Saturday, March 19. 2005
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Richie Schwartz says he's not interested in the NCAA tournament, and while that's oddly refreshing in the current firestorm of hoop hype, it further stands as a rather amazing statement, considering the source.
For a gambler with Schwartz's ...
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Friday, March 18. 2005
A.M COSTA RICA
When Keith Cojocar jumped bond and missed the last day of his DUI
manslaughter trial in 1998, a prosecutor confidently declared, "We'll
put the handcuffs on him a little later."
The threat began to
ring hollow as the years dragged on, ...
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USA TODAY
It's the day before the NCAA tournament, and Danielle can't wait to be part of the madness.
From a laptop computer in her Los Angeles
apartment Wednesday, she eagerly picks 20 games in the NCAA
...
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Thursday, March 17. 2005
review journal A sports book is not normally as quiet as a library, but Sunday was a strangely silent night at the Stardust after opening lines were posted on the NCAA Tournament.
Stardust sports book director Bob Scucci put up numbers on 32 games just after 6 p.m. Instead of the ...
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Wednesday, March 16. 2005
Princeton, N.J. — For Michael Sandberg, it started a few years ago with nickel-and-dime games among friends.
But last fall, he says, it became the source ...
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Cassava Enterprises, the parent company of 888.com, has reportedly begun preparations for a widely expected flotation on the main market of the London Stock Exchange in the later half of 2005.
The Financial Times reported this morning that Cassava had retained investment bank Credit ...
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Tuesday, March 15. 2005
AP
Do you participate in a March Madness pool at work?
Auto sales manager Hugh Okoye is very familiar with NCAA basketball tournament betting pools -- in which participants throw in a few bucks or more, then try to pick the winners of the tournament games.
"This is ...
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Monday, March 14. 2005
EGAMING REVIEW
Betcorp, the Australian parent company of sportsbook BetWWTS, has signed a deal to acquire the holding company of Cybersportsbook.com for US$6.15m. The firm has agreed to buy Sinsational from the Antigua-based Tarter brothers, who set up the firm in 1999.
Neither of ...
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Sunday, March 13. 2005
Costa Rica-based sports betting giant BetCRIS has gone live with a
skill gaming sub-site, through a deal with UK software firm
Gameaccount. In a surprising move for the ...
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Saturday, March 12. 2005
GTimes
Jordan Berkowitz powers up his Toshiba laptop in the family room of his Marple Township home. He’s going to play a little poker.
He hasn’t slept in 24 hours, having played online all night. But he’s an accommodating kid.
He logs on, and jumps into a $100/$200 ...
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Friday, March 11. 2005
LegalWeek
Online gambling is a major growth area for a number of offshore financial centres, and following the WTO�s decision in the dispute between the US and Antigua & Barbuda, it is likely to become an even more popular source of business. Miles Benham reports ...
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Debate has begun in the UK’s House of Lords on a series of amendments to the Gambling Bill that could significantly alter the remote gaming regulations,
Lord Clement-Jones and Lord Addington have proposed an amendment to the bill asking the UK government to designate the US as a ...
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Officials in Turkey, one of the fastest-growing sports betting regions in Europe, have proposed a radical crackdown on online gambling with operators and players facing potential criminal charges.
A Turkish news agency reported clauses are due to be added to Turkey’s national ...
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China will award online gaming licences within the next two years, according to one of the leading operators in the region.
“China is a market that will eventually grant some kind of licences for betting, and it could be as soon as two to three years,” Tim Lambe, chief executive of ...
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Canadian online casino operator Gambling Federation has been thrown out of the Interactive Gaming Council over a row about malware installed on GF software.
Gambling Federation admitted to installing code on its casino software that blocked access to three competing casinos.
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