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Reason
June 2008
Jacob Sullum |
Some Bets Are Off The strangely selective and self-defeating crackdown on Internet gambling.   |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2006
Jeff Hwang |
Did Congress Kill Online Poker? Regulation, not prohibition, is the answer to online poker. Poker isn't a form of gambling any more than buying stock is, and it should be exempt from the new law, as horse racing and state-run lotteries are. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
July 19, 2006
Roy Mark |
An American Hypocrisy? Bet on It. The DoJ refuses to wait for clarification of U.S. online gambling laws. Just ask David Carruthers. |
InternetNews
April 26, 2007
Roy Mark |
Lawmaker Bets on Legalizing Online Gambling A new bill proposes to allow Americans to wager online through licensed sites. |
InternetNews
June 8, 2007
Roy Mark |
New Deal For Online Gambling? From the courtroom to Congress, opponents of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 this week began playing their hands to undo the controversial legislation. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Seeks to Cut Cash Flow to Online Gambling Approved on a close voice vote by the House Financial Services Committee, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act requires financial institutions to identify and block payments to offshore casinos, sports book and other online gambling sites. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
The Business Of Bookmaking A look at how much money is changing hands -- both legally and under the table -- between bookies and people trying to make some quick, easy cash. |
InternetNews
April 6, 2006
Roy Mark |
Banks Rap Internet Anti-Gambling Proposal Legislation designed to put a dent in Internet gambling ran into opposition Wednesday from the banking industry and, surprisingly, the Traditional Values Coalition. |
The Motley Fool
November 27, 2007
Jeff Hwang |
The State of Online Gaming An update on the state of online gaming from last week's Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. |
InternetNews
September 15, 2006
Roy Mark |
North Dakota a Gambling Haven? Republican state lawmaker defying his party by pushing for state-sanctioned online casinos. |
InternetNews
September 17, 2004
Roy Mark |
Online Gambling Operation Betting on Congress BetonSports chief executive is leading campaign to change lawmaker attitudes about Internet gambling. |
InternetNews
July 19, 2007
Roy Mark |
Craps! Neteller to Forfeit $136M Neteller agreed today to forfeit $136 million in profits and return $94 million in American online gamblers' funds it is holding as part of a plea deal for violating U.S. gambling laws. |
PC World
November 21, 2006
Andy Sullivan |
New Law Won't Stop Internet Gambling Federal legislation bans credit-card payments, but sites have alternatives. |
InternetNews
July 11, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Passes Ban on Internet Gambling In the sharpest attempt yet to curb Internet gambling by Americans, the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to ban financial payments to offshore casinos. |
InternetNews
July 7, 2006
Roy Mark |
Online Gambling up For House Debate Members of the U.S. House of Representatives may get an opportunity next week to place their bets on banning Internet gambling. |
InternetNews
February 3, 2006
Roy Mark |
All's Super at Freddy's Online Betting Parlor YouWager.com's chief oddsmaker has a multitude of Super Bowl propositions for you. He says they're all legal. |
Reason
February 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Follow-Up: The Stakes Get Bigger Before you know it you'll have an interstate poker network in the U.S. All gambling lawyers and pundits agree that it isn't a matter of whether it will happen next year, but when. |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2004 |
"American Citizens Want To Gamble On The Internet" And they do. One off-shore gambling Web site claims that last year Americans accounted for 98% of its $1.25 billion in revenue. In this Q&A, BetonSports CEO David Carruthers speaks out against the Justice Department's move against him. |
Sports Central
August 18, 2010
Diane M. Grassi |
U.S. Ban on Online Gambling on Way Out? A look at the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, and efforts to overturn it like House Resolution 2267. H.R. 2267 has numerous problems. |
InternetNews
January 24, 2007
Roy Mark |
BetonSports ID Thief Sentenced to 34 Months Beleaguered gambling site fell prey to identity theft shortly before indictments closed its U.S. operations. |
Sports Central
April 6, 2010
Diane M. Grassi |
States Rushing to Legalize Sports Betting Many U.S. states are on the precipice of bankruptcy and are desperate for that magic bullet to increase tax revenues without continually cutting services for their already over-taxed residents. |
InternetNews
October 2, 2006
Roy Mark |
Gambling Sites Folding U.S. Hand Before President Bush evens signs a new law aimed at curbing Internet gambling, online gaming companies are preparing to pull out of the lucrative U.S. market. |
Salon.com
October 5, 2002
Farhad Manjoo |
Betting on Uncle Sam Online gamblers are waiting for legislators to make their Wild West world a safer place to wager -- but the government keeps waffling. |
InternetNews
July 25, 2006
Roy Mark |
BetonSports Fires Jailed CEO U.K.-based online gambling operation seeks to put distance between itself and U.S. indictment. |
InternetNews
November 15, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
Lawmakers Hear Protests Over Internet Gambling Ban Legal experts, professional poker players and Justice Department representatives square off on current and proposed laws banning online betting. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2005
Roy Mark |
