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Online gambling in NJ raises concerns for compulsive gamblers with 'hidden addiction' |... - 0 views

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    "Borgata's vice-president of information technology John Forelli demonstrates in-room gaming at Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, N.J., Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City said it's the first casino in the United States to let guests gamble over hotel room TV sets. Gambling from a home computer is the next step in convenience gambling, after legislation legalizing online gambling was recently signed into law. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Michael Ein)"
César Albarrán Torres

Zynga Is Lobbying Hard For Online Gambling - 0 views

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    "The bill, called the Internet Gambling Consumer Protection and Public-Private Partnership Act of 2012, would allow for $30 million licenses for gambling outfits with whom Zynga could potentially partner to offer online poker to players within California. The California legislation stalled earlier this year, but may yet be reprised."
César Albarrán Torres

Andrew Wilkie Stand Firm on Pokies Reforms | Gillard Backing Away - 0 views

  • As always with gambling rooms, it was dark, with most of the light coming from the garish machines. The room was packed.
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  • pronounced his willingness to bring down the Gillard government by withdrawing his support if it did not legislate to introduce a mandated pre-commitment scheme on poker machines in clubs and pubs. Punters would have a card which designated how much they were willing to lose on poker machines before they could start gambling.
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  • Senator Nick Xenophon, independent of South Australia, proposed a more manageable policy of a $1 limit on each bet.
  • The Liberals share the general concern about poker machine addiction destroying vulnerable families, but regard Wilkie's signature reform as intrusive micro-management of the industry.
César Albarrán Torres

Two Online Poker Licenses Approved for Nevada - KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe News Weathe... - 0 views

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    But even with this approval, Bally and IGT still have to wait for individual casinos to be licensed for this sort of gaming.
César Albarrán Torres

Wynn Applies For Online Gambling License -- Trefis - 0 views

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    In April, Wynn was in talks with Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA), the world's largest social gaming developer, to form a strategic online partnership. (See our previous post: Wynn Takes Hard Look At Online Gambling Market With Zynga) Speculation is rife that Wynn is interested in partnering with Zynga for this project. Zynga enjoys a dominating position in the social gaming industry and has about 232 million average monthly active users across 166 countries.
César Albarrán Torres

Tony Abbott vows to block online gambling in Australia | The Australian - 0 views

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    "If you are gambling on your smartphone, if you are gambling on your computer, you are absolutely on your own."
César Albarrán Torres

Reason.tv: The Politics of Poker and Why It's Time to Legalize Online Gaming - Hit & Ru... - 0 views

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    When California State Senator Roderick Wright attempted to legalize online poker with SB 1463, he sold it as a way to help patch up California's busted budget , which is indeed in dire trouble. Surprisingly, the strongest resistance came not from the ever-more-irrelevant anti-gambling moralists, but from powerful pro-gaming special interests clinging to lucrative state-granted privilege.   "There's no way that we can do something that might be the death knell for our industry," says David Quintana, lobbyist for the California Tribal Business Alliance, which opposes any form of online poker legalization on the grounds that it could negatively affect the economic activity of California's Indian tribes. 
César Albarrán Torres

End of the road for online casinos - Cyprus Mail - 0 views

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    PARLIAMENT yesterday unanimously voted through a controversial bill regulating gaming, which includes a ban on online casinos and exchange betting. Betting exchange is where players bet among themselves with the mediation of a company, which receives a commission from the transactions. The provision had been removed in committee but was resubmitted and pushed through by a respectable margin
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William Hill's CEO wants social gaming regulated - Business - ReviewJournal.com - 0 views

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    Ralph Topping, chief executive of William Hill Plc., used his personal blog to call for online social gaming to be regulated. Topping said the London-based firm has adopted a "watching brief" stance when it comes to social gaming. "Social gaming is no longer the next big thing for gambling, it is already a very big thing," Topping wrote. "Over one billion dollars has already been spent by 'traditional' gambling companies alone in mergers and acquisitions and hundred of millions of dollars in revenue is already being generated."
César Albarrán Torres

Zynga Pushing for Legalized Online Gambling in the US - 0 views

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    "The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Zynga is working hard to try and push online gambling in the United States. The company has spent as much as $75,000 to lobbying policy which would make online gambling legal in the US."
César Albarrán Torres

French gambler sues government for not blocking poker sites - FRANCE 24 - 2 views

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    Great story emphasises the problem of accountability
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