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Bookmaker William Hill has announced a drop in operating profit of 22% for 2015, blaming gambling taxes imposed on its UK online and retail businesses. The company reported operating profits of £291.4m for last year, down from £372.2m in 2014. It said additional gambling duties of £87m resulted in...

The Judiciary Police (PJ) recorded 1,553 gaming-related crimes in 2015, a year-on-year increase of 38 percent, Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak announced on Monday. Addressing a press conference at his office in Cotai to announce last year’s crime figures, the policy secretary said that last year’s total number...

Lawyers representing New Jersey went to court Wednesday and made their latest argument that the state should be allowed to offer sports betting at casinos and horse-racing tracks. Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson — who led a legal team that represented President George W. Bush in the disputed 2000...

The way gambling operators treat the risk of their services being used for money laundering will come into sharper focus during 2016. Reforms to anti-money laundering (AML) rules have already been finalised at EU level and gambling operators operating in the British market should be preparing themselves for the...

In August 2015, a three-judge appellate court panel ruled against the state of New Jersey in the state’s ongoing push to legalize sports betting. It was nothing new for the Garden State, which has been trying to join an exclusive club of states where sports gambling is actually allowed...

The company that owns Sydney’s Star casino does not think it would make sense to extend the city’s controversial lockout laws to the venue, given its standing as a major tourist attraction. “I think that would make no sense at all,” Star Entertainment Group’s chief executive, Matt Bekier, said...

Em seis meses fecharam 86 sites que não cumpriam a nova lei do jogo online. Neste intervalo de tempo, 50 jogadores emigraram República Checa, Brasil, Hungria, Malta e Reino Unido. São estes os cinco destinos de meia centena de emigrantes especiais: são profissionais a jogar póquer online que desde...

It is the last over of the cricket match, with India needing 17 runs to win against Australia In his two-bedroom house located in central Mumbai, a middle-aged man is watching the game, nervously. He’s sitting on the edge of his grey colour sofa with his mobile phone glued...

Good news for poker players out of New York Tuesday as Senate Bill S5302 passed through the Senate Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wagering by a unanimous 9-0 vote. The bill aims to legalize and regulate “certain interactive poker games that are considered to be games of skill” (read:...

A indústria do jogo em Macau está a apostar em “slot machines” nas salas VIP dos casinos, usadas no passado só para jogos de mesa. O objectivo é contornar a crise que tem vindo a afectar o negócio, em vésperas do Ano Novo chinês. As salas VIP dos casinos de...