Two new casinos in Central Indiana are one step closer to reality. The votewas nine to three in a state Senate committee for the bill to permit slotmachines at horse tracks in Anderson and Shelbyville. "We need help and weneed your help. We need slot machines at Indiana's two race tracks," saidRick Moore of Hoosier […]
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The Catawba Indian Nation's push to offer electronic gambling took a hitMonday when the S.C. Supreme Court ruled a state ban on video poker alsoapplies to the tribe. The Catawbas, South Carolina's only federallyrecognized tribe, argued their 1993 land deal with the state allowed them toput video poker machines on their reservation, despite a statewide […]
Patrick Partouche, the head of French company Groupe Partouche, has beenhanded a 40,000 Euro fine and a 12 month suspended prison sentence.Partouche's punishment relates to his involvement with online poker sitePoker770. France appears to be following in the footsteps of America bycracking down on online gambling and poker. Patrick Partouche and PartoucheInternational were handed stiff […]
Two Nevada lawmakers are working on legislation for an 18-month study ofonline gambling to determine whether online gambling can be effectivelyregulated in the United States. U.S. Reps. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., and JonPorter, R-Nev. are expected to reveal the co-sponsored legislation withinthe next few weeks, and they hope to gain a powerful ally in Rep. BarneyFrank, […]
Indianapolis Metro Police officers cited Indiana State Trooper Kyle Freemanduring a gambling raid Tuesday. They also arrested three men, including thepoker club's promoter, Ryan Row. "I have been informed that I am notsupposed to speak with you," said Row to Eyewitness News. The raid happenedTuesday night in the Pendleton Trade Center. Officers confiscated severalboxes of […]
Young adults are being called on to help friends who may have a gamblingproblems. Through friends4friends, an awareness campaign launched in 2005 bythe Responsible Gambling Council (RGC), young people are made aware of thehazards of uncontrolled gambling. The campaign provides strategies forpeople to recognize and help friends with gambling problems. The RGCrecently released a gambling […]
Investigators are looking into whether officers with the IndianapolisMetropolitan Police Department frequented a Northeastside poker club shutdown earlier this week. Meanwhile, the department on Thursday raided aNorthside carwash, arresting three people on preliminary charges ofpromoting gambling and seizing five handguns, gambling paraphernalia and$1,800 in cash. It was the third such raid since the beginning of […]
We at the Echo assume most of you are watching the NCAA men's basketballtournament with some pecuniary interest. We've arranged our brackets,entered our pools, made our speculations. Many offices similar to ours haveeven have bet some small amount of cash, since without something riding onthe outcome, few would be able to muster much appetite for […]
An Indiana State trooper is in trouble, caught in the middle of a policeraid. The raid happened Tuesday night in the 3900 block of Pendleton Way onthe northeast side. Police say what might look like a legitimate businesswas actually an illegal Texas Hold'Em operation with $100 and $500 tables.Tuesday night, an off-duty state police officer […]
Gambling on campus has become a social event at fraternities and dormitoriesalike – even a "study break" for some – as one recent University ofPennsylvania graduate put it. Although gambling, particularly online, hasgrown rapidly in recent years, local universities say problems related tostudent gaming are few. At Temple University's counseling center, "gamblingaddiction issues are actually […]
Although the Chinese government recently announced a purifying moratorium oninternet cafes – the same week the Communist Youth League penned a contractwith leading gaming developer Playtech to provide software for large scaleinternet-based gambling tournaments – the cadres in Beijing know thatinternet cafes are only an embodiment of something much larger and morethreatening, according to the […]
Bill Frist, then Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate and now ex-would-bepresidential candidate, designed the Unlawful Internet Gambling EnforcementAct ("Prohibition 2.0") to cover Internet poker. He defined "bet or wager"as including risking something of value on the outcome of a contest, sportsevent "or a game subject to chance." Is there any game, even chess, that […]
Thinking of going online and wagering on a few games in the upcoming NCAAbasketball tournament? Uncle Sam doesn't want you to, but he's havingtrouble stopping anyone. The government's latest effort to get Americans tostop gambling via the Internet has been largely ineffective, according tothe online gambling industry. In autumn, Congress passed — and PresidentBush signed […]
The total value of bets placed worldwide on mobile phones will reach $16b ayear by 2011, according to market research analysts Juniper Research. The US'scrackdown on internet gambling had caused a tentative year for thenewly-blooming industry with the implementation of the Unlawful InternetGambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) forcing many within the industry toreadjust their focus and […]