World Gambling News

Florida’s government has three more weeks to make a deal with the Seminole Tribe over bringing Las Vegas style gambling to its casinos after the U.S. Interior Department extended Tuesday’s deadline for an agreement to Sept. 11.
The Seminole tribe believes it can bring Class III games like blackjack and roulette to its Florida casinos because […]

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One of Asia’s first internet companies to be listed on the Nasdaq market is staging a comeback as an online gambling operator.
Taiwan-based Gigamedia (NASDAQ: GIGM) started as an ISP over cable TV lines in the late 1990s.
Despite a promising start, growth faltered after Taiwan’s former telephone monopoly took advantage of its existing infrastructure and connections […]

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The Larry Johnson Fantasy Football nightmare is over.
The star running back has agreed in principle to a new six-year deal with
Kansas City, and is expected to rejoin his team on Tuesday, FOXSports.com has
learned.
While his teammates were holding two-a-days in River Falls, Wisconsin, Johnson spent
training camp working out at Athletes Performance Institute in […]

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Tim Donaghy may not have been the only NBA referee betting and potentially fixing the outcome of games. News has surfaced that Donaghy is prepared to implicate 20 refs in a growing NBA gambling crisis.
The report on 1050 ESPN Radio in New York said Donaghy will provide prosecutors as many as 20 names of […]

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GEORGE VECSEY
The New York Times
NEW YORK–Michael Vick is almost surely going to jail and his football career is probably over. All the years he spent as a pampered celebrity in the general vicinity of education did not provide him with the insight that torturing dogs is not good and, besides that, could get him in […]

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A landlord from the UK and a multi-millionaire entrepreneur in the US are leading the charge against smoking bans on both sides of the Atlantic. Les Fuller, landlord at the Seven Stars in Bury, ended his tenancy after claiming the smoking ban would cost him thousands of pounds in lost revenue, while in the US […]

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A survey of 100 private equity executives by accountancy and consulting firm Grant Thornton found that 28 percent would not consider gambling businesses as an investment possibility. Despite one in four private equity firms having a formal code of ethics, the gambling sector was only ranked third behind pornography and firearms/military […]

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Gamblers at the Twin River casino in Rhode Island were given more than they bargained for after a video lottery terminal awarded credit for twice as much money as had been inserted and erroneously paid out $450,115 over two months. A spokesman for the machine’s supplier said the machine’s money-doubling feature was turned on, apparently […]

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Online poker room VC Poker has announced a new online poker championship, the European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP).
This event will run for ten days online only, with prize pools that run from $100k to $1m. Each victor will get a ECOOP Bracelet, just like the winners of the World Series of Poker events in […]

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WPT’s Internet casino powered exclusively by CryptoLogic’s award-winning software
Vegas-style online casino action is now available from one of the world’s top names in poker entertainment. CryptoLogic Limited (TSX: CRY)(TSX: CXY)(NASDAQ: CRYP)(LSE: CRP), a leading software developer to the global Internet gaming market, has launched a new casino on World Poker Tour®’s (WPT) gaming site (www.worldpokertour.com), […]

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