2007 April 28 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 3

Former heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison was pulled from a scheduled bout Friday night because state boxing officials didn’t get the results of lab tests in time.

For sale: Thirteen mostly rural Nevada casinos including Silver Club in Sparks, Sharkey’s in Gardnerville, El Capitan in Hawthorne and a Nevada slot route. Package includes about 2,700 slots, 40 table games, 668 hotel and motel rooms. Asking price: More than $200 million.

The final buzzer had barely faded when the questions, speculation and expectations about next year started. And one thing became obvious quickly.

In the midst of the impasse over cutting property taxes, the state Senate may be ready to let Floridians gamble their way to property-tax relief.

Warning of the loss of millions in income and about 200 jobs, a lobbyist for the Ho-Chunk Nation and the Ho Chunk Casino will be meeting with city and county officials next week trying to rally opposition to a proposed in casino in Beloit to be operated by two northern Wisconsin Chippewa tribes.

The British company Global Betting and Gaming Consultants (GBGC) published an interesting market report this week, examining the impact of the US Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. And it concludes that this controversial legislation passed late last year may have had a slightly bigger effect on online gambling than was at first thought.

After many weeks of ongoing slow-pay complaints from players, with accompanying tales of conflicting information from support reps and ignored emails, it looks as of Hype Casino.com is in the “not recommended” dog box at top online gambling portal Casinomeister.

The strange and hypocritical posture of the United States government on Internet gambling was squarely under the spotlight again as the week ended, with massive international media coverage of the launch of Barney Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007.