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A FA explicou que a suspensão de 18 meses aplicada ao médio do Burnely Joey Barton, de 34 anos, por participação em apostas desportivas, foi a menor possível refletindo todas as realizadas Em comunicado, a FA especificou que Barton realizou 1.260 apostas, avaliadas em 205.784 libras (cerca de 243.000...

Experts are warning that the UK must face up to the scale of its gambling problem with a lack of research, and industry influence, preventing proper scrutiny of a growing national habit. Joey Barton’s 18-month suspension from football on betting-related charges, and the player’s response in which he spoke of an...

Scottish football’s relationship with the gambling industry should be reviewed, according to a fans’ group. It comes in the wake of Burnley midfielder Joey Barton’s ban from football for 18 months after admitting a betting charge. The Scottish Football Supporters Association says the sport may need to “adjust its...

Gambling companies should refuse to take bets from “vulnerable” footballers because they are easy targets, says ex-Stoke winger Matthew Etherington. The 35-year-old lost £1.5m at the height of his gambling addiction. He sympathises with Burnley midfielder Joey Barton, who admitted suffering from the problem on Wednesday after being banned...

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS POISED TO INTRODUCE NEW LAWS TO BAN GAMB­LING ADVERTISING DURING LIVE SPORTING EVENTS AS EARLY AS NEXT WEEK — BUT THE IMMINENT MOVE HAS PROMPTED ANGRY OPPOSITION FROM SPORTING BODIES, WHICH SAY THE MOVE WILL DRAMATICALLY REDUCE FUNDS FOR GRASSROOTS SPORT. The Australian understands that...

The long-awaited revamp of PokerStars’ VIP rewards program will start rolling out in June, the company has announced. The system will replace the current decade-old “volume-driven” loyalty program with a personalized system of awarding random prizes. In a corporate blog post, Severin Rasset, PokerStars’ Director of Poker Innovation and...

Jeff Sessions, the US Attorney General is reportedly considering the reintroduction of a federal ban on all state-regulated online gambling in the US. Reports in the Huffington Post say that Sessions could consider reintroducing the ban despite a lack of public support and strong opposition from the National Governors...

Can you put a price on misery? When it comes to problem gambling the answer, apparently, is yes. A team of economists has calculated that if the UK’s hundreds of thousands of problem gamblers were to be cured of their addictions, the boost to the nation’s collective happiness would be equivalent...

A Polícia Judiciária (PJ) de Macau deteve sete homens do interior da China pelo seu alegado envolvimento no que a polícia designou por apostas ilegais no valor de 1,3 milhões de dólares, efetuadas por jogadores da China que utilizavam o serviço de mensagens sociais WECHAT. Pensa-se que os suspeitos...

The Prime Minister of Ukraine has accepted a Ministry of Finance letter promising to re-legalise gambling by 2018, almost eight years after it was outlawed. A previous legalisation proposal two years prior failed as operators felt that the tax rates and licensing fees were too high. Thosegambling ban implied...

The Department of Justice have recently announced that Absolute Poker is to compensate players through a claims process similar to that of Full Tilt, which is part of an ongoing civil complaint settlement following the events of online poker’s “Black Friday” in 2011. In April 2011, the U.S. Department...

Os dados relativos ao desempenho e proporção do segmento VIP e do de massas nas receitas de jogo no primeiro trimestre do ano devem ser publicados na próxima semana. As ações das seis operadoras de jogo de Macau atingiram o mais elevado nível desde agosto de 2015, devido à...

O aumento do acesso ao crédito na República Popular da China é visto pelo jornal Wall Street Journal como a principal razão para a recuperação acentuada da indústria do jogo. A publicação alerta assim os investidores a terem cautela porque considera as actuais condições do mercado voláteis. A maior...

The Gambling Commission, which regulates all betting and gaming in the UK, has delivered a damning verdict on the gambling industry’s procedures for resolving complaints and disputes and warned that operators must act now to halt a sharp decline in the number of customers who believe gambling “is fair...

A China prometeu “punir severamente” os operadores de jogos de azar, tanto presenciais como online, que têm como alvo os jogadores da China continental. Na quarta-feira, a agência noticiosa estatal Xinhua citou o ministro da Segurança Pública, Guo Shengkun, dizendo que as autoridades “devem investigar seriamente e punir severamente...