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As reported by IGamingBusiness: “In America, professional poker player Doyle ‘Texas Dolly’ Brunson has criticized the recent decision by PartyPoker.com co-founder Anurag Dikshit to plead guilty to violations of the Wire Act in Federal Court as it applied to online poker rooms and casino.

“…India-born Dikshit created the software platform for the Gibraltar-based online gambling operator in 1997 and remains its largest shareholder with 28 percent. He plead guilty two weeks ago in the Southern District New York to violations of the 1961 Wire Act and agreed to pay $300 million in fines and assist authorities with their ongoing investigations.

“…’One thing for sure, Anurag Dikshit is appropriately named,’ Brunson wrote on his blog at DoylesRoom.com.

“‘Dikshit was one of the owners of PartyPoker.com and became a multi-billionaire when Party went public. It looks like he would feel a sense of obligation to online poker, the industry that made him a rich man. Instead, he folded up like an accordion and plead guilty to breaking some kind of mystery law and is paying a $300 million dollar fine and a possible two-year jail term.

“‘It certainly created some ill will from the other online poker sites. I personally can’t imagine what was going through his mind when he made his decision…’”  Brunson has pretty much been a class act, so for him to say these sort of things is really out-of-character.

PartyGaming is preparing to announce a $300 million settlement with US authorities in relation to its online poker activities prior to the 2006 ban. A number of founder members of PartyGaming are also being prosecuted by the authorities and while the company itself has issued a plea bargain it appears as though the controlling directors are set to go to court.

Anurag Dikshit is one of those directors who is rumoured to be on the verge of announcing a personal $300 million settlement with the authorities although there is also speculation he has refused to pay any fines. This situation has been ongoing for sometime now and while rumours continue to circulate that online gambling will return to the US in a different form over the next couple of years, it appears that the authorities are still looking for their share of income from past years trading.  I think that this would be a good move on his part, who needs this kind of crap following them around.

In suprising results, high-stakes women gamblers who use the Internet to wager on games win more often than men, according to a Harvard Medical School study. The Bwin-sponsored Harvard Medical School study of online sportsbettors continues to reveal interesting and useful information on betting demographics and patterns.

The latest results released from the 40 499-person study “favour women as exhibiting more effective sports gambling behaviour than men,” wrote Massachusetts-based author Richard LaBrie and his team of researchers. The results of the study, to be published later this year by Berlin-based Axel Springer, were carried in Bloomberg news service reports Friday.

Women wager higher stakes with more intensity than men. According to the study’s sample, women risked an average Euros 15 ($20.17) per wager and bet 15 percent more often than men in a defined time period. Men, who comprised almost 92 percent of the study’s sample, wagered an average Euros 11 per bet.

The study used data from Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG, an Austrian online bookmaker. The conclusions are based on eight months of gambling patterns directly observed from player records in 2005.

The survey’s biggest bettors were 50 percent less likely to lose than smaller players, according to the 16-page report, titled Assessing the Playing Field: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Internet Sports Gambling Behaviour.

People who wagered a median Euro 44 per bet lost 9 percent of the time, while people who wagered Euro 1 per bet lost 18 percent of the time.

“Individuals who made larger wagers lost proportionately less than individuals who made smaller wagers,” the researchers said. “These players place extreme amounts of money at risk but extreme losses did not moderate their play.”

Earlier reports from the study cast doubts on assertions that online sportsbetting is addictive. Personally I have no doubt that online gambling can be very addictive to a small number of players but those same folks would probably just be additcted to another type of gambling if online was not available to them.  All online casinos should help support gamblers annonymous type sites.

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