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Centrebet International today posted an annual result ahead of its own forecasts and reported a good start to the current year.

The online betting and gaming firm, which debuted on the Australian Stock Exchange in July, posted a full-year net profit of $2.798 million, from a loss ...

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TOKYO: Japanese banks have long had a reputation for poor service but at least one is trying something new - wooing customers with an opportunity to try their hand at Lady Luck.

A roulette wheel pops onto the screen of automatic teller machines when customers of Ogaki Kyoritsu ...

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A PLAN by James Packer to open Britain's first "super casino" faces intense scrutiny today at a formal hearing into the merits of the bid.
The media tycoon hopes to gain a stranglehold on Britain's recently deregulated gambling industry by securing the sole licence for a Las ...

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A group representing 5,000 small banks is opposing a tool lawmakers hope to use to stop illegal online gambling, posing a challenge to what is widely seen as the government's best shot at cracking down on the activity.

The Independent Community Bankers of America, whose members ...

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Approximately 30 people involved in the gaming industry will shortly be unemployed as gaming company BETonSPORTS (BOS) closes its Antigua operations, but there are fears in the Ministry of Finance that another 1,000 local jobs are on the line, being threatened by the US crackdown on Internet ...

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A World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel will convene in a matter of days to begin the next stage of Antigua & Barbuda's protracted Internet gaming dispute with the United States.

This summer, the government triggered the WTO's Article 21 (5) provisions which allowed Antigua ...

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THE HAGUE - In a letter to the European Commission, the Dutch government has repeated that the Dutch policy on gambling does not violate European rules. Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner has informed the Lower House about the letter.

The Netherlands sent the letter in reaction to ...

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With the NFL regular season just around the corner, Nevada bookmakers are hoping for a return to "normalcy" in the split between winning favorites and underdogs.

Last season, NFL favorites were an unprecedented 147-107 against the spread (ATS), a whopping 57.9 percent ...

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A QUEENSLAND punter has had a $120,000 to $600 bet about dual Argentine Group 1 winner Taimazov being the leading first-season sire by individual winners this season.
Sportingbet Australia said the punter was connected to Queensland's Wattle Brae Stud which stands Taimazov.


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SAN FRANCISCO - Americans continue to gamble in record numbers online, but executives of the offshore operations that take those bets are exercising caution weeks after one of their peers was arrested in the USA.
The trepidation of online-betting executives underscores growing concern ...

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WASHINGTON -- There may not be a better example of how much easier it is to block rather than pass legislation in Congress than the decade-long effort to prohibit Internet gambling.

The House and Senate have voted no fewer than six times to either outlaw or severely restrict online ...

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A hundred and sixty senior citizens have launched a nationwide campaign to root out gambling.

The members of the National Council for Upgrading Korea held a press conference yesterday at the New Kukje Hotel in Seoul proclaiming a war against gambling, criticizing the current situation ...

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Inside the quiet San Francisco headquarters of the Poker Players Alliance, a political group that boasts 100,000 members, a laminated poster hangs above the desk of executive director Michael Bolcerek that reads, "The Threat is Real."

In this case, the immediate threat ...

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