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July 31, 2008 at 1:42 pm · Filed under Online Gambling
Jul. 30--NIAGARA FALLS -- Seneca Gaming Corp. executives are closely watching the downturn in the economy and the tightening credit market as they develop plans to expand the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel.
Brian Hansberry, Seneca Gaming chief executive, told investors during a conference call last week that the company is "constantly monitoring" a shift in the gambling industry credit market as it continues to develop its plan.
Plans to develop the Niagara Falls casino's 48-acre site have been anticipated as, in recent months, the corporation demolished a Pizza Hut, a Holiday Inn and a shuttered splash park on the property.
But despite statements earlier this year that details of the expansion would be released in January or February, no plans have been made public.
"We're rolling with the plans as we had previously stated," David Sheridan, Seneca Gaming's chief financial officer, said during the conference call. "Again, with the credit markets the way that they are -- certainly as you guys know -- it's just another factor for us to consider in monitoring and really determining what, if any, impact that's going to have on our future plans."
The 26-story glass hotel and casino currently sits on 24 acres in downtown Niagara Falls, but Seneca Gaming controls an additional 24 acres that remain undeveloped.
The hotel, completed in 2005, cost $234 million to construct and was financed through bonds.
Philip J. Pantano, Seneca Gaming spokesman, said the Seneca Niagara Casino expansion plans must be approved by the corporation's board of directors and the Seneca Nation of Indians Tribal Council before they will be made public.
But executives signaled in last week's conference call with investors that they are considering the changing economy in shaping expansion plans.
The conference call was set up to discuss a federal court ruling released earlier this month that found that the nine-acre site of the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino is sovereign land but is not eligible for off-reservation gambling.
The ruling was limited to the Seneca's Buffalo casino.
But analysts asked several questions during the conference call on when plans for the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel would be released and whether the court ruling would have an impact on those proposals.
"Right now our development plans continue as we had stated prior," Hansberry said.
Plans submitted to the Empire State Development Corp. when it used its power of eminent domain to acquire property in Niagara Falls for the Seneca Nation called for constructing two additional hotel towers and adding gambling space on the 48-acre site in Niagara Falls.
Pantano has said plans for the location have evolved since then, but "you're not going to see anything less than what was proposed."
Casinos across the country have been hit by the economic downturn in recent months.
Last month, Moody's Investors Service changed its outlook for the U. S. gambling industry from stable to negative.
The report found that the U. S. gambling sector is "facing its toughest challenge" since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks when travel was curtailed.
But the Moody's report also noted that the "huge investments in amenities at regional casinos present vacationers with compelling substitutes to Las Vegas and Atlantic City. These local markets have an added allure: convenience."
That, it said, could help develop a "permanent preference for the more convenient, nearby gaming market."
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July 31, 2008 at 1:39 pm · Filed under Online Gambling
A fire at the former Sundowner Hotel Casino in downtown Reno was intentionally set.
That's the word from Reno Fire Department spokesman Steve Frady, who says investigators are trying to determine who set the blaze Tuesday at the building now being developed into The Belvedere luxury condominiums.
The fire, which broke out shortly before 5 p.m., produced flames 30 to 60 feet high and a thick smoke plume that could be seen around the downtown.
Frady says the blaze also caused about $120,000 in damage and prompted evacuations. He says the damage was largely confined to the building's exterior, but there was some smoke and water damage to the interior.
Meanwhile, officials are investigating whether a barbecue on a balcony caused a fire at an eight-unit Reno apartment complex early Wednesday morning.
Frady says the blaze caused about $225,000 in damage, but was confined to a single apartment in the Carlin Street structure. No injuries were reported in either fire.
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July 30, 2008 at 11:23 am · Filed under Online Gambling
Players have been winning millions playing Aristocrat's Millioni$er(R) penny slot, and now a lucky Las Vegas local has joined the millionaires' club by hitting the jackpot at Rampart Casino in Las Vegas.
The lucky 66-year-old retired Las Vegan had played just $80 when she won $1.4 million! The woman, who said she frequently plays Millioni$er when she is at Rampart, was overwhelmed with emotion and started to cry when she realized she had hit the million dollar jackpot.
She said she plans to pay some bills, buy her sister a present and then buy herself a house with the $1.4 million.
