Tuesday, September 18. 2007
With September now here, Nevada bookmakers are clamoring to get the grand prize of gaming enthusiasts: the hordes of American football fans. According to recent numbers, last year sports books made over $84M in profits, an astounding 104% increase from the previous year. ...
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Wednesday, July 11. 2007
Maybe it’s the nice weather. Maybe it’s family time. Or maybe, just maybe, the long grind of the baseball season is to blame. Whatever the reason, most bettors seem to hibernate until the NFL pre-season starts up again. According to Fred White, Racing and Sports Book Director for the Rainbow ...
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Monday, July 9. 2007
Paddy Power LLC has some eco-friendly egg on its face after a gaffe on one of its proposition bets cost the Irish bookmaker 10,000 euros – roughly $13,600. After listing a bet that Al Gore would be the next high profile American arrested – and not specifying if it would be Al Gore, the ...
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Thursday, July 5. 2007
British bookmaker Ladbrokes indicated this week that despite shortfalls in its over the counter business, an unexpected rise in high-wager betting over the telephone in the past few weeks has helped them reach record highs in profits.
Profits from telephone betting in the ...
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Tuesday, June 26. 2007
The Italian soccer betting scandal took another turn on Tuesday as Palermo forward Di Michele, Atalanta’s Thomas Manfredini, Vicenza’s Massimo Margiotta and Mantova’s Vincenzo Sommesse were all summoned by the Italian Soccer Federation for questioning by Italian prosecutors over an alleged ...
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Friday, June 15. 2007
In order to stimulate economic development in the depressed southern and central areas, Taiwan is preparing to introduce sports gambling on April 15, 2008 according to the ...
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Monday, June 11. 2007
Internal Audit reveals employee settled bets in favor – win or loss John Joseph Holden, 21, of Glebe Close, Accrington pleaded guilty last week to three charges of theft after his employer, Coral Bookmaker, launched an internal audit that revealed he had incorrectly logged bets in his ...
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Tuesday, May 29. 2007
Paddy Power is Ireland’s largest and sometimes most controversial bookmaker. They have drawn flack from the public, the catholic church and the government standards watchdog for some of their more risqué advertising campaigns, novelty props and press releases. However the bookmaking firm has ...
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Wednesday, May 16. 2007
Figures released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board indicate that Nevada’s Sports Books saw a 17% drop in profit from basketball wagers when compared to the same period in 2006. Opinions on why this is vary, however many agree that there is less general betting interest in the NBA. NCAA ...
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Tuesday, March 20. 2007
March Madness is second only to the NFL season as a sports wagering phenomenon, and this fact has one NCAA department not thinking about college basketball but about curbing betting by student athletes. The NCAA’s Agent, Gambling and Amateurism Activities department in partnership with two ...
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Friday, March 16. 2007
Curacao was one of the first locations to offer online sports book companies a safe haven from which to operate. One of the provisions for obtaining a sports betting license from the Government of the Netherlands Antilles is that an operator shall not offer its online gambling products to ...
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Tuesday, March 6. 2007
Office pools popular where you work? Your results from the NFL and Oscar pools not so hot? You still have a chance to scoop the NCAA Basketball March Madness pool from your work colleagues. The NCAA tournament starts March 15 and the championship game will be played on April 2. This time of ...
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Thursday, February 22. 2007
Centrebet, the Australian based online gambling company, has reported a net profit after tax of A$6.2 million during the six months to December 31. This figure includes the costs for the company's initial public offering in July. Centrebet managing director Con Kafataris said ...
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Tuesday, February 13. 2007
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is working with the National Federation of State High School Associations and the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling (FCCG) in an attempt to reduce sports gambling amongst teenagers and young adults. These three bodies all have a strong ...
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Saturday, January 6. 2007
Prince William has been linked with one Miss Kate Middleton for some months now. The two were students at St. Andrews and house mates at the same Scottish University. The relationship has obviously moved past that of school chums, as they have been sited at several romantic dinners at swanky ...
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