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 roulette for their gaming thrills. To celebrate the increase… Continue . …

Top seed Andy Roddick has pulled out of this week’s Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas due to weariness….

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 to a head. Those… Continue . …

An ear for a spinning ball, an ability to recite the 17 times table and a hand that can sense, without counting, when it is holding exactly 20 chips need to be on the CV of the aspiring croupier…….

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 the… Continue . …

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 shores by 2010. It is believed that… Continue . …

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 have plagued Russian since… Continue . …

James Quinn looks at Sportingbet….

London Clubs International is to sell its Les Ambassadeurs casino to a firm owned by one of Indonesia’s richest men….

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 that Vice President Dick Cheney shot Harry… Continue . …

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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 managing to place bets… Continue . …