Nich Moore November 10, 2014 14:15:28
Well known online poker site “Pokerstars” suffered some technical issues that saw players denied access after the site moved to the UK. There are, as Richard Branson will no doubt be only too eager to tell you, always a few bumps and potholes along the road towards progress, especially when one is pushing the boundaries […]
Nich Moore November 7, 2014 16:54:08
The FBI swoop in to arrest a police deputy paid $550 to drive some money to an illegal poker game that didn’t exist. There is nothing strange about wanting to earn a little extra cash on the side. From the production line of a factory floor to the board rooms of a huge corporate entity, […]
Nich Moore November 7, 2014 16:24:29
New Zealand’s Selwyn District Council is not only reviewing its gambling policies but is engaging with the public to get them right. When Selwyn District Council in New Zealand adopted a Gambling Policy in 2004 they probably didn’t think they’d need to revisit the issue just ten years later. However in a move designed to […]
Nich Moore November 7, 2014 09:32:07
Fixed odds betting terminals have hit the headlines again so bookmakers are scrambling to placate their critics ahead of an independent governmental report to be published later this month. There are many challenges facing the gambling industry today. The northeastern US is becoming saturated with casinos, Macau’s profit margins have taken a dent from Chinese […]
Nich Moore November 6, 2014 14:00:08
Singapore’s casinos are suffering a decline in earnings due to the slump in Chinese visitors, with their European and Northern American replacements not as willing to gamble. The over saturation of the casino market in the US has produced a kind of arms race amongst operators to provide more and more additional attractions with which […]
Nich Moore November 6, 2014 13:35:28
We take a look at the results of the midterm elections and some of the ballot questions about gambling that various states posed. Having gerrymandered, misrepresented and fear-mongered their way to an electoral victory in the low-turnout mid-terms the Republican party is now busy working out how to present the President with a plethora of […]
Nich Moore November 6, 2014 09:48:06
With another by-election signposting the way towards the general election in the UK next year we take a look at the parties and their chances. British politics does not quite have the same tendency towards razzamatazz as its US counterpart, and despite the general election being barely more than half a year away political leaders […]
Nich Moore November 4, 2014 17:11:36
It’s been another bumper week of events around the world from the very down to earth to the almost, but not quite, stratospheric, let’s take a look at them It was a sad week in South Africa where tens of thousands of football fans gathered to mourn the brutal murder of their national team’s captain, […]
Nich Moore October 30, 2014 20:24:24
Australian Hospitality Minister Troy Grant seems to want a review of the manner in which gambling’s impact is measured, but sets out no scale by which it actually should. It is perhaps a mark of our modern world (or a sign of the oncoming apocalypse) that politicians feel comfortable making the sort of generalized emotive […]
Nich Moore October 30, 2014 20:15:39
Berjaya wants to expand its gaming interests around the region but will governmental and legal restrictions be as much of an issue abroad as in Malaysia? Launching on the stock market is one of those things that can either make, or indeed break, a going concern. The sharing of risk comes at the cost of […]
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