A girlfriend and I often argue about which is better? Online gaming or goingto the Brick and Mortar casino? For years I have been an online girl. But,it is the silly season, so I decided to jump into the car with her andsettle in my own head once and for all the answer to what […]
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SUPERCASINO opponents say the proposed gambling venue in Greenwich wouldmean an increase in crime. South and East London Against the Casino (SELAC)has launched a petition and website opposing plans for Britain’s firstregional casino to be opened at the former Millennium Dome -now called TheO2.Pressure group activists spent months studying reports and statistics aboutsimilar “resort-sized” casinos […]
Over the years, funds from Spring Grove American Legion charitable gamblinghave benefited the community and others in various ways. The Legion Post#249 has generated income through weekly bingo playing, and also fromselling tip boards and pull tabs at the club bar. Through the years,gambling managers have included Clarence Johnson, Oren Landsverk, LucilleWilhelmson and Richard Myhre. […]
Our government has an-nounced its plan to legalise casino gambling ahead ofthe much-anticipated 2007 Cricket World Cup. The proposed legislation hasbeen promoted on the basis that it will improve tourism and bring thefinancial benefits that are associated with increased tourist activity.While casino gambling should only be available to non-Guyanese, the draftbill appears to leave the […]
Officials have found that age limits on the use of gambling machines arerarely enforced in Finland. Finnish law forbids children under the age of 15from using slot machines. Young players are rarely asked how old they are,and it is even rarer for them to be asked to prove their age. It is veryunusual for anyone […]
Twenty counselors from Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Services were due tocomplete training Wednesday to treat possible slot-machine gamblingaddictions, said Carmen Ambrosino, the agency’s chief executive officer.Ambrosino said he had already received three requests for assistance fromgambling addicts, though none were related to the state’s first slot-machinecasino, Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. The early requests […]
A local tavern owner was cited late Sunday evening after detectives with theZanesville City Police Department learned he was allowing customers to use aTic Tac Fruit game in his establishment. David M. Pierce, 58, of 2180Licking Road and owner of The Putnam Tavern on Putnam Avenue, was citedaround 11 p.m. when officers entered the tavern […]
A Scottish MP has called for credit card companies to place a limit on theamount that online players can spend on Internet gambling. Mike Weir, theScottish National Party (SNP) MP for Angus, called for a limit to be set at£1,000 a week, and also called sites to limit players to using one creditcard each. The […]
The largest ever online gambling survey commissioned by eCOGRA has somesurprising results. With over 10 000 participants from countries all overthe world, this survey will represent the clearest picture about the onlinegambling industry from a players perspective. The results of the survey areexpected to be revealed at the upcoming ICE exhibition which takes place onthe […]
After months of work around the world, what is arguably the biggest surveyyet of online player attitudes and opinions is due to be presented at theInternational Casino Exhibition in London at a media conference scheduledfor the 23 January. The Global Online Gambler Report was devised by leadinggambling research teams at Nottingham Trent University supported by […]
I support Mr. Christopher Ram who has given some highlights of the globalscourge of casino gambling in his letter captioned “Casinos are widelyfavoured by drug interests as laundries” (07.01.06). If the intention tointroduce casino gambling to Guyana is the result of the president’seconomic plan for the boosting of tourism then he needs to go to […]
Faith-based groups charge that government has failed to “count the socialcost of this misadventure” and said they will stage the protest as part oftheir mass campaign to help force legislators to back off from thecontroversial measure. “The saddest part of this may well be that acomplicit media largely ignored or marginalised the submissions by thechurch […]
According to a Turkish newspaper, new restrictions are to be vigorouslyintroduced by Turkish authorities against ‘indecent broadcasting and onlinegambling’. The new amendment to the existing censorship laws, Article 301 ofthe Penal Code, will see the Information Technology Security Agency, censorand block offending websites in the hope of contravening offending websitesthat are ‘denigrating Turkishness, the republic, […]
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 […]