by Radley Balko - Radley Balko is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute. Online gambling is already illegal in the United States. Proprietors of gaming sites are all incorporated overseas. Yet Internet wagering is still a $12 billion industry. History has shown us that prohibiting private, consensual behavior has never made that behavior go away. Because consensual crimes take no victims, vice laws are difficult to enforce. Police have to use informers and undercover work and sometimes need to break the v…

Online casino publicity seekers, Golden Palace have once again been scouring the auctions and bought another piece of celebrity memorabilia they can hawk to the masses. This time they paid $7099 for a bowl hand-painted by comedian Richard Pryor. The… Continue . …

Ever since Majestic Star bought the former Trump Casino-Hotel last year, the company have been reducing staff. Staff numbers have been dropped from 2000 to around 1,400. The casino has eliminated 33 table games, dropping from 92 to 59. Some… Continue . …

A baby boy died after an untrained doctor pressed the wrong button on his bypass machine because it was a less “horrid” colour than the other, an inquest has heard….

Father, son group, Kerzner International, who own the Atlantis Resort and Casino in Paradise Island, Bahamas, are planning to buy back their shares to take the group private. The $3.6 billion deal would value Kerzner at $76 per share… Continue . …

Katherine Salvan, of Metairie, La has won over $8million from a $200 stake playing a Wheel of Fortune Slot machine. Salvan, a 10 year veteran gambler in South Mississippi, hit the jackpot after playing the machine for comps. However,… Continue . …

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Online poker company Party Gaming is set to replace outgoing chief executive Richard Segal with Mitch Garber, former executive chairman of Aim-listed online payment firm Fire One….

Online gaming firm 888 has said it is confident US politicians will ultimately reject a bill that proposes a tough clampdown on the sector. On Wednesday, a committee in the US House of Representatives approved a bill to stop firms like 888 accepting credit cards or other types of payment….

By Lloyd Apter - Trust is the number one issue in our business. The unique casino affiliate / casino affiliate program relationship is on one hand very open and non-exclusive, while on the other hand in order to achieve success, it requires a high level of mutual trust and co-operation between both parties. As a casino affiliate program manager, I constantly receive questions that address the honesty of our operations, reporting, tracking, payments etc… and I’m sure that the same is true for most cas…

By Sixto Ortiz Jr. - Of all the ways fortunes are won and lost over the Internet, few endeavors have enjoyed the explosive growth or weathered the intense scrutiny of online gambling. Its popularity is surging, thanks to a proliferation of Web sites that cater to bettors, a poker craze that shows no signs of abating, and continued interest in wagering on huge sporting events such as the Super Bowl and the World Cup….

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua — Antigua will continue developing its Internet gambling industry despite pressure from the United States to prohibit the practice, the finance minister said Wednesday. Finance Minister Errol Cort said at least 10 new online gambling companies will open on the Caribbean island next year, joining 14 that already have been granted operating licenses….

By Mark Tran - Empire Online, a promoter of internet poker and casino sites, today pulled out of takeover talks with PartyGaming, the owner of the world’s biggest online poker site. Empire said PartyGaming, the UK’s biggest online casino, had revised a takeover approach made earlier this month. PartyGaming initially tabled an all-share offer valuing Empire at 10% of an enlarged group - approximately £400m. Since then, with investors taking the view that online gambling has gone off the boil, Empire’s shar…

Share in the Success of a World Brand Name 888! The Online Gaming Industry is the Internet’s biggest financial success story. This company has established a reputation for providing online Casino gaming and Poker venues of outstanding quality, with unequaled success in retaining players….

(PRWEB) November 16, 2005 — Although gambling has always been a man’s affair, women all over the world are beginning to frequent the casino scene more than ever before. Online casinos provide an exciting and fun atmosphere, as well as fast-paced casino games which both men and women enjoy. And because ladies have begun to truly make their mark in the online gambling world recently, Lady’s Casino, a new, only-for-women online casino site has been made for those thrill-seeking women on the net….

By Marla Matzer Rose - In an industry filled with big aspirations and outsized egos, Stephen Wynn has made a name over nearly 40 years in Las Vegas as a man who accomplishes his goals with a deliberate and single-minded drive. His success has confounded skeptics, from his turnaround of the Golden Nugget in the early 1970s to this year’s opening of the splashy Wynn Las Vegas on the former site of the Desert Inn….

By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop - SINGAPORE Governments across Asia are lifting restrictions on gambling, and analysts forecast a huge increase in the number of new casinos built in the region. But while builders are pouring concrete, there is another frontier line opening up for gamblers here: cellphones. “Wireless devices are now ubiquitous and in Asia in particular, the percentage of advanced devices and the gaming on these devices is very high,” said Matti Zinder, chief executive of Spin3, an Israel-based …

LONDON, Nov. 13 (UPI) — The number of gamblers has jumped in Britain since the government abolished a 24-hour registration period for new visitors. Casinos report 100,000 new visitors have entered their doors since the waiting period was lifted five weeks ago, the Times of London said. They predict there will be 250,000 new gamblers by the end of the year….

