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Lindsey Graham Sneaks RAWA-Like Measure Into Senate Appropriations Bill, Still Hopeful for Passage
The Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA), the bill that seeks to prohibit online gambling at a federal level, may have died a death on the legislative rocks late last year, but its proponents are...
Online Gambling Fugitive Haden Ware Spared Prison
Haden Ware, a co-founder of sports betting site World Sports Exchange (WSEX) who spent 13 years as a fugitive from the US government, has been spared a prison sentence by a federal judge. Ware was...
Bernie Sanders Goes After Casino Industry and Donald Trump While Campaigning in Atlantic City
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (D) paid a visit to Atlantic City on Monday while campaigning in New Jersey, and the Vermont senator had few good things to say about the seaside town. Speaking at...
Amaya Online Poker Platform Full Tilt Reaches End of the Road on May 17
Full Tilt Poker, once a kingpin of the American online poker scene during the game’s Internet heyday, will soon be fading into history. As of Tuesday, May 17, 2016, the Full Tilt poker platform will...
TVG Makes Hash of Kentucky Derby
Betting handle on Saturday’s Kentucky Derby was the second highest in the race’s history. Some $192.6 million passed through the bookie’s hands, just short of the record set in 2015 when American Pharaoh took his...
Donald Trump Receives Presidential Support From Fellow Billionaire Sheldon Adelson
Donald Trump is rich. Sheldon Adelson is a lot richer. Trump is estimated to be worth $3 to $10 billion, depending on who's counting, and the New York businessman has largely self-funded his primary campaign....
“The Perfect Bet” Shows Link Between Science and Gambling, According to Mathematician Adam Kucharski
British mathematician Adam Kucharski says in his debut book "The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling" that scientific pursuits and the development of the modern world have benefited...
UK Comedian and Gambling Archaeologist Tim FitzHigham on Digging Those Odds: Exclusive Interview
Gambling is all about speculating on future events, but to British comedian and adventurer Tim FitzHigham, it’s about digging up the past. Tim’s research has seen him, variously, cross the English Channel in a bath...
April Sees Maryland Casinos Push Past $100 Million for 17 Percent Jump, Market Now Halfway to Atlantic City
Maryland casinos cruised past the $100 million monthly revenues benchmark in April for the first time since commercial gambling came to the state six years ago. The five casinos, Hollywood Casino Perryville, Horseshoe Casino Baltimore,...
Packer to Sell $800 Million-Worth of Shares in Melco-Crown and Step Down as Co-Chairman
James Packer’s Crown Resorts is to sell $800 million of its shares in Melco-Crown back to the company, reducing its stake in the Macau-based operation from 34 percent to 27 percent. Packer will also step...
