Reports during the weekend that Pennsylvania officials may allow operatorsof video gambling casinos to install what amounts to virtual table gamblingmake it clear that West Virginia legislators need to act on real tablegambling this week. Video gambling is just now coming on line in theKeystone State. Officials at West Virginia racetracks – where thousands ofvideo […]
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The Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre (OPGRC) has announced a$209,040 research project to study the increased incidence of problemgambling among Parkinson's Disease patients who follow a common drug regimento cope with the disease. The Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health andAddiction (INMHA) and Parkinson Society Canada have agreed to join theCentre in funding the study. Both […]
If you are doing a story on the NCAA Basketball Tournament, you might wantto look at betting on this event and the issue of compulsive gambling. Iwonder how many college students will have a bet on the games and whether ornot some athletes also have bets on the games as well. It is easier togamble […]
So says Tom Blair, former mayor of Deadwood and one of the driving forcesbehind the legalization of gambling in the small town of 1,800 people. It'sbeen 20 years since the legislature nixed plans to bring legalized gamblingto Deadwood, in an effort to turn back the slow demise of the Wild Westtown. That effort began back […]
A 22-year-old accountant has been jailed for defrauding the Inland RevenueDepartment of more than half a million dollars in one of the biggest GSTfrauds in the country's history. Roydon Glenn McLaughlin, who left school at16 to study accounting at university and "kept needing challenges in hislife", used a network of bogus partnerships, trusts and companies […]
The government's campaign against the proliferation of illegal Internetgambling activities hangs in the balance as a judge in Angeles City todayhears the motion for reconsideration on the quashing of the search warrantused to raid an alleged illegal Internet gambling operation in a hangar inClark Field in Pampanga last year.The National Bureau of Investigation, on behalf […]
Chinese businessman Cao Yanglin let his lunch of slow-cooked beef rib withtruffle puree and lemon cream sauce go cold as he talked about his gamblingspree the night before at the baccarat tables in Macau – the world's newepicenter for gambling. The 58-year-old property developer said he won$3,840 at the Las Vegas-style Wynn Macau casino hotel, […]
"You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walkaway, know when to run," as the classic Kenny Rogers tune goes. SouthCoastresidents should run from any notion of organized casino gambling in theirmidst as proposed by New Bedford City Councilor David Alves. Mr. Alves andcountless others, including, possibly, Gov. […]
The two-year saga surrounding a $100,000 Super Bowl pool ended Friday withthe co-owner of the Legacy Supper Club placed on probation for one year ongambling charges. Mary Blair, 54, appeared before Outagamie County CircuitJudge John Des Jardins on twin charges of permitting premises to be used forgambling and placing a bet. Des Jardins endorsed a […]
Calgary Catholic schools are back where they started. Those Catholic schoolscurrently raising cash through gambling still don't have a date to stopsucking up casino and bingo bucks after a school board task force couldn'tcome to a decision. But Catholic school board chair Cathie Williams says theboard will now huddle and decide on a date later […]
BestLine Sports is positioning itself as one of the leading online gamblingestablishments in the world of sports betting for North American sportingenthusiasts as they capitalize on a void left by its competitors. Once asmall niche book, BestLine Sports (see website here) since the start of thenew year has transformed itself by taking over a nice […]
ACalifornia Senate committee recently learned that while many of us love togamble, quite a few suffer from addiction as casinos empty their pockets.The state's legal gambling operations make $13 billion a year – and rising –yet such operations put no money into assisting those with gamblingproblems, including addiction. The committee also learned some disturbingfacts – […]
West Virginia's racetracks would pay an additional 1 percent of net profitsfor the privilege of offering table gambling under legislation passedThursday out of the Senate Finance Committee. The tax rate would be raisedfrom 35 to 36 percent under an amendment proposed by state Sen. Vic Sprouse,R-Kanawha. The additional money would be used for the gradual […]
The latest paper from UK Gambling Commission has shed light on the extent ofthe nation's gambling habit. It found that eight percent of the country'sadults have dabbled in at least one form of remote gambling in the previousmonth. According to the 'Survey Data on Remote Gambling Participation', theNational Lottery was the most popular form of […]