When a person continues to gamble, despite the fact it is causing financial, marital, family, legal, employment, social, or school difficulties, it is a problem.Last week’s article depicted an example of how a woman’s gambling behaviour destroyed many aspects of her life, as well as those of others. That was a true story. She would […]
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A South African judge gave online gambling optimists pause for thought thisweek in a judgement that unlicensed gambling in the country was illegal.Online gamblers in South Africa could be fined up to Rands 10 million (GBP735 000) or jailed for up to 10 years in terms of current legislation, whichwill hopefully be reversed if the […]
Slot-machine casinos are opening in Pennsylvania despite the fact that thestate does not have a gambling addiction program in place to handle anexpected rise in compulsive gamblers seeking treatment. Although the slotsparlors are required to advertise the existence of such services, the statehas not set up a compulsive gambling hot line or a procedure to […]
A contingent of nearly a dozen New York City police offers arrived in MiamiBeach Monday morning to transfer several defendants being held in an “onlinegambling” bust back to New York for a Tuesday arraignment. The sophisticatedInternet-based gambling scheme took in $3.3 billion in cash wagers from40,000 bettors nationwide since 2004, authorities said. They announcedcharges against […]
Slot-machine casinos are opening in Pennsylvania despite the fact that thestate does not have a gambling-addiction program in place to handle anexpected rise in compulsive gamblers seeking treatment. Although the slotsparlors are required to advertise the existence of such services, the statehas not set up a compulsive-gambling hot line or a procedure to subsidizegambling-addiction treatment […]
The online casino industry has been faced with difficult decisions,especially those catering to customers in the United States, since thepassing of the Unlawful Online Gambling Act. Although it has been a roughride for some, a report by the European Commission suggests that onlinegambling, online casino business is still booming in Europe despite thelosses by their […]
A new study of the Spanish gambling market, undertaken by consulting firmMECN, has promoted Spain as a potential key region for future growth forboth the online and land based gambling industry. The report highlights thepotential for imminent growth over the coming years particularly within theretail betting sector and online gambling, as companies eagerly search fornew […]
The Gambling Bill President Vladimir V. Putin proposed in October, withplans to set up four gambling zones in Russia, has been approved at itsfirst reading by the Duma last week by a vote of 440-0 and one abstention.The president had proposed the bill after the Interior Ministry launched anoperation to check the financial, tax and […]
A top anti-addiction official in the western Canadian province of Albertaskimmed nearly half a million dollars from his employer to feed his owngambling habit, the province’s top auditor said on Friday. Auditor GeneralFred Dunn alleged in a report that Lloyd Carr, who ran the tobacco-reductionunit of the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission, used five […]
The German online gambling market is experiencing rapid growth, withpredictions that by the year 2010 German betting revenues will haveincreased by Euro 7.6 billion, additionally spurred by the imperative toreplace lost American business with European and Asian opportunities.Cashing in on this attractive business environment, Danish Internet companySunCore Innovation A/S has made a strategic move this […]
Dan Gustafson, a former three-term state legislator from Haslett, has alwaysopposed casino gambling in Detroit. Yet for the past four years he hasserved in an unlikely position: executive director of the Michigan GamingControl Board, the watchdog state regulatory agency that oversees the $1.2billion casino industry in Detroit. Today, Gustafson is stepping down fromthat post to […]
EVERYBODY KNOWS we have a problem-gambling problem. And everybody’s got adifferent take on how to address it. As solutions go, mine is quite radical.First, bring all the parking meters in from the cold – to replace all theVLTs that have taken up residence indoors in our province, from taverns topool halls and casinos. Hey, people […]
With operations due to commence in the third quarter of next year to givelife to Britain’s liberalised gambling reforms, the Gambling Commission hasclearly been kept busy checking out the initial batch of license applicants,reporting this week that 29 companies had been successful in clearing thefirst hurdles in a thorough and probing process. Casino operators now […]
A former senior bureaucrat with Alberta’s anti-addictions agency created$634,000 in ”false contracts” to spend most of it on his own gambling,auditor general Fred Dunn reported Thursday. Lloyd Carr, the formerexecutive director of the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission’stobacco reduction unit, also kept his past criminal record from him bosses,and falsely claimed to have a […]