July 26, 2010 in Gambling Laws
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Gov. Christie issued a stern message to Atlantic City in January after a state comptroller’s audit uncovered $23 million in municipal government waste: Get your act together, or I’ll do it for you.
Two days after his six-month anniversary of taking office, the governor delivered on his ultimatum, endorsing state oversight [...]
July 26, 2010 in Gambling Laws
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Moody’s Investors Service raised its ratings outlook on Wynn Resorts Ltd. (WYNN) to positive, citing the casino operator’s earnings prospects in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau.
The move comes a day after Fitch Ratings gave Wynn a one-notch upgrade, to the same level as Moody’s rating, on its improved performance in Macau and planned refinancing [...]
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It was not exactly the type of grand opening an online casino would hope for. Just hours after launching, PlayNow.com, the online gaming site in British Columbia, was shut down due to malfunctions in the security on the site.
Although there was always going to be a learning curve, [...]
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July 26, 2010 in Gambling Laws
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In the past decade, two laws have been created to clarify what is considered permissible contact between player agents and collegiate student-athletes and to arm individual states and educational institutions with legal means to seek recourse against violators.
However, the five NCAA investigations that have been initiated in little more than a week — in addition [...]
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Out in Las Vegas, they’ve almost wrapped up two months of the World Series of Poker. Card players from all over the world gathered there to play, to watch, to talk. But the talk in that holy shrine of gambling has been about Florida, said Josh Zuckerman, who just got [...]
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WE refer to the letter “Ineffective raids on cybercafes,” (The Star, July 22) in which the writer questioned the futile raids on illegal cybercafés and wondered if there was any way to counter the mushrooming of computerised gambling dens disguised as cybercafes.
The modus operandi of these gambling dens is to camouflage as a cybercafe, equipped [...]
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by JOHN ZENORAP Sports WriterPublished/Last Modified on Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:10 AM EDT
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Nick Saban didn’t pull punches Wednesday when discussing the improper contact with athletes by unscrupulous agents, comparing their behavior to that of a “pimp.”
The Alabama coach was upset about the rash of recent agent-related incidents that have resulted [...]
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Lindsey Sutphin, Reporter-Researcher, BroadbandBreakfast.com
WASHINGTON, July 23, 2010- H.R. 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act, will require online gaming sites to purchase licenses and subscribe to existing gambling laws. In a hearing this week the main stakeholders voiced their concerns.
Edwin Williams, president and CEO of Discovery Federal Credit Union represented the Credit [...]
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Pro player Andy Bloch uses skills from his Harvard days to put online poker’s case Pro poker player Andy Bloch used skills learned during his education at Harvard Law School to put forward the case for legalised online poker at an Internet freedom seminar in Las Vegas this week. Andy was representing the Poker Players Alliance at [...]