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Tuesday, September 19. 2006

Backdoor move to ban Web gambling fizzles

GOP leaders vow to continue prohibition push

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., tried to attach an Internet gambling ban to a defense bill last week but was rebuffed by two powerful senators, congressional sources said Monday.

Despite the setback, ...

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French judge indicts heads of Austria's BWIN for allegedly breaking gambling laws

A French judge on Monday indicted the co-chief executives of Austrian online company BWIN for allegedly breaking French gambling laws, their attorney said.

Manfred Bodner and Norbert Teufelberger were detained Friday and taken into custody while unveiling a sponsorship agreement with ...

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Bwin -17%; Shares To Remain Volatile

Bwin (BWIN.VI) -17% at EUR21.20 as trade resumes Tuesday morning, after having been suspended Friday following the arrest of the two co-CEOs. "The share price should remain highly volatile as the risk exposure in Bwin's business model is relatively high," says one trader. Adds ...

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Private-public clash on gambling

LONDON The detention of the heads of an Austrian online gambling company by French authorities has raised the stakes in a Europe-wide battle between lucrative state-sponsored betting monopolies and their upstart rivals on the Internet, raising eyebrows at the European Commission in ...

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Betting The Ranch On Casinos

Can U.S. gamblers' appetites keep up with the current wave of expansion sweeping the industry?

Is there a limit to Americans' hunger for gambling? Casino executives are putting their money squarely on "No." With expansion plans on the table from Biloxi to Las Vegas, $25 ...

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Young Poker Addicts

Internet poker is easy and private. All it takes is a computer and a credit card. And some of the Web sites let you start playing without the credit card. It looks easy to win, so easy, in fact, that a national epidemic is sweeping the country, and it has come to our part of Maine.

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You lost how much last month?

Proposal to send reports to gamblers has casinos concerned

Bill Kearney, an in-your-face mortgage broker from Philadelphia, a recovering compulsive gambler and a one-time high roller in Atlantic City, is proving an annoyance to casino executives because of what he's trying to ...

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