These may be dark days for the online gambling business, but you would neverknow that from talking to Calvin Ayre, the founder and president of BodogEntertainment Group, the online sports book and casino. A recent crackdownon Internet gambling by U.S. regulators and lawmakers has seen severalonline casino executives thrown in jail and has plunged the […]
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The USA might have tried to ban online gambling simply to regulate it downthe line, at least that’s what Italy is in the process of doing. The latestnews from that government is a plan to auction off as many as 17,000gambling licenses including permits for online casinos and poker rooms. Thestart of 2007 will mark […]
Your after-tax income belongs to you. You are free to spend it, invest it,waste it, burn it, or tithe it–and none of that is any politicians’business. But if some lawmakers have their way, soon you won’t be able togamble your money away on the Internet. In October, the Senate passed a billenhancing port security, and […]
A German court has announced that it has rejected a constitutional challengeto a ban on online sports gambling from an internet sports betting company.The company was not named in court papers. The nameless company has quoted aMarch 1990 judgment in the state of Thuringia, going back to the days ofEast and West Germany, which permitted […]
Seen as yet another indicator towards liberalization of gamblingrestrictions in Europe, the Italian government has announced that it willauction off 17,000 licenses for betting shops, kiosks, casinos as well asfor online casinos, poker rooms and sportsbooks. This is in preparation forJanuary 1st, when all Italians will be able to legally play online poker. Inspite of […]
Why am I not surprised that on Wednesday, the Austin American-Statesman,Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram all reported that aproposal to broadly expand gambling in Texas is in the works in Austin? Hey,gambling-expansion proposals have emerged every two years in Texas since theearly 1990s, just before each Legislature convened. What is different aboutthis proposal? […]
Online gambling continued its rise in 2006 despite some tough decisions bythe US government to restrict the practice in America. Major sporting eventssuch as the World Cup pushed traffic on gambling sites even higher, withresearch group Nielsen//NetRatings claiming that more than one million UKpunters went online on the first Saturday of the competition to read […]
“Problem gambling is gambling behavior which causes disruptions in any majorarea of life: psychological, physical, social or vocational. The term“Problem Gambling” includes… “Pathological”, or “Compulsive” Gambling, aprogressive addiction characterized by increasing preoccupation withgambling, a need to bet more money more frequently, restlessness orirritability when attempting to stop, ‘chasing’ losses, and loss of controlmanifested by continuation […]
Would-be online gambling advertisers in the Ontario province of Canada willneed to update their knowledge on what is and is not permitted following thepassage of a consumer protection bill containing advertising restrictions,which was passed by the provincial legislature this week. According to anassessment in p2pnet.net News by Michael Geist, who holds the CanadaResearch Chair in […]
The Province of Ontario has passed new consumer protection legislation thatcontains provisions prohibiting the advertising of Internet gambling sites.The provisions underwent important changes at committee (first reading,second reading after committee), however, so that the final bill lookssomewhat different from the one that was introduced in the fall. When firstintroduced, the bill contained a blanket prohibition […]
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB is in advanced talks to buy the online sportsinformation and gaming firm 365 Media Group Plc for 94 million pounds, theTimes reported on Friday. The two companies would not comment on the report.365 Media Group said on October 5 it had received a number of informal bidapproaches. 365 Media Group, which was […]
I read with great delight your story regarding the Alabama Supreme Court’sunanimous ruling that “video sweepstakes games at a greyhound dog track inBirmingham are illegal gambling devices, no different from slot machines.”Mark White, Milton McGregor’s attorney, according to the story, said “theruling means that Alabama will continue to lose money to neighboring statesthat offer lotteries […]
Germany’s federal states plan to ban Internet gambling, according to draftdocuments to be discussed by the country’s state premiers on Wednesday.Reports in the German media are suggesting that Germany’s states will meetthis week to outline plans for banning Internet gambling in the country.Despite pressure from the European Commission to open up Europe’s gamblingmarket to competition, […]
When James Giordano and 24 others were indicted by the Queens DistrictAttorneys office last month, many in the online gambling world immediatelyfeared the worst. The first “take down” of a “significant” internetgambling business since President Bush signed a bill into law that wouldattempt to prevent some forms of gaming transactions. The Queens DA himselfthrough spokesperson, […]