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Frenchman in Court: Drugs Made Me Gamble, Turn to Gay Sex

Now here is a clever excuse for an addiction to online gambling…and gay sex. A Mr. Didier Jambart, 51, of Nantes, France, is suing the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, sayng the drug he took to treat his Parkinson’s symptoms…a drug called Requip, “turned him into a gambling and gay sex addict.”

Three Former Sumo Wrestlers Busted in Tokyo Gambling Scandal

This is such a cool story, so thank you Tomiko (my Tokyo reader, correspondent) for telling me about it. Here is what she told me. Last week, Japanese police arrested three former sumo wrestlers over a gang-linked gambling scandal that rocked the ancient national sport last year. Sadahide Furuichi, 34, Tetsuya Yabushita, 29, and Shunsaku Yamamoto, [...]

I’m Keeping My Eye on New Jersey, Where Lawmakers Could Make Online Gambling Legal This Week

Once again, money talks. In New Jersey, where the government is facing huge deficits, it seems likely that legislators will go forward with a bill to in effect legalize online gambling. The bill is A-2570. And if I’m not incorrect, it will be debated this week in the state legislature. The online gambling bill is [...]

How’s That Huge Gambling Bill Going in Illinois? Stalled in the Illinois House at the Moment

Someone called me the other day to ask, Hey…how is the gambling bill that would expand gambling in Illinois to include casinos in Danville and four other cities (including Chicago)…how is it going? Well, it’s on hold. But the legislation, which was approved by the Illinois Senate last month, is not dead

Viva Italia! WSOP Coming to the Great Country of Italy

To the thousands of you who read this posting every week, you KNOW how I hate regurgitating press releases, but on rare occasion I find them interesting. They are self serving bullshit, usually. But now this one…. seems like Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Inc., has announced a long-term agreement with Microgame S.p.A. for the Italian poker market [...]

Chips Ahoy!: Did You See Where Some Dude Ripped Off the Bellagio and Somehow Stole a Reported $1,200,000 in Chips?

This is hard to believe, considering all the security in Las Vegas, but did you see all the news reports about that masked (armed) robber, who stole at least $1,500,000 in casino chips from the Bellagio (one of my favorite haunts) and then hopped on his motorcycle

Effort to Legalize Online Gambling Moves Forward in California

The push to legalize online gambling — in the form of online poker, online casino, etc. — is continuing in multiple states around the U.S. The latest news is out of Southern California, where some tribes with large casinos are pushing for government legislation that would legalize online gambling. To be fair, other tribes in [...]

Sneaking in the Back Door: New Hampshire Allowing “For Profit Firms” to Conduct Games of Chance (That’s Called Gambling, Dude)

Very interesting article recently in a New Hampshire newspaper. Seems like a legalized form of gambling appears to be popping up frequently in communities throughout the state’s seacoast towns. But here is the twist. Charitable gaming has been legal in New Hampshire since 1977. That changed in 2006, when the state legislature voted to allow [...]

World Traveler’s Alert: Gambling is Now Legal in Sri Lanka. [But Really, They Had Casinos Anyway.]

Gotta capture that foreign dollar. This is one of the most awesome countries in the world, Sri Lanka. And anyone who has been there would agree with that. Well, now you can gamble there. Legally. Sri Lanka’s parliament passed a law Wednesday to legalize gambling, despite strong criticism from opposition lawmakers who charged it would [...]

Chicago Legislators Mull Expanded Gambling, Including Possible Casinos and Slots at Racetracks

Good news for gamblers (like me). Seems like legislators all over the US are coming to their senses. Particularly after the last election. No new taxes? OK then, how are Governors and legislatures going to balance budgets? Gambling. Illinois Senate President John Cullerton says the odds are good for an expansion of gambling in the [...]

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