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Update: Nevada Gaming Commission Approves Aristocrat Technologies

A few weeks back, the Australian gambling equipment and games developer Aristocrat Technologies, along with Pinnacle Entertainment and GambleID, was successful in acquiring the approval of the...

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Ontario Lottery in Massive Management Problems, Online Gambling Ambitions May Be Delayed

It seems like the time of hardships awaits Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), judging by the latest developments which saw the entire board of directors quit their jobs after chief executive Paul Godfrey had been fired. This could lead to a serious del...

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UK ASA Restricts Vernons Bingo TV Advert

After receiving a complaint about a TV ad promoting Sportech Alderney's Vernons Bingo...

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Update: Lottomatica Takes Minority Stake in Winning OPAP Bidder

Despite the fact that it has backed out of the bidding process for the acquisition of Greece’s gambling monopoly OPAP, the giant lottery and gaming giant Gruppo Lottomatica SpA has purchased a minority stake in the only remaining bidder in the process, Emma Delta, a consortium controlled by Czech...

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California Tribes Initiate Online Poker Legalization Discussion

The latest news reported and the tribal leaders confirmed that execs from some of California's most powerful and successful tribal casinos have been meeting privately to hammer out a proposal to legalize online poker. Recent developments with legalization in Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey, the launch of the first Nevada-licensed online poker s...

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Irish National Lottery License Bidding Begins!

Finally and after a lot of anticipation, the Irish government opened the bidding for a 20-year license to run the Irish National Lottery with Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Brendan Howlin formally announcing the invitation for expressions of interest in the license. On May 8 it was reported that the Irish government announced the opening...

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Spanish Partnership between GameAccount Network and Rank Group Plc. Extended

This week, GameAccount Network and Rank Group Plc. have announced a multi-annual extension to their Spanish partnership which dates back to 2010. Based on the new extension deal, GameA...

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UK National Lottery Tax Increase Assessed as Stealth Tax

The so-called ’stealth tax’ – a doubled amount of tax on the UK national lottery has been assessed by analysts GBGC as having a potential to bring the UK Treasury an extra GBP 1 billion a year from proposed ticket price increases scheduled for next autumn. This is the first increase in the 20 years of the lottery’s histo...

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Bingo Association Addresses Bingo Tax Rate

Taxes on bingo continue to contribute to the suffering of one of the most loved games in the UK, bingo. Bingo is subject to a 20% tax rate while other mean of gambling are subject to just 15%. It’s this variance that has p...

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Online Bingo Addict Robbed a Family Member

The UK online bingo player Karen Moore stole and spent almost GBP120,000 of her 84-year-old uncle's savings to feed her gambling addiction. Yet the uncle had been reluctant to charge her and died three months before the case came to court. Moore's lawyers said in the hearing at the Ayreshire Sheriff's Court that she had made efforts to adjust he...

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Woman Steals £120,000 from Elderly Relative for Bingo

A woman, Karen Moore, steals £120,000 from her great uncle’s life savings to fund her online bingo addiction. Moore said: “I became addicted and couldn’t stop. “I didn’t realise how much money I had spent until it got out of control. “As soon as I realised, I went straight to the police and told th...

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Update: Argentina Withdrawal Rumors Not True, Says Codere!

Codere will not withdraw from the Argentinian market, said Country Manager of Codere Argentina Héctor Luna this week. On the occasion, Luna denied both rumors of withdrawal over difficulties in repatriating capital from its Argentinean operations to other operations worldwide and those that it will leave the country due to the possible th...

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More Lottery Frauds

Two brothers from central New York, Andy Ashkar (34) and Nayel Ashkar (36), stand accused of second-degree attempted grand larceny and fourth-degree conspiracy for lottery ticket fraud. Andy Ashkar was also charged with first-degree criminal possession of stolen property. The legitimate buyer and owner of the disputed lottery scratch-off ticket...

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Update: Opposition Amounts to Michigan Lottery’s Expansion to Online Sector

Gloomy news arrived this week for online lottery prospects in Michigan, as the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and State Rep. Kevin Cotter, R-Mount Pleasant announced their support of House Bill 4531 which would effectively deny the Michigan Bureau of State Lottery and the Lottery Commission from allowing wagers to be placed through the internet repo...

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After Pennsylvania, New Jersey Also Faces Lottery Privatization Issues

After reports of Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett’s issues with state lottery privatization initiative, it turned out that another US state has similar issues. Apparently, New Jersey's Chris Christie will have to face the opposition of six members of Congress who have asked federal Attorney General Eric Holder to scrutinize a 15 year priv...

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Rank plc Launches Gameplan Initiative for UK Lawmakers

Furthering the cooperation with UK lawmakers the online and land gambling group Rank plc has launched an initiative titled Gameplan designed to improve the regulatory and tax regime in Britain. The initiative proposes that using pejorative terms associated with gaming...

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Update: Pennsylvania State Lottery Privatization Causes More Controversy

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's plans to privatize the $3.5 billion state lottery and hand over its operation to the British company Camelot Global Services seems to be encountering one obstacle after another – this time the state Gaming Control Board has interfered, concerned about potential legal problems in Corbett's stalled plan to hi...

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GTECH and Scientific Games On In New Jersey

The New Jersey Treasury Department has issued a notice of intent to award a contract to Northstar New Jersey Lottery Group (Northstar). The joint venture is comprised of Scientific Games International, Lottomatica’s GTECH Corporation and OSI LTT NJ Holdings Inc. which is an indirect subsidiary of OMERS Administration Corporation, the admin...

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UK Competition Commission Stamps Rank plc and Gala Coral Deal

The UK Competitions Commission has this week approved the Rank plc land and online gambling group acquisition of Gala Coral's land-based estate in a GBP179 million deal, therefore making Rank Britain's largest land gambling firm. It was May last year when Rank made its bid to acquire t...

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Man Fined for Destruction of Floor in a Bingo Hall

Franco Lumba, owner of FL Trading Limited, ignored warnings of officers and proceeded to remove the floor in an old bingo hall. The property is a Grade II listed building and his actions earned him a hefty £75,000 fine. Before the Crown Court o...

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