The Canadian marital arts champ currently holds the Ultimate Fighting Championship Welterweight belt. As the global ambassador Pierrer will be found playing playing online poker at 888poker and participating in special promotions from which the proceeds of games will be donated to anti-bullying charities. Along with serving a good cause, 888 officials believe that Pierre will be able to strengthen brand awareness around the globe and introduce the 888 casino gambling world to the growing sports of Mixed Martial Arts and its fans.

MMA is an extremely popular sport features heavily at online sportsbooks. You can place bets on MMA events with all the top bookmakers including William Hill, bet365, TitanBet, Sports Interaction, and of course 888sports offering a variety of wagering options on tournaments. The latest bets will include St-Pierre’s upcoming fight to defend his UFC welterweight title.

The January 2012 revenues have shown to be just over 7% compared to the previous year. The ‘lack-luster’ figures were released by the State Division of Gaming Enforcement and they show that that the casinos tool in $237 million in January with slot machine revenue not budging from $165 million and table games dropping 20% to $72 million compared with the last year.

The warm climate of the East Coast has always been an attraction for gamblers to come to Atlantic City, but all the heavy completion from other rising gambling states like Pennsylvania has been taking a toll on the city’s revenues. Ironically, some of the poor results can be just simply be blamed on a run of bad luck! The casino hold percentage at the table games has been much lower than normal in Atlantic City this time around, which, on the other hand, means the players have been pretty lucky.

Until now Atlantic City remains the second largest gambling area in the United States with total gambling revenues of about $3.3 billion. But Pennsylvania is proving to be a strong contender with gambling revues totaling $3billion in 2011 after the expansion of table games and new casinos opening in the State. Looks like Pennsylvania is set to give Atlantic City a run for its money in the near future.

The Natchez board of directors this week voted on entering a half million dollar contract with the city of Natchez for fire protection services for people living outside of the city’s limits. The city has since increased this request by a further $50,000 with seemingly no rhyme or reason. Casino Gambling firm Premier Gaming, the company which is to manage the revolutionary growth and development of the Natchez Casino, is expected to pay a 30% royalty to the county on all takings.

The county is hoping that this money can be used for the purposes of fire protection. The real question however, is fairly simple. Why exactly should the casino pay money for fire protection, when it is surely residents who are responsible for their own safety? Can they not set up smoke alarms themselves?

John Penrose the UK tourism and heritage minister who is also responsible for the British gambling portfolio expressed that each member states individual rights on regulating online gambling at the nation level should be respected by the EU. He also added that in the UK light touch regulations are followed while member states like Poland and Portugal have conservative views about casino gambling which leads to stricter laws regarding gambling. He also spoke about how the religious background of a nation has a lot to do with the way gambling is viewed.

Protection of customer in online gambling was also an issue that Penrose brought to the table during the debate. He was also keen on voicing out his opinion on how unnecessary bureaucracy when it comes to regulating online gambling.

The event was part of the European Parliament’s “Responsible Gaming Day” activities and a report of the internet gambling composed by a German deputy Jurgen Creutzmann was one of the crucial events of the debate.

The casino gambling market that a casino focuses on has a lot to do with the success of their live dealer games. The two main online gambling markets that these online casinos have to focus on are Europe and Asia. Currently the largest market for online casino live dealer games is the UK and this can change once the US market offers online gambling and live dealer games. Many other countries like France, Greece and parts of Europe are slowly discovering live casinos.

It is expected that the US market will bring a massive change to live dealers. It is believed that the massive casinos of Las Vegas will join the live dealer casino list, once the regulations are in place.

It was Antigua that had brought to the notice of the World Trade Organization the violation of the agreement by the US when it shutdown online gambling in 2006. What the UK intends to do now is “phase out the so-called ‘white-list’ of online gaming regulatory jurisdictions”, according to Harold Lovell, Minister of Finance. He further stated that the UK intended to continue to work with Antigua and Barbuda and the other white listed jurisdictions in order to uphold their confidence and that Antigua and Barbuda would continue their efforts to create an approach that were based on the international best practices. The Minister is quite confident about the new rules that are being put in place and believe that it will generate a more stable environment for casino gambling.

The Saskatchewan Party government is being pushed by the Federation of Saskatchewan Nations to move forward on online gambling together with First Nations. FSN claims that there’s a loss of around Cdn$30 millions in revenues due to internet gambling outside the province. Therefore, the provincial government has promised to search for all possibilities to introduce internet gambling like in Quebec, British Columbia and Ontario, where it will happen next year.

The minister Ken Cheveldayoff, who is responsible for First Nations, Metis Relations and Saskatchewan Gaming Corporation said that the decline in the government projections and SIGA numbers shows a need to “revitalize” the gaming industry in the province with new and fresh machines and Internet gambling. He also added that the number of customers is the same but they spend less than they used to. He further commented: “Gaming is an industry that you totally have to be on top of at every opportunity and refresh games wherever necessary. We’ve got the whole idea of online gaming. We know that’s increasing and taking some market share. We’re going to have to look at that even closer.”

This announcement has played a positive role for the shares of Playtech as the market price is already rising. Now what does that mean for us online gamblers? Well, like every other contract between online gambling companies, this too is sure to bring better gambling opportunities for the online gambling community.

Now let us see what the contract is all about. As per reports this is a resolution between William Hill and Playtech on issues regarding William Hill online. This contract will also see to the improvement of certain areas for Gala Coral website, Gala Bingo website and Gala Casino website. Along with that it will also bring forth the migration of its platform to Playtech. When two names of reputation are joining forces, you just can’t wait to see what the outcome will be.

Online players as well as gaming operators across France are requesting for the increased liberalization of the gaming sector which means that the taxation laws will have to be restructured and necessary reforms will have to be made. The May 12 2010 Act did make provisions how ever players and operators are calling for bigger reforms.

Once the reforms come into effect it is expected that dividends will show in at least 18 months. But the French government seems to be unfazed by all these expectations because the Minister for Budget has rejected all the calls for reforms following the 2012 elections. Only time will tell how much progress will take place in terms of the liberalization of the French gaming industry.