EGamingPulse

Tuesday, May 29. 2007

F1 team order to cost Ireland's Biggest Bookmaker $100,000

Paddy Power is Ireland’s largest and sometimes most controversial bookmaker. They have drawn flack from the public, the catholic church and the government standards watchdog for some of their more risqué advertising campaigns, novelty props and press releases. However the bookmaking firm has ...

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Thursday, May 24. 2007

Net Gambling Ban is Prohibition 2.0

According to industry analysts, online gamblers from the United States represented close to fifty percent of the estimated US$15 billion in revenue from online gambling last year. Many industry analysts believe this has changed forever with the US government’s crackdown on online gambling ...

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Wednesday, May 23. 2007

Virgin partners with Betfair for new betting service.

Virgin Games has launched Virgin Bets, a branded betting service, to monetize the increasing public fascination with novelty type bets and entertainment proposition betting.

Virgin Bets takes wagers on all forms of sporting events and entertainment propositions and futures. ...

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Friday, May 18. 2007

Sportsbook can’t technically implement ban

The eight month long dispute between the German state of Bavaria and Austrian sportsbook BWIN has taken another turn. In September 2006 the state of Bavaria announced their decision to not allow BWIN to accept wagering from the Bavaria. Bavaria said ...

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Wednesday, May 16. 2007

NBA Betting: “In 2006 we were hammered, now we are ready to tank”

Figures released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board indicate that Nevada’s Sports Books saw a 17% drop in profit from basketball wagers when compared to the same period in 2006. Opinions on why this is vary, however many agree that there is less general betting interest in the NBA. NCAA ...

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Saturday, May 12. 2007

Offshore Bookmaker, 7 People Indicted On Racketeering, Bank Fraud.

Seven people and four companies were indicted on charges of conspiring to violate a US ban on Internet gambling by disguising the credit card charges, US Government officials said on Friday. Charged includes BetUS.com (a Canadian-based sport betting firm) and a company based in the British ...

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Tuesday, May 8. 2007

Latest Tour de France Controversy About Gambling, Not Drugs.

The EU will hope to ride to the rescue of a cycling team who was banned from competition for being sponsored by an online bookmaking website.

Tour de France organizers, spurred by France’s tight gambling laws, have barred the Unibet.com cycling team from entering the world’s best known ...

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Monday, May 7. 2007

Brit Punter Wagered £37.5 Million at BetFair in 2006

Harry Findlay has to be the UK’s most proficient if not prolific gambler. The Scotsman successfully backed 16 winners and won close to £2 Million betting the horses during the recent Bank Holiday weekend. RaceO is an internet gambling site that is licensed in Kahnawake, a gaming jurisdiction ...

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Wednesday, May 2. 2007

Double Your Money Casino scheme anything but.

The owner and operator of WorldPokerParty.com and DoubleYourMoneyCasino.com has been sentenced to 10 years in a US federal prison. Robert Eon Marshall, 58, of Fort Worth Texas pleaded guilty in January of this year to mail fraud. These charges stemmed from an investor scam that Marshall ran ...

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