Nowhere in the language of a bill passed late Friday night to curb internetgambling is there any mention of gamblers being prosecuted for placing betsor playing poker online. In fact, the new bill does not apply to gamblersat all other than to make it a little more difficult to fund online bettingand poker accounts. Online […]
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It took a backdoor move by the Senate Majority leader, but the bill designedto curb online gambling in the United States has passed. Sen. Bill Fristhelped get the Internet gambling ban attached to a defense bill designed toboost security at nation’s ports. The bill passed Saturday. The bill callsfor banks to work with the federal […]
Ligue 1 club Toulouse protested against a French ban on advertising forgambling by wearing the slogan “.com, censored” on their shirts during agame at Olympique Marseille on Sunday. It replaced the name of Toulouse’sshirt sponsors, online casino and poker firm 888.com. The FrenchProfessional Football League (LFP) on Friday banned its clubs fromadvertising any form of […]
“This last minute deal reeks of political gamesmanship” says PPA, but thehorseracing business is delighted with its carve out. Most posters deploredwhat was seen as the “stealth” introduction of the measure by RepublicanSenator Bill Frist, who pulled political strings to attach a compromiseversion of a stalled anti-online gambling proposal to an essential portsecurity act, which […]
House and Senate negotiators reached agreement last night on legislation totighten maritime and port security regulations and, in a last-minute move,added an unrelated measure that seeks to ban Internet gambling. At the sametime, House negotiators prevailed in their fight to strip out $4.5 billionin rail and mass-transit security funds included in the Senate provision.The port […]
LOUISIANA governor Kathleen Blanco has voiced support for the state’scrackdown on online gambling and renewed an extradition request for PeterDicks, former chairman of Sportingbet. The governor’s intervention came asMr Dicks prepared to attend a court hearing in New York yesterday to learnwhether he will be sent to Louisiana to face illegal gambling charges.Lawyers for Mr […]
This week, Youth Eastside Services launched the first state-funded programto help teens battle gambling addiction. The program is funded by a new taxapproved last year by the Legislature to pay for prevention and treatment ofproblem gamblers. The tax is paid by the Washington Lottery, WashingtonHorseracing Commission and groups with recreational gaming licenses. So far,much of […]
Hoosiers who sit at their computers gambling online may be subject togreater restrictions in the near future. State Rep. Joe Micon, D-WestLafayette, and Republican candidate Connie Basham both believe restrictionson the practice are necessary. Micon commented on state law, stating“Currently, participating (in online gambling) is not illegal.” Indiana lawallows such participation but prohibits the operation […]
Italy has had an interesting relationship with online gaming. In February,the country attempted to ban all IP addresses of online gaming sites, andthen a few days later reportedly tried to set up an ‘exclusive’ relationshipwith an online poker room, allegedly for a slice of the pie. Now, Italy hastaken the step that the U.K., and […]
Fiscal protectionism masked by political manoeuvring and adroit publicrelations the real agenda Veteran industry professional and soon to standdown Sportingbet CEO Nigel Payne spoke out against online gambling bans inan interview with The Times of London this week. Long an articulateproponent of government regulated and taxed online gambling, Payne explainedhow not so hidden agenda have […]
British bookmaker William Hill said today it had stopped taking casino andpoker bets from US customers amid confusion over internet gambling lawsthere. Online sports betting contravenes the 1961 Wire Act in America, whichbans the placing of bets on sporting events via the telephone line in thestates. William Hill already has measures in place to prevent […]
William Hill Plc, the second- largest U.K. bookmaker, said it will stop taking online poker and casino bets from American customers until the scope of a U.S. crackdown on Internet gambling becomes clearer.William Hill already blocks U.S. sports bettors, Chief Executive Officer David Harding said today in a telephone interview. The new measures also will […]
A controversial Internet gambling measure may hitch a ride on a DefenseDepartment authorization bill, but as of press time, a standoff over addinglegislation to improve courthouse security and crack down on illegalimmigrants in gangs continued to hold up action on the overall Defensepackage. While it was not clear that Senate Armed Services Chairman JohnWarner (R-Va.) […]
Could be bad news for the over 20 million online poker players According tothehill.com yesterday the online gambling poker bill is back and alive.Controversial language to curb illegal gambling on the Internet snuck backinto the defense authorization bill over the weekend. While the language inthe bill was not finalized as of press time last night, […]