Gambling News by House of Odds

April 8 (Bloomberg) -- 888 Holdings Plc , the second-largest U.K. online gambling company, said profit fell 54 percent in 2007 after a crackdown on Web gaming forced the company out of the U.S.

The upper house of the Dutch parliament defeated a bill that would have allowed monopoly casino operator Holland Casino to open a gambling Web site on a trial basis.