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EGBA Moves In to Change Swedish National Gambling Monopoly
If Sweden wants to stay out of court, the Scandinavian country may have to make some significant changes to its gambling laws. That’s the word from the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA), which has warned the nation that they’ll be facing...
Peppermill Casino in Reno Fined $1 Million for Regulatory Snafus
The Nevada Gaming Commission (NGC) is discovering what the U.S. Department of Justice has known for a while now: huge regulatory misdeeds mean big bucks for the oversight agencies in question. In the outfit's second seven-figure punitive action in just the past...
UK Mobile App Gambling Growth Going Strong
What goes up, must come down. But in the case of the UK gambling market, two recent studies have made it seem that the industry is both up and down at the same time. In reality, it’s just a matter of what...
Gambling Ex-Wife of Sultan of Brunei Accuses Bodyguard of £12m Theft
In a tale worthy of any great novelist's plotlines, Miriam Aziz - the 59-year-old ex-wife of the Sultan of Brunei - has fessed up in court to some major gambling arrears played out in London's toniest casinos, and the subsequent sale of £1million ($1,652,593)...
New Jersey Lawmaker Suggests Casinos for State’s Poorest Cities
What’s so special about Atlantic City? That’s been a question on the minds of New Jersey lawmakers for a while, as proposals for expanding casino gambling away from the seaside resort town have been floated around for years. Most of those proposals...
Bitcoin Prices Plunge After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Withdrawals
The history of Bitcoin has been a lot like a rollercoaster: breathtaking highs and terrifying lows around every corner. Sometimes, it even feels like the whole market has been turned upside down. And after the latest move by a major marketplace, the...
Caesars Entertainment Picks Cromwell as Casino Name Amid Controversy
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, the great Bard said. The same, however, may not hold true for Las Vegas Strip casinos. Once slated to be called The Gansevoort - already an off-beat enough name, albeit a recognized...
Aspers Casino in Northampton Projects Raunchy Ad onto Church
You know what they say: sex sells. And with that in mind, one UK casino in Northampton thought that projecting the image of a model might draw a little attention to their operation and create some buzz around the city. Unfortunately, the...
Florida Faces Battle of the Bulging Wallets by Warring Casino Factions
Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson sometimes lobbies for casinos and sometimes lobbies against them (as in his massive anti-online campaign for the past year); but whatever he does, he does it with gusto and lots and lots of cash. So it...
Toronto Man Wanted After Failure to Pay $12.9M to Las Vegas Casinos
There are a few things that can get you nominated for "World's Dumbest Criminal": robbing a bank with surveillance cameras everywhere, trying to steal a police car, and most certainly at the top of that list would be skipping out on major...
