Online gaming forum

Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be in and of Los Angeles, participating in a forum discussing of online gaming regulation in the United States. This is part of a series of discussions being sponsored by BetOnSports. There have already been forums in New York City and Washington DC. I’m really looking forward to the panel; and I’ll […]

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Harrah’s to sue gov?

Rhode Island governor Donald Carcieri might have to put his money where his mouth is. From News Channel 10: Harrah’s Entertainment says it’s contemplating legal action against the governor over comments he made at an anti-gambling conference. Harrah’s spokeswoman Jan Jones says the governor’s claim that Harrah’s tried to win a law firm’s support for

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Anti-gambling to merge with anti-terror?

Proponents of the ban on Internet funding, including Rep. Michael Oxley of Ohio, have contended that bank instruments used in online gaming can facilitate money-laundering and terrorism. So, for the second time, they are moving to graft the ban onto the USA PATRIOT act. From Interactive Gaming News: Oxley, chairman of the House Committee on

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Betting on nothing

NHL owners have locked out their players, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get action down on hockey this season. From the Edmonton Journal: An Antigua-based sports-betting firm has become the first to put odds on the outcome of the National Hockey League lockout, and how it could affect a season scheduled to open Oct.

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More Hong Kong cricket-fighting!

You can arrest participants and bust trainers, but apparently you can’t stop Hong Kong cricket-fighting, or betting on it. For the second time, police in Hong Kong have smashed a bug-fighting ring. From ChannelAsia.com: Hong Kong police smashed the second illegal insect-fighting gambling ring in a month when they arrested 43 people for betting on

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News from Mississippi, Virginia, Atlantic City

Here are three newsworthy items that, on a slow news day, would merit a post of their own. But, since there’s no crying in online discussion of gaming, I’ve combined them into one. Item: Mississippi Gulf Coast casinos were spared the worst from Hurricane Ivan, and will reopen today: Coast casinos to reopen today following

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Notice for online regulation campaign

It looks like the mainstream media is picking up a story reported on the Internet last week about BetOnSports’ David Carruthers’s campaign to bring online gaming regulation before the public. From the LVRJ: But unless Congress abandons efforts to prohibit Internet gambling. Carruthers said, the United States stands to lose billions of dollars in potential

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Of milkshaking and men

This tidbit intrigued me so much I had to post it. From the San Diego Herald Tribune: In horse racing lingo, it’s called “milkshaking.” Under cover of darkness or a blanket, a handler inserts a tube into a horse’s nostril, directs it to the stomach and feeds the animal a baking-soda solution in the hope

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Speed bumps

I don’t have any news story about this: it’s just personal observation. There are too many speed bumps in Las Vegas. They just put three of them in the driveway that leads out of my apartment complex, probably because the hammerheads that live there were speeding around the curving road that leads to Howard Hughes

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Hold em more profitable than banking

Sometimes, I like to step back from things and consider them in historical context. We truly live in a fantastic world of wonders. I’ll explain after this story, from KeralaNext.com: A mathematics graduate from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who snubbed a 40,000 pound a year banking job to earn a mere 4,500 a week playing internet

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Mother nature hates casinos?

That’s the irrational explanation for those who try to impose causality on random events–something that many gamblers excel at. Anyway, because of the looming threat of Hurricane Ivan, the state has closed Mississippi coast casinos. From the Sun Herald: State regulators ordered the coast casinos shut to customers at noon Tuesday. Casino workers had until

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Elderly gamblers healthier

This story has been bouncing around for a few days, and even made the CNN Headline News ticker. According to a Yale University study, older people who gamble are actually healthier than those who don’t. From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The findings are not rock-solid. They’re only based on telephone interviews, but the results are the

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Police poker popped

Like many other Americans, police in Virginia Beach like playing poker. For almost a year, they’ve been holding a monthly Texas Hold’em tournament in the Fraternal Order of Police lodge. But now, because the tournaments are apparently illegal, they will cease. From HamptonRoads.com: The game became an issue with the FOP after the state Department

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New debate on online betting

The parent company of BetonSports.com, a big Internet wagering site, has announced that it will launch an initiative called “Proposition 1: To Regulate or Prohibit Online Gambling?” which will bring the question of the legality of online gambling before the United States public. From yahoo, who just ran the press release: The initiative will be

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