Gambling on football on Thanksgiving Day is almost as traditional as eatingturkey and yams. Thanksgiving Day sees more betting action on singular gamesthan any other day of the regular football season, and it also kicks off thegeneral happy and joyful mood that pushes the high season of gambling in theUnited States.Thanksgiving is also the day […]
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The world of gambling has come a long way since its early days. It isunnecessary to describe today’s gambling world, with land based casinoshosting the best entertainment and most luxurious hotels, and online casinosoffering an equally terrific, virtual form of entertainment. But that is alook at the present and future of gambling. A look back […]
Investors recently doubled down on gambling stocks despite a yearlongwinning streak, wagering that expansion will spur growth and bettors willkeep spending even as the economy softens. The Dow Jones U.S. Gambling Indexhas surged more than 35 percent since the start of the year, easilyoutpacing the broader market as represented by the Standard & Poor’s 500index, […]
The recent Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas saw a marked absence ofonline gaming companies and executives discouraged from travel to the USA bythe recent passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, butthe industry nevertheless generated an abundance of media comment. Asidefrom the widely reported comments of top land gaming executives like TerriLanni […]
Pennsylvania gambling regulators are hearing testimony from a Detroit casinooperator and two other bidders for a slot-machine casino license inPittsburgh, just one month before it could be awarded. The hearings startedMonday with presentations from two of the bidders. Testimony was scheduledTuesday for Detroit-based casino operator Don H. Barden. His proposal callsfor a $460 million slots […]
Not so long ago, stories about gambling addiction dominated the news, aspro- and anti-gaming troops battled for the hearts and minds of politiciansand the public. Strangely, as eight candidates vie for the leadership of theTory party, an issue that once caused so much uproar has fallen off theradar screen. Problem gamblers are still ruining their […]
Expect to hear a lot about gambling expansion in the coming months. WestVirginia’s four racetrack casinos should make another push in theLegislature for local option elections to allow table games. They wantpeople in the four counties with racinos — Kanawha, Ohio, Hancock andJefferson — to vote on allowing games such as blackjack, poker and roulettealong […]
ONLY a week after voters in Ohio once again made clear their opposition tothe expansion of legalized gaming in the Buckeye State, thousands ofresidents of Pennsylvania were moving in entirely the opposite direction asthe Keystone State’s first slot-machine parlor opened, and gamblers seekingeasy money poured through the doors. The Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs nearWilkes-Barre […]
THERE are many similarities – and a substantial difference – between the $4billion media joint venture Kerry Stokes and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts enteredinto yesterday and the deal James Packer struck with CVC Asia Pacific only amonth ago. While at face value they appear identical, with both mediaproprietors selling half-shares in their media business, built around […]
It has been five weeks now since the signing into law of the UnlawfulInternet Gambling Prohibition Act. Here is an update of online casinos,sports books and online poker rooms that still welcome USA customers…Thelist of online gambling sites that accept USA players seems to be settlingdown for the moment. We will continue to update the […]
Expect to hear a lot about gambling expansion in the coming months. WestVirginia’s four racetrack casinos should make another push in theLegislature for local option elections to allow table games. They wantpeople in the four counties with racinos — Kanawha, Ohio, Hancock andJefferson — to vote on allowing games such as blackjack, poker and roulettealong […]
If no gambling zone appears in Krasnoyarsk Territory, there will be noslot-machine in the region by 2009, Deputy-Governor Sergey Sokol announced.Speaking about possible arrangement of a gambling zone in KrasnoyarskTerritory, Sokol said the administration has ready proposals to build agambling zone in a southern district of the region. “We are not striving atthis, yet we […]
The Poker Players Alliance and executives for the American GamingAssociation (AGA) say they are hopeful that the recent political changes inthe U.S. Congress will help them overturn the Unlawful Internet GamblingEnforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA). You may recall how the UIGEA was appendedonto to the sure-to-be-passed Safe Port Bill when most Senators had alreadycast their […]
US prosecutors charged 27 people on Wednesday after breaking up what theydescribed as a criminal international Internet gambling operation that hadtaken billions of dollars in wagers. The network, which operated severalgambling Web sites including Playwithal.com, was alleged to be based in NewYork with satellites in the Caribbean and Central America and to have takenmore than […]