A girlfriend and I often argue about which is better? Online gaming or goingto the Brick and Mortar casino? For years I have been an online girl. But,it is the silly season, so I decided to jump into the car with her andsettle in my own head once and for all the answer to what […]
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Kazakhstan has taken drastic steps to fight the nation’s gambling craze byordering all gambling halls and Casinos to move to just two lakeside towns.The government measure took effect on 1 January 2007, although constructionis far from finished in both towns. The new resorts – outside the maincities of Almaty and Astana – have been dubbed […]
SUPERCASINO opponents say the proposed gambling venue in Greenwich wouldmean an increase in crime. South and East London Against the Casino (SELAC)has launched a petition and website opposing plans for Britain’s firstregional casino to be opened at the former Millennium Dome -now called TheO2.Pressure group activists spent months studying reports and statistics aboutsimilar “resort-sized” casinos […]
After months of work around the world, what is arguably the biggest surveyyet of online player attitudes and opinions is due to be presented at theInternational Casino Exhibition in London at a media conference scheduledfor the 23 January. The Global Online Gambler Report was devised by leadinggambling research teams at Nottingham Trent University supported by […]
I support Mr. Christopher Ram who has given some highlights of the globalscourge of casino gambling in his letter captioned “Casinos are widelyfavoured by drug interests as laundries” (07.01.06). If the intention tointroduce casino gambling to Guyana is the result of the president’seconomic plan for the boosting of tourism then he needs to go to […]
Faith-based groups charge that government has failed to “count the socialcost of this misadventure” and said they will stage the protest as part oftheir mass campaign to help force legislators to back off from thecontroversial measure. “The saddest part of this may well be that acomplicit media largely ignored or marginalised the submissions by thechurch […]
Gambling group Ladbrokes, which operates Ladbrokes Online Casino, isexpanding its European operations by targeting the Spanish market. TheBritish bookmaker is starting an alliance with Spanish slot machine firmCirsa Slot, whose machines are found in bars and arcades. The new alliancewill apply initially for a betting licence in Madrid, which comes under newbetting regulations. The move […]
WHEN the ministerial association of Terrace, BC learned that a local bingopalace was asking city council to change a bylaw so it could bring slotmachines to their northern BC community, they knew they had to speak outagainst the proposal. Joel Ringma, the pastor of Terrace’s ChristianReformed Church, was delegated to speak at a public forum […]
An organization that lobbies for expanded casino gambling in Kansas releaseda poll this week showing 46 percent of Kansans support the creation of morenontribal casinos in the state. Thirty-nine percent of the 500 respondents,all registered voters, opposed the idea, and 15 percent were undecided. Thesurvey was commissioned by Kansans for Economic Growth and was conductedNov. […]
Hundreds of slot machines were rolling last week in Broward County, wherecrowds thronged a new “racino” at the former Hollywood Greyhound Track,newly dubbed the Mardi Gras Racetrack and Gaming Center. At nearbyGulfstream Park, slots were introduced in mid-November and more than $77million has already flowed through its machines. Two more tracks plan toopen rooms for […]
We may not admit it but we are all, no matter how pious we maybe, once in awhile fascinated by riches and the rich. Given a choice most of us wouldrather be another billionaire Bill Gates than another the late MotherTheresa of Calcutta. While we easily express anger when for instancecertain sections of our nation […]
Online Gambling Insider is proud to announce that it will continue to giveaway an Apple Ipod each monthly in association with Casino Rewards, aleading Micerogaming online casino and poker operator…During 2006, OnlineGambling Insider and the Casino Rewards Group gave away an Apple Ipod eachmonth. For the second month running, a UK player won the Ipod.Congratulations […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law December 30 thatwill close casinos and slot-machine halls across most of the country in afew years, forcing the establishments that have become a garish feature ofthe new Russian landscape into four legal gambling zones. The law alsooutlaws online gambling and online poker, and sets the minimum […]
Along California’s rugged northwest coast, a freshly paved highway exitmarked “Bald Hills Road” is for most nothing more than the entrance to LadyBird Johnson Grove and Redwood National Park. For the Yurok, the state’slargest and perhaps poorest American Indian tribe, it’s where the road home,and the Yuroks’ struggles, begin. Past the park, Bald Hills quickly […]