Plans to overturn online gambling ban (UPI)The chairman of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee is expressing skepticism about the chance of overturning a controversial online gambling law. The approval process (Desert Sun)Right now, the compacts are in the Senate, where supporters are cautiously optimistic because the bills to ratify the state-tribal gambling agreements have […]
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A new investigative article released earlier this week by Casino Gamblingrevealed a close link between Internet gambling and online day trading. Thearticle, written by Terry Goodwin, titled 'Legal Internet Gambling in theUS', was written to describe the almost identical characteristics of each ofthe two hobbies. Terry described how each industry is promoted in the sameway. […]
In a report titled "The Italian Gambling Market – A Forerunner in theLiberalisation of European Gambling Markets" the research group MECNhas predicted that the Italian gambling market is set to achieve a 64percent growth rate culminating in revenues worth Euro 61 billion bythe year 2010. Describing the Italian region as one of the mostpromising online […]
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Online gambling company PartyGaming PLC said Wednesday it will no longer allow customers in Turkey to access its gambling sites after legislation was passed prohibiting online gaming offered by unauthorized domestic or foreign companies. The company, which pulled out of the lucrative U.S. market in October after the government shut down the industry there, said […]
The Clayton County Sheriff's Office has suspects in custody following a gambling raid early today at The Poker Palace on Tara Boulevard in Jonesboro. A Clayton County Magistrate Court judge is among those arrested, but authorities have NOT released the judge's name. The raid was conducted about 2 a-m today. Sheriff Victor Hill says the […]
Former WCW and TNA star Disco Inferno Glen Gilberti was among those arrestedlate Monday night during a gambling bust involving high stakes no limithold-em poker in Roswell, Georgia. Local police had been investigating thegambling ring for six months after complaints from neighbors about theamount of people coming to and from the home. Gamblers would have […]
The Polish government is to introduce laws legalising online gaming whichwill include new regulations to license and tax companies, according to areport in Polish newspaper the Warsaw Voice. The report said that theeastern European country has decided to change the current laws to "meet theneeds of the growing industry," and will be implemented by September. […]
The suspected gambling operation was in a home near Centennial High School.The arrests made Monday night were the result of a six-month investigationinto commercial gambling, police said. Players had to go online and registerand then receive an invitation to the game, police said. Participants alsohad to put down $10,000 to get into the house where […]
The U.S. doesn't mind the lottery, but when it comes to sports bettingacross interstate or international boundaries, all bets are off. Theyshouldn't be. ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, former British colonies on the easternedge of the Caribbean Sea, are smaller than Los Angeles and less populousthan Burbank. Yet they may be able to force the world's most […]
US authorities are investigating gambling in the virtual reality world ofSecond Life. The FBI has reportedly examined casinos that operate in thegame following a month-long crackdown on internet gambling. "We have invitedthe FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raise anyconcerns they would like, and we know of at least […]
The latest craze in the online gambling affiliate sector has been thepromotion of so-called "gift cards" or virtual Visas. That craze may beshort lived as some of these gift card providers have been notifyingaffiliates that they will not permit their product to be advertised oninternet gambling-related websites. For affiliates, this serves as yetanother blow in […]
The government of Antigua and Barbuda's Division of Gaming in the FinancialServices Regulatory Commission is slated to revamp its regulations in thecoming days. The Antigua is undergoing an extensive review and overhaul ofits regulations with the assistance of Mark Mendel, the government'sattorney in the World Trade Organisation gaming dispute which Antigua won,and other consultants. "That […]
A U.S. federal judge ruled Wednesday that BetOnSports gambling websitefounder Gary Stephen Kaplan should be extradited to the mainland UnitedStates to face a 22-count criminal indictment. Magistrate Marcos Lopez alsosaid Kaplan, who was arrested March 28 in the Dominican Republic and broughtto Puerto Rico, poses a flight risk and should not be freed on bond […]