The European Commission unveiled an action plan on October 23 that outlined a series of initiatives over the next two years aimed at clarifying the regulation of online gambling and encouraging cooperation between Member States. This plan is the long-awaited response following the organization’s Green Paper consultation on online gambling launched in March 2011. The Communication, entitled ‘Towards ...
TORONTO -- Ontario needs to pull the plug on its "foolish" plan to offer ...
NEW YORK — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that poker is more a game of skill than chance and cannot be prosecuted under a law created to stop organized crime families from making millions of dollars from gambling. The decision by Judge Jack Weinstein in Brooklyn was embraced by advocates of card games pushing to legalize Internet poker in the United States. The judge relied extensively on the findings of a defense...
A bill that would authorize Atlantic City casinos to offer poker and other casino games on the Internet to players within New Jersey has been passed by the Legislature and is on Gov. Chris Christie's desk. The governor has 45 days from passage to sign it, veto it, or do nothing, in which case the bill will become law automatically. At this point, the arguments in favor of the bill have been rehashed many...
OTTAWA — If you had the chance to go back 10 years and invest in a successful...
TORONTO, ON, March 29, 2012 - Ontario has a debt problem that is proving hard to fix. The Drummond Report, issued in February, contained 362 recommendations for what the province should do to get its fiscal house in order, including a number of gaming suggestions. Tuesday’s budget demonstrates a new direction for the Liberal government as it attempts to balance Ontario’s budget by heralding an era of ...
April 19, 2012 - On behalf of the Interactive Gaming Council (IGC), I would like to address a handful of inaccuracies in this article published by Online Casino Reports. First, while it's true that Manitoba has recently announced its decision to join the British Columbia Lottery Corporation and Loto-Quebec in the Canadian PokerNetwork, it is worth noting that as this model launched...
On behalf of the Interactive Gaming Council (IGC), I would like to address ...
Since March 2008, the number of gaming licences granted by the Lotteries and Gaming Authority (LGA) doubled, to 425 licences, and over the same period the number of people directly employed in this sector almost doubled too to nearly 4,000 people in direct jobs. The industry, which has become vitally important to Malta, generates over €22 million in terms of gaming taxes and licence fees. These statistics were...
