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by jo on February 28, 2006
$1 million is not a bad way to spend a Sunday brunch. A woman from California was playing slots whilst waiting for friends to turn up at the Atlanta Casino Resort. After spending a cool $100 on the...
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The world's biggest online casino, PartyGaming.com, has just lost their Chief Executive. Richard Segal leaves under a cloud of success with PartyGaming recently valued at over £5.2Billion and...
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by jo on February 27, 2006
Does anyone care anymore what Golden Palace does? Their marketing campaign of gatecrashing sporting events is becoming old hat and boring. Thankfully the media is wising up to it and aren't even...
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by simon on February 27, 2006
Reports are showing a rise in female casino gamblers. Traditionally, female gamblers have favoured lotteries, slots and video poker but recently more women are turning to games like blackjack and...
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by simon on February 27, 2006
A new round of bail appearances is about to get underway in the Police investigation into race-fixing in the UK. It has been reported in The Racing Post that the 3-year long investigation is coming...
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by simon on February 26, 2006
A motion was passed last week by the The California Horse Racing Board that will have a radical effect on horse racing in the US. All major tracks in the state of California have until the end of...
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by simon on February 26, 2006
The Kyodo News agency has reported today that the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party is encouraging the legalisation of Casinos. Japan wants to double the amount of tourists they see arriving on their...
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Since the fall of Communism Russia has seen a 20-30% a year rise in gambling. Yesterday, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, condemned gambling as one of the social ills that...
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by simon on February 24, 2006
Bodog.com, an online casino gambling group has reported record levels of interest in gambling on political propositions. Currently they are taking bets on whether or not it will be revealed this year...
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Depending on where you live, you need to be over 18 or 21 to enter a casino. This rule holds whether you're playing in London, Vegas or Cyberspace. However, more and more underage gamblers are...
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by jo on February 23, 2006
I thought i'd seen most things when it came to online gambling marketing - be it auctions or stunt marketing. But mixing politics, religion and poker is one place I didn't think it would go....
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by jo on February 22, 2006
More implosions in Vegas as they continue to get rid of the old hotels. This time its Bourbon Street Hotel-Casino - and it took 160lbs of explosives to take down the casino at 2:30am. Wouldn't...
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by jo on February 21, 2006
In a scene that could have come straight from off the latest blockbuster, Vegas became its own movie set as police SWAT blasted through a 20th floor window and held a stand-off for 6 hours with a man...
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by jo on February 21, 2006
This is one of those strange poker events that on the one hand is great for charity, and on the other hand is completely unnecessary. The first Canadian Women's Poker Classic took place over the...
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by jo on February 17, 2006
With 24 semi-finalists ready to vie for the American Idol and put themselves out to the public vote, bookies have already begun to offer up early odds for the winner. Pinnaclesports.com have put Ace...
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by jo on February 17, 2006
Next out of the starting block in the neverending campaign to get online gambling software manufacturers listed in the UK comes Playtech. One of the newer kids in the software arena, Playtech formed...
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by jo on February 16, 2006
Gone are the days of car rallies, golf challenges, garage sales and home-made lemonade to make some money for charity. Nowadays, its all about poker. I'm just waiting for the 11 yr olds at the...
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by jo on February 14, 2006
Here we go again. Virginian Republican, Bob Goodlatte, will re-introduce a bill to ban internet gambling on Thursday. Clearly there's nothing more important to do in Virginia, since 2 fellow...
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by jo on February 14, 2006
Whilst another 41 poker players got busted for illegal high stake poker games in Denver, the CEO of bodog.net is looking for the next reality TV star In the bizarre dichotomy that currently exists...
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by jo on February 10, 2006
Despite being one of the most popular sports events in the World, the Winter Olympics rarely offers any good betting opportunities - probably because a lot of the skiers, skaters and sledders are...
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by jo on February 10, 2006
As the tocchet/wayne gretzky betting scandal begins to infiltrate the masses (2500 articles on google news and counting), MSNBC has kindly taken the time to educate us naive readers on the current...
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