By Steve Malone - The Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell warned online gambling companies to clean up their act when it came to advertising. Speaking at the Annual General Meeting of the British Casino Association she said that she was concerned by the increase in potentially illegal advertising for the online gambling operators and warned that any company caught flouting the laws would be prosecuted. Under the Gaming Act of 1968 it is illegal for an advert to offer any incentive, inducement or encouragement t…

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Nevada casino gambling revenue increased 9.63 percent in September from a year earlier to $1.01 billion despite concerns that high gasoline prices would deter tourists, state officials said on Thursday. Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, the heart of Nevada’s gambling industry, reported gambling revenue jumped 17.8 percent in September from a year earlier to $541.22 million, the Nevada Gaming Control Board reported….

Stanley Ho’s Sociedade de Jogos de Macau (SJM) has invited investment banks to submit proposals for an initial public offering of up to HK$7.8 billion in Hong Kong, said sources familiar with the situation. Tim LeeMasterandZach Coleman - SJM, the largest casino operator in Macau, sent out a request for proposals Monday, but any listing is “still a long way away” and not likely until the second half of next year, a source said….

Has poker finally jumped the shark? The New York Post certainly seems to think so. Pepsi have started to run TV ads in rotation featuring poker pros such as Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth and Scott Nguyen all losing to… Continue . …

After ten months of campaigning, anti-casino activists led by Patricia Murphy (pictured) have won their battle against the building of an enormous casino complex at the Sud-Ouest borough of Montreal. Murphy, who leads a religious organisation, claimed that a… Continue . …

Tony Blair’s government have been accused of dipping their fingers into lottery money, kept aside for good causes, to raise funds for controversial wind farms. The money went to a Danish energy giant which is in the process of… Continue . …

Talisman Group has announced its decision to Distribute DEQ’s No-Commission Baccarat Game Patents. Who are they? The Talisman Group are international consultants specializing in casino operations and DEQ is a provider of gambling technology products (such as multiple bet… Continue . …

This weekend sees the 75th anniversary of the historic decision to legalise gambling in the State of Nevada. The law was passed during the Great Depression with the hope that legal gaming would boost the economy. Within 2 years Vegas… Continue . …

Well Cheltenham 2006 is all over. War of Attrition (pictured) is the Gold Cup winner after a disappointing run by our selection Beef or Salmon. The easiest horse to back today, and of the festival overall, must have been… Continue . …

A win with Fondmort (pictured) made day 3 of Cheltenham a profitable one for us. It’s the big race today, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, with £400,000 in prize money waiting for Beef or Salmon. In the first race I… Continue . …

The House committee yesterday approved a bill aimed at making online gambling illegal. The bill, brought by congressmen Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, John Kyl of Arizona and Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa Goodlatte will now go to the House… Continue . …

12 year old Moscow Flyer has retired after finishing fifth in the Queen Mother Champion Chase. The surprise winner was the Irish outsider Newmill (pictured) and our selection Foto Island came in second. However, a nice 11/1 win with… Continue . …

GAMBLERS will be forced to pay higher credit card charges after Britain’s biggest banks introduce new rules to penalise the growing number of gaming enthusiasts in this country…….

It must be so confusing being a law enforcement officer in the US right now when it comes to online gambling. Is it illegal? A State issue? A Federal Issue? No-one seems to know. But for one man in… Continue . …

There’s an interesting dispute going on at the WPT these days - mainly with a bunch of pros that are attached to fulltiltpoker.com - including Chris Ferguson and Andy Bloch. Apparently, these players have decided not to compete in… Continue . …

Positive result yesterday with wins for Brave Inca and Native Jack. If we bet 1 unit on each race let’s see how we fared: Quatre Heures, Accordion Etoile, Moulin Riche and Ouste worked together to lose us 4 units…. Continue . …

Deportivo Coruna are ready to take a gamble against Espanyol when they try to overturn a 2-1 deficit on Wednesday and reach the King’s Cup final….

Barry Manilow soars high above the traffic five days a week on his commute to the Las Vegas Hilton, it has been announced. From his home in Palm Springs, the 59-year-old singer travels by jet to Sin City. “There’s just no quiet in Vegas,” Manilow told……

The appeal court rules Wrexham FC’s ground stays with administrators, finally allowing the club’s sale….

Well the first race of the Cheltenham Festival is less than an hour away - so you’ve still got time to put some money on Quatre Heures to win at 2.00pm. Accordion Etoile (pictured) will take the prize, £140,000… Continue . …