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PokerStars is the largest online poker cardroom in the world. PokerStars’ satellite tournaments produced the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, Chris Moneymaker. 1983 champion Tom McEvoy, 2005 champion Joe Hachem, 2009 champion Joe Cada and 2010 champion Jonathan Duhamel and others also represent the site and are also regular players. PokerStars is the headline [...]

PKR is an Alderney, UK-based website that allows users to play poker in a virtual reality setting. The site uses 3D graphics and player character animation during poker play. Each user’s character can be customized. The characters incorporate body language, expressions, chip tricks and poker tells to make the game more realistic. PKR was founded [...]

The company was founded by William Hill in 1934 at a time when gambling was illegal in Britain. It changed hands many times being acquired by Sears Holdings in 1971, then by Grand Metropolitan in 1988, then by Brent Walker in 1989. In September 1996 Brent Walker recouped £117m of the £685m it paid for [...]

The company was founded by Messrs Schwind and Pendleton in 1886 as commission agents for horses trained at Ladbroke Hall in Worcestershire. The name Ladbrokes was adopted in 1902 when one Arthur Bendir joined the partnership and operations were moved to London. Ladbrokes’ first London offices were situated in the vicinity of the Strand, later [...]

Centrebet originated from Alice Springs, Northern Territory and was the first bookmaker to be licensed in Australia in 1993 and the first bookmaker to go online in the Southern Hemisphere. Centrebet was acquired by its biggest domestic rival, the SportOdds Group in 2003 for the sum of AUD$46.55 million. In 2005, SportOdds merged its Centrebet, [...]

CarbonPoker is a major poker room that is part of the Australian based Merge Gaming Network. Carbon Poker was established in 2007 and its servers are based in Kahnawake, Canada and is regulated by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. It offers online poker games to players from around the world and as it is part of [...]

DoylesRoom is an online poker room founded in 2004. Originally on the Tribeca Poker Network (now part of the Playtech iPoker network), DoylesRoom moved to the Microgaming (Prima) Poker Network in 2007, then to the Cake Poker Network in January 2009, and most recently to the Yatahay Network in January 2011. Named for Doyle Brunson, [...]

888 is a company which operates several high-profile gambling websites. It was founded in 1997 and is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index. It has an operating subsidiary, Cassava Enterprises, which is incorporated and operates under the laws of Gibraltar. Brothers Avi and Aaron Shaked owned approximately fifty percent of the parent-company through family [...]

Unibet is an online gambling company that offers online poker, online casino, scratch cards, sports betting, live betting, bingo and soft games. The company is headquartered in Malta and owned by the Nordic OMX listed public company Unibet Group plc. The companys turnover in 2009 was GBP 138.3 million. Unibet is one of the largest [...]

The Company was founded by Mark Blandford in 1997. Sportingbet acquired Paradise Poker in October 2004. On 7 September 2006 SportingBet reported that its then chairman, Peter Dicks, was detained in New York City on a Louisiana warrant while traveling in the United States on business unrelated to online gaming. Louisiana is one of the [...]