Our report about the astounding amount of money put through poker machinesin the region alarmed many. ‘Scary’ was one word used by readers of thisnewspaper. Considering that Jupiters Casino, the largest gambling venue inNorth Queensland, isn’t included in the figures ‘scary’ might seem anunderstatement. As we reported on Friday, $66 million was put through theregion’s […]
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Online Gambling Insider is proud to announce that it will continue to giveaway an Apple Ipod each monthly in association with Casino Rewards, aleading Micerogaming online casino and poker operator…During 2006, OnlineGambling Insider and the Casino Rewards Group gave away an Apple Ipod eachmonth. For the second month running, a UK player won the Ipod.Congratulations […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law December 30 thatwill close casinos and slot-machine halls across most of the country in afew years, forcing the establishments that have become a garish feature ofthe new Russian landscape into four legal gambling zones. The law alsooutlaws online gambling and online poker, and sets the minimum […]
Along California’s rugged northwest coast, a freshly paved highway exitmarked “Bald Hills Road” is for most nothing more than the entrance to LadyBird Johnson Grove and Redwood National Park. For the Yurok, the state’slargest and perhaps poorest American Indian tribe, it’s where the road home,and the Yuroks’ struggles, begin. Past the park, Bald Hills quickly […]
The sun is setting fast and early over Yarbeshe, a hillside neighborhood ofcrumbling brick houses, dark alleys and a creaky wooden drawbridge thatsways uneasily over a stream in this fabled gateway city that links farwestern China to the recesses of central Asia. Winter is arriving. You wouldknow it instantly by looking at the director Marc […]
The hypocrisy of government institutions that support general forms ofgambling, but ban Internet gambling on moral grounds has at last beenexamined by the international magazine Newsweek in it’s upcoming January 8issue. And the story has been picked up and distributed widely by otheronline and offline media.Titled “Morality vs. Money – nations say they attack Internet […]
The number of video gambling machines in Montana declined slightly between2004 and June 30, 2006, but gamblers were putting more money in the machinesthat remained. Statistics compiled by the Gambling Control Division of theDepartment of Justice show that the total number of establishments withvideo gambling statewide increased by just one between ’04 and the end […]
When the 80th Texas Legislature convenes for a 140-day session Jan. 9,lawmakers will tackle a bevy of bills that target thousands of state laws –some newly introduced and at the forefront of national debate, and othersdealing with unresolved matters that were swept aside last session amid thestate’s school-finance woes. Legislators will consider changing a range […]
PartyGaming has awarded more shares and multimillion-pound bonuses to itssenior executives, despite the group’s plunging share price, in a move thatcould irritate institutional shareholders. The online gambling group’s newmanagement incentive arrangements will take the new incentives and bonuspackage of Mitch Garber, the chief executive, to about £18.5 million.Although the figure was less than the £40.5 […]
A recovery in the online gaming economy act is gaining traction, accordingto several reports. The passage of the Unlawful Internet GamblingEnforcement Act by the US left a swath of economic misery in its wake, butefforts by the major players in the industry to refocus their energies onEurope and Asia are starting to pay dividends. Both […]
For the first time in several years, the Missouri Gaming Commission hasbegun expanding its list of people banned from area casinos. While thecommission’s “exclusion list” was once oriented toward cheaters andorganized crime members, it will now include criminals such as two menrecently convicted of felony theft, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.The two carpet installers gambled […]
PacificNet Inc., a provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) whichseems to be having more fun in the gambling business than CRM these days (asif that’s such a huge leap), has reported that its PacificNet Games Limitedsubsidiary has been selected by Jai Alai Casino, a casino in Macau, toprovide multi-player electronic gambling machines. Phase one implementationincludes […]
Arthur James Welmas, who served as chairman of the Cabazon Band of MissionIndians when the small tribe won a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in1987 that laid the foundation for the Indian gambling movement, has died. Hewas 77. Mr. Welmas, who led the Riverside County tribe for a decade, died ofkidney failure and complications […]
Those looking for skilled gambling establishments in the village will haveto keep waiting as Village Council on Wednesday extended a temporary ban onthe machines. Mayor Don R. Bethel said the temporary ban will give counciltime to pass regulations for the gambling machines. Bethel said regulationsare needed because many out-of-town individuals have inquired aboutoperating machines in […]