For a number of years now, online gambling establishments have offered odds on the length of the US President’s State of the Union address and, in some cases, how many standing ovations he will receive. Enter PaddyPower.com and what is being billed as the very first Easter Sunday Pope’s Urbi et Orbi odds offering. Paddy [...]
The UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced that it will deliver £60 million of efficiency savings, as a departmental contribution towards £11 billion of national savings that are being demanded by the Cabinet. And part of the cost-cutting is the merging of the National Lottery Commission with regulator the Gambling Commission. [...]
Austin, Texas is the scene of the latest brazen poker tournament robbery. This one follows just weeks after five bandits raided the EPT Berlin poker event, a robbery that gained international media attention. From Pokerati.com: Police say they are hot on the case … details emerging about the Austin poker game that got robbed EPT-Berlin [...]
After months of uncertainty, the ownership of Britain’s national lottery operator, Camelot, has been settled in a £389 million deal with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. The agreement will now go before the National Lottery Commission for final approval. Lee Sienna, vice president of the Canadian fund said this week: “Camelot is a world-class lottery [...]
The leading online poker sites are delivering twice the number of UltimatePoints and AbsolutePoints to all Sit & Go players for a full 48-hours on March 27th and 28th. UB.com and Absolute Poker are set to up the ante for all lovers of Sit & Go’s, unleashing an entire weekend of double UltimatePoints and AbsolutePoints [...]
Tiger Woods announced recently that he will be return g to the PGA tour for the Masters and fans across the country are buzzing with excitement. With the golf season kicking into high gear speculation is on the rise across the country as to who will win majors, lead the money list and deliver the [...]
85 percent of customers at the betting exchange intrade.com believe that healthcare reform will pass. Those numbers are up from 40 percent in late February when those efforts looked doomed. Betting exchanges tend to be especially accurate. A betting exchange like intrade.com is a form of bookmaking in which the operator offsets its risk perfectly [...]
The latest full year results from online casino group 32Red reflect, as predicted, a tale of two differing halves; the first produced a disappointing performance in a difficult economy, and the second saw improvement, albeit insufficient to be exciting. Read the full post >>
HLS 10RS-1141 ORIGINAL Page 1 of 3 CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored are additions. Regular Session, 2010 HOUSE BILL NO. 316 BY REPRESENTATIVE CARMODY GAMING: Exempts "fantasy competition" from certain gambling crimes AN ACT 1 To enact R.S.14:90(F) and 90.3(J), relative to gambling; to provide an exception [...]
So goes the argument that children can’t find their way onto Internet poker websites. Politicians have used the "child" excuse for the past 10 years in their woeful efforts to dissuade colleagues in voting for legislation that would legalize online poker. And we all laughed… We are still laughing at this little ditty out of [...]
