MILLIONS OF Americans have engaged in criminal behavior leading up totoday’s Super Bowl. You know who you are – those of you outside Nevada whoplaced bets on the Indianapolis Colts or Chicago Bears. It’s estimated thatabout $5 billion will be on the line this afternoon in a nation in whicheven office pools are technically illegal […]
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Manchester will be the home of the United Kingdom’s first super casino,ushering in new “hard forms” of gambling never before seen in the islandnations, including unlimited-prize jackpot machines. British MethodistChurch officials say the new Gambling Act has paved the way for theManchester super casino, announced on Jan. 30, and 17 smaller casinos aroundthe country, expected […]
Israel has effectively banned online poker and casino websites from offeringservices to Israeli customers following a court case ruling against VictorChandler’s CEO Michael Carlton. The new ruling closes a legal uncertaintythat online gambling companies previously operated in. “A foreign companyoperating an online gambling site may not hide behind the fact that thecompany and its servers […]
Over the years bettingmarket.com has provided a comprehensive analysis ofEuropean and US gambling law. In the case of Europe, we did not succumb tothe post-Gambelli euphoria that befell many leading lawyers in the field andmany online gambling companies. In the case of the US, we refused toperpetrate the myth that the only person ever charged […]
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 makes unlawful thereceipt by a gambling business of proceeds or monies in connection withunlawful internet gambling. The Act, which represents the first piece ofFederal legislation to explicitly deal with online gambling, makes clear theUS government’s intention to stop the flow of funds from Americans to onlinegaming operators […]
Online gambling 24 hours a day. EuroMillions jackpots in the tens ofmillions of pounds, and now the UK’s first “super-casino” in Manchester.Never before have there been so many opportunities – and incentives – forpeople to become seriously addicted to gambling. According to the BritishMedical Association there are an estimated 300,000 ‘problem gamblers’ in theUK, and […]
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled against the US in an onlinegambling dispute with the Caribbean island of Antigua and Barbuda. The US isbreaking international trade rules, it is expected to say. Though the rulingis still private, Reuters has reported that the WTO has found the US guiltyof not complying with a 2005 order […]
The decision to give Britain’s one super-casino to Manchester isinexplicable. If just one of these airless temples to 24-hour addiction isso badly needed as to require state sponsorship, then the obvious place isBlackpool – if not the Goodwin Sands. Blackpool is Britain’s citadel ofvulgarity, indulgence and self-abuse, and could have done with a boost. Itis […]
The US is discriminating against foreign gambling companies by banningpayments to betting Web sites, said Charlie McCreevy, commissioner for theEuropean Union’s internal market. McCreevy told a panel of lawmakers onTuesday that the EU should complain to the US over the October 13 bar toonline gaming.McCreevy, who doesn’t have authority over external trade, said he’ll ask […]
The poll, conducted by the Center for Policy Analysis at the University ofMassachusetts Dartmouth, found 57 percent of respondents support theauthorization of a resort casino, 30 percent are opposed and 14 percent areundecided. The poll and behavioral survey of 1,041 Massachusetts residentswas conducted between September and November last year, according to theCFPA. When asked to […]
US restrictions on online gambling may be challenged by the European Union,the bloc’s top financial regulator said today. The legality of Internetgambling in the United States was ambiguous for many years, but it waseffectively banned last October when US President George W. Bush signedlegislation outlawing financial transactions for gaming. Several Britishonline gambling firms were forced […]
The idea of money management and having a bankroll specifically for gamblingis a foreign concept to many casino players. Most casual players simplydeposit money when they want to play and that is fine, but unless youunderstand money management, you could be putting more at risk than justyour bet. Money management is not a system for […]
The poll, conducted by the Center for Policy Analysis at the University ofMassachusetts Dartmouth, found 57 percent of respondents support theauthorization of a resort casino, 30 percent are opposed and 14 percent areundecided. The poll and behavioral survey of 1,041 Massachusetts residentswas conducted between September and November last year, according to theCFPA. When asked to […]
Jay Melancon hunkered down in an auditorium chair for his morning psychologyclass at the University of Minnesota, flipped open his laptop and logged on.The instructor yammered on at the front of the room, but Melancon wasn’tlistening. He was exhausted from staying up all night playing online poker.And now, sitting in the back of the class, […]