U.S. Ordered to Clarify Online Casino Rules The World Trade Organization has given the United States until April to clarify its laws permitting Internet betting on horse racing but banning all other types of online gambling. |
InternetNews
September 7, 2006
Roy Mark |
U.S. Detains Another Gambling Site Exec Peter Dicks, CEO of London-based BettingSports, held on Louisiana arrest warrant. |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2004
Lorraine Woellert |
Can Online Betting Change Its Luck? The feds are keeping the heat on offshore Web sites, but a global backlash is building. And the $7.4 billion online industry is fighting back against what execs say is a heavy-handed and possibly unconstitutional assault on a free-market enterprise. |
InternetNews
May 4, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Panel Calls For Broader Gambling Ban A House subcommittee has approved legislation banning all forms of online gambling in the United States. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2007
Davin Coburn |
High-Tech Brings High Stakes for Super Bowl XLI With an estimated $7 billion wagered on the Big Game, websites vie for action with increasingly outlandish proposition wagers -- or prop best -- because they're accessible to those who don't exactly sweat the stat sheets. |
InternetNews
January 26, 2007
Roy Mark |
Antigua Takes Upper Gambling Hand Over U.S. Antigua has won its latest long-shot effort to force the U.S. to open its market to offshore gambling, according to a confidential report issued by the World Trade Organization. |
Sports Central
January 25, 2007
Kevin Beane |
Dealing with the UIGEA The effect the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act has had on the U.S. gaming public has been palpable, but not devastating. |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Big Vegas Casinos Could Move Online If online gaming passes Congress, casinos companies should cash in. |
Salon.com
October 22, 1999
Janelle Brown |
Gambling on the Net -- or not? As the country undergoes an anti-gambling backlash, Congress again attempts to restrict wagering online. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Turns Out the Deck Was Stacked for Online Poker After All Full Tilt Poker is accused of being a Ponzi scheme, highlighting the need for regulation of the industry. |
InternetNews
July 18, 2006
Roy Mark |
Feds Arrest Offshore Gambling CEO U.S. authorities moved against one of the world's largest Internet gambling operations Monday, charging 11 individuals and four corporations with various counts of racketeering, conspiracy and fraud. |
InternetNews
March 30, 2007
Roy Mark |
Feds Nab Fugitive BetonSports Founder Gary S. Kaplan, one of two fugitive founding co-owners of BetonSports sought by U.S. authorities, was arrested Wednesday night in the Dominican Republic. |
InternetNews
September 6, 2006
Roy Mark |
Frist Pushing Internet Gambling Ban Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist targeted a ban on Internet gambling as a top priority for the U.S. Senate in the waning days of the 109th Congress. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2004
Roy Mark |
WTO Turns Up Heat on US Online Gambling Ban The office of the United States Trade Representative said it would "vigorously" appeal the "deeply flawed" decision by the World Trade Organization to open US borders to international Internet gambling casinos. |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2006
Jim Mueller |
Foolish Book Review: "Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling" Whether you enjoy playing cards and rolling dice or not, this book by David G. Schwartz will make interesting reading. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Online Poker's Last Chance? The tax bill headed for Congress might be the opportunity online poker is looking for. |
BusinessWeek
September 30, 2010
Peter Coy |
Bringing Wall Street Technology to Las Vegas Cantor Gaming uses Wall Street-style technology to let sports gamblers wager in-game. |
InternetNews
August 28, 2006
Roy Mark |
BetonSports Still Stiffing U.S. Bettors Despite court order, American gamblers still holding losing hand. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2012
Travis Hoium |
Online Gaming Pressure Mounting on Feds States will end up forcing the Feds to act on online gaming. |
CIO
February 1, 2003
Tom Wailgum |
E-Bookies As NFL fans and the two football finalists geared up for Super Bowl XXXVII on Jan. 26, in San Diego, so too were online gambling sites. It's a safe bet that a good portion of the Internet gambling industry's 2003 revenue (about $5 billion) was at stake. |
InternetNews
August 11, 2006
Roy Mark |
BetonSports Folds U.S. Hand With the British-based company named in a 22-count indictment for violating American gambling laws and its former CEO sitting in a St. Louis jail, BetonSports said Friday it was permanently cutting off access to its site for U.S. bettors. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2006
Roy Mark |
BetonSports Agrees to Permanent U.S. Ban BetonSports, the London-based online gambling firm enmeshed in a legal maelstrom with the Department of Justice, agreed Thursday to a permanent injunction barring the company from doing business in the United States. |
InternetNews
April 7, 2005
Roy Mark |
U.S. Wins Hand in Gambling Feud The World Trade Organization sides with the U.S. in its online gambling dispute with Antigua. |
InternetNews
May 24, 2007
Roy Mark |
BetonSports Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Charges BetonSports, the British-based online gambling company that ran afoul of U.S. authorities last summer, pleaded guilty today to federal racketeering charges. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Online Poker Takes a Few Steps Closer to Reality Sen. Harry Reid has been leading the charge in Congress for legalizing online poker, but he's recently gotten help from republican Rep. Joe Barton of Texas. |
