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The International Gaming Expo has ended speculations on where it will be held next after disinformation has gone around the circles recently by finally extending its contract through 2015 with owners of the Earls Court.
The Nevada Gaming Commission last week has received application from Harrah’s Entertainment asking for suitability approval for its business collaboration with a Gibraltar-based online gaming company that provides the software for Harrah’s three Internet gambling sites in the United Kingdom.
The future is looking very bleak for young internet tycoon Daniel Tzvetkoff. 27-year-old Tzvetkoff fell into the hands of the authority last Friday after being slapped with charges of money laundering, amounting to a staggering $A584 million or $US540 million.
With land-based casinos giving huge revenues to the Australian government, it comes as no surprise that gambling in these casinos is not strictly prohibited to Australians, provided that the players are of legal age.
June 1, 2010 is fast approaching and a lot of online casinos who wish to operate and continue operation in the United States are hopeful that they can enjoy an extended respite from the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement ACT come June 1st.
The Poker Players Alliance announced that 5 hours of non-stop emailing to protest the ban on Internet gambling that has been included in House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s gambling proposals have successfully activated the more or less 25,000 poker players in Massachusetts that prompted politicians to ask the PPA to “call off the dogs.”
A hearing in the House Financial Services Committee set for Friday, April 16th on two pieces of legislation authored by Congressman Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, has been postponed indefinitely due to a conflict in the Congressman’s schedule, a spokesman for Frank’s office announced late Monday.
The state of Kentucky, under Gov. Steve Beshear’s administration, has filed a court case against gambling Web sites in an attempt to reclaim bets lost by Kentucky residents who gambled online.
The governor of New Hampshire, John Lynch, recently called members of the state Lottery Commission to a meeting to talk to them about the idea of introducing gambling through online gambling sites as his answer to the state’s budget crisis, since he has promised not to raise taxes.
In 2006, the Turkish government enforced a law forbidding its people to gamble online which entailed prohibiting Internet gambling operators to provide Turkish citizens access to their sites and enforcing a ban on dealings with online gambling sites through Turkish banks and credit card companies.