Betfair license has been promised, but now the politicking gets into gear
The Australian press has been having a field day with the objections of various politicians and horse racing officials to last week’s announcement that the Tasmanian authorities would award an operating license to the Betfair-PBL betting exchange joint venture.
Related Gambling and Sports Betting News:
- Positive side to Betfair´s NSW venture
- Betfair NSW license application under attack
- Betfair gets its license
- BetFair acquires license in Malta
- 12 votes to 10 on giving license to Betfair
- Betfair gets go-ahead
- Harrah’s Selects Betfair.com as ‘Presenting Sponsor’ of World Series of Poker Europe
- Betfair finally gets state go-ahead
- Betfair puts its Maltese license to use
- Betfair.com Presenting WSOP Europe
- Online betting downunder for Betfair
- Betfair negotiations for Tasmanian approval reach the hard cash stage
Casino gambling facts:
- The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
- Massachusetts decriminalized bingo in 1931 in an attempt to help churches and charitable organizations raise money. Bingo was legal in 11 states by the 1950s, usually only for charity purposes.
- Originally, the double-zero wheel started in Europe and the single-zero wheel started in America. But, Europeans liked the single-zero wheel better, and Americans liked the double-zero wheel better so they switched. Today, the American wheel and double-zero wheel are synonymous.
- Casino gambling, including Indian gaming, is legal in 27 states and most of the casinos have been built in the last 5 years according to "America's Gambling Fever", U. S. News and World Report, 15 Jan 1996
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