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Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is close to finalising a deal to open a £1.5 billion casino in Macau, the southern Chinese city that has overtaken Las Vegas as the world’s largest centre for gambling…

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is planning to build a $3bn (£1.52bn) casino complex in Macau, China, which recently overtook Las Vegas as the world’s biggest gambling centre. By Julia Kollewe….

Sir Richard Branson is planing to open a Virgin-branded Casino in Macau, one of the fastest-growing markets for gambling in the world….

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Bodog.com, the sportsbook and poker site that advocates style as much as substance, has fired 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Jamie Gold, who had a lot of one and not very much of the other. Gold, a… Continue . …

Drinkers in pubs across Britain will be allowed to play poker for cash in a move fuelling warnings of gambling addiction. However, gambling minister Richard Caborn insisted regulations would aim to stop excess…

MPs have criticised TV quiz channels and called for them to be classed as gambling. A report by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport select committee called for tighter regulation of the shows…

Casinos are to target the middle classes as some 60 more venues open across Britain within five years. They may be forced to put cigarette-style health warnings on adverts in a bid to stop a surge in addicts…

Call-in quiz television shows border on the fraudulent and should be reclassified as gambling, MPs have concluded…….

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With the Super Bowl just a few weeks away, where are you going to turn for your action? With Neteller and eChecks gone, Sportsbook.com has the most successful credit card acceptance rate in the industry. Twice named the “Best U.S…. Continue . …

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Bookmakers tip Martin Scorsese’s mob thriller The Departed to win best picture and director at the Oscars….