Two online gambling firms have announced that they are suspending theiroperations in the US ahead of the imminent implementation of new lawsrestricting internet gaming. In separate statements released this morning,Fairground Gaming and Fireone said that they would immediately cease tradingin the US once the unlawful internet gambling enforcement act had beenratified. The legislation, due to […]
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The dice are rolling hot on the tables of what was once a sleepy Portuguesecolony. With millions of mainland Chinese high rollers arriving every year,developers in Macau are racing to turn the former enclave into Asia’sglittering gambling capital. The stakes are high. At the baccarat table ofone casino, a middle-aged Chinese woman shrugs off the […]
A number of gambling industry executives have suggested that they willexploit exemption clauses contained within the Unlawful Internet GamblingEnforcement Act of 2006 – keeping open their principal US facing websites,but retuning them towards skill based games. One has even gone as far as tosuggest that his company will seek to offer online poker within stateboundaries. […]
WPT Enterprises, Inc. the company that helped launch the current globalpoker boom, issued a statement today encouraging the U.S. poker community tofocus on the bright future ahead in the wake of Congressional passage of the“Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006.” “The JusticeDepartment has been very clear that it believes online gaming to be illegalin […]
With the initial panic over last weekend’s rushed US Congress action againstonline gambling dying down, operational companies are starting to look moreobjectively at the practical implications of this essentially financialrestrictive US proposal. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Prohibition Actcontains no provisions that would make it illegal for a person located inthe U.S. to place a bet […]
“The new law passed because members of the pro-family movement — includinga great many Southern Baptists — brought the issue to the attention of bothDemocrats and Republicans,” Bill Frist says in a letter to the SouthernBaptists, a minority group not representative of all, or even a majority, ofcitizens of the United States of America. In […]
Last Saturday the United States Congress passed a port security bill thatcarried an amendment banning Internet gambling. This was a huge mistake, notbecause Internet gambling is a good thing (it was already illegal, in fact),but because the new law is either unenforceable or — if it can beenforced — will tear away the last shreds […]
Internet casinos were fighting for survival today after they were leftstunned by law makers in the United States who called ‘no more bets’ andsent shares crashing this week. Billions of pounds were lost when Congresseffectively shut down online gambling operations in the US and deprivedcasinos such as Party Poker firm PartyGaming and 888 Holdings of […]
Online gambling in the U.S. could soon be history in the wake of a recentlypassed bill banning the favourite pasttime of many Americans. Causing muchuproar in the industry, the United States Congress passed a surpriselegislation that would essentially prevent banks and credit card companiesfrom paying out funds to Websites for online gambling. All that’s left […]
Disgraced Florida Congressman Mark Foley was a friend of internet gambling.Gambling911.com has learned he voted against a bill to outlaw onlinegambling, apparently between internet sex breaks with young Congressionalpages. Bluff Magazine, a leading poker monthly, obtained the votes from eachCongress person to ban internet gambling in which Foley voted “ney”. CouldMark Foley have been an […]
Politics has again made for strange bedfellows. This time, the oddly linkedpair is port security and Internet gambling. In the last hours beforeCongress adjourned for the midterm election campaign, the long-awaited portsecurity bill passed both chambers with an anomalous appendage: the UnlawfulInternet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. If signed by President Bush, thenew law would […]
In a move engineered by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R – Tenn.), theUnited States Senate on Saturday passed legislation, by a voice vote, thatostensibly would tighten security restrictions on cargo shipments fromoverseas. But attached to the tail end of this bill was language from anearlier House bill that was going nowhere since last July, […]
The ball landing on zero on the roulette wheel when you’ve bet your lastchip. That dead cert falling at the first, with all your wages in itsnosebag. Your pocket aces getting cracked while a pair of twos scoops thepot. Roll up all that bad luck into one big ball of misery and you might getjust […]
THE US Government stunned the online gambling industry over the weekend bypassing laws that effectively ban the services from their biggest market.The $US6 billion ($8 billion) industry went into meltdown over the news,with shares in UK-listed PartyGaming, 888 Holdings and SportingBet – whichhas operations in Australia – plummeting in early London trading overnight.Also in the […]