The latest official report on online gambling in Britain shows almost 10 PER CENT more people using so-called remote services.
The findings fly in the face of predictions that the global economic slowdown would DECREASE numbers playing online.
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Of those quizzed in the report for the UK Gambling Commission, 5.6 per cent said they had placed money [...]

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Kentucky’s colourful state Governor Steve Beshear is refusing to take no for an answer over the seizure of 141 gambling-related domain names and is begging the Supreme Court to intervene.
On Tuesday, the state appeal court voted 2-to-1 against the governor and ordered the release of the domains to their rightful owners.
Now the Commonwealth of Kentucky [...]

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Britain’s real life Spooks have been hitting the world’s online casinos and poker rooms to track down terrorists, it has been claimed.
MI5 is targeting Internet gambling websites in a bid to trap the paymasters of al-Qaeda and other shady organisations who may be using them to launder money.
The fear is the secret cash could be [...]

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US punters are flocking to internet gambling sites based OUTSIDE America, even though controversial rules aimed at blocking them have just been passed into law.
The ratification of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act or UIGEA rushed through last month by the out-going Bush administration is being backed up by older laws originally intended to tackle [...]

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Luck ran out for the operator of a series of illegal gambling websites — taking in around £1 BILLION — with him being jailed for eight years.
Tam Chi-Wai employed more than 3,000 people to run the sites and money-launder the profits.
Yesterday, it was reported that a court in southwest China’s Yunnan province confirmed the jail [...]

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Ladbrokes claimed to be the first past the post today in placing LEGAL gambling ads on Google.
But the assertion by the online bookies’ digital agency TBG London is being disputed by one of the online casino industry’s young pretenders Smart Live Casino.
SLC reported that their ads had appeared in “glorious isolation” on Google’s [...]

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A court bid to confiscate more than 140 internet gambling domain names CAN go ahead, a judge has decided.
Franklin County Circuit Court judge Thomas Wingate has thrown out a bid by the web site operators to dismiss an action brought by Kentucky State Governor Steve Beshear.
Beshear wants to take control of the domains — including [...]

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A judge has told the Governor of Kentucky has been told it will another week before he’ll know if he can confiscate scores of gambling-linked domain names.
Judge Thomas Wingate made the announcement yesterday after a three-hour hearing on Steve Beshear’s attempt to shut down 141 online gambling sites in the state.
The governor launched his bid [...]

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A judge has THROWN OUT a fast-track bid by Kentucky state Governor Steve Beshear to confiscate 141 gambling domain names.
Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate said he needed more time to understand the complexities of what experts call “an unprecedented effort to crack down on illegal Internet gambling”.
Judge Wingate ordered lawyers on both sides to file [...]

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The Governor of Kentucky plans to kill off online gambling in his state — known for the world’s biggest horse race — by confiscating the domain names of gaming websites.
Steve Beshear has asked Franklin County Circuit Court judge Thomas Wingate to rule on Thursday that Kentucky can take control of 141 gambling domain names including [...]

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