State Senate legalizes video poker to pay for construction program
- May 30, 2009
The Illinois Senate today approved a long-stalled, multibillion-dollar construction package that would be paid for by legalizing video gambling...
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Imega Briefs Kentucky Supreme Court on Web Domain Seizures
- May 28, 2009
May 27, 2009 - Lawyers for the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) submitted their brief to the Kentucky State Supreme Court, opposing an attempt by Gov. Steven Beshear (D) to seize the rights to 141 Internet domain names.
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What happened to NFL claim that gambling is bad and evil?
- May 28, 2009
Since the discussions began months ago, some here in Delaware thought the big, bad National Football League was going to blow the lid right off the state's attempt to introduce legalized sports betting by invoking the "integrity" of its port.
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Delaware Supreme Court Hears Sports Betting Arguments
- May 22, 2009
The Delaware Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday on the pros and cons of the sports lottery law signed by Gov. Jack Markell last week.
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Delware Law on Betting May Hinge on Spread
- May 22, 2009
The NFL and the two sides trying to shape the state's reactivated sports-betting system made it clear yesterday before Delaware's Supreme Court that the entire argument was balanced on a fine line - a betting line.
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Californian online poker edges closer as budget fix fails
- May 20, 2009
California has rejected emergency budget measures designed to fix the state's budget crisis, providing a major boost to a framework bill proposing to legalize intrastate online poker as early as next year...
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On the Web, they urge Obama: Overturn ban on Internet gambling
- May 19, 2009
During his transition to the White House, President Barack Obama asked Americans to send him their policy priorities, the makings of a Citizens Briefing Book for his new administration. Poker players flooded the Web site...
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South Carolina Poker Bills Pass Senate Judiciary Committee
- May 18, 2009
Live and online poker players in South Carolina have been jumping for joy at the news that Senate Bills 535 and 628 have cleared the state’s Senate Judiciary Committee. Both bills explicitly legalize social games of poker...
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NJ State Senator Pushes Corzine to Fight Ban on Sports Wagering
- May 18, 2009
State Sen. Raymond J. Lesniak (D-Union) last week asked Gov. Jon S. Corzine to put his weight behind the campaign to lift a 1992 federal ban on sports wagering in most states.
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Delaware's Sports-betting System Yet to Take Shape
- May 17, 2009
Will it be a football pool-type lottery like the one that flopped in Delaware in 1976? Will bettors be allowed to wager on single sporting events, in casino-style luxury, as they can in Las Vegas? Or will they be restricted to parlays - single bets on two or more events?
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Another Guilty Plea in the BETonSPORTS case
- May 15, 2009
Tim Brown, accused in federal court here of helping the bankrupt Betonsports online gambling site violate U.S. laws, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a racketeering charge.
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Committee to shape Delaware sports betting law
- May 15, 2009
Gov. Jack Markell signed sports betting and table games into law Thursday, but even he can't say yet how much gamblers will be able to bet or which games they'll be able to play...
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