After months of anticipation, controversy and desperate means to qualify, poker's greatest spectacle, the Main Event of the World Series of Poker, finally got underway. A day before US Independence Day, that’s July 3 people, Wayne "Mr. Vegas" Newton initiated the 39th annual event, along with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Marching Band, and then the chips and cards started to fly.

PartyGaming Plc, one of the largest listed online gambling companies in the world, has announced the launch of PartyMarkets.com—a new platform for financial spread-betting and contracts for difference (CFDs), formed through an exclusive alliance with City Index Group, a leader in derivatives trading.

888.com, one of the world’s largest online gambling companies, has announced a new strategic partnership with Sportech PLC, themselves a UK gambling powerhouse and operators of Littlewoods Pools. The move is said to represent a step in a new direction for 888’s operations.

Online gambling site, Absolute Poker has reported that its Bad Beat Jackpot was hit shortly after 9pm on Sunday evening, having climbed to less than $4,000 shy of $1 million. The record-breaking $996,115.28 jackpot is the largest bad beat jackpot ever won in online poker history.

Bingo is now not just for online gambling or punters that frequent bingo halls, Sky TV has just announced the launch of a new interactive bingo game that will allow users to play the bingo games they enjoy while watching TV at the same time.

June sees the launch of the Euro 2008 soccer tournament being hosted in Switzerland and Austria during the month of June. The world’s longest running online gambling site, Intertops.com, is offering a full range of odds and props for the games taking place.

Sarah Jackson from the UK is the latest person to win at online gambling site, Billionairio.com, a raffle-style numbers games. This €1,000 win could see her through to a grand prize of €1 billion.

What better way to verify the quality of a website than to have a bunch of MIT students test the platforms. That’s just what online gambling website, BackgammonMasters has done.

A top online gambling site, All Slots Casino, (part of the Jackpot Factory Group) will be holding a month long slots tournament that will end on April 30th.