Residents in the state of New Hampshire who like to gamble and be in with a chance of that coveted big jackpot win got an unpleasant shock last week. State lawmakers passed a new budget worth $11.5 billion. The new gambling tax should raise $5.9 million for the state. Also the new gambling tax will [...]
Poker players who were calmed by news that a dialogue had been established between the Poker Players Alliance and the US Department of Justice after seizures a few weeks ago of online poker bank accounts are now dismayed to learn the federal government is at it again. One of the representative for the Poker Players [...]
The funeral of the great king of music Michael Jackson took place yesterday at Staples Center.The gambling players have created a slot tournament in his honor. From major references that have returned to Michael Jackson who is appointed over the best actor and a music legend, the tour will be entitled “recalling a lgenda. It [...]
The House and the Senate from Ohio have different thoughts about the expansion of the casino gambling. The House would like the expansion, but the Senate don’t. This problem has created animosity which leads to the fact of not being able to accept a budget for the next years. The Gov. Ted Strickland who didn’t [...]
One person’s life, a cancer patient who had this year the worst of it, has suddenly changed her destiny winning around 2.50 million pounds at lottery. Single mother-of-4 Nicky Cusack scooped last week Lotto jackpot prize with a good dip ticket. After a week, the 43-year-old person was believed to be cancer-free. Known to be [...]
Politicians from Iowa signed into a law a smoking ban a year ago that was put in place to protect workers against harmful second-hand smoke. It is now a year later, and bar owners who have apparently lost business because of the ban, are puzzled about the motives of the lawmakers. Smoking became illegal in [...]
Russia and Ukraine have implemented new legislation this week that has seen most existing land-based casinos forced to close their doors. That legislation has put an estimated 600,000 people out of work. In Russia, the new rules go back to 2006 and legislation passed by then-President Vladimir Putin designed to stop the increasing rates of [...]
Poker players have good reason to be more hopeful these days, now that the State of Florida has followed in the recent footsteps of California to begin the arduous process of getting legislation passed to regulate Florida’s online poker traffic. The first step to regulate poker in Florida will be to undertake an exhaustive study [...]
The last press release said that the Governor Charlie Crist and the Seminole Tribe of Florida have begun to negotiate a new gambling compact in the middle of next week. This could even bring great revenues to the Florida’s state in exchange for the right of tribes to a casino games. It is also said [...]
he Ireland-based online casino and gaming software platform developer announced that leading UK and Euro internet betting destination, Viktor Chandler, will be licensing ten of Cryptologic’s most popular online video slots. Games will be supplied by Cryptologic’s partner company, Gaming Technology Solutions (GTS), which just so happens to power some of the largest internet betting [...]
Sunday, May 20, 4:48 am