"It's incredible that Millioni$er hit on our floor, and we are especially excited one of our loyal locals won over $1 million on Millioni$er. Aristocrat's Millioni$er has been on our floor for years, and we are thrilled that it could hit as a wide area progressive at the Rampart Casino," said Rampart Casino Slot Director Donovan York.
Millioni$er became a state-wide multi-site progressive in Nevada last year, and hit for more than $1.7 million in Las Vegas in February. The top jackpot will now re-start at $1 million, ready to make another lucky player's dreams come true. Millioni$er is available at more than 56 casinos throughout Nevada.
Millioni$er is a Hyperlink(R) progressive and sports a patented second-screen feature with four different jackpot levels that can be triggered randomly during game play. The four tiered progressives give Millioni$er a higher hit frequency so players win jackpots more often.
Aristocrat Technologies Inc. is a subsidiary of Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL), a leading global provider of gaming solutions that consistently outperform the competition. The Company is licensed by over two hundred regulators and its products and services are available in over ninety countries around the world. Aristocrat offers a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, interactive video terminal systems, electronic tables, and casino management systems.
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July 29, 2008 at 12:29 pm · Filed under Online Gambling
Ramtron International Corporation (NASDAQ: RMTR), a leading developer and supplier of nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) and integrated semiconductor products, today announced that Aewin Technologies Co., Ltd., Taiwan's leading applied industrial computing platform manufacturer, has designed Ramtron's FM22L16 4-megabit (Mb) nonvolatile F-RAM memory into its Intel-based GA-2000 and AMD-based GA-3000 gaming and high-definition multimedia PC boards. The 4Mb F-RAM -- with its fast writes, high endurance, and low power -- replaced battery-backed SRAM (BBSRAM) in Aewin's gaming solution to guarantee data integrity with a lower component count, less mechanical contact, higher reliability, and higher security.
Casinos are increasingly replacing traditional slot machines and table games with advanced electronic gaming solutions that offer high-performance computing, graphics technology, and embedded security to protect system integrity and prevent hacking. In addition to electronic gaming, the gambling industry is adopting electronics technology to provide real-time player tracking, surveillance, security, data analysis, and accounting. Electronic gaming today accounts for 70 to 80 percent of casino revenue, which reduces operating costs, increases profitability, and eases product development.
"We have replaced BBSRAM with F-RAM in our GA-2000 and GA-3000 designs," explains Aewin Project Manager, Ken Huang. "F-RAM is widely recognized as the memory of choice in industrial PC designs for casino video gaming."
Today's casinos are based on a network of embedded, server-based systems that communicate seamlessly with one another: from gaming devices and their peripherals, to the host systems that track player activity, and the hospitality transactions and kiosks where players cash out. Each server can control networks at a single casino or at multiple sites to provide software updates, schedule maintenance, or change the mix of games. The GA-2000 and GA-3000 are Gaming Standards Association (GSA)-compliant, meeting advanced communication standards and providing a computer platform to evaluate many types of gaming and amusement machine applications.
The GA-2000/3000 are full-featured, all-in-one boards containing the CPU, system memory, F-RAM, solid-state disk storage, I/O functions, and an audio amplifier to enable gaming or amusement machines that consume little power and provide superior 2D/3D graphic performance. Low-power F-RAM memory is used in the GA-2000/3000 as a unified memory to buffer game settings, system status, logged transactions, and winning records among other functions. F-RAM's fast writes and high endurance are essential for the continuous storing of configurable parameters such as betting behavior, odds, transaction records, and won or collected credits, as well as restoring data after a power outage. F-RAM also stores security parameters such as the number of times a logic area or cash door is accessed, enabling the casino to monitor and record events that identify unauthorized access to the machine.
About the FM22L16 and F-RAM
F-RAM memory offers the benefits of RAM technology, but is nonvolatile. F-RAM provides NoDelay(TM) write access, virtually unlimited write endurance (approximately 1e14 write cycles), and low power consumption. Compared to EEPROM and Flash, F-RAM writes faster and many more times with less power. F-RAM also consumes much lower power than MRAM and is already commercially proven in demanding applications.
The FM22L16 is a 4Mb, 3-volt, parallel F-RAM device based on a groundbreaking 130 nanometer CMOS manufacturing process. Available in a 44-pin TSOP package, this high-density F-RAM is a drop-in replacement for asynchronous SRAM, but does not need a battery to back up data, making F-RAM inherently more reliable with a smaller footprint. Boasting a fast access time of 55 nanoseconds (ns) and a 110 ns cycle time, The FM22L16 draws 18 mA at full speed, 150 uA in standby, and below 5 uA in ultra-low-current sleep mode. The FM22L16 includes hardware write protection to prevent inadvertent writes and data corruption.
