Posted on Saturday, 10th April 2010 by admin
The April 16th House Financial Services Committee hearings on two bills authored by Barney Frank has been postponed indefinitely, according to a spokesman for Frank’s office. The spokesman said that the postponement was due to over-scheduling on the chairman’s diary. “We had a previously scheduled event in Massachusetts,” he said, adding that a new date [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 10th April 2010 by admin
Online gambling software provider RealTime Gaming is currently rolling out its latest two online slots, Lucky Last and Hockey Hero, to its online casino licensees. Hockey Hero is a 25 pay-line, 5 reel video slot that features two random jackpots (a minor and major), a wild symbol, scatter symbol and up to 18 free spins, [...]
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Posted on Monday, 5th April 2010 by admin
The European Gambling and Betting Association (EGBA), home to many of Europe’s largest online gambling groups, reported this week on recent research into payback percentage, carrying an interview with Dr Jonathan Parke (JP), senior lecturer from the University of Salford. We reproduce key elements from the EGBA interview: EGBA: What was the objective of this [...]
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Posted on Monday, 5th April 2010 by admin
The two-year attempt by the state of Kentucky to seize 141 international online gambling domains appeared to enter a new phase last week as news broke of a fresh angle being taken by the state’s hired lawyers. Having by some accounts almost reached the end of the road with appeals to successively higher courts (the [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 31st March 2010 by admin
Red tape can be a pain in the tail for web publishers, casino entrepreneurs and the like, and man down under Greg Tingle at Media Man invest egg ates for Gambling911 … real news, spin or April Fools… you be the judge..think Donald Trump, Calvin Ayre and Steve Wynn have got issues with red tape, [...]
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Posted on Friday, 26th March 2010 by admin
Washington Democrat Representative Jim McDermott has introduced an updated version of the Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2010, a bill that would ensure that applicable taxes and fees are collected from a regulated Internet gambling industry in order to raise much-needed revenue for federal and state budgets. The most significant change from [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 16th March 2010 by admin
Online gambling’s arch enemy, the Republican senator from Arizona Jon Kyl, apparently chose a potent and successful tactic to ensure the UIGEA regulations are not delayed beyond June 1st. His blocking of key US Treasury appointments during approval hearings resulted in an assurance from Secretary to the Treasury Tim Geithner that no further postponements of [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 11th March 2010 by admin
In an aggressive move by online gambling interests, a new Facebook page has been launched with the goal to have some 200,000 fans in the next several months. Websites in the sector are being encouraged to promote the new Facebook page. "Show your support for i-gaming. Invite your friends to play Play poker, make sports [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 11th March 2010 by admin
For sports bettors throughout the United States, Sunday night will begin a five day frenzy of placing bets, organizing office pools and entering million dollar bracket contests like those found at Sportsbetting.com (see website here). For online gambling websites, the NCAA Basketball Tournament typically results in a jolt to their revenue stream. Based on recent [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 6th March 2010 by admin
Congressman Barney Frank’s HR2267 Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection And Enforcement Act attracted its 66th co-sponsor this week when Ohio Democrat Charles Wilson signed on. Observers are taking a generally bullish view on the prospects for the proposal due to the careful political approach that Frank’s has so far taken in the composition of the [...]
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