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Sportsbooks Celebrate Solid Results from Busy Betting Saturday
Sports bettors rarely have days like this past Saturday. Not only was the long-awaited fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao held, bringing in an unprecedented number of bets on a boxing match, but that fight came at the end of...
Portugal Online Gambling Bill Signed Into Law
Portugal’s long-awaited online gambling reforms are set to come into force on June 28th, having been signed into law last week by President Aníbal António Cavaco Silva. The bill will open up the previously monopolized market to international operators, with the cash-strapped...
Problem Gambling is Cognitive Distortion, says Study
Problem gamblers “see” patterns where there is merely randomness, according to a new study. The research, conducted by the University of Konstanz in Germany and Clarkson University in New York, found that those with pathological gambling disorders were more prone to cognitive...
First Massachusetts Casino Expected to Open in June
Massachusetts casinos are going to shake up the regional casino market, potentially drawing customers from Connecticut, New York and other states while keeping local gambling dollars in the state. And while it will still be some time before major casino projects in...
Japanese Lawmakers Submit Casino Bill
Japan has seemingly been on the edge of opening their country to casino gambling for years now, only to see proposals dropped because of a lack of support or more pressing political concerns. But that might finally be changing, as lawmakers have...
Lock Poker Demise Confirmed
Lock Poker, the scandal-hit online poker site that went offline last week, no longer holds a license with the Curacao regulatory body, suggesting that site has indeed ceased to operate and putting an end to speculation that it may only be offline...
New Hampshire House Rejects Casino Gambling
New Hampshire casino proponents thought that Wednesday was their day. Time and time again, the state House of Representatives had beaten back efforts to pass casino gambling bills for New Hampshire, but this week could have been different. Both supporters of the...
Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight Could Break Vegas Betting Records
The biggest boxing match in recent memory is almost here, as Floyd Mayweather Jr. will take on Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas this Saturday night. And while the action in the ring will be enjoyed by boxing fans...
Phua Defense Team Wants Judge to Toss Case
Paul Phua’s lawyers have already succeeded in having a judge find that the FBI used unconstitutional tactics against him last summer in order to collect evidence that he was operating an illegal betting ring from a Caesars Palace villa. Now, his defense...
Wynn Resorts Dividends Slashed Following Macau Slump
Wynn Resorts Ltd is passing on the pain of a sharp drop in Macau gambling to its shareholders by cutting dividends by 67 percent, Bloomberg reports. The gambling chain, which owns and operates the Wynn Macau casino resort, posted its earnings for...
