An employee at a northeast Albuquerque sports bar is facing a commercialgambling charge after state investigators discovered a Super Bowl pool wasrun there.John Webb, 40, who holds the liquor license at Howie's Sports Page, wascited Tuesday, said Peter Olson, state Department of Public Safetyspokesman. The bar was cited Sunday for commercial gambling and sellingalcohol to […]
Monthly Archives: February 2007
A gambling racket has been busted in the capital with the arrest of 13people, police said. Rajesh Sharma, a resident of Lalita Park in east Delhiwho was allegedly organising gambling activities in his home, was nabbedwith 12 others Tuesday, Delhi Police said. Police recovered Rs.300,000 incash, two packets of playing cards, 35 tokens and 12 […]
Oregon middle-school students are invited to enter artwork for a 2008calendar that will be used to increase problem gambling awareness. Anestimated 75,000 adult Oregonians experience problems related to theirgambling, which also impacts children and families. "This is a chance forstudents both to learn more about the risks of gambling and to capture theattention of parents […]
It's home to Gambling911.com, which is purely an industry-focused news andinformation website, and soon may be home to a number of online gamblingentities that actually take bets from around the globe. Alberta Canada isseriously considering regulation of online gambling. Maxine Maudie of SunMedia reports that a spokesman for the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commissionyesterday said […]
The launch of two high-profile online gambling sites over the few weeks hasprovided further evidence that the online gambling industry, far fromcrumbling in the wake of the UIGEA, is still as strong as ever. The highestprofile launch was that of Playboy Gaming, whose investment in the marketshows that even established big-name brands are confident in […]
The two-year period comes due this Thursday. Even Goldberg now realizes hisprediction was totally wrong — with poll after poll showing most Americansdo not "agree that the war was worth it." So shouldn't Goldberg — orsomebody — pay off the $1,000? The bet was offered near the end of anoverheated blogo-debate between Goldberg and Dr. […]
"The state's take on any prospective table gambling revenue should be usedto pay off West Virginia's pension debts, said House Majority Leader JoeDeLong, D-Hancock. "'My concern about the table gambling bill is about howthe money is being appropriated,' DeLong said. ' ".The table gambling billcurrently before lawmakers will be discussed by the House JudiciaryCommittee on […]
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled against the US in an onlinegambling dispute with the Caribbean island of Antigua and Barbuda.Out-Law.com notes that although the ruling is still private, it has beenreported that the WTO has found the US guilty of not complying with a 2005order in the case. Antigua and Barbuda has built […]
Patrons in Wyoming bars and restaurants could once again belly up to afriendly game of cards under legislation that passed the House on firstreading Tuesday.The House gave initial approval to a gambling bill that would exclude fromthe definition of gambling "profits" the money that bars and restaurantsreceive from selling drinks and food to their gambling […]
The Provincial Cities Association says 'smart cards' should replace cash atpoker machines around South Australia to stop problem gambling. Theassociation's chairwoman, Mayor Joy Baluch, says the cards would have adaily credit limit. Councillor Baluch says a study commissioned by theassociation shows a reduction in gaming machine numbers has not curbedproblem gambling. She says if the […]
Nothing in this world can be said to be certain, Ben Franklin noted in aletter to a friend, except death and taxes. And, he should have noted,there’s one more thing: Every new governor of Massachusetts looks at casinogambling as a potential source of revenue. Daniel O’Connell, the state’ssecretary of housing and economic development, confirmed in […]
WITH BARBADIANS and visitors spending $200 – in some cases much more – inMega 6 tickets to win the $2.5 million jackpot, some priests have come outand condemned the gambling fever now sweeping the island. “It is evil andshould be avoided,” said Father Harcourt Blackett on Sunday in a telephoneinterview. The Roman Catholic cleric said […]
The Court of Appeal here today allowed the appeal with costs by two foreigncasinos to recover RM7.1 million gambling debts owed by former Sabah ChiefMinister Datuk Seri Osu Sukam. The three-man bench, Justices Datuk JamesFoong, Datuk Abd Hamid Embong and Datuk Mohamad Raus Sharrif held the HighCourt judge was wrong to conclude that to register […]
Officers from the Gambling and Anti-Vice Unit of the Criminal InvestigationDepartment, Royal Brunei Police Force, acting on a tip off, conducted aninspection at a house in Kg Ayer where they detained four local men onsuspicion of involvement in gambling activities. Police confiscatednotebooks believed to be used to record 4-digit lottery debts, three mobilephones and over […]