U.S. casinos are seizing on a Justin Timberlake movie about the perils of unregulated online gambling to revive the industry's stalled attempt to legalize Internet poker nationwide.
Read More . . .The case against former Las Vegas sportsbook director Mike Colbert has been dismissed.
Read More . . .Last week's Ladbrokes September Trading Update held a warning that we've become accustomed to hearing from the Harrow-based bookmaker – we've heard it four times in the past year. It's that profits from the digital side of the business are going to be lower than expected.
Read More . . .The American Gaming Association estimates that Americans spend about $4 billion gambling online each year, even though Congress banned it in the U.S. in 2006. About 1,700 offshore sites have handled these bets, but there are now three states benefiting from superseding the federal laws that have tried to keep players from cashing in big.
Read More . . .At the end of the 112th Congress of the United States, in late 2012, the company Public Policy Polling performed a series of polls that found that the American public had a higher opinion of colonoscopies, root canals, head lice and cockroaches than it did of the American Congress.
Read More . . .US Poker reports that Zynga has officially withdrawn its application for a gambling license in the state of Nevada, reinforcing the company's recent decision to back away from real-money gaming for the time being.
Read More . . .week after winning $200,000 on Manziel and Texas A&M covering the first-half spread against the SMU Mustangs, Money May once again put money down, this time $30,000, on the Aggies to cover the first-half spread against the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Read More . . .Atari's 1981 hit Centipede is an antique in the video game world, but it's the hottest new thing in the casino industry.
Read More . . .I followed up on Mike Spellman's interesting story today about how the number of racing days at Arlington International Racecourse this year could depend on lawmakers' further approval of betting on horses online.
Read More . . .Las Vegas billionaire Steve Wynn's Wynn Resorts will partner with 888 Holdings to offer real money online poker games in Nevada's newly regulated market.
Read More . . .The world's biggest gaming convention kicks off in Las Vegas this week. Thousands of people are in town to attend the Global Gaming Expo (G2E). This year, Internet gambling is expected to be the hot topic.
Read More . . .There are many causes of match-fixing but could some athletes, by their very nature, be more susceptible to the lure of fixing sporting events?
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