The National Lottery’s Rich For Life scratchcard has been relaunched and on sale now for two weeks. The scratchcard costs £5 and gives 4 lucky players the chance to win £40,000 every year for the rest of their life.

The seventh stop of this season’s European Poker Tour (EPT) has taken place with the EPT Deauville. The EPT hasn’t been contested in France for two seasons and it was a 28 year-old German qualifier named Moritz Kranich who was victorious in the main event.

The 2009 Aussie Millions held at the Crown Casino in Melbourne has finished with an unknown Australian poker player winning the No-Limit Hold’em Main Event. Stewart Scott has emerged from obscurity to win the biggest poker tournament in the Southern Hemisphere.

32Red have revealed a big rise in profits in 2008 as total revenue for the firm increased by 27 percent on the figure for 2007, to £13 million. Its online casino did even better increasing by 30 percent with its gross win standing at £11.7 million for 2007.

As history was made yesterday when Barack Obama was sworn in as the first black President of the United States, his stepmother Kezia has been busy endorsing an online bingo game to raise money for charity, even though she flew out from England to watch her stepson’s inauguration.