A professional poker player accused of running a $3.3 billion illegal sports gambling operation was ordered held without bail Wednesday. The balding and bearded James Giordano stood silently with hands cuffed behind his back at his arraignment in Queens Criminal Court as his lawyer entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. Giordano, 52, was […]
As a black man born and raised on the Hill, I applaud poet-scholar Kimberly Ellis for her courage and love for our people and her opposition to Isle of Capri Casinos putting a casino on the Lower Hill. I remember as a child of 8 how I came home from school and saw a notice […]
A national gambling watchdog group has raised new concerns about lottery scratch cards sold in Ontario, charging that current practices are unfair and misleading to the consumer.The Gambling Watch Network filed a letter with Ontario’s ombudsman complaining that scratch tickets are sold even after the top prizes have been won. Brian Yealland, the group’s spokesman, […]
When a person continues to gamble, despite the fact it is causing financial, marital, family, legal, employment, social, or school difficulties, it is a problem.Last week’s article depicted an example of how a woman’s gambling behaviour destroyed many aspects of her life, as well as those of others. That was a true story. She would […]
The police team under the guidance of puttur assistant superintendent ofpolice Dr P S Harsha raided a gambling den at Kashigudde near Kokkada andarrested nine persons. An amount of Rs 1,127 was confiscated from them.Uppinangady sub-inspector R Ramesh, Sampya SI Nagaraj and police constablesVishwanath Rai, Devraj, Raghuram, Deviprasad, Uday, Krishnaiah, Surendra,Monappa, Lokesh, Krishnappa and Suresh […]
A national gambling watchdog group has raised new concerns about lotteryscratch cards sold in Ontario, charging that current practices are unfairand misleading to the consumer. The Gambling Watch Network filed a letterwith Ontario’s ombudsman complaining that scratch tickets are sold evenafter the top prizes have been won. Brian Yealland, the group’s spokesman,said retailers should stop […]
Northampton County’s human services department is trying to prepare for aninflux of gambling and alcohol addicts a Lehigh Valley casino may create.During a council budget hearing Tuesday night, county Councilman Ron Anglesaid it doesn’t matter which Valley proposal is chosen, Northampton Countywill be affected. Angle asked if officials have begun assessing costs andprograms. “The drain […]
A South African judge gave online gambling optimists pause for thought thisweek in a judgement that unlicensed gambling in the country was illegal.Online gamblers in South Africa could be fined up to Rands 10 million (GBP735 000) or jailed for up to 10 years in terms of current legislation, whichwill hopefully be reversed if the […]
Slot-machine casinos are opening in Pennsylvania despite the fact that thestate does not have a gambling addiction program in place to handle anexpected rise in compulsive gamblers seeking treatment. Although the slotsparlors are required to advertise the existence of such services, the statehas not set up a compulsive gambling hot line or a procedure to […]
A contingent of nearly a dozen New York City police offers arrived in MiamiBeach Monday morning to transfer several defendants being held in an “onlinegambling” bust back to New York for a Tuesday arraignment. The sophisticatedInternet-based gambling scheme took in $3.3 billion in cash wagers from40,000 bettors nationwide since 2004, authorities said. They announcedcharges against […]
The U.K. Gambling Commission said Monday that it has launched its newconditions under which licences are granted to gambling operators and staff,and new codes of practice, which all operators in the gambling industry mustfollow if they want to run a gambling business in Britain next year. TheCommission said it will have significant new legal powers […]
As reported by Stuff: “A downturn in the number of gambling addicts seekinghelp has led the Ministry of Health to review 12 problem gambling servicesthroughout New Zealand. “However, the ministry is not rushing into shuttingdown the services just yet, because no one knows why the numbers of problemgamblers looking for help are apparently dropping. “Nor […]
Slot-machine casinos are opening in Pennsylvania despite the fact that thestate does not have a gambling-addiction program in place to handle anexpected rise in compulsive gamblers seeking treatment. Although the slotsparlors are required to advertise the existence of such services, the statehas not set up a compulsive-gambling hot line or a procedure to subsidizegambling-addiction treatment […]
Despite the potentially negative impacts of a federal online gambling law,profits at Tyler Hancock’s online poker Web site are almost back to wherethey were before the law passed in October. Hancock, an interdisciplinarystudies senior, runs FuturePokerPros.com, which makes its money by taking apercentage of thewinnings of each player it recruits for other online poker sites. […]