Ligue 1 club Toulouse protested against a French ban on advertising forgambling by wearing the slogan “.com, censored” on their shirts during agame at Olympique Marseille on Sunday. It replaced the name of Toulouse’sshirt sponsors, online casino and poker firm 888.com. The FrenchProfessional Football League (LFP) on Friday banned its clubs fromadvertising any form of […]
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AMERICA’s $6 billion (£3.2 billion) internet gambling industry is facingmeltdown after the US Senate pushed through a Bill at the weekend outlawingthe processing of bets by banks and credit companies. The surprise move,which is expected to spark a massive share sell-off, will promptLondon-listed 888 Holdings to announce this morning that it is halting itsentire US-facing […]
“This last minute deal reeks of political gamesmanship” says PPA, but thehorseracing business is delighted with its carve out. Most posters deploredwhat was seen as the “stealth” introduction of the measure by RepublicanSenator Bill Frist, who pulled political strings to attach a compromiseversion of a stalled anti-online gambling proposal to an essential portsecurity act, which […]
Congressional Republicans attached a measure cracking down on Internetgambling to a bill aimed at enhancing port security that passed Saturday.Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.,pushed for the gambling provision to be added to the larger bill. Onlinegambling is generally illegal in most circumstances, but it is somethingthat is difficult to […]
The Port Security Bill, which will increase security along all United Statesports, overwhelmingly passed both the House and Senate in the midnite hoursof Friday night early Saturday morning. Attached to the quality securitybill is a a completely unrelated measure that directly affects internetgambling. So what exactly does this bill do to the state of internetgambling? […]
House and Senate negotiators reached agreement last night on legislation totighten maritime and port security regulations and, in a last-minute move,added an unrelated measure that seeks to ban Internet gambling. At the sametime, House negotiators prevailed in their fight to strip out $4.5 billionin rail and mass-transit security funds included in the Senate provision.The port […]
LOUISIANA governor Kathleen Blanco has voiced support for the state’scrackdown on online gambling and renewed an extradition request for PeterDicks, former chairman of Sportingbet. The governor’s intervention came asMr Dicks prepared to attend a court hearing in New York yesterday to learnwhether he will be sent to Louisiana to face illegal gambling charges.Lawyers for Mr […]
Utah consumer protection officials have cited four companies for sendinge-mail solicitations to minors for Web sites promoting gambling, alcohol andpornography. It was the second time this year state investigators issuedcitations under the state’s controversial Child Protection Registry law,which requires adult-oriented Web sites and e-mailers to screen outaddresses on the list from their distribution databases. Named […]
A senior Finance Ministry official told gambling operators to prepare forhard times, while scantily clad girls danced outside the conference hall atMoscow’s annual international gaming expo Thursday. Dancers dressed ascowgirls moved to the din of slot machines at Crocus Expo, where hundreds ofcasino bosses, slots operators and manufacturers of gambling equipmentgathered in the hope of […]
Catholic schools in Calgary have agreed to stop fundraising through casinosand bingos, but it’s “business as usual” until they figure out how to makeup the $2-million shortfall, says the chairwoman of the school district’strustees. The issue arose when Calgary Bishop Fred Henry threatened to stripthe schools of their Catholic designation if they continued to raise […]
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, a Virginia Republican,raised a “strong objection” to attaching any unrelated legislation to apending defense bill, which has been viewed by supporters of the gamblingbill as a prime vehicle for it. “I have firmly opposed putting any(unrelated) bills in the conference report,” Warner wrote in a letter datedMonday to […]
British bookmaker William Hill said today it had stopped taking casino andpoker bets from US customers amid confusion over internet gambling lawsthere. Online sports betting contravenes the 1961 Wire Act in America, whichbans the placing of bets on sporting events via the telephone line in thestates. William Hill already has measures in place to prevent […]
Louisiana police have warned all online gambling companies to stopaccepting bets in the state or risk having their executives and directorsarrested if they visit the US, the Financial Times reported, citing aninterview with Captain Joe Lentini, head of the casino section ofLouisiana’s Police Gaming Enforcement division. The FT quotes Lentini, thepolice official responsible for the […]
William Hill Plc, the second- largest U.K. bookmaker, said it will stop taking online poker and casino bets from American customers until the scope of a U.S. crackdown on Internet gambling becomes clearer.William Hill already blocks U.S. sports bettors, Chief Executive Officer David Harding said today in a telephone interview. The new measures also will […]