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To date, Paul the Octopus has only made predictions on major football matches.  His World Cup picks were perfect including a selection of Spain to win outright in Sunday’s final.  So will Paul make his picks for the 2010 Open Championship this week? Paul did veer off course a bit with a pick on a [...]

Casino gambling revenue in Macau, the Chinese offshore gambling destination, almost doubled last month, according to a report from the Bloomberg business news agency. Gambling revenue for the city’s casinos in May 2010 rose to about 17 billion patacas (US$2.12 billion) from 8.8 billion patacas a year earlier, according to unidentified sources. The total for [...]

The Morongo Band of California Mission Indians were disappointed this week when the National Indian Gaming Association laid aside its proposal to block Barney Frank’s federal legislative attempt to legalise and tax online gambling in the United States. The Morongo, in concert with Californian commercial poker rooms, had hoped to marshall tribal support to halt [...]

The Virgin Group continues to expand on the online gambling front as they seek investors to help the company move into newly open markets, according to a report filed by eGamingReview Magazine. One of the more intriguing markets is the United States.  Should this occur, Virgin would be the first European-based online gambling company to [...]

Gary Craig – Staff writer, RocNow.com Local News – February 7, 2010 – 5:00am BetOnline.com, a Panama-based online wagering site, is one of an untold number that will be accepting bets today on a premier gambling event – the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, Joseph J. Fafone, an Ontario County man who helped build BetOnline.com, is awaiting [...]

Slot machines have been one of the biggest icons of casinos and gambling on our lives. These are in bright colors, noisy machines have been always with us, and served to draw us into the casinos to see more of the huge jackpot prizes on offer. Slot machine players are interested in the dream of [...]

The US enforcement and legal system took what appears to be token final kick at the carcass of bankrupt online gambling group BetonSports this week when a federal judge in St Louis sentenced the firm, which has been defunct for several years, to probation and a $28.2 million fine that lawyers on both sides admit [...]

By Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly Inquirer Staff Writer Tim Donaghy will be released from federal prison Wednesday, according to consultants the ex-NBA referee has hired to ease his post-prison transition. Donaghy, a Havertown native who lost his job and was sentenced to 15 months for providing inside information to gamblers, hopes to find a job in [...]

The stressed economic situation continues to impact Nevada land gambling venues according to official figures for August 2009, which show that casinos won $847 million from gamblers in August, a 9.3% decline compared with the same month in 2008. The Nevada Gaming Control Board reported Thursday that monthly revenue for the first two months of [...]

By ALEXANDRA BERZON, The Wall Street Journal Though he was a Las Vegas impresario and master of publicity ploys, Bob Stupak never saw some of his grandest visions come true, such as constructing a giant King Kong on the side of a tower, or building a casino in the shape of the sinking Titanic. Expensive efforts [...]