2007 May 20 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Van Petten says he knows his agency is under the gun. Opponents of the gambling bill believe the expansion creates more opportunities for corruption and will look for proof they are right.

To supplement the state’s gambling intervention program, San Diego County will implement an early-treatment program funded by a new Indian casino, the Union-Tribune reported Sunday.

TOO much money and too little to do makes AFL footballers particularly vulnerable to problem gambling, AFL officials said today.

AUSTRALIA — As reported by The Age: “Academics have slammed claims by the State Government it has halved problem gambling and have called Responsible Gambling Awareness Week, to be launched today by Gaming Minister Daniel Andrews, a farce.

In order to write this week’s column I must do a 180-degree turn in my thinking about Indian casinos. I do not make this change in thinking lightheartedly. I visited Indian casinos in South Dakota, Nebraska and Oklahoma over the past two weeks to get a feel for the impact they have on the Indian communities. For the most part the feeling was good. There were jobs, money going out into the …

Thirty-year-old Titan Poker player, Maik Andre Daehling from Germany, one of fifteen attending Titan Poker players, won the Pokerface 2007 Tournament, which took place at the Binion’s Gambling Hall in Las Vegas, this week. A Hamburg resident, Mai

When the Internet took off in the 1990s, it was demonized as a steaming cauldron of porn. It has certainly made pornography more widely and easily available than ever before. The online porn industry is difficult to measure, but was valued

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The Australian newspaper The Age delved into the recent past this weekend to uncover a little-reported settlement in the high roller tussle between International All Sports online sportsbook and The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and what fascinating reading it made.