Foxwoods in Planning Stage to Develop Internet Gambling Site Based in Europe (Where it is Legal)
This isn’t surprising, but when I saw a news item in a New London, CT newspaper, I had to comment on it. Foxwoods Development Co, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe’s St. Louis-based development arm, is in the planning stage of developing an internet gambling site where it is legal— in Europe. Smart move. Very smart. Apparently the [...]
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Posted on November 8, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Culture, Games, Legal, Online
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Are You Surprised? College and High School Age Kids Going to Online Gambling Sites in Increasing Numbers
This should be of little surprise to those of us who have college age kids. Wanna know what they’re doing in their spare time online? Studying? Going to X-Rated sites? Gaming? Gambling? I can’t speak to the first three but according to some recent surveys, online gambling is increasing. Here is an item sent to [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Culture, Gambling, Games, News, Online
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Unofficial Dallas Poll Shows Support for Legalizing More Forms of Gambling as Way to Help Deal with Anticipated $20 Billion State Budget Shortfall
The next governor of Texas will have a major problem on his hand. A $20 billion budget shortfall. That’s right: $20 billion. WFAA Dallas took a poll among likely voters and they said they support more gambling to help the budget. But what will the legislature think about that? Our poll found a majority of [...]
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Posted on October 11, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Culture, Gambling, Games, Legal, News
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Congressman’s Wife Pleads Guilty in Federal Court: She Helped Her Brother Conceal His Illegal Offshore Gambling Business
This is kind of interesting. You know all about prohibitions against Americans setting up offshore gambling businesses. Everyone else in the world, it seems, can do it. But not Americans. That’s another story (OH, could we use their taxes if it were made legal….) From the HILL newspaper, I learned that the wife of Rep. [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Gambling, Games, International, Legal, News
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Maryland Joins the Club; Hollywood Casino in Perryville, Md. Opens
For the first time in 40 years, Maryland has legal gambling. After a decade and a half of debate, the opening of the Hollywood Casino in Perryville meant Maryland has finally joined most of its neighbors in expanding gambling to shore up its finances. Whoever lost that first dollar just paid 67 cents to the [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Culture, Events, Games, News
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Anywhere But the U.S.: Welcome to the Club. New Gambling Site, Betfair.com, Check it Out
Ok. I consider it one of my main roles, to turn you on to NEW casinos, NEW gambling sites that you might want to test out on your own. And hopefully report back to me and everyone who regularly checks out this site. And so I introduce you all to the UK-licensed virtual sportsbetting site at [...]
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Posted on August 3, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Gambling, Games, News, Online
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Canadian Province B.C. Reaping Online Gambling Rewards
Here is a very intersting tidbit of information about Canada. While Kentucky is foolishly fighting online gambling (how else but) by grabbing up domain names, over in British Columbia (where lies my all time favorite city, Vancouver), is enjoying mega success through legalized online gambling and is reaping enormous financial rewards. Can the states be [...]
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Posted on July 19, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Culture, Events, Gambling, Games
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Get Up, Take a Walk, Have a Drink, as Way of Preventing Clots When Table Gambling for Long Periods of Time, Medical Researchers Suggest. [Are They Nuts?]
A friend, Abe, sent me an interesting cli from the New York Times, which I think is not just a fun angle on gambling moments…but kind of instructive. There is a report coming out of China of a syndrome that might be caused by excessive table gambling. I know…hard to believe. Right? Seems like the [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Gambling, Games, News
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N.J. Casinos Set to Fight Against Online Gambling
Here’s the deal. New Jersey seems poised to become the FIRST state to legalize online poker …. at least within the state. But Atlantic City casinos are putting the pressure on legislators to kill the bill. Who’s kidding whom? Folks, this is a smokescreen. You’ve gotta know that the second online poker is legalized the [...]
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Posted on June 20, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Culture, Gambling, Games, News, Online
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Chinese Gambling Heavily on the World Cup. [And it's Illegal.]
Here’s a dispatch (from China’s news agencies) that I found incredibly interesting and I want to share it all with you. I’ve been wild about the World Cup, watching every match I could, while I’m not at work. China, it seems is going wild over the cup too. Only thing is, they don’t have a [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Culture, Games, International, News, Online
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