The polished slot machines fill the room with light and noise: a constantclick-and-whirl as customers press buttons and pull levers, and bellsringing for winners.The sound of money carries an almost deafening pitch. “It sticks in yourhead if you play here enough,” said Tara Kelley, 26, smoking a cigaretteoutside Hollywood Slots on Main Street. “I think […]
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Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a newInternet-gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them onto overseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terriblescare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law atWhittier Law School. “But it won’t by any means […]
Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a newInternet-gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them onto overseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terriblescare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law atWhittier Law School. “But it won’t by any means […]
Here in THE U.S., it’s OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indiancasinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it’s virtually apatriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states,but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal. Although the onlineside of the business, while […]
Here in THE U.S., it’s OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indiancasinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it’s virtually apatriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states,but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal. Although the onlineside of the business, while […]
Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a newInternet-gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them onto overseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terriblescare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law atWhittier Law School. “But it won’t by any means […]
Here in THE U.S., it’s OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indiancasinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it’s virtually apatriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states,but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal. Although the onlineside of the business, while […]
An alleged maintainer of an illegal gambling outfit codenamed “Ching”, whois a relative of top government officials in Negros Occidental, wassentenced yesterday to a maximum six-year imprisonment term after he pleadedguilty for violating Republic Act 9287, also known as the amendedanti-illegal gambling law. Meted such penalty by Kabankalan Regional TrialCourt Judge Henry Arles after having […]
THE biggest bets in Las Vegas take place behind closed doors. In the privatehigh-rollers’ suites, punters bet $1m a hand on blackjack while sipping$5,000-a- bottle cognac. This month the biggest bet in town is being madeaway from the slot machines and roulette wheels. It is being placed on theboardroom table, not the card table; and […]
The British government plans next week to seek international support forlegalized, regulated online gambling, emphasizing a trans-Atlanticdifference on the issue after the Bush administration’s recent move tooutlaw transactions with Internet gambling services. During a conferencescheduled for Tuesday at the Royal Ascot racecourse, the British governmentplans to seek adoption of a broad code of principles on […]
Smoking. Gambling. A sin tax for the arts. An increase in the minimum wage.These are among the contentious issues voters here will decide at the ballotbox November 7. Perhaps the most confusing for Ohio voters are statewideIssues 4 and 5. Both would limit smoking in public places, but to differentdegrees. Issue 4 is a constitutional […]
As a co-sponsor of a bill that was signed into law two weeks ago byPresident Bush, Jon Kyl, the Republican Senator from Arizona, has workedhard over the years to abolish online gambling utilizing the “family values”front. The current law would look to severely cut off some forms of onlinegambling via credit card transactions, though the […]
PartyGaming Plc, the world’s largest online poker company, lost 75 percentof its revenue when the company shut down its U.S. sites to comply with anew law enforcing a ban on Internet gambling. That hasn’t dented ChiefExecutive Officer Mitch Garber’s optimism. “Chaos breeds opportunity and wewill seize that opportunity,” Garber said on a conference call Oct. […]
Gambling site Bodog has odds up for the Playstation 3 launch. While I’mintrigued, I think the person setting the odds and deciding on the betsneeds to do a little more homework. The site still has bets up on whetherthe price will be changed before launch and whether the console will getapproval by the FDA before […]