About Ramtron
Ramtron International Corporation, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets specialized semiconductor memory and integrated semiconductor solutions used in a wide range of product applications and markets worldwide.
About Aewin Technologies
AEWIN, based in Taiwan, was founded in 2000 by a team of R&D engineers with more than 15 years of experience in industrial PC design and manufacturing. AEWIN manufactures and markets a wide range of OEM/ODM Industrial PCs worldwide including single board computers, embedded board computers, system on module (SOM), PC/104 CPU modules, control boards, and networking appliance products.
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July 28, 2008 at 9:04 am · Filed under Online Gambling
When University of Western Ontario professor June Cotte started researching online gambling, she never expected to recommend it be legalized.
"If you told me I was going to come to that conclusion at the start of research I would have laughed," said Cotte.
But when the Richard Ivey School of Business associate marketing professor dug into the subject she was shocked to find an industry that was already bringing in $12 billion to $15 billion a year.
"The horse is out of the barn. There is a huge amount of people who are already doing this," she said.
Cotte researched online gambling with colleague Kathryn Latour of the University of Nevada, interviewing 20 regular casino gamblers and 10 regular online gamblers. They found online gamblers played more frequently and aggressively.
They also found a number of troubling features of the illegal online operations that are run offshore.
For one, people who gambled online weren't as aware of their losses as they would be in a casino.
"They don't have chips dwindling in front of them, they don't have, in the case of slot machines, a can of coins that goes away," Cotte said.
The online gamblers also tended to gamble longer, integrating the gambling into their day-to-day routine.
"Some of the people . . . gamble with their kids so their kids are helping them push the buttons, learning the games," she said.
Cotte said if online gambling was legalized, as casinos are, it could be regulated to possibly reduce harmful effects.
"You could require the North American online casinos to have things like cooling off periods, where if you run out of money you don't instantaneously hit a button and upload some more. In a casino, if you run out of cash, you at least have to walk to an ATM."
There could also be requirements for popup notices to online gamblers, warning them they're crossing a threshold, such as $1,000 in losses, or that they are entering hour three of gambling.
"For some people it could just give them time to reflect that maybe they can't put in another $500," Cotte said.
"You could also have online counselling.
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July 24, 2008 at 8:50 am · Filed under Online Gambling
The online casinos across the world keep offering regular bonuses and promotions to draw more users/players to their casinos. There are varieties of online casino bonuses but at times they really confuse the players. Some of the bonuses discussed are discussed below:
Types of Online casino bonuses-
Welcome Bonus- This bonus is also known as sign-up bonus and the most popular amongst the online casino players. This bonus is offered to welcome the players to a particular online casino. Some online casinos offer $100 but it can vary.
No Deposit Bonus- For these bonuses you don’t need to make any deposit. This is considered to be one of the simplest bonuses offered by the online casinos. You just have to get registered with the casino and you will get entitled for receiving cash money. After you have opened an account the online casino will be adding money in your account. The amount can vary but majority of the No-Deposit bonuses are near about ten dollars. At some online casinos there are certain limitations to this bonus.
Match Bonus- When you are through with the registration process with the online casino and when you have made your first deposit with the casino, you receive a match bonus. The casino will match the deposit made by you with a given percentage. Most of the time match bonuses are offered to all those players those who have made their first deposit at the online casino.
Fee Money Bonus- This is the initial deposit that you receive when you make your first deposit with the online casino, here the amount does not matter.
Sticky Bonus- This is the bonus that is offered by the online casino but the main thing here is that you cannot withdraw the bonus amount. You will receive the free money to play to play and after you have met a decided condition you are only allowed to make a withdrawal of the amount that is more than the original bonus amount. As and when you make a withdrawal the bonus amount is removed from your account. Most of the times, the online casinos provide a handsome amount so that you can play along with a healthy bankroll. You get to play the games with more coins and with the bets you enjoy a chance of receiving a healthy payout at hitting the big wins.
Reload Bonus- With reload bonus you can reload your account and it encourages you to continue gambling at a particular online casino and it is very much similar to the Welcome Bonus.
