers leaning more in the direction of online casinos, but the trend to play online had already gradually begun long before this. Players have seen the benefits of playing online in the light of it proving a cheaper option and less hazardous, as no driving in terrible conditions is required.

One such casino feeling the effects of the online casino surge is Borgata, who are expected to lose as much as $10 million in revenue due in part to the brutal winter conditions.

The bad weather is set to continue in certain parts of the North East, which proves a bad sign for brick and mortar casinos in the Atlantic City area.

Recent surveys have stated that snow and torrential weather patterns does indeed lead to an increase in players choosing to play online. When the weather patterns do begin to change, land-based casinos do then have to worry about whether the players they have lost to their online counterparts during that time, choose to continue playing online or decide to venture out from the comfort of home and frequent their casinos again?

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