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Poker Site Co-Founder Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy
A federal crackdown on online poker sites continues to rake in chips. In a reported plea agreement, a man who co-founded the gambling site Absolute Poker pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges. Federal...
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Legal Online Gambling May Be On The Way, Courtesy Of Justice Department
Online poker and other forms of non-sports internet gambling could become legal, thanks in part to a recently released U.S. Department of Justice opinion on a 50-year-old law. Reuters reports that...
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PayPal Is No Friend To NCAA Pools, Restricts Accounts Used To Bet On March...
The fact that gambling is illegal does little to stop NCAA basketball fans from betting online or engaging in office pools. But PayPal is doing what it can to block users from getting in on the action....
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Maiming A Slot Machine Isn’t Going To Make Up For The Fact That You Lost
Listen, we know what it’s like to keep shoving money into a slot machine, mesmerized by the blinking lights and the possibility that this time will be different, this time will bring riches beyond...
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Casino Deals Unshuffled Cards, Wants Gamblers' Winnings Back
When the same sequence of cards was dealt at a mini-baccarat table at Atlantic City’s Golden Nugget casino twice in a row, was it just probability in action. Out of all the packs of shuffled cards in...
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New Branch Promotion Turns ATMs Into No-Lose Slot Machines
How can you spice up a routine visit to the ATM? Easthampton Savings Bank in Massachusetts is promoting a new branch by turning its ATM into a sort of no-lose slot machine. They call it the “ATM Gone...
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Is This 9/11 Casino Promotion A Nice Tribute, Or Just Tacky?
Reader Bearcat44 spotted this ad in the Spokane, Wash. Spokesman-Review. It’s from an Idaho casino running a promotion tomorrow, September 11th. To honor the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks...
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Zynga Files For Nevada Gambling License So Players Can Gamble Away The...
(frankieman70) Thinking of all my hardworking ancestors toiling away on family farms, trying to provide enough food for their sprawling German- and Irish-Catholic families makes me wonder: What would...
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NJ Lottery: Gambling Addiction Is Not A Merry Holiday Gift For Your Child
(blue_j)Sure, you can’t take your favorite 10-year-old niece with you to your favorite casino to feed electronic quarters into a dazzling slot machine until her eyes glaze over and she enters a...
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Ask Tax Dad: Should I Hire A Tax Preparer? What If I Win The Lottery?
Tax Dad and Lap Dog Usually, our staff Certified Tax Cat handles questions about taxes, but he got into some really bad ‘nip and is taking the year off. Filling in for him is Laura’s dad, a retired...
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Nevada Becomes First State To Debut Online Gambling
(Don Hankins) Nevada has long been the mecca of gambling, with its casinos filled to the brim with blinking games, whirring roulette wheels and the shuffling noises of thousands of decks of cards. But...
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The Bells & Whistles On Casino Slot Machines Don’t Mean You’re Actually...
(primadonna926) The screen is flashing and blinking as brightly colored whozits and whatzits galore stream across the screen, all while dings, beeps, kachings and other exciting noises blare out at you...
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Casino’s “You Can’t Lose” Refund Promotion Is Really Just Meant To Keep You...
Revel’s ads say the casino will refund all slot losses during the month of July, but don’t say you’ll get the refund over the course of 20 weeks, and that it’s in the form of slot machine credit, not...
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Would-Be Armed Robbers Learn Not To Mess With Bingo Players
(KitanaOR)When you think about it, the combination of volunteer labor and piles of cash means that It’s kind of surprising bingo games don’t get robbed more often. A game at a New Hampshire church was...
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Sick Of Husband’s Gambling, Wife Alerts Authorities To $600K Super Bowl Pools...
All around the country, local bars operate betting pools where patrons pay a set fee to buy a shot at taking home everyone else’s cash. At lots of bars, the price for a box is reasonable, but some...
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Here Is A Guaranteed Strategy To Win The Lottery
(Mark Turnauckas)There was only one winner of the $425 million Powerball drawing this week, and the ticket was sold at a gas station in California’s Bay Area. As you spend that money in your head, as...
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Gambler Sues Casino After He Loses $500,000 In One Night
The plaintiff claims he has no memory of losing $500,000 in one night gambling at the Downtown Grand in Las Vegas.Imagine waking up on Super Bowl Sunday in Las Vegas and finding out that you had lost...
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Casino E-Mails Problem Gamblers Who Specifically Asked To Be Left Alone
(Great Beyond)If you have a gambling problem, you can do something drastic but ultimately helpful: you can put yourself on a “self-exclusion” list that means you no longer receive e-mails or promotions...
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$14M Slots Jackpot Win Is All Going To Charity, Says Awesome Human Being
(Twitter)A fountain of liquid cheddar, burbling in a green and gold garden, wherein Aaron Rodgers awaits, ready with all the fondue fixings a heart could desire and the collector’s edition of Pride and...
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Gamblers Who Won $1.5M Must Return Winnings Over Unshuffled Cards
(Alan Cleaver)Back in 2012, some gamblers in Atlantic City realized there was a pattern to the way the cards were coming out while playing mini-baccarat and won 41 straight hands worth around $1.5...
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