Loyalty Bonus- This bonus is offered to those players who had spent a fair amount of time playing at a particular online casino. The level of bonuses increases with the level of seniority. The type and the amount can vary from the casino.
Preferred Deposit Bonus- This bonus is deposited when you have used a specific electronic payment method.
High Roller- This bonus is offered to those players who make large deposits. These bonuses can be raised up to $1,000.
Conclusion-
It is fun to play at online casinos and these various types of online casino bonuses make this experience more exciting.
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July 23, 2008 at 11:51 am · Filed under Online Gambling
Pearl River Resort, the Southeast's premier luxury entertainment and gaming destination has announced several new hires and management promotions that enhance the resort's strong leadership. The new and newly-promoted personnel all bring more than 150 years of combined leadership and skill and will be spearheading a number of new initiatives to enhance visitors' overall experiences.
Dale Hipsh, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Pearl River Resort
Dale Hipsh was named the chief operating officer and executive vice president of Pearl River Resort in January. As such, Hipsh oversees gaming and hospitality operations at the properties, including the Silver Star Hotel & Casino, Golden Moon Hotel & Casino, Geyser Falls Water Theme Park and Dancing Rabbit Golf Club. A seasoned veteran of the hospitality industry, Hipsh has more than 25 years of national and international casino hotel experience, including the openings of the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa, Grand Hyatt Wailea, Ritz-Carlton Bali Resort and Spa, Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore, and the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort. Most recently, Hipsh worked with the Seminole Tribe of Florida to launch the Seminole Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos in Tampa and Hollywood, Florida, where he then took on the role of vice president of operations for the Hollywood property.
Lawrence Kovach, Chief Financial Officer, Pearl River Resort
Financial veteran Lawrence Kovach joined Pearl River Resort in April as the chief financial officer and will account for the overall financial operations of Silver Star Hotel & Casino, Golden Moon Hotel & Casino, Geyser Falls Water Park and Dancing Rabbit Golf Club. Kovach brings more than 40 years of industry experience to Pearl River Resort. For the past seven years, he had been the primary financial executive for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. In that role he directed the Tribal government's accounting practices and financial planning. At the same time, Kovach was interim CFO for Spirit Mountain Casino as well as CFO for the Grand Ronde Food and Fuel Company, Spirit Mountain Management Consulting, Inc., and Spirit Mountain Development Corporation.
Jason York, Executive Director of Marketing, Pearl River Resort
Jason York has been promoted to the executive director of marketing for Pearl River Resort. York has been with Pearl River Resort for more than a decade, holding several positions across many departments. Drawing on his marketing experience and intimate knowledge of the property, York will oversee all aspects of resort and database marketing, including advertising and public relation efforts promoting restaurants, lounges, entertainment and gaming.
Susan O'Connell, General Manager, Golden Moon Hotel & Casino
Susan O'Connell has joined Pearl River Resort as the general manager of the Golden Moon Hotel & Casino. O'Connell is an experienced gaming and marketing professional with more than 20 years in the casino and resort industry. She has served as vice president of marketing strategy at the Sands Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as well as vice president of marketing at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Most recently, O'Connell has assisted Pearl River Resort as a consultant with Mercury Gaming. Susan will oversee gaming and hotel operations at the Golden Moon while also managing marketing efforts resort-wide.
Leah Downie, Director of Casino Marketing, Golden Moon Hotel & Casino
Leah Downie joined Pearl River Resort in April as the director of casino marketing for the Golden Moon Hotel & Casino bringing more than 20 years of casino experience to the position. Most recently, she was director of casino marketing for Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Previously, she had served in several marketing capacities at the Sands Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, including working as director of player development and director of casino marketing.
Ken Davie, General Manager, Silver Star Hotel & Casino
Gaming and hospitality veteran Kenneth Davie joined Pearl River Resort this month as general manager for the Silver Star Hotel & Casino. Davie will oversee the day-to-day operations at Silver Star. Prior to joining Pearl River Resort, Davie served as the vice president of table games for the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. In this role, he was responsible for the day-to-day operation of 300 table and 100 poker games. Before that, Davie was a vice president in the casino division of the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Minnesota.
