Thursday, March 31. 2005
Daily Digital News
LONDON - Betfair, the online betting exchange, is considering taking legal action against rival Spreadfair.
Betfair is claiming that the similarity of Spreadfair's name is confusing for consumers who may end up believing that the two operations are ...
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Wednesday, March 30. 2005
bloodhorse.com Jockey Patrick Valenzuela, who
offered advertising on his jockey pants legs and his collar for sale on
the auction Web site eBay, received one winning bid for ...
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Gaming Today The concept sounds simple: Create a 250-page book of regulations, license a bunch of online casinos and rake in the tax -revenue. It won’t happen. It can’t happen. There are two issues at work here: The impact, if any, of newly-enacted laws on ...
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Tuesday, March 29. 2005
It`s hard to blame young people for believing poker is completely
harmless - for most of them, it is. But the fallout from the overall
increase in card playing ...
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Monday, March 28. 2005
CRANSTON -- A local man was arrested Thursday night on a bookmaking
charge, after police officers executing a warrant at his home found him
taking bets on the NCAA basketball ...
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Sunday, March 27. 2005
The REGISTER
University of Iowa freshman Lindsey Negaard was drawn to the online poker tournament by the free entry and thousands of dollars' worth of prizes.
"I really like to play poker," said Negaard , 19, of Bettendorf. "It's hard to find places to ...
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Saturday, March 26. 2005
Associated Press
Internet poker's run of bad luck continued in the North Dakota Senate, with senators overwhelmingly defeating a constitutional amendment that sought to require the Legislature to regulate the game.
The amendment drew only three votes on Friday, the same number ...
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Friday, March 25. 2005
LAS VEGAS SUN
The Nevada Gaming Commission has approved a settlement agreement and a $250,000 fine for Coast Hotels and Casinos Inc., for violations in its sports book operations and financial reporting requirements.
In a stipulation signed by Coast President Harlan ...
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A.M. Costa Rica
U.S. Treasury experts have helped Costa Rican authorities to draft a bill to tax casinos.
U.S. Employees worked with the Costa ...
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Thursday, March 24. 2005
THE REGISTER Office pools are for sissies. Real players go online. That's where NCAA Tournament wagering gets serious. Sophisticated. Scary. Millions of bettors worldwide will shuttle between $1 billion and $1.3 billion in currency electronically, ...
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The UK could face an exodus of remote gaming operators if the government sets the tax rate too high under the new gambling bill, a leading trade association has warned.
The Association of Remote Gaming Operators (ARGO), whose membership includes all the big UK sportsbooks, said the bill ...
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Wednesday, March 23. 2005
LA Times At the bottom of every official NCAA Tournament bracket, in disclaimer
type almost too small to see without reading glasses, a tiny line of
type exists. ...
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Tuesday, March 22. 2005
(AP)
Frankie Suarez knows that had things worked out differently, she'd be comfortably retired now and finally taking those European vacations her husband, Tony, had promised her. Instead, she's still working in her late 60s, dishing out food at a hospital cafeteria and relying on ...
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Monday, March 21. 2005
The Scotsman THE popularity of internet gambling and the use of online betting exchanges have created a virtual "high-tech crystal ball" through which future world events can be predicted with a greater degree of accuracy than ever before.
In a paper to be ...
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Sunday, March 20. 2005
LAS VEGAS SUN On the second day of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, Tim Treanor of Atlanta was sitting in the massive sports book of the Las Vegas Hilton, beer in hand, cheering loudly. It was a little after two in the afternoon on Friday and Treanor, like the ...
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