The jingle of slot machines from neighboring Pennsylvania could serve as awake-up call for West Virginia lawmakers to approve table gambling, DelegateGil White believes. White, R-Ohio, said without table gambling West Virginiacould lose up to $50 million in revenue the first year Pennsylvania comeson-line with its slot machines. Pennsylvania officials on Wednesday approvedlicenses for five […]
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Italy has had an interesting relationship with online gaming. In February,the country attempted to ban all IP addresses of online gaming sites, andthen a few days later reportedly tried to set up an ‘exclusive’ relationshipwith an online poker room, allegedly for a slice of the pie. Now, Italy hastaken the step that the U.K., and […]
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 […]
Fiscal protectionism masked by political manoeuvring and adroit publicrelations the real agenda Veteran industry professional and soon to standdown Sportingbet CEO Nigel Payne spoke out against online gambling bans inan interview with The Times of London this week. Long an articulateproponent of government regulated and taxed online gambling, Payne explainedhow not so hidden agenda have […]
Senator Frist failed again to attach an Internet gambling bill to a defensebill today. However, Republicans are looking for other avenues to banonline gambling before Congress adjourns for the November 7 elections. Anaide told Reuters today, “Frist wants to get it done…We are still workingthings out. Everyone is still talking.” A senior Democratic aide was […]
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 […]
A controversial Internet gambling measure may hitch a ride on a DefenseDepartment authorization bill, but as of press time, a standoff over addinglegislation to improve courthouse security and crack down on illegalimmigrants in gangs continued to hold up action on the overall Defensepackage. While it was not clear that Senate Armed Services Chairman JohnWarner (R-Va.) […]
Could be bad news for the over 20 million online poker players According tothehill.com yesterday the online gambling poker bill is back and alive.Controversial language to curb illegal gambling on the Internet snuck backinto the defense authorization bill over the weekend. While the language inthe bill was not finalized as of press time last night, […]
Software developer CryptoLogic Inc. is relocating its head office to a more“friendly” environment in Ireland, highlighting a growing moral dividebetween North America and Europe over Internet gambling. The Toronto-basedcompany, which makes software that Internet gambling sites run on, yesterdaysaid it will move its head office — including top executives, humanresources, business development and investor relations […]
Fears that more senior executives working for online gambling firms could bearrested were fuelled today following the resignation of a lawyer who servedunder former US President George W. Bush from the roles of chairman andchief executive of World Gaming. Almost all of the internet betting firm’sbusiness comes from the US, and the resignation of James […]
Think of Costa Rica and flashes of colorful birds, bright beaches and longhikes through the rain forest come to mind. But several recent arrests andindictments have thrust the country into the spotlight for another, lesssavory reason: its cozy relationship with the online gambling industry. Theindustry is under fire from U.S. authorities, helping create the notion […]
The crackdown on internet gambling in the US has begun to frighten offsenior directors. World Gaming chairman James Grossman and non-executivedirector Clare Roberts have both resigned from the online gaming group onfears they will be arrested in the US. advertisementDavid Carruthers, chiefexecutive of Betonsports and Peter Dicks, chairman of Sportingbet, have bothbeen arrested in the […]