UIGEA regs to be published “soon”
When the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was rammed through the US Congress at a late night sitting last year, attached to the coat tails of a security Bill, there was a provision through which the Federal Reserve and the Department of Justice were tasked with coming up with enforcement regulations within 270 days
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Gambling history facts:
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- 1905: The town of Las Vegas is founded when the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company holds a land auction at the site on May 15.
1912: The Majestic - Las Vegas's very first theater - opens, featuring the best vaudeville acts and motion pictures of the time. - In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
- In 1857, Prince Charles III of Monaco decided to introduce gambling to his Mediterranean principality to boost its finances.
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