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French Soccer’s Bordeaux Boots Jersey Sponsor Winamax for Mocking Team on Twitter
French soccer team Girondins de Bordeaux has parted company with its jersey sponsor, online poker and sports betting company Winamax, barely six months into the deal. It seems Winamax and the top brass at Bordeaux...
‘Suncity Exec’ Gets Prison Time for Refusing to Answer Police Questions
A woman arrested in November as part of Macau’s Suncity investigation has been suspended and sentenced to nine months in prison for refusing to cooperate with authorities. In a statement Monday, Macau’s judiciary police said...
Sumo Wrestlers Jettisoned After Illegal Gambling Probe
Two Japanese sumo wrestlers have been sidelined from the sport for their alleged involvement in illegal gambling. The Japanese Sumo Association’s (JSA) compliance committee confirmed this week that elite makuuchi division wrestler Hidenoumi and second-tier juryo-division wrestler Shiden...
Valve Corp. Repels Final CS:GO Skins Gambling Lawsuit
A federal judge in Washington State has dumped a longstanding lawsuit against Valve Corp, which claimed the video games publisher enabled kids to gamble using “skins.” This is the last of several lawsuits that was...
Malta Casino Owner Charged with Murder Wants Witness Prosecuted for Perjury
A Maltese casino owner awaiting trial for the murder the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia wants the man who put him in the dock to be prosecuted for perjury. Yorgen Fenech is accused of ordering Caruana...
Macau Casino Stocks Surge With News On License Renewals
Macau’s next regulatory regime will include six concessions, or licenses, with the tenure of those licenses halved from 20 years to a decade, the gambling hub’s Executive Council said Friday. The long-awaited clarification on forthcoming...
Why Tunisia-Mali AFCON Refereeing Scandal Probably Wasn’t Match Fixing
The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) game between Tunisia and Mali ended in chaos and confusion Wednesday. That's after Zambian referee Janny Sikazwe blew his whistle for full time in the 85th minute. The bizarre...
Oregon Racetrack Faces Axing of 226 Workers Without Gaming Machines
An Oregon racetrack owned by Dutch Bros coffee billionaire Travis Boersma will lay off 226 workers next month. That’s unless the state racing commission greenlights its application for 225 historical horse-racing machines. The ultimatum, first...
Tiger King Star Charged with Grand Larceny for Stealing Wynn Las Vegas Candelabra
Masha Diduk, Tiger King’s so-called “hot nanny,” has gone from big cats to grand larceny, TMZ reports. Diduk has been charged by Las Vegas police with stealing a $5,000 candelabra from Wynn Las Vegas. Last...
Las Vegas Man with Severed Head in Trunk Claims He is ‘Unlucky Car Thief’
A Las Vegas man who was charged with murder after police found a severed head in his truck in a parking garage next to the Rio says it’s not his truck. A lawyer for Eric...
