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    The Sunday Times

WILLIAM HILL is in talks to buy the betting-shop division of gaming group Stanley Leisure for £500m in a deal that would see it leapfrog Ladbrokes to become Britain’s biggest bookmaker.

William Hill, led by chief executive David Harding, has made ...

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Online casino operator GoldenPalace has paid US$650,000 for the right
to name a newly discovered species of monkey, which will be known
forever as the Goldenpalace.com monkey.

GoldenPalace outbid all other candidates and will hope to recoup some

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LAS VEGAS SUN

In the last couple of years poker professionals -- many of them Las Vegas residents -- have struck endorsement deals with Internet poker sites and regularly tout them during casino appearances.

In a bar near the lobby of the Rio resort, poker ...

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Columbia News Service

Even before he entered kindergarten, Greg Shahade excelled at chess. In the two decades since, he has worked his way up to the second highest level, just below grand masters like recently retired world champion Gary Kasparov.

After living on a ...

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The UK Treasury is believed to be considering an online gaming tax rate of 2% for operators licensed under the new Gambling Bill, according to two well-placed sources.
It is believed the government may consider a low tax rate to encourage more firms to domicile in the UK, after ...

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HERALD NEWS

CLIFTON - Police say they shut down an illegal casino late Tuesday that was holding high-stakes Texas Hold `Em poker games while posing as a soccer club.

Forty-five law enforcement officers from several departments and agencies raided the club, located in ...

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Cincinnati.Com

Americans gamble as much as $600 billion a year on everything from blackjack to bingo to poker to office basketball pools. Between $60 billion and $80 billion of that total ends up with the gambling industry as gross revenue, or the take before taxes and wages are ...

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Sentinel Staff

We`ll wager on terrorist attacks, the next pope, whether Britney is pregnant or how long Chuck and Camilla will last. And odds are we`ll keep on gambling.

Is nothing sacred anymore?

The body of Pope John Paul II was still lying in state, with ...

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It is just "a matter of time" before the US will have to bow to international pressures concerning its position on ruling of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation on Internet gaming.

This was the word from Minister of Finance and the Economy Dr. Errol Cort in ...

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AFP DUBLIN

Ireland’s biggest bookmaking chain, Paddy Power, said yesterday that Nigeria’s Cardinal Francis Arinze was now listed as the punters’ outright favourite to succeed John Paul II as pope.

“We have received about 100,000 euros (129,000 dollars) ...

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Leading industry figures have hailed the passing of the UK Gambling Bill as major achievement, with the chief executive of 888.com calling it the first step in pan-European regulation. “The bill is very good news for the industry, as is its acceptance by the country regarded as the best ...

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LAS VEGAS SUN

A Thursday ruling by a World Trade Organization appeals panel on Internet gambling won't weaken Nevada's right to regulate its own gambling industry or change the state's ban on online betting, a state official said.

It also isn't likely to affect the ...

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The World Trade Organization ruled that the U.S. can maintain a ban on online gambling challenged by the Caribbean island of Antigua and called for changes to prevent discrimination against foreign companies.
Antigua, a nation of 67,800 people and the smallest WTO government ever to ...

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Antigua has hit out at suggestions by the US that the WTO ruled in its favour yesterday, with its lead counsel calling the US claims “wishful thinking”.
Members of the US Trade Representatives said the WTO effectively ruled in favour of its restrictions on internet gambling and it ...

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The UK Gambling Bill defied the doomsayers and cleared its final hurdle by passing into law on Thursday afternoon.

The bill was passed by the House of Lords after last-minute bargaining between the two major political parties.

And after successfully negotiating a Lords ...

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