Police in the small Utah city of Murray raided an Internet cafe on Sunday evening and arrested over 50 people on allegations that they were conducting and participating in illegal online gambling activities. The Murray City Police Department revealed that it had conducted several undercover operations at The Fortune Cyber Cafe in the Salt Lake [...]
Online gambling group Party Gaming has released its first half results, showing a 6.5% fall in operating profit, which management has attributed to competitive pressures and the consumer slowdown. However, the group offered the more encouraging news that trade in the last three weeks had been strong. In the three weeks to August 18, the [...]
"If the media and oversensitive racism watchdogs continue this witch-hunt for racists, they are doing more to slow relations between races than to improve them." So writes Ricky Bauer of Gambling Review, one of many online gambling and poker information websites commenting on this week’s controversy suggesting that poker pro Daniel Negreanu might be a [...]
NBC’s prime time Saturday poker show, Face The Ace, had only 1.46 viewers in its second showing. Things could have been worse as the program apparently didn’t lose many viewers (debuting with 1.59 million). As it turns out, Face The Ace is not being broadcast in all markets. Salt Lake City residents are being deprived [...]
LAS VEGAS – (Associated Press) – Lower gambling revenue and continuing costs of opening its newest casino, Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, punished Wynn Resorts Ltd., but the 91 percent drop in profit it reported Thursday topped forecasts, and its shares soared. The company, run by billionaire and major stockholder Steve Wynn, reported profit of [...]
Online gaming laws are in a constant state of confusion these days. In the United States, the debate has been raging on for years ever since the creating of the Unlawful Internet and Gambling Enforcement Act. It seems sometimes as though companies are engaging in a massive shell game just to remain legally compliant while [...]
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) wrote a letter to US Attorney-General Eric Holder, asking him to vigorously oppose a suit challenging the Federal law banning the expansion of state licensed and regulated sports wagering, brought by the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA). iMEGA, et al v. Holder, et al, filed [...]
This week saw a strong Poker Players Alliance presence in Washington DC as the one million member poker organisation flew in state directors and top poker personalities to interact with politicians and sell the idea of legalised online poker in the United States as part of the National Poker Week initiative. At a dinner kicking [...]
Known taken in the character of the Fatty Male person, a billionaire blackleg avoids having to make compensation distant from a £2 the multitude stakes due behind having a very great loss strake at a London-based casino. Frouad al-Zayat, a 66-year-old businessman, destroyed a heavy collect of riches in person ignorance, wrote a cheque as [...]
