Morning Brief: It All Helps

11 September 2008

By Christopher A. Krafcik

PartyGaming, the Gibraltar operator, has done a deal with Evolution Gaming of London for a live-dealer service covering baccarat, roulette and blackjack. The service will be offered via Party's casino arm, PartyCasino.com.

"Good addition to the stable," Andrew P. Lee, an analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort in London, told IGamingNews by telephone this morning. "I'm not going to start changing my numbers about it -- but it all helps."

More on Party and rumors surrounding the appointment of InterCasino's Jon Salmon as marketing director later today.

Rob van der Gaast, a Dutch freelance journalist in Turkey, has done a Q&A with Selcuk Senguler, a gaming law expert in Turkey, who discusses the Internet Crimes Law, the imminent privatization of the country's national lottery and more.

More on this later today.

On the IGN blog (http://blog.igamingnews.com) today, we're running a piece covering the mixed messages about the "unlevel playing field" in Internet gambling -- is the playing field so unlevel after all?

IGN's Take: While United States-facing sites -- fairly or unfairly -- do take marketing bucks from America and spend them in Europe, there does seem to be an upside for non-United-States-facing companies: affiliate deals as well as b-to-b deals with major land-based clients looking for a highly regulated and compliance-minded partner.

With a new superseding indictment, has the United States government strengthened its case against the defendants in the BetonSports case? IGN's Emily D. Swoboda reports later today.

Morning Brief: It All Helps is republished from iGamingNews.com.