Saturday, October 28. 2006
South Australian 'No Pokies' MP, Nick Xenophon, has new ammunition in his call for a referendum on whether to ban poker machines.
The latest auditor-general's report shows national turnover on poker machines reached a record $7 billion in the past financial year, that is despite ...
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NEW YORK - Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a new Internet gambling ban won't keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them on to overseas payment services out of the law's reach.
"It has put a terrible scare into people," said I. Nelson Rose, ...
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A tsunami hit the online gambling industry this month and it washed right up to the doors of a building on Highway 138 on the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve. The building houses Mohawk Internet Technologies, an 8-year-old business that has become remarkably profitable by servicing some of ...
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Friday, October 27. 2006
The US crackdown on online gambling is a "new prohibition", which is likely to fuel a rise in fraud and exploitation, the UK culture secretary has said.
Offshore sites could become the "modern equivalent of speakeasies", illegal bars which opened in 1920s America ...
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Parlay Entertainment Inc. shares nosedived nearly 19 per cent Thursday after its merger plans with Chartwell Technology Inc. were terminated. "The continuing market uncertainty for the online and remote gaming industry generated by recent legislative actions in the United States ...
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FRAMINGHAM -- A local company that expects its legal online poker business to grow because of a federal law that bans Internet gambling has gone public through a reverse merger.
The National League of Poker, or NLOP Inc., took over the operations of Power Play Development Corp., ...
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On Oct. 20, one week after President Bush signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, the Australian company Betcorp announced sale of its online casino and sports betting operations in Antigua and Toronto. Because of the new law, the company said, "it is no longer ...
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A bill introduced at Queen's Park yesterday could cost the CFL — and especially the Argos — a lot of money. Proposed by Government Services Minister Gerry Phillips, the Consumer Protection and Service Modification Act includes a clause that would outlaw advertising on Internet gambling ...
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Thursday, October 26. 2006
The international poker tournament circuit is hurtling toward its saturation point, and recent congressional legislation has placed a damper on the online poker party. Yet those downers haven't been able to put a bad beat on World Poker Tour action in Las Vegas, said Doug Dalton, the ...
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AN adviser to a football star who ran up £100,000 of gambling debts has been beaten up in a vicious street attack. Grant Brebner recently left Dundee United for Australia owing a substantial sum. The former Hibs player's affairs are being handled by a Tayside company. And the man ...
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WASHINGTON - Could a cornerstone of Republicans' American Values Agenda - the just passed law to ban Internet gambling - come back to bite the party on Nov. 7? That's the prognosis of poker-playing scholar Charles Murray, who warned in a recent newspaper opinion piece of the political ...
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Ontario, stung by falling tax revenues from casinos across the Canadian province, wants to ban advertisements for Internet gambling sites, and hopes its plan will prompt a federal crackdown on online gaming. Gerry Phillips, minister of government services for the province, said the ban ...
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Wednesday, October 25. 2006
PADDY Power is considering the launch of a new casino in Ireland as well as the introduction of gaming websites in Italy, Spain and Poland, the company revealed yesterday. The move into continental Europe comes as European governments come under pressure to open their gambling ...
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On Oct. 20, one week after President Bush signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, the Australian company Betcorp announced the sale of its online casino and sports betting operations in Antigua and Toronto. Because of the new law, the company said, "it is no longer ...
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Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a new internet gambling ban won't keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them on to overseas payment services out of the law's reach. "It has put a terrible scare into people," said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches ...
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