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Las Vegas Sands is paying a US$9 million fine to settle a regulatory investigation that painted an unflattering picture of the casino owner’s expansion into Macau. The resolution announced Thursday closes a Securities and Exchange Commission probe that began more than five years ago. The corruption case revolved around...
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A new regulatory system meant to allow staff at betting shops to identify and bar problem gamblers has been criticised as ineffectual by addicts and campaigners. From this week bookmakers will have to conduct local area risk assessments to explain how they are going to mitigate crime and the...
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Acordo de cooperação bilateral entre o SRIJ e a DGOJ Por ocasião da reunião semestral dos Reguladores do jogo online em que participam o Reino Unido, França, Itália, Portugal, Alemanha, Áustria e Espanha, que teve lugar em Viena nos passados dias 17 e 18 de março, o Serviço de...
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Projetos de Regulamento para recolha de contributos O Projeto de Regulamento que define os Requisitos do Sistema Técnico do Jogo Online para as apostas desportivas à cota em que os jogadores jogam uns contra os outros (apostas cruzadas), aprovado por deliberação da Comissão de Jogos de 10 de Março...
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An Italian prosecutor has called for more than two dozen top tennis players to be investigated by the Tennis Integrity Unit for possible links to betting rings. Roberto Di Martino has told the BBC that tennis authorities should be doing more with evidence he has gathered concerning at least...
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In previous GBGC newsletters I have highlighted that the negative publicity attached to problem gambling is likely to cause a decline in gambling overall. The Drink Aware campaign on the misuse of alcohol, along with negative publicity on binge drinking, has caused a decline in alcohol sales of 16%...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...
Las Vegas Sands is paying a US$9 million fine to settle a regulatory investigation that painted an unflattering picture of the casino owner’s expansion into Macau. The resolution announced Thursday closes a Securities and Exchange Commission probe that began more than five years ago. The corruption case revolved around...
A new regulatory system meant to allow staff at betting shops to identify and bar problem gamblers has been criticised as ineffectual by addicts and campaigners. From this week bookmakers will have to conduct local area risk assessments to explain how they are going to mitigate crime and the...
Acordo de cooperação bilateral entre o SRIJ e a DGOJ Por ocasião da reunião semestral dos Reguladores do jogo online em que participam o Reino Unido, França, Itália, Portugal, Alemanha, Áustria e Espanha, que teve lugar em Viena nos passados dias 17 e 18 de março, o Serviço de...
An Italian prosecutor has called for more than two dozen top tennis players to be investigated by the Tennis Integrity Unit for possible links to betting rings. Roberto Di Martino has told the BBC that tennis authorities should be doing more with evidence he has gathered concerning at least...
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...
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...
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...
