The Herald Sun reports that the Australian Football League (AFL) has been forced to defend its associations with bookmakers after a national survey found that 75 percent of fans were concerned about the rise of sports gambling and another 37 percent were concerned that betting saturated sports.
Betfair’s charity initiative Cash4Clubs, a vehicle to help amateur sports clubs in the UK in collaboration with SportsAid, has made a further GBP12 820 donation to 16 clubs, bringing to GBP140 000 the amount it has funded since 2008.
The respected online gambling consultancy H2 Gambling Capital has concluded a survey of three separate European regulatory regimes in a bid to assess a level of taxation that will attract operators but at the same time deliver reasonable taxation value to the nations concerned.
The Spanish-based Padel Pro Tour circuit will now be renamed the bwin Padel Pro Tour circuit as it attained a new title sponsor and official betting partner in online gaming operator bwin, this week.
Skillstar.com, a BetClicEverest French online gaming website that offers skill gaming, has announced that it will be extending its game experience to television with the launch of a TV Web Show.
Greek betting monopoly OPAP is scouting the market for an IT supplier as its current contract with Intralot is due to end in July 2012.
Online betting exchange, Betfair, has become the St. George Reds’ latest sponsor and official wagering partner, the Queensland Rugby Union announced this week.
Online gaming software provider, Viaden Gaming, released Roulette 3D and Craps 3D Mac applications, it announced this week.
Costa Rica’s serious crime problems – and reducing these with increased enforcement action funded by a new gambling operator tax – was a major pillar in the election platform of presidential candidate Laura Chinchilla last year . But it appears that the proposed 15 percent tax on gross revenue has been shelved…at least for the …
With net gaming revenues up 14.1 percent to Euro14.6 million, and EBITDA positive at Euro 5.3 million, the Austrian listed betting company Betbull can mark 2010 down as a reasonable year in which it shook off significant historic losses .
Now in its fifth-straight year of a revenue decline brought on by the explosion of casino gambling in neighbouring states and exacerbated by the poor national economy, Atlantic City’s 11 land casinos reported gross operating profit that fell by nearly 28 percent last year.
The UK government has announced the completion of an enquiry by MP Don Foster into possibly millions of pounds sterling lying dormant in betting accounts and unclaimed winnings, the result of which was delivered this week to John Penrose, Minister for Tourism and Heritage.
The seemingly pedestrian progress on the sale of the UK government’s Tote may be about to accelerate, according to reports in the English media over the weekend, with acceptable bidders now down to just four.
Stung by reports that senior police officers and prosecutors have been protecting massive illegal gambling activity, the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, has made proposals to tighten the country’s already draconian anti-gambling laws.
Teams made up of policemen from anti-vice, drug and rapid reaction squads raided three premises in Larnaca, Cyprus at the end of the week, rousting online gambling operators into the early hours of the morning. The raids followed undercover investigations and a sting operation.
Three internet cafes in Massachusetts, two of them owned by a town councillor, were raided and shut down this week on allegations of illegal gambling.
Attempts by the Greek government to impose limitations on its liberalisation of a formerly monopolistic gambling industry have met with another less than enthusiastic response from the European Union this week, and a rejection of the Greek attempt to fast-track the controversial legislation, on which the Greeks have already had to back off on certain …
The Polish government maintained its anti-online gambling stance this week with an inequitable draft amendment to its gambling legislation that confirms bans on all forms of internet gambling…with the exception of sports betting.
Online gambling software provider and 3D slots specialist Betsoft has released its sixteenth 3D cinematic slot title, featuring a rural Mexican theme replete with roadside stall owner and some bitingly hot farm produce.
BetclicEverest Group susidiary, bet-at-home.com, has become an official sponsor of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) 2011 World Cup.
Slotland.com’s latest proprietary release is ghoulishly-themed around vampires, bats, vampire-slaying garlic, mystical goblets, treasure maps, gargoyles and the like.
Black gold and Texas tea are colloquial expressions associated with oil, and this valuable commodity features in the theme of Rival Gaming’s latest 5 reel 20 pay-line i-slot, dubbed Gusher’s Gold.
Updated online gambling provisions are included in revised gambling legislation submitted as a draft to the European Commission last month by the Bulgarian government.
Nevada Assemblyman William Horne, who launched the latest Nevada attempt to legalise intrastate online poker recently, told an AOL writer this week that he was urged by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid not to pursue the matter until Congress changes the law…in other words asking him to wait for a federal rather than state solution.