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WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – A dispute over U.S. enforcement actions against European Union online gambling companies could be headed to the World Trade Organization soon, an European industry group said on Wednesday.

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Allegations that a long-running cheating scheme bilked players on a leading Internet poker site have triggered an $85 million claim against a Canadian company whose employees allegedly manipulated the cyberspace card room’s software so that they could see their opponents’ hole cards, msnbc.com has learned.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Congress and members of the executive branch will be visited by a team of European Union investigators this week, headed by senior E.U. trade official M. Jean-Francois Brakeland, head of the European Commission’s dispute settlement office. The E.U. delegation is looking into allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) breaches international treaties by continuing to enforce WTO-violating laws against E.U. businesses and individuals who once, but no longer, participated in the U.S. online gaming industry.

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You could blame the World Series of Poker or simply society’s gradual acceptance of gambling as a recreational pastime. Whatever the case, the popularity of Internet gambling has surged.

And that has a Canadian gambling researcher worried that if we’re not careful we’ll trigger an avalanche of online addicts.

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The Pauma Band of Mission Indians launched a virtual casino on its Web site last month; it offers video slot machines, table games and card games.

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The raid of Larry Wittman’s suspected illegal poker room last week had been anticipated for some time by local poker players facing criminal charges from two earlier raids.

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iMEGA announced this week it has a new big gun helping the organization prepare its challenge of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.

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