Marcio Azevedo, Director of Hotel Operations, Silver Star Hotel & Casino
Marcio Azevedo brings more than 20 years of experience to his new position of director of hotel operations for the Silver Star Hotel & Casino. In this role, Azevedo manages hospitality activities and services at Silver Star. Prior to this, he served as area general manager for Bentley Hotels, where he oversaw the rebranding of the Bentley Beach Hotel in Miami's South Beach to a Hilton property. Before that, Azevedo was the general manager for Vincci Avalon Hotel in New York, where he oversaw the Spain-based Vincci Hoteles' first foray into the United States.
Juan Rivera, Director of Hotel Operations, Golden Moon Hotel & Casino
Juan Rivera has been brought in as the new director of hotel operations at the adjacent Golden Moon Hotel & Casino. Rivera brings more than 15 years of hotel managerial experience to his new job. Most recently, he served as director of hotel operations at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Prior to this, Rivera served as house manager at the SoHo House New York.
Michael Denson, Table Games Director, Golden Moon Hotel & Casino
An asset to Pearl River Resort since 1998, Michael Denson has been promoted to the table games director of the Golden Moon Hotel & Casino. Denson has served in a variety of roles within the table games department, diligently working his way up from dice dealer to floor supervisor and other managerial positions. Most recently he has served as the interim director of table games for Pearl River Resort.
About Pearl River Resort
Pearl River Resort, located in Choctaw, Mississippi, is the Southern United States' first comprehensive luxury gaming resort. The resort features the Silver Star and Golden Moon, two exciting hotel/casinos with nearly 5,000 slot machines, more than 100 table games, 1,074 hotel rooms, 16 restaurants, European spa facilities, shopping and live entertainment. Also featured is The Dancing Rabbit Golf Club with two championship golf courses and Geyser Falls Water Theme Park.
Pearl River Resort is a development of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, a federally recognized, self-governing tribe with approximately 9,600 members living on or near reservation land.
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July 22, 2008 at 1:04 pm · Filed under Online Gambling
The New York-based Cantor Fitzgerald group, already in a strong proprietary technology position in the new market of mobile gambling on licensed land casino premises, acquired a second string to its bow this week with the acquisition of Michael “Mickey†Wichinsky’s family of businesses by subsidiary Cantor Gaming.
The group now owns the Wichinsky company’s comprehensive catalogue of casino games, its intellectual property and gaming expertise, and its full library of art, designs and technology.
The acquisition provides Cantor Gaming with one of Nevada’s richest portfolios of gaming content, developed over 50 years. Mickey Wichinsky will remain as a consultant to the company as Cantor integrates and adapts games and content from the Wichinsky catalogue onto its mobile gambling device, eDeck.
eDeck is currently undergoing field trials at The Venetian in Las Vegas.
Lee Amaitis, President of Cantor Gaming, commented: “Mickey Wichinsky is one of the most successful and respected game developers in Nevada. His experience in gaming IP is unparalleled in the business. We’re honored to be working with him, and excited about the possibilities that this acquisition opens up for Cantor Gaming.
"We have been developing a number of proprietary games for our eDeck platform and with this move we have added some of the most creative and successful content in Nevada gaming to our inventory of games. The long tradition and quality that Wichinsky brings, coupled with Cantor’s innovation and our new wireless technology, will give visitors to Las Vegas an experience that we think is truly unique.â€
Mickey Wichinsky, added: “What Cantor Gaming is doing in Las Vegas is changing the rules for casinos. With mobile gaming, operators can give customers the freedom to game where and when they choose on the premises. The wireless technology means casinos can tailor the content to their customers’ preferences, and there’s no limit on the number of new games they can add. This gives Cantor Gaming, and the casino operators that work with them, enormous creative potential and I’m pleased to be contributing to that.â€
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July 21, 2008 at 12:24 pm · Filed under Online Gambling
Dr. Jeffrey L. Derevensky, a leading professor at McGill University, contends that Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) incorrectly cited the university's research on gambling addiction in arguing for the continued prohibition on Internet gambling. Derevensky in fact believes that the regulation of online gambling is an opportunity to put in place safeguards to combat problem and underage gambling.
In a mark up of the Payments System Protection Act (H.R. 5767) in the House Committee on Financial Services on June 25, 2008, Rep. Bachus, citing research at McGill, claimed that one-third of college students who gambled online attempted suicide.
