Three more online gaming companies said today they are suspending operationsin the US after the Senate passed legislation outlawing gambling on theinternet.Fairground Gaming said it would stop taking bets from customers in the US assoon as President Bush signs the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Actinto law. He is expected to do so this week. Fairground, […]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Two online gambling firms have announced that they are suspending theiroperations in the US ahead of the imminent implementation of new lawsrestricting internet gaming. In separate statements released this morning,Fairground Gaming and Fireone said that they would immediately cease tradingin the US once the unlawful internet gambling enforcement act had beenratified. The legislation, due to […]
San Jose City Councilman and mayoral candidate Chuck Reed Monday called onopponent Vice Mayor Cindy Chavez to refuse $55,000 in campaign donationsfrom Indian gambling interests. Flanked by former Mayor Tom McEnery andDeputy District Attorney David Pandori, Reed said he was “sounding the alarmto warn of a threat to San Jose’s quality of life. Gambling money […]
France, Italy and Austria will this week be formally censured by theEuropean Commission for restrictive laws on gambling, the latest move in thefierce global battle between governments and private sports betting andgambling companies. The intervention will come as a rare glimmer of hope foran industry seriously damaged by a series of regulatory blows, and from […]
It’s an election year and already one of the biggest issues that has manyvoters’ attention isn’t the scandal of Mark Foley and the congressional pagewho he instant messaged for a year and a half, but it is a bill in which thegovernment is prepared to crack down on online gambling. But is this billgoing to […]
A former state representative has been arrested on a felony charge ofoperating an illegal gambling house. Sixty-six-year-old Travis Dowd, whoowns the Lucky Penny Arcade, was reportedly out of town when the arcade wasraided Thursday and a warrant issued for his arrest. Dowd turned himself inSunday, accompanied by his lawyer. Dowd posted a $20 thousand bond […]
The US Congress has passed tough new federal restrictions on onlinegambling, including measures that prohibit US gamblers from using creditcards, cheques and electronic fund transfers to settle online wagers. Themove came just hours after Peter Dicks, former chairman of Sportingbet, theBritish internet bookmaker, was freed by a New York court, signalling defeatfor Louisiana’s attempt to […]
Ministers want to make Britain the world centre of internet gambling,documents released by Whitehall showed today. The records showed thatministers and officials have met internet gambling tycoons and theirrepresentatives no less than 26 times over the past two years. The detailssuggest that the Government is engaged in a campaign of cosying up to onlinegambling concerns […]
The first firings in the Israeli online gambling industry have started, asIM Intermedia dismissed half of its 100 workers yesterday. The firm suppliesservices for online marketing and data mining for online gaming companies inthe United States, and its customers include Intercontinental Online. Thecompany confirmed the report. Yesterday’s cutbacks are just the first ofmany expected in […]
The dice are rolling hot on the tables of what was once a sleepy Portuguesecolony. With millions of mainland Chinese high rollers arriving every year,developers in Macau are racing to turn the former enclave into Asia’sglittering gambling capital. The stakes are high. At the baccarat table ofone casino, a middle-aged Chinese woman shrugs off the […]
The world’s largest computer facilities for online gaming are located inCanada and are nicknamed MIT. This doesn’t stand for the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology: It stands for the Mohawk Institute of Technology.That is because this gigantic “server park” — which drives many of theonline gambling sites — is inside the Mohawk First Nations Reserve, alsoknown as […]
The 1-800 hotline established to help Ontario’s addicted gamblers is beinginundated with thousands of calls from people looking for winning lotterynumbers, prompting the government to rethink the way it advertises thetelephone number. Figures obtained by the Citizen show that the number of“misdirected” phone calls to Ontario’s Problem Gambling Helpline hasskyrocketed since its inception in 1997, […]
A number of gambling industry executives have suggested that they willexploit exemption clauses contained within the Unlawful Internet GamblingEnforcement Act of 2006 – keeping open their principal US facing websites,but retuning them towards skill based games. One has even gone as far as tosuggest that his company will seek to offer online poker within stateboundaries. […]
If the law that is planned to be signed by United States President, GeorgeW. Bush, on Friday is actually signed and enforced, it would be a directspitting in the face of the United States to the World Trade Organization.The WTO claims that the exemptions in the US Internet Gambling ProhibitionBill for horse racing and state […]