Driving down Highway 61 from Memphis, Tennessee to Tunica, Mississippi, thefields are flat, with occasional bursts of swampland, and cotton ballsblowing on the tar. As you edge south, the billboards grow more insistent,offering endless variations on the notion of chance: “Best cash back!”,“Best dealers”, “$10k Fridays”. Follow your luck, and you end up ridingtowards Mississippi’s […]
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Teenage gambling is a growing problem in Southwestern Ontario, a localexpert says. Though she didn’t have hard numbers available, Bonnie Orvidassaid it’s clear to everyone involved more young people are seeking addictiontreatment services. “It’s in the last two to three years that we have beenhearing from young people. Most of them are males,” said Orvidas, […]
More than one-third of Ontario teens who participated in the first-everstudy to examine the gambling habits of students aged 15 to 17 are alreadygambling, and their ranks will likely double by the time they’re 20, thestudy’s authors say. The study, to be released Thursday, was conducted bythe Responsible Gambling Council, an independent, non-profit organizationdedicated to […]
Macau may have dethroned the Las Vegas Strip as the world’s biggest casinocenter, according to figures available Wednesday that show the Chineseterritory’s gambling revenue jumped 22 percent to $6.95 billion last year.The former Portuguese enclave has been booming since the government bustedup a casino monopoly three years ago and began welcoming U.S. gamingpowerhouses like Las […]
With only about a month to go before the provincially licensed ChancesCowichan gaming centre opens its doors for the first time, gamblingaddiction experts are wondering how it will affect those who like to take achance. “Right now we have no idea how it will affect the population,” saidIan Gartshore, executive director and chief therapist of […]
Malibu homeowner John Lefebvre, a Canadian national, was released on a $5million U.S Bond following his arrest last week on charges of allegedlylaundering billions of dollars in illegal online gambling proceeds. CanadianStephen Lawrence was also released on $5 million bail. The two are formerdirectors of NETeller, a company that transfers money globally for a fee.Lefebvre […]
A proposed Spokane Tribe of Indians gambling agreement is unfair to othertribes and represents a major expansion of tribal gaming, skepticallegislators said.The Eastern Washington tribe is asking the state and federal government toend more than a decade of legal challenges and approve the gaming compact,which would make the Spokanes one of the state’s largest casino […]
Casinos will be allowed to open 24 hours a day because of a loophole inLabour’s gaming laws. Experts fear this will give problem gamblers theopportunity to lose money round the clock. They said Culture Secretary TessaJowell had ditched her pledge to protect the vulnerable from the dangers ofcasinos. Currently, casinos can open from 2pm until […]
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, […]
Macau may have dethroned the Las Vegas Strip as the world’s biggest casinocenter, according to figures available Wednesday that show the Chineseterritory’s gambling revenue jumped 22 percent to US$6.95 billion last year.The former Portuguese enclave has been booming since the government bustedup a casino monopoly three years ago and began welcoming U.S. gamingpowerhouses like Las […]
Four investment banks have been issued subpoenas in an investigation intothe multibillion-dollar online gambling industry. The Justice Department hasissued subpoenas to at least four Wall Street investment banks as part of awidening investigation into the multibillion-dollar online gamblingindustry, according to people briefed on the investigation. The subpoenaswere issued to firms that had underwritten the initial […]
Macao surpassed the Las Vegas Strip to become the world’s biggest gamblingcenter in 2006, measured by total gambling revenue, according to industryanalysts and government figures released today. In the eight years sinceMacao, a former Portuguese colony on the coast near Hong Kong, was returnedto Chinese control in 1999, it has experienced a huge boom in […]
A SHAKE-UP of gambling laws could increase problem gambling, the governmentminister in charge of the issue has conceded. The Gambling Act, which waspassed last year, relaxes some restrictions on the industry. For the firsttime, Las Vegas-style `supercasinos’ will be allowed in Britain. A decisionon the site of the first is due in the next week. […]
Over the years attempts to legalize casino gambling has repeatedly beenblocked in the Texas Legislature, so casinos across the border have welcomedTexas gamblers. Gambling interests are making a renewed push for casinos andthey’re betting on the 2007 Texas legislature to make it happen. Take ashort drive up to Durant, Oklahoma and you’ll find that an […]