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 […]
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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 […]
Two days after the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling RegionalConference occurred here, I saw Seneca Nation President Barry Snyder, MayorByron Brown and Seneca Gaming Corp. officials on public access TV replayingthe Fulton Street sale approval announcement and predicting “development,waterfront connectedness, millions of tourists” and other such misleadingsound bites. This offensive and private press staging did […]
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 […]
Former Commonwealth Bank employee Erick Tjandra, 32, was jailed for aminimum three years on 37 counts of defrauding the bank. Over a 15-monthperiod Tjandra stole $10.4 million from the bank, $8 million of which he“poured down the throat of the casino”, District Court Judge ChristopherArmitage said today.The casino had allowed the bank clerk to play […]
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. […]
The unanimous vote kept the bill from going to Gov. Ed Rendell. It alsocontinued a volley between chambers that has lasted for much of the pastyear over how to fix problems identified by critics of the state’s2-year-old gambling law, with one chamber often dropping pet provisionswritten by the other. House Majority Leader Sam Smith, R-Jefferson, […]
The unanimous vote kept the bill from going to Gov. Ed Rendell. It alsocontinued a volley between chambers that has lasted for much of the pastyear over how to fix problems identified by critics of the state’s2-year-old gambling law, with one chamber often dropping pet provisionswritten by the other. House Majority Leader Sam Smith, R-Jefferson, […]
Four months into the financial year, Sky City Entertainment Group hasforecast flat profits in FY07. The projected profit range of $100-$110million, essentially flat on the 2006 results, has been affected by weakertrading conditions, gambling losses and a stronger New Zealand dollaraffecting tax payments. Weaker trading conditions have dragged revenues downat the Auckland gaming and entertainment […]
The state’s slot machine venues have found a way to bypass the state’sprohibition on casino-style table games. They are about to introduce videogambling that recreates the experience of playing blackjack or poker arounda table. The multi-player machines arrived this week at Delaware Park, DoverDowns and Midway Slots at Harrington Raceway. They are expected to be […]
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday that she’s flattered to beconsidered a viable vice presidential candidate in two years, but for nowshe’s satisfied focusing on her re-election campaign before the state voteson Nov. 7. “I’m just focused on the next 19 days,” Sebelius said Thursday.“I think there are incredible opportunities in this state. I am […]
The below quote is from a Gonegambling.com newsletter written by John Abbott, sounds like a really good idea but polititions are so full of themselves I doubt they will even consider it."I believe in free trade and that governments should keep their noses out of what people want to do in the privacy of their […]