After Nick Colangelo won more than $110,000 on a $2 slot machine bet inJuly, the 47-year-old Fontana man paid off his car and truck and eveninvested in the stock market. But his winnings “created a monster,”Colangelo says. He returned to Highland’s San Manuel casino less than twodays after the jackpot and has since lost $20,000 […]
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BOSTON A survey finds nearly seven (m) million Massachusetts residentsvisited Connecticut casinos in the past year. The figures released today bythe U-Mass-Dartmouth Center for Policy Analysis are part of a study of NewEngland residents’ attitudes toward gambling. It finds that 36 percent ofall Foxwoods patrons and 21 percent of all Mohegan Sun visitors are fromMassachusetts. […]
CONCORD, N.H. A survey finds about one-in-five New Hampshire residentsvisited Connecticut casinos in the past year. The figures released today bythe U-Mass-Dartmouth Center for Policy Analysis are part of a study of NewEngland residents’ attitudes toward gambling. In a survey of 220 NewHampshire residents between September and November last year, 19 percent ofrespondents said they’d […]
Several different types of gambling are conducted through the Internet inHungary, and they are taxed depending on the type of operation. Gambling islegal in Hungary. Online gambling organizers in Hungary are required to filetax returns and pay taxes on the basis of self-assessment. The tax ratesvary for different types of gambling operations, including: a casino,money-winning […]
OLYMPIA, Wash. The state Gambling Commission meets Friday in Olympia toconsider an agreement with the Spokane tribe. The deal would allow the tribeto offer as many as 47-hundred slot machines at five casinos. Statelawmakers are concerned that other tribes in Washington will seek the sameexpansion of gambling. Tribal officials say it would be a refinement […]
Gambling won’t save West Virginia, but it may drag it a little closer tohell. The juggernaut in favor of table games seems unstoppable, leading tofurther expansion of gambling in the state. Yes, revenues from the additionof table games will likely shore up the state’s coffers for a while, leadingto a sense of satisfaction among legislators […]
Gamblers heading to the nonsmoking sections of Lincoln Park and NewportGrand might not be escaping the smoke after all. A study commissioned by aNew Jersey antismoking group shows significant levels of pollutants in thenonsmoking sections of the two gambling halls. At Lincoln Park, thenonsmoking area was found to be 39 percent as polluted as the […]
MILLIONS OF Americans have engaged in criminal behavior leading up totoday’s Super Bowl. You know who you are – those of you outside Nevada whoplaced bets on the Indianapolis Colts or Chicago Bears. It’s estimated thatabout $5 billion will be on the line this afternoon in a nation in whicheven office pools are technically illegal […]
With the increase in casinos, lottery games and TV coverage of professionalpoker tournaments, it’s not a surprise that the culture of gambling hasspread to teens.Now, there are data to support what local kids have been saying – that kidsin the mid-Hudson have increased gambling as much as teens across thecountry.A recent study of teen risk […]
When Chris Armentano called Linda Piotrowicz with his cookbook idea, she wasimmediately enthused. What a great way to publicize Connecticut-grownagricultural products. And for Armentano, it could shed more light on thedangers of sports gambling. Collaborating, the two could serve bothpurposes. For the past 25 years, Armentano has been director of problemgambling treatment services for the […]
MILLIONS OF Americans have engaged in criminal behavior leading up totoday’s Super Bowl. You know who you are – those of you outside Nevada whoplaced bets on the Indianapolis Colts or Chicago Bears. It’s estimated thatabout $5 billion will be on the line this afternoon in a nation in whicheven office pools are technically illegal […]
Betonsports Plc, the British Internet sports book indicted in the U.S. oncharges of racketeering and violating interstate gambling laws, was found incontempt of court for failing to answer those charges. U.S. District JudgeCarol Jackson today in St. Louis found the company in contempt for violatinga Dec. 28 order to appear in court. Prosecutors asked her […]
A new report says more and more Californians are hitting the casinoregularly. The state-sponsored study found nearly a million people inCalifornia consider themselves compulsive gamblers. That’s second in thenation only to Nevada. Steve Hedrick with the State Office of ProblemGambling says they’re responding by getting the word out. Hedrick: We’re inthe process right now of […]
Nevada lawmakers will be asked to continue fees imposed for the first timein 2005 on slot machines to fund programs to help problem gamblers in thiswide-open gambling state. The fee, approved by the 2005 Legislature, startedout at $1 per slot machine and then rose to $2. That has brought in $2.5million for problem gambling programs […]