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William Hill, Nevada’s largest sports book operator, announced Friday it’s opening virtual racing at the Plaza and Silver Sevens casinos, a process over a year in the making after winning approval from the Gaming Commission in early 2015. William Hill also hopes to open virtual racing at other books...
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Match-Fixing—The Biggest Threat to Sport in the 21st Century? Cheating at gambling; Sportspersons The issue at the heart of this article makes me sit up and take notice as a lawyer, a qualified football referee and a passionate follower of sport across the board. It has been described by...
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Tom Lippa says his elderly mother Elfriede was once “a vibrant woman” who was living in her own condo in Victoria and would visit his sister every day to walk her dog. But unbeknown to Lippa and his sister, their mother, now 91, would go to the View Royal Casino after those...
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A Swedish court of appeal has found six men, including three former players of the Kristianstads FF club, guilty of match fixing after one of the players admitted his involvement. Two men found guilty of bribing the players to influence the outcome of games between October 2013 and June...
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iPro, Inc. today announced an exclusive partnership with International Game Technology (“IGT”) to launch its real-time sports gaming platform, ringit!, on the IGT-owned Lottomatica Italian sports betting platform for 2016’s largest soccer event, the UEFA Euro Cup. Fans win cash in ringit! by predicting what will happen next during their...
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Online gambling operator Bet365 is being publicly shamed by a disgruntled punter who says she can’t get her winnings off the site. On Tuesday, The Guardian published the story of an unidentified female punter who claims to be having difficulties convincing Bet365 to fork over her £54k account balance....
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The gambling rule book in Russia gets a little thicker as the government announces more legislation that could impact not just investors and operators but also potential players. First, the Russian government is now mulling whether to allow gambling stakeholders to use foreign currencies to pay for services in...
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They’re not cheaters. Instead, they hone the sharpest (legal) edge they can. On Flamingo Road in Las Vegas, James Grosjean sat at a steel table outside a Starbucks. In the near distance stood a sign for a local casino, the Palms, where he has been shown the door more...
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Hong Kong police have confiscated about HK$130 million in betting records and arrested more than 50 people in a crackdown on illegal football gambling launched ahead of the Euro 2016 tournament. One of the bookmaking rackets, which had raked in orders of HK$31 million, was broken up on June...
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The UK Gambling Commission has written to operators to warn them about facilitating betting on television programmes and other novelty markets. The regulator said that there had been repeated instances of operators offering markets on pre-recorded TV programmes such as Great British Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing, and other...
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South Korea’s gambling tax revenue rose by 4 percent in 2015 amid persisting weakness in the Asian gambling sector. Thanks to the gambling sector’s increased sale, the Asian country bucked the regional downward trend of gambling tax revenues and posted a KRW2.42 trillion (US$2.06 billion) profit in 2015 from...
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Nos primeiros cinco meses do ano (1 de janeiro a 31 de maio), os portugueses apostaram 161 milhões de euros no Placard, o mais recente jogo com a chancela da Santa Casa. Em média, os portugueses gastaram mais de um milhão de euros (1 059 210 euros) neste portefólio:...
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The state of South Australia has introduced a 15% interstate tax on gambling, based on the place of consumption. All bets placed in South Australia with Australian-based betting companies will now be liable for the tax, Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis said. The tax will raise AU$9.2 million ($7 million) a...
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Another week brings another round of Euro 2016 betting busts by Asian law enforcement. Our first stop takes us to Hong Kong, where police are busy tallying the score of their Operation Crowbeak anti-betting crackdown. Police say they’ve arrested over 50 individuals and confiscated around HKD 130m (US $16.7m) in...
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The referendum that marked a historic time for Britain and Europe was a momentous event for punters too. Brexit vote broke the record for gambling on non-sporting events in the UK—eclipsing even the widely popular Royal baby and previous elections in the country—with punters putting down an estimated £120 million...
William Hill, Nevada’s largest sports book operator, announced Friday it’s opening virtual racing at the Plaza and Silver Sevens casinos, a process over a year in the making after winning approval from the Gaming Commission in early 2015. William Hill also hopes to open virtual racing at other books...
Match-Fixing—The Biggest Threat to Sport in the 21st Century? Cheating at gambling; Sportspersons The issue at the heart of this article makes me sit up and take notice as a lawyer, a qualified football referee and a passionate follower of sport across the board. It has been described by...
Tom Lippa says his elderly mother Elfriede was once “a vibrant woman” who was living in her own condo in Victoria and would visit his sister every day to walk her dog. But unbeknown to Lippa and his sister, their mother, now 91, would go to the View Royal Casino after those...
A Swedish court of appeal has found six men, including three former players of the Kristianstads FF club, guilty of match fixing after one of the players admitted his involvement. Two men found guilty of bribing the players to influence the outcome of games between October 2013 and June...
iPro, Inc. today announced an exclusive partnership with International Game Technology (“IGT”) to launch its real-time sports gaming platform, ringit!, on the IGT-owned Lottomatica Italian sports betting platform for 2016’s largest soccer event, the UEFA Euro Cup. Fans win cash in ringit! by predicting what will happen next during their...
Online gambling operator Bet365 is being publicly shamed by a disgruntled punter who says she can’t get her winnings off the site. On Tuesday, The Guardian published the story of an unidentified female punter who claims to be having difficulties convincing Bet365 to fork over her £54k account balance....
The gambling rule book in Russia gets a little thicker as the government announces more legislation that could impact not just investors and operators but also potential players. First, the Russian government is now mulling whether to allow gambling stakeholders to use foreign currencies to pay for services in...
They’re not cheaters. Instead, they hone the sharpest (legal) edge they can. On Flamingo Road in Las Vegas, James Grosjean sat at a steel table outside a Starbucks. In the near distance stood a sign for a local casino, the Palms, where he has been shown the door more...
Hong Kong police have confiscated about HK$130 million in betting records and arrested more than 50 people in a crackdown on illegal football gambling launched ahead of the Euro 2016 tournament. One of the bookmaking rackets, which had raked in orders of HK$31 million, was broken up on June...
South Korea’s gambling tax revenue rose by 4 percent in 2015 amid persisting weakness in the Asian gambling sector. Thanks to the gambling sector’s increased sale, the Asian country bucked the regional downward trend of gambling tax revenues and posted a KRW2.42 trillion (US$2.06 billion) profit in 2015 from...
Nos primeiros cinco meses do ano (1 de janeiro a 31 de maio), os portugueses apostaram 161 milhões de euros no Placard, o mais recente jogo com a chancela da Santa Casa. Em média, os portugueses gastaram mais de um milhão de euros (1 059 210 euros) neste portefólio:...
The state of South Australia has introduced a 15% interstate tax on gambling, based on the place of consumption. All bets placed in South Australia with Australian-based betting companies will now be liable for the tax, Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis said. The tax will raise AU$9.2 million ($7 million) a...
