Posted on Saturday, 3rd July 2010 by admin
(Associated Press) – Gov. Chris Christie has extended deadline for a commission he created to deliver its report on ways to fix New Jersey’s troubled gaming, sports and entertainment industries. The report, originally to be done by July 1, is now due on Aug. 1. The panel was ordered to examine what to do with [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd June 2010 by admin
CNN looking to boost ratings with controversial show co-host, Eliot Spitzer He once declared war on Internet gambling, then on prostitution rings. Eventually, he started using brothels himself. Eliot Spitzer was forced out as New York’s Governor. Now he’s back and bigger than ever before. Spitzer has been signed on to co-host a new CNN [...]
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Posted on Friday, 18th June 2010 by admin
Stories in the Irish media over the weekend illustrate the tough times being experienced by online and land gambling group Ladbrokes, which employs around a thousand people in its 284 Irish retail betting outlets. The reports focus on a recent Labour Court finding that the gambling company should reverse its decision to cut staff overtime [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 30th May 2010 by admin
Ioannis Spanoudakis, who as chief executive of the Greek gambling monopoly OPAP should know, has confirmed statements three weeks ago that gambling liberalisation is on the cards, and that online sports betting operations are on the OPAP future agenda. Speaking this week on an earnings call, Spanoudakis said he anticipates that internet sports betting will [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 25th May 2010 by admin
If nothing else, lawyer and poker player Lee Rousso will have achieved major mainstream media publicity for his fight against Washington State’s draconian law against online poker in the Washington State Supreme Court Thursday. Rousso resurrected the Betcha.com case as an example of the law’s inequitable and sweeping nature in the appeal case of Rousso [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 15th May 2010 by admin
A one time ferocious opponent of the online gambling industry, Eliot Spitzer, is being considered as host of a new debate show like "Crossfire" to replace anchor Campbell Brown’s 8 pm EST time slot. Brown announced on Wednesday that she will be stepping down as anchor during that hour due to low ratings. "Simply put, [...]
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Posted on Monday, 10th May 2010 by admin
Australia is passionate about footy (AFL and NRL), gambling and one may argue, vice, witness the ongoing success of TV smash hit ‘Underbelly’ and ‘Sin City’ expo. Little wonder then when you throw into the ring a pokies auction, sweet deals for AFL clubs, politics, mates rates, historic bad blood and a touch of vice, [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 5th May 2010 by admin
National gross gambling revenues fell to $30.7 billion in 2009, a decrease of 5.5 percent from 2008. It marked the second consecutive year of declining casino revenues due to the recession and consumers’ cutting back on discretionary and leisure spending, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Atlantic City fared the worst. It saw revenue drop 13.3 [...]
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Posted on Friday, 30th April 2010 by admin
Deceased gambling portal owner Kenneth B. (Read the full post about ‘Rats! Shrink Ken Weitnzer Was a Federal Informant’…)
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Posted on Friday, 30th April 2010 by admin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Delaware appeal that argued the state should be allowed to offer a new sports betting lottery to generate revenue to help ease its record budget deficit. The justices without comment let stand a ruling by a U.S. appeals court that a 1992 federal law prohibits [...]
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