Police on Friday jailed the co-chief executives of Austrian online companyBWIN for allegedly violating French gaming laws, police and judicialofficials said. Manfred Bodner and Norbert Teufelberger were arrested at thetraining center of AS Monaco, a first division soccer club where they wereto hold a news conference, a police official said. BWIN has links to severalfirst […]
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Senator Bill Frist is fighting for his supporters in the conservative FamilyResearch Council who want to ban internet gambling while more than 5,000phone calls poured into different US senator offices over the past week inopposition to the proposed ban. Frist and his Christain conservative backersappear to be on the winning hand of this battle as […]
Louisiana has pinned high hopes on its casinos to play a major role in thestate’s economic recovery in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.Yet this stream of revenue could well run dry if maverick Texangubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman has his way. Kinky has pledged that,if elected Governor on November 7, one of his first […]
Leading shares closed flat, giving up earlier gains in the last few minutesof trade as investors took profits at the end of a volatile session and withanother chapter in the gambling sector saga overshadowing gains in mortgagebanking stocks, dealers said. The FTSE 100 index closed just 0.2 pointslower at 5,877.0 in a volatile session that […]
Peter Dicks has resigned his job as chairman of Sportingbet PLC, but heregained his freedom as New York authorities lifted the threat ofextradition to Louisiana hanging over his head and returned his passport.Mr.Dicks, 64, was detained last week after arriving at New York’s JFK Airportfrom London, where customs officers were alerted to an outstanding warrantfor […]
State-owned monopoly Holland Casino is to be given a licence to offer gamesof chance on the Internet. The Lower House has supported a proposal byJustice Minister Piet Hein Donner for a two-year trial. The Netherlands hasan estimated 300,000 people who sometimes try their luck with an illegalgame of chance on the Internet, according to Donner. […]
According to eog.com On September 12, 2006, the Poker Players Alliance,along with the support of other leading Poker forums who oppose anylegislation that would prohibit online poker, have organized a ‘Phone March’on Capital Hill.The Phone March definitely made a dent in the legislation atleast five thousand calls were made, since most of the phone calls […]
The chairman of British online gambling company Sportingbet PLC, who wasarrested last week after New York customs officials discovered his name on aLouisiana warrant charging him with illegal online gambling, resigned onThursday, the company said. “Further to its recent announcements regardingMr. Peter Dicks, Sportingbet confirms that, with great reluctance … theBoard accepted the resignation of […]
The US Department of Justice has admitted that the 1961 Wire Act which ituses to prosecute executives of online gambling companies is “dated”. TheDepartment insists, though, that the law is sufficient for the prosecutionof gambling executives.Referring to the laws under which it prosecutes,including the controversial 1961 Act, Justice Department spokeswomanJacqueline Lesch told OUT-LAW: “They include […]
Hollywood Sportsbook features odds on the MLB game between the WashingtonNationals and the Arizona Diamondbacks on September 13th 2006. The Nationalsand the Diamondbacks met last week in Washington, with the Nationalssweeping the three-game set. It was a particularly frustrating series forArizona as Washington rallied in the eighth inning or later in all threegames. However, it […]
If there’s one common notion that most Americans have about Las Vegas, it’sthat we have a vibrant economy. To be precise, many think we are the land ofmilk and honey. The general assumption is that car parkers here make $80,000a year and cocktail waitresses knock down six figures and declare far lessto our friends at […]
I wanted to share a few thoughts from my visit to Macau. Last year the Sunsent our tourism reporter Richard N. Velotta to Macau (and Beijing andSingapore) and Richard wrote a top-notch series of stories that helped Sunreaders understand the power of the Chinese economy and its tourism impacton Las Vegas, the vibrancy of Macau […]
Ameristar Casinos, Inc. has appointed Jerome Klint to the position of VicePresident of Construction, effective September 1, 2006. Reporting to AlanRose, Senior Vice President of Construction, Klint will be responsible forconstruction of Ameristar projects, including department administration andcoordination of pre-planning, budgeting, contracting, purchasing and on-siteobservation of construction. Klint brings 20 years of senior managementexperience in […]
Event five of the 2006 Borgata Poker Open concluded late Sunday night withNew Yorker Jeremy Shor coming from behind to defeat an accomplished fieldand capture the championship. The final table included one Shannon Shorr,ranked second best poker player in the world by Card Player magazine. JeremyShor and James English of South Florida began their head’s […]