HSBC has joined the ranks of banks charging customers higher rates forgambling transactions processed on its credit cards. The bank will chargecustomers the cash advance rate of interest (up to 27.8 per cent) instead ofthe normal purchase rate (up to 22.9 per cent). A spokeswoman told BBC News:“This is one of a number of changes […]
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Gambling group Ladbrokes, which operates Ladbrokes Online Casino, isexpanding its European operations by targeting the Spanish market. TheBritish bookmaker is starting an alliance with Spanish slot machine firmCirsa Slot, whose machines are found in bars and arcades. The new alliancewill apply initially for a betting licence in Madrid, which comes under newbetting regulations. The move […]
WHEN the ministerial association of Terrace, BC learned that a local bingopalace was asking city council to change a bylaw so it could bring slotmachines to their northern BC community, they knew they had to speak outagainst the proposal. Joel Ringma, the pastor of Terrace’s ChristianReformed Church, was delegated to speak at a public forum […]
An organization that lobbies for expanded casino gambling in Kansas releaseda poll this week showing 46 percent of Kansans support the creation of morenontribal casinos in the state. Thirty-nine percent of the 500 respondents,all registered voters, opposed the idea, and 15 percent were undecided. Thesurvey was commissioned by Kansans for Economic Growth and was conductedNov. […]
Hundreds of slot machines were rolling last week in Broward County, wherecrowds thronged a new “racino” at the former Hollywood Greyhound Track,newly dubbed the Mardi Gras Racetrack and Gaming Center. At nearbyGulfstream Park, slots were introduced in mid-November and more than $77million has already flowed through its machines. Two more tracks plan toopen rooms for […]
Along California’s rugged northwest coast, a freshly paved highway exitmarked “Bald Hills Road” is for most nothing more than the entrance to LadyBird Johnson Grove and Redwood National Park. For the Yurok, the state’slargest and perhaps poorest American Indian tribe, it’s where the road home,and the Yuroks’ struggles, begin. Past the park, Bald Hills quickly […]
Customers at the Island Resort Casino now have access to a larger gamblingarea with more slot machines and a new gambling pit. The renovations arepart of a $43 million expansion for the Harris casino, located in the UpperPeninsula. It includes a 211-room hotel tower, 1,300 seat showroom,restaurant and bar, lounge and 18-hole golf course. Eventually, […]
We may not admit it but we are all, no matter how pious we maybe, once in awhile fascinated by riches and the rich. Given a choice most of us wouldrather be another billionaire Bill Gates than another the late MotherTheresa of Calcutta. While we easily express anger when for instancecertain sections of our nation […]
Our report about the astounding amount of money put through poker machinesin the region alarmed many. ‘Scary’ was one word used by readers of thisnewspaper. Considering that Jupiters Casino, the largest gambling venue inNorth Queensland, isn’t included in the figures ‘scary’ might seem anunderstatement. As we reported on Friday, $66 million was put through theregion’s […]
Online Gambling Insider is proud to announce that it will continue to giveaway an Apple Ipod each monthly in association with Casino Rewards, aleading Micerogaming online casino and poker operator…During 2006, OnlineGambling Insider and the Casino Rewards Group gave away an Apple Ipod eachmonth. For the second month running, a UK player won the Ipod.Congratulations […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law December 30 thatwill close casinos and slot-machine halls across most of the country in afew years, forcing the establishments that have become a garish feature ofthe new Russian landscape into four legal gambling zones. The law alsooutlaws online gambling and online poker, and sets the minimum […]
Along California’s rugged northwest coast, a freshly paved highway exitmarked “Bald Hills Road” is for most nothing more than the entrance to LadyBird Johnson Grove and Redwood National Park. For the Yurok, the state’slargest and perhaps poorest American Indian tribe, it’s where the road home,and the Yuroks’ struggles, begin. Past the park, Bald Hills quickly […]
The hypocrisy of government institutions that support general forms ofgambling, but ban Internet gambling on moral grounds has at last beenexamined by the international magazine Newsweek in it’s upcoming January 8issue. And the story has been picked up and distributed widely by otheronline and offline media.Titled “Morality vs. Money – nations say they attack Internet […]
The number of video gambling machines in Montana declined slightly between2004 and June 30, 2006, but gamblers were putting more money in the machinesthat remained. Statistics compiled by the Gambling Control Division of theDepartment of Justice show that the total number of establishments withvideo gambling statewide increased by just one between ’04 and the end […]