"This assertion, which is reportedly based upon our empirical research, is not predicated upon any factual evidence," responded Derevensky in an interview with the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative. "None of the studies conducted with adolescents or college students, to the best of my knowledge, have looked at a connection between Internet wagering and suicide attempts." Derevensky raised these same concerns in a letter sent last week to Reps. Bachus and Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
Derevensky believes there is an opportunity for Congress to better protect consumers in a regulated environment. "If Congress is serious about minimizing the threat posed by Internet gambling, it should look to create an environment where Internet gambling operators are required to put in place safeguards that protect against compulsive and underage gambling."
Last week, a study conducted jointly by the University of Western Ontario and University of Nevada, Las Vegas called for the legalization and regulation of online gambling.
"Just as legalized commercial gambling in casinos allows for governments to regulate it, so, too, could the legalization of online gambling allow for better regulation and attempts to reduce the growth of problem gamblers," said June Cotte, associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, as reported by Poker News.
Existing technology and security controls have already proven to be effective in addressing compulsive gambling. Safeguards currently available in the industry include the ability to control the amount of money wagered, set limits on amounts bet and amounts lost, restrict the duration that someone can play, identify and stop players whose gambling patterns seem out of the ordinary, and allow for consumers to be excluded from online gambling.
"It is disappointing that Rep. Bachus is using scare tactics and false claims in an attempt to justify why Congress should limit my ability to gamble online," said Jeffrey Sandman, spokesman for the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative. "We are encouraged by the academic community's support of Internet gambling regulation. They emphasize the important point that consumers will be better protected if there are safeguards put in place to combat underage and problem gambling."
The Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007 (H.R. 2046), introduced by Rep. Frank, would establish an enforcement framework for licensed gambling operators to accept bets and wagers from individuals in the U.S. It includes a number of built-in consumer protections, including safeguards against compulsive and underage gambling, money laundering, fraud and identity theft. A companion piece of legislation that would ensure the collection of taxes on regulated Internet gambling activities, the Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2008 (H.R. 5523) was introduced by Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA).
Additionally, Rep. McDermott introduced last week, the Investing in our Human Resources Act (H.R.6051), which would direct new revenue generated by regulated Internet gambling activities to be spent on job training for those in the declining sectors of the economy and educational assistance for foster care youth. The bill also includes provisions to encourage responsible Internet gambling behavior and an awareness of unsafe practices, something which has been praised by problem gambling advocates.
"Though I support the dedication of resources to raise awareness about problem gambling, I encourage Congress to also provide appropriate funding for research, treatment and the prevention of problem gambling," added Derevensky.
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July 21, 2008 at 12:20 pm · Filed under Online Gambling
Ever since the inception of the first online sports betting sites in 1995, people have been flocking in droves to try their luck at picking winners at their favorite sporting events. Online sports betting has been growing in popularity for a number of reasons that make it so different from standard casino style betting.
To start with, it is done from the comfort of your own home, so there are no parking problems, lines, booze being pushed at you or any of the other inconveniences that come with casino style gambling. Also, placing bets on a wider variety of games and events is so much quicker and easier online then in a standard casino. Online sites have become excellent at offering not only the most popular betting offers, but they have grown to offer tailor made bets that even the most expert punter will approve of. It is really fascinating, and all the growth and specialization in betting offers has been thanks to the dramatic competition currently in place by major operators. They are now frantically trying to constantly lure consumers into making them use their specific facilities in all ways possible.
However; for the beginner it can be somewhat confusing due in part to the large number of websites that offer online sports betting that are available on the Internet. What is most important for the beginner user is that they find a reputable online casino to gamble at, as there are quite a few less then reputable outfits that are out there to cheat you. This has been a proven fact given that terrorist organizations have started online casinos for the purposes of money laundering and funding among other things. It is imperative that newbies go to proven and popular brands to start with, at least in the beginning of their online gambling operations until they grow in knowledge.
There are a number of websites that will refer you to online gambling centers but most of them do their referring to gambling centers that pay them a kickback commission. Fortunately there is a vast selection of legitimate online gaming sites to choose from and most of them will allow you a free trial period. No time obligations are exerted, and most gamblers have multiple accounts with major sites for the purposes of odds comparisons in order to place bets with the highest bidder given the easiness of funding options available to the punter.
Still one more thing to try is to visit chat rooms that have gambling or sports betting related topics. It is there that you will meet likeminded people that can pass on some of what they have learned. Remember, that you must be 18 to gamble online and if you are new to it, it is important to learn how to set limits. Also, remember to keep your bets small at first until you get the hang of it. Please visit a counselor if you have gambling problems, and always remember to have fun while doing this activity.
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