Internet gambling is booming as Americans continue to wager billions of dollars on online sports books, Web casinos and virtual poker rooms even though the U.S. Department of Justice considers such activities illegal.
Several U.S. lawmakers are trying to crack down on the industry by clarifying existing U.S. laws and making it easier to go after [...]
The next big thing in sports programming is … dominoes?
To the occasional domino player, it is a stretch to even call this quiet game of straight-faced strategy a sport. But anyone who has spent time in a Latino neighborhood in New York City could testify that dominoes played there — with the slammed-down tiles, the [...]
Online casinos offer chance to pick TV show winners
Melissa Brown is betting that Chris Daughtry will be the next American Idol.
Literally.
She wagered $50 online on the bald aspiring rocker.
”I think it’s going to be Chris,” said Brown, 29, a website designer from Braintree, who for the past year has been placing online bets on reality [...]
Ambassadors from tiny Caribbean island meet with US Congressional member Pete SessionsAntigua & Barbuda’s Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, Dr. John W. Ashe, met with Congressman Pete Sessions on Tuesday to discuss the current status of Antigua & Barbuda’s WTO Internet gaming dispute with the United States related to online gambling.
The tiny island had [...]
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Currently many Players don’t know where to go or how to fund their play at the casinos and tend to choose the easier option of using their credit card.
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In thousands of houses across the United States at this very moment thousands of people are wagering thousands of dollars on NCAA tournament basketball games without leaving their bedrooms.
Overseas, thousands of operators of thousands of Web sites are collecting a portion of each bet and adding it to the millions of dollars they have pulled [...]
Congress Expected to Show Its Hand On Online Gaming
As legislation moves through Congress calling for the prohibition of online gambling, opposition is growing along with a plea by some who are urging that the $12 billion Internet gaming business be regulated.
“No matter what bill Congress passes, nothing will stop online gaming,” said former New [...]
An Internet gambling bill barring the use of credit cards to place bets online was approved by the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday and is now headed to the House Judiciary Committee.
The bill, H.R. 4411, prohibits a gambling concern from accepting credit cards, wire transfers or other financial institution instrument for bets. It also requires [...]
Cyber Bookie Billionaire Faces Raid By Costa Rican Police
What are the odds? If anyone would know, it would surely be Calvin Ayre.
Yesterday morning, the news of Calvin Ayre, the lad from Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, who is today Canada’s newest billionaire and cover boy at Forbes, the U.S.- based magazine that keeps the world’s scorecard on the [...]
MVPsportsbook.com is the latest online gambling company to add American Idol betting odds, realizing just how big the show has become among those who like to wager.
MVPsportsbook.com does not traditionally enter heavily into the celebrity props market, however, there are only a handful of online betting shops offering lines on Idol, MVP being one of [...]
