By Rick Alm, The Kansas City Star
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
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Will international pressure from the formidable, 27-nation European Union finally push the United States into legalizing Web bookies and online casinos?
Maybe. And maybe sooner than later.
By Karin Matussek, Bloomberg
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
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Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) — Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG lost a court bid to overturn a 2007 prohibition against offering online gambling and other Internet games to customers in the German state of Lower Saxony.
By Reuters
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – A dispute over U.S. enforcement actions against European Union online gambling companies could be headed to the World Trade Organization soon, an European industry group said on Wednesday.
By Mike Brunker, MSNBC.com
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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Allegations that a long-running cheating scheme bilked players on a leading Internet poker site have triggered an $85 million claim against a Canadian company whose employees allegedly manipulated the cyberspace card room’s software so that they could see their opponents’ hole cards, msnbc.com has learned.
By Poker Players Alliance
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
By PokerPages.com
Monday, September 15th, 2008
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Italians have been quick to play on the newly legal and licensed online poker sites in their country. In the few days since online poker was launched in Italy, figures released by Microgame and Gioco Digitale, the two operators who managed to connect their real money table systems to the SOGEI government database, show that poker is popular.
By Remote Gambling Association
Monday, September 15th, 2008
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Congress and members of the executive branch will be visited by a team of European Union investigators this week, headed by senior E.U. trade official M. Jean-Francois Brakeland, head of the European Commission’s dispute settlement office. The E.U. delegation is looking into allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) breaches international treaties by continuing to enforce WTO-violating laws against E.U. businesses and individuals who once, but no longer, participated in the U.S. online gaming industry.
By I. Nelson Rose, Eye On Gambling
Friday, September 12th, 2008
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The European Court of Justice and the European Commission have issued dramatic statements calling for the end of barriers to internet gambling.
By Mindelle Jacobs, Edmonton Sun
Friday, September 12th, 2008
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You could blame the World Series of Poker or simply society’s gradual acceptance of gambling as a recreational pastime. Whatever the case, the popularity of Internet gambling has surged.
And that has a Canadian gambling researcher worried that if we’re not careful we’ll trigger an avalanche of online addicts.
By PokerPages.com
Friday, September 12th, 2008
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This past Tuesday, September 9, the Dutch Senate passed a proposed bill to tax online games of chance, which online poker is considered, at a rate of 40.85%, which brings them in line with taxes on live casino table games. The taxes will also apply to domestic providers of games of chance provided by ‘illegal’ online operators, as well as for persons who win at foreign online gaming sites.
