Amidst all the hustle and bustle at the Rio Hotel and Casino, site of this year’s World Series of Poker, the chaos was interrupted by orchestrated acts of kindness at this year’s Ante Up for Africa event. When the cards went up in the year, 83 players, which included a dazzling array of poker pros and Hollywood celebrities, plunked down $5,000 for this year’s cause, the crises in the country of Darfur. When it was all said and done, players had raised almost $300,000 for the cause. Prior to the tournament, there was a star-studded red carpet media session leading [ Read More ]
Archive for July 3rd, 2010
It appears from statements made by the Australian federal government’s Community Minister, Jenny Macklin, that the federal government will not support any moves to liberalise online gambling laws in the country. Speaking on SBS television Tuesday after the release of an extensive and much anticipated Productivity Commission report on gambling, which recommended that regulation was preferable to prohibition, the minister unequivocally said the recommendation would not be supported Minister Jacklin also said the government would look at ‘pre commitment’ technology to tackle problem gambling at (land) slot machines, or ‘pokies’. The phrase ‘pre-commitment’ refers to responsible gambling practices whereby operators [ Read More ]
A newspaper story about the late TheRx.com and EOG.com founder Ken "The Shrink" Weitzner that featured interviews with two Gambling911.com writers is having reverberations around the country. The story, by Kristin Grace Davis, appeared in the Virginian-Pilot (www.pilotonline.com), a Norfolk, Virginia newspaper, on Sunday, July 4, 2010, and included comments from Gambling911.com writers Tom Somach and Chris Costigan. On Thursday, July 8, 2010, Somach and Davis will be interviewed about the story on a Los Angeles radio station. Among other things, Somach and Davis will discuss a controversial taped interview Somach did with Weitzner in 2007 for a radio appearance [ Read More ]
