Category: Gambling

College Football Gambling Preview: Texas Longhorns at Baylor Bears

Texas at Baylor -2.5 O/U 63.5 The Baylor Bears (8-3, 5-3 Big Xll) host the Texas Longhorns (7-4, 4-4) in the regular season finale for both teams Saturday. Texas enters off an upset win at Texas Aamp;M on Thanksgiving, booting a last-second field goal to win 27-25 and kicking their rival Aamp;M out of the [...]

Monday January 2nd, 2012 in Gambling | Comments Off

Kraft Gambling Tycoon Pal Has Led Colorful Life

BOSTON — If Patriots owner Robert Kraft is able to wangle a deal with his buddy, gambling magnate Steve Wynn, to build a casino complex near Gillette Stadium, he will have secured a partnership with a friend who has the deepest of pockets and a long record of success in the gaming industry. Wynn, 69, [...]

Thursday December 29th, 2011 in Gambling | Comments Off

N.J. leads the effort to overturn federal ban on sports gambling

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM New Jersey State Sen. Raymond Lesniak, one of the sponsors of New Jersey’s referendum that approved gambling, now plans to go to the New Jersey Senate to show how wagering can help cure the state’s financial ills. New Jersey will probably wait to meet the Justice Department until next year, after [...]

Tuesday December 27th, 2011 in Gambling | Comments Off

NC Cherokee deal doesn’t mean dealers just yet

While the governor and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians announced last week the completion of an amended gambling compact, political and legal hurdles remain before live table games can begin. The federal government must sign off on the contract. The Republican-led Legislature, while having no formal role in the compact negotiations, also has a veto [...]

Thursday December 22nd, 2011 in Gambling | Comments Off

Online Gambling Trial Judge ‘Unlikely’ to Dismiss Indictment

Online Gambling Trial Judge ‘Unlikely’ to Dismiss Indictment December 01, 2011, 5:47 PM EST Business Exchange E-mail Print More From Businessweek Occupy Wall Street Judge Refuses to Throw Out Summonses BNY Asks Court to Dismiss New York’s Currency-Trading Suit Apple Sued by Patent Holder Over IPhone Caller-ID Technology AT&T Sues FCC Over $4.3 Billion Phone [...]

Thursday December 15th, 2011 in Gambling | Comments Off

Stop gambling expansion

As past chairperson of the Washington State Lottery and a member of the commission for nine years, I have seen, up close, the expansion of gaming in our state over the past decade. Washington state now has more tribal gaming than any other state in the country, with the exceptions of California andOklahoma. As more [...]

Thursday December 15th, 2011 in Gambling | Comments Off

Doubts persist on gambling bill

We agree with the overall intent of the hotly debated gambling bill produced by state Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, and state Rep. Eric Fresen, R-Miami. Its the details that continue to give us reason to oppose passage of their bill in its original form. Bogdanoff and Fresen are correct that Florida needs to accept [...]

Wednesday December 14th, 2011 in Gambling | Comments Off

Online Gambling is about to Lose It’s Biggest Advocate in Congress

Since the first offshore betting website opened in the late 1990s, government officials in the United States have set out to shut down the business. John Kyl, the Senator from Arizona who unashamedly announced that he hated everything about gambling, introduced a bill, The Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act to make it [...]

Tuesday December 13th, 2011 in Gambling | Comments Off

Pupils should learn about gambling, says charity

Pupils should learn about gambling, says charity Schoolchildren as young as 12 should learn about responsible betting to tackle problem gambling, the Government has been told.

Monday December 12th, 2011 in Gambling | Comments Off

Fear over plan for Facebook ‘casinos’ that could lure children into online …

Facebook is being accused of luring children into gambling through plans to introduce real cash games. The world’s biggest social network site wants to use Britain as a testing ground for games that would let users gamble on virtual fruit machines, bingo, poker and roulette. It already allows members to play slot machine games and [...]

Monday December 12th, 2011 in Gambling | Comments Off