Part two in a series of news reviews covering the online casino and gamblingsector. May – Las Vegas Sands win a casino licence to build the firstcasino in Singapore, costing three billion dollars. A bid from Coventry tooperate one of the super casinos in the U.K was thrown out by thegovernment, leaving the city’s officials […]
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“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing but only afterthey’ve exhausted every other possibility.” –Winston Churchill(1874-1965),former Prime Minister of England Sometimes, when a snake tries to swallow aporcupine, it gets stuck in its throat and the predator has no choice but tospit it out. The neoconservative Bush-Cheney administration, under thepro-Israel Lobby’s […]
Rhode Island’s minimum gambling age would be changed from 18 to 21 underlegislation that a freshman state lawmaker plans to introduce in the GeneralAssembly next week. “It’s just a vice that might be with them for a longtime,” Fellela, a mother of four, said Tuesday. “I think it’s a way ofprotecting them a little bit […]
A new bill being introduced in the General Assembly next week would raiseRhode Island’s minimum gambling age from 18 to 21. The bill is beingintroduced by Deborah Fellela, a Johnston Democrat who was recently electedto her first term. She says the legislation is aimed at helping teenagerssteer clear of gambling addiction and preventing them from […]
The group collected pools from gamblers in Vietnam and transferred the betsto betting firms abroad to earn a discount. At weekends when Europeanfootball matches play, the men averagely received pools around VND100million (US$6,250) a night. All payments were made via banking system. Threemen seen as organizers of the ring include leader Nguyen Van Phu, 34, […]
Penny Mann was just 15 years old when her father died in an automobileaccident. William Tejes, 45, was the manager of the water-treatment plant inSouth Beloit, Ill., and a school board member. He was on his way to Chicagofor work when he lost control of his truck on an unsealed, wet county roadand hit a […]
After putting the gang under watch for a period, the police, assisted byforces from the central police department, moved in with 100 officers,simultaneously raiding 13 premises. They caught bookies taking billions ofdong in bets. The 14 offenders confessed they were bookies working for amajor gang with close connections with betting firms abroad. The police saidsome […]
The only sign of Christmas on the casino floor is the poker dealer in theSanta hat, and Darren White is glad for that: the subcontractor from Georgiadidn’t come here to be reminded of the holidays, or anything, for thatmatter, outside these flashy, noisy walls. He came for the distraction. AndBoomtown Casino in suburban New Orleans, […]
That daily game of toto might just become 10 per cent more expensive.Organiser of chance events, toto, lotto and betting games will pay a 10 percent income tax on the outcome of sport competitions and chance events,Bulgaria’s Parliament resolved, giving final approval to the new CorporateIncome Tax Act. The National Assembly budget and finance committee […]
It may be early to judge, but Gary Bettman might have really done it thistime. You never know with the NHL owners of course, but this latest fiascoover the Pittsburgh Penguins just might be the one clanger that will opentheir eyes to who is running their league. Research in Motion head JimBalsillie was all set […]
“The cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza appears to beholding even after militants fired rockets into Israeli territory.” This washow the BBC’s Radio Four described the situation around the Gaza Strip acouple of weeks ago; in other words, the new definition of a cease-fire isone in which the Palestinians continue firing Kassams while […]
These may be dark days for the online gambling business, but you would neverknow that from talking to Calvin Ayre, the founder and president of BodogEntertainment Group, the online sports book and casino. A recent crackdownon Internet gambling by U.S. regulators and lawmakers has seen severalonline casino executives thrown in jail and has plunged the […]
The USA might have tried to ban online gambling simply to regulate it downthe line, at least that’s what Italy is in the process of doing. The latestnews from that government is a plan to auction off as many as 17,000gambling licenses including permits for online casinos and poker rooms. Thestart of 2007 will mark […]
State police investigators say a retired trooper has turned to a life ofcrime. KATC’s David D’aquin was there when the former enforcer was read hisrights. CJ Melancon was a long time Louisiana state trooper. Now police sayhe’s running a gambling operation used by more than 1,000 people per week.He’s accused of money laundering and felony […]