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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...
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Veja a introdução ao nosso plano de aula, “Quais são as minhas probabilidades?” Este plano de aula está disponível para os professores de matemática da Flórida solicitarem e utilizarem com os seus alunos. Está em conformidade com o núcleo essencial comum e as normas nacionais e oferece aos alunos...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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Acordo de cooperação bilateral entre o SRIJ e a ARJEL No dia 26 de janeiro, Charles Coppolani, Presidente da ARJEL (Autorité de régulation des jeux en ligne) e Teresa Monteiro, Vice-Presidente do Turismo de Portugal assinaram um acordo bilateral de cooperação e troca de informações. Este acordo formaliza a...
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No início do ano passado, o braço-direito de Stanley Ho em Portugal criou em Cascais, juntamente com outro sócio, uma empresa chamada “China Global Well”. A entidade pretendia fazer “investimentos nas áreas de exploração, administração e gestão de imóveis para comércio, habitação, estabelecimentos hoteleiros, empreendimentos turísticos e similares, bem...
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Hundreds of suspected money laundering operations have been reported at betting shops as criminals plough drug money in to gambling machines. The Gambling Commission has revealed that over the past year, 633 reports were filed to it and the National Crime Agency by bookmakers where operators suspect the proceeds...
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France’s long-suffering online poker market will get no help from the outside world after politicians rejected sharing liquidity with other European countries. Despite pleas from local gambling regulator ARJEL, the French National Assembly declined to approve gambling law amendments that would have allowed French-licensed online poker operators to share...