MANCHESTER has beaten off the more fancied Blackpool and Greenwich in therace to host the UK’s first Las Vegas-style super casino. Scarborough andLeeds are to get smaller casinos too. Altogether, there will be 17 newgambling houses built across the country. But where does yesterday’sannouncement leave York’s chances of one day having its own casino? And […]
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The decision to give Britain’s one super-casino to Manchester isinexplicable. If just one of these airless temples to 24-hour addiction isso badly needed as to require state sponsorship, then the obvious place isBlackpool – if not the Goodwin Sands. Blackpool is Britain’s citadel ofvulgarity, indulgence and self-abuse, and could have done with a boost. Itis […]
The US is discriminating against foreign gambling companies by banningpayments to betting Web sites, said Charlie McCreevy, commissioner for theEuropean Union’s internal market. McCreevy told a panel of lawmakers onTuesday that the EU should complain to the US over the October 13 bar toonline gaming.McCreevy, who doesn’t have authority over external trade, said he’ll ask […]
Today, the Office of Problem Gambling (OPG) today unveiled the mostcomprehensive prevalence study of problem gambling ever conducted in thenation. The survey found that between 750,000 and 1.2 million Californiaadults are considered pathological or problem gamblers. “The legislationthat created the Office of Problem Gambling focused resources on preventionand research,” said Steve Hedrick, director of OPG. […]
The poll, conducted by the Center for Policy Analysis at the University ofMassachusetts Dartmouth, found 57 percent of respondents support theauthorization of a resort casino, 30 percent are opposed and 14 percent areundecided. The poll and behavioral survey of 1,041 Massachusetts residentswas conducted between September and November last year, according to theCFPA. When asked to […]
If other Washington tribes succeed in getting the liberalized gambling rulesthat are part of a new state agreement with the Spokane Indian Tribe, itcould set off a new round of expansion for the 25 Washington state tribalcasinos that generated about $1.2 billion in net receipts in 2006. In aprepared statement, Lummi Nation chairwoman Evelyn Jefferson […]
Surveying West Virginia’s rural neighborhoods, where most people lackbroadband access to the Internet, you would never guess the state is alottery cash cow.That is until you drove by the racetracks that dot major population centers.There you would see crowds of people shoving streams of dollars into buzzingand blinking video lottery terminals – the reason this […]
The idea of money management and having a bankroll specifically for gamblingis a foreign concept to many casino players. Most casual players simplydeposit money when they want to play and that is fine, but unless youunderstand money management, you could be putting more at risk than justyour bet. Money management is not a system for […]
The poll, conducted by the Center for Policy Analysis at the University ofMassachusetts Dartmouth, found 57 percent of respondents support theauthorization of a resort casino, 30 percent are opposed and 14 percent areundecided. The poll and behavioral survey of 1,041 Massachusetts residentswas conducted between September and November last year, according to theCFPA. When asked to […]
US restrictions on online gambling may be challenged by the European Union,the bloc’s top financial regulator said today. The legality of Internetgambling in the United States was ambiguous for many years, but it waseffectively banned last October when US President George W. Bush signedlegislation outlawing financial transactions for gaming. Several Britishonline gambling firms were forced […]
Jay Melancon hunkered down in an auditorium chair for his morning psychologyclass at the University of Minnesota, flipped open his laptop and logged on.The instructor yammered on at the front of the room, but Melancon wasn’tlistening. He was exhausted from staying up all night playing online poker.And now, sitting in the back of the class, […]
Real estate prices in two of the four zones designated for legal gambling,set to come into existence in mid-2009, have seen a spectacular rise sincethe beginning of the year. Under a new anti-gambling law, which receivedPresident Vladimir Putin’s official approval Dec. 31, gambling in Russiawill be restricted to four zones from July 1, 2009. Elsewhere […]
The Responsible Gambling Council is ‘betting’ that college-age students willbe smarter about gambling once they ‘Know the Score.’The council, a non-profit, independent organization committed to problemgambling prevention, is running the program this week at Fleming College inLindsay.Co-ordinator Tim Hawkes said that while most people gamble responsibly,gambling online, especially poker, is on the rise among college […]
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