Friday, December 29. 2006
Come January 27th of 2007, punters will be able to legally place wagers on New York State Racing sanctioned events via the internet. This rule change was established yesterday and effectively means that wagers may now be made using any telephone medium including a PDA and the internet as ...
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Tuesday, December 26. 2006
The Thanh Nien, a Vietnamese daily newspaper, has reported that Vietnamese Police have arrested 18 people suspected of illegal online betting. The wagering allegedly took place on High profile English Premier League soccer matches police said. A police official in Ho Chi Minh City said ...
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Monday, December 18. 2006
Justice Thayne Forbes ruled today that Fergal Lynch, and six-time British champion jockey Kieren Fallon will go on trial at the Old Bailey in London on September 24 of next year. Fallon was one of 11 people charged by police in July as part of Britain's biggest race-fixing ...
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Thursday, December 14. 2006
The following story was run in the New York Daily News on Thursday, December 14th. The author, Denis Hamill, spins a good yarn about a New York City bookie who apparently does not have heart made of ice, yet knows how to collect outstanding debt using alternate means when he has ...
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Tuesday, December 5. 2006
Got a Beef against offshore betting? Then you better get in line. Parents and friends of players watch Manitoba Junior Hockey League games for love of the game and some flashes of amateur brilliance. But others have been taking an interest in the games for financial reasons. ...
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Saturday, December 2. 2006
English paper The Sun reported today that corruption investigators have established a strong case against former racehorse owner Ajaz Khan, a trainer and four jockeys. Khan, 35, now runs an internet horseracing tipping service. Horseracing Regulatory Authority (HRA) agents say that Kahn ...
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Monday, November 27. 2006
The perceived risk of holding Ladbrokes Plc debt rose after a report that the world's biggest publicly traded bookmaker may be taken over in a leveraged buyout, according to traders betting on the creditworthiness of companies in the credit-default swap market. Contracts based on 10 ...
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Thursday, November 23. 2006
If you ever travel Route 138 from the island of Montréal in the direction of Châteauguay, you would be forgiven if you missed spotting the world's 3rd largest online gaming jurisdiction. Plaza 138 is a sleepy, run-down strip mall, comprised of weather-board buildings with mostly ...
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Sunday, November 12. 2006
English premier league football club Tottenham Hotspur are in talks with Gibraltar based sportbook Mansion to assist in financing a deal to lure the former England captain from his current club Real Madrid. Tottenham are currently sponsored by the Internet gambling operator Mansion, and as ...
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Saturday, November 11. 2006
Earlier this week the English Football Association said it will investigate claims that a number of Premier League managers and players placed wagers on Premiership matches. This was spurred when a former employee of Victor Chandler, the Gibraltar-based online bookmaker, made claims that ...
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Thursday, November 9. 2006
The English Football Association confirmed today that it will investigate claims that a number of Premier League managers and players laid bets on Premiership matches. A former employee of Victor Chandler, the Gibraltar-based online bookmaker, has made the claims. Following an ...
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Tuesday, November 7. 2006
Police in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday raided the multiple premises used by an alleged football bookmaking group. The gang, who were reported to have operated exclusively on the Internet, was led by one Vu Hanh, a pawnshop proprietor, After searching seven houses and detaining eight persons, ...
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Saturday, November 4. 2006
PartGaming PLC is in negotiations to buy some part of the Austrian betting giant Bwin.com. This comes after the PartyGaming reported that its sports betting operation Gamebookers had "exceeded expectations". Gamebookers was acquired by the world's largest online poker outfit in a ...
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Tuesday, October 31. 2006
To say that the decision to grant Britain’s leading online betting business a licence to operate in Tasmania has been a contentious one in Australia’s sports betting circles would be an understatement. The racing industry and other State governments maintain that making a betting ...
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Monday, October 30. 2006
A famous Las Vegas Landmark is getting ready to close after nearly 50 years on the Strip. The Stardust has had many milestones, one of which involves its Race and Sports Book. When it opened back in 1975, it offered a $100,000 bet limit. Many people stopped by the Sports Book for the ...
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