I don’t gamble online. I’ve seen too many of my friends get so addicted topoker that they’ve got no time left for Internet porn. And I’m not going tolet that happen to me. But I didn’t expect Congress to pass the UnlawfulInternet Gambling Enforcement Act, treating people who spend all day atpartypoker.com like criminals. Maybe […]
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Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a newInternet-gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them onto overseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terriblescare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law atWhittier Law School. “But it won’t by any means […]
Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a newInternet-gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them onto overseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terriblescare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law atWhittier Law School. “But it won’t by any means […]
Here in THE U.S., it’s OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indiancasinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it’s virtually apatriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states,but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal. Although the onlineside of the business, while […]
Here in THE U.S., it’s OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indiancasinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it’s virtually apatriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states,but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal. Although the onlineside of the business, while […]
Two days after the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling RegionalConference occurred here, I saw Seneca Nation President Barry Snyder, MayorByron Brown and Seneca Gaming Corp. officials on public access TV replayingthe Fulton Street sale approval announcement and predicting “development,waterfront connectedness, millions of tourists” and other such misleadingsound bites. This offensive and private press staging did […]
Here in THE U.S., it’s OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indiancasinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it’s virtually apatriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states,but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal. Although the onlineside of the business, while […]
Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a newInternet-gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them onto overseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terriblescare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law atWhittier Law School. “But it won’t by any means […]
THE biggest bets in Las Vegas take place behind closed doors. In the privatehigh-rollers’ suites, punters bet $1m a hand on blackjack while sipping$5,000-a- bottle cognac. This month the biggest bet in town is being madeaway from the slot machines and roulette wheels. It is being placed on theboardroom table, not the card table; and […]
An alleged maintainer of an illegal gambling outfit codenamed “Ching”, whois a relative of top government officials in Negros Occidental, wassentenced yesterday to a maximum six-year imprisonment term after he pleadedguilty for violating Republic Act 9287, also known as the amendedanti-illegal gambling law. Meted such penalty by Kabankalan Regional TrialCourt Judge Henry Arles after having […]
Two days after the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling RegionalConference occurred here, I saw Seneca Nation President Barry Snyder, MayorByron Brown and Seneca Gaming Corp. officials on public access TV replayingthe Fulton Street sale approval announcement and predicting “development,waterfront connectedness, millions of tourists” and other such misleadingsound bites. This offensive and private press staging did […]
Britain’s culture secretary on Friday compared the United States crackdownon online gambling to the failed alcohol ban of the Prohibition as sheprepared to host an international summit on Internet gambling next week.Tessa Jowell warned that the U.S. ban on Internet gambling would makeunregulated offshore sites the “modern equivalent of speakeasies,” illegalbars that opened in 1920s […]
The British government plans next week to seek international support forlegalized, regulated online gambling, emphasizing a trans-Atlanticdifference on the issue after the Bush administration’s recent move tooutlaw transactions with Internet gambling services. During a conferencescheduled for Tuesday at the Royal Ascot racecourse, the British governmentplans to seek adoption of a broad code of principles on […]
Unregulated internet gambling is simply adding to the growing problem ofaddiction, delegates attending the Canadian Association of SuicidePrevention conference in Toronto were told this week. An estimated 200compulsive gamblers commit suicide in Canada every year, said Terry Flynn, adirector of spiritual care at the Bellwood Health Services facility inToronto. The growth of gambling on the […]