As reported by the Pennsylvania Express Times: “Both of the Lehigh Valley’scasino hopefuls have invited social workers to learn about the warning signsand treatment options for compulsive gamblers. “Lehigh Valley Tropicana,hoping to operate in Allentown, and Bethlehem applicant Las Vegas SandsCorp. say they will hold their seminars even without a casino license fromthe Pennsylvania Gaming […]
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Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell is to seek an international agreement on howto regulate the internet gambling industry. She will make the bid at thefirst international summit on the global impact of the industry. It alreadyboasts one million regular punters in this country. Ms Jowell will urgedelegates to act to protect children and other vulnerable people […]
UK culture secretary Tessa Jowell will this week urge 32 nations to back acode of principles on internet gambling, the first major internationalmeasure to regulate the industry as the US imposes a ban. Britain, France,Germany, Spain, Italy, South Africa and other nations will tomorrow meetoutside London for talks hosted by Jowell to agree on a […]
The polished slot machines fill the room with light and noise: a constantclick-and-whirl as customers press buttons and pull levers, and bellsringing for winners.The sound of money carries an almost deafening pitch. “It sticks in yourhead if you play here enough,” said Tara Kelley, 26, smoking a cigaretteoutside Hollywood Slots on Main Street. “I think […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Smoking. Gambling. A sin tax for the arts. An increase in the minimum wage.These are among the contentious issues voters here will decide at the ballotbox November 7. Perhaps the most confusing for Ohio voters are statewideIssues 4 and 5. Both would limit smoking in public places, but to differentdegrees. Issue 4 is a constitutional […]
As a co-sponsor of a bill that was signed into law two weeks ago byPresident Bush, Jon Kyl, the Republican Senator from Arizona, has workedhard over the years to abolish online gambling utilizing the “family values”front. The current law would look to severely cut off some forms of onlinegambling via credit card transactions, though the […]
PartyGaming Plc, the world’s largest online poker company, lost 75 percentof its revenue when the company shut down its U.S. sites to comply with anew law enforcing a ban on Internet gambling. That hasn’t dented ChiefExecutive Officer Mitch Garber’s optimism. “Chaos breeds opportunity and wewill seize that opportunity,” Garber said on a conference call Oct. […]
The unanimous vote kept the bill from going to Gov. Ed Rendell. It alsocontinued a volley between chambers that has lasted for much of the pastyear over how to fix problems identified by critics of the state’s2-year-old gambling law, with one chamber often dropping pet provisionswritten by the other. House Majority Leader Sam Smith, R-Jefferson, […]