The advertisement was published at the request of the company, which is the wholesale agent for the websites.

The plaintiff claims he paid RM150,000 into the company’s nominated bank account and obtained an access code.

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Macau gambling revenue surged 57% in Q1/2010 to about 41 billion patacas as China’s economic growth accelerated to 11.9%, the fastest pace in almost three years.

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Reporting on the expenditure, the Associated Press news agency revealed that the target for the funds was once again mainly related to online gambling regulation and enforcement. Only Congress was lobbied, according to the form filed with the House on April 14.

In the same quarter last year the organisation spent $376,000, and in Q4/2009 $345,000.

The association’s members include Las Vegas Sands Corp., MGM Mirage, Boyd Gaming Corp., International Game Technology, Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., Bally Technologies Inc.

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These conclusions were presented to the EU Competitiveness Council this week, underlining the need for collaborative action by member states if illegal gambling is to be successfully prevented from a cross-border perspective.

The proposal appears to suggest that the different national laws of the 27 EU member nations must be considered in order to adopt a common definition of illegal gambling and to respond effectively to situations created by illegal operators.

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The operation is one of 24 similarly powered online casinos listed as owned by Rival’s UK-based Silverstone Overseas Limited, a company widely assumed to be the software company’s white label operator.

Claiming to be the owners, clearly foreign posters located in Malta with the i-gaming pro affiliate program have been defending the casino on various message boards in recent months as slow-pay complaints have mounted.

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Neil Mitchell of eGaming Review Online this week wrote an interesting piece regarding the number one online poker room, PokerStars, recent purchase of various poker news portals.

"Is this the start of an increase in such activity across the board?" he asks.

Gambling911.com is learning that next week’s i-Gaming Affiliate Super Show in Prague will include discussions between various affiliate Web portals and online gambling operators related to potential acquisition deals.

(Read the full post about ‘PokerStars Acquisitions a Death Knell to Affiliates?’…)

The son of online gambling supporter and former US Presidential candidate Ron Paul, Rand Paul, has decisively won the Kentucky Republican Primary and is widely being hailed as the first big winner representing the Tea Party movement.  Paul is believed to share many of the views of his father, a staunch Constitutionalist. 

Rand Paul wins in a state that has become a battle ground for the online gambling sector following Governor Steve Beshear’s Communist China-like antics to seize some 141 industry-related domain names.   He beat out establishment-supported candidate Trey Grayson. 

Though the younger Paul hasn’t exactly come out endorsing Internet gambling, his father co-sponsored a bill that would fully legalize the activity.  Current laws make it illegal for bets to be taken in the United States.  As such, the i-Gaming community is finding itself lumped in among the Rand Paul supporters.

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Australian online gambling payment processor Daniel Tzvetkoff is scheduled to appear in court for the first time Friday where he will answer money laundering charges according to the Gold Coast News.  Tzvetkoff is facing a maximum sentence of 75 years.

Another payment processor in the sector, Canadian Douglas Rennick, faced similar charges and learned this week he may only have to serve less than a year behind bars.  Rennick will also be required to pay a $US17 million fine. <

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Australians are lapping up their weekly, almost daily, dose of crime and all matters of vice.

Media Man and Gambling911 continue their probe into both real crime and TV entertainment drama down under.

Australian viewers can’t get enough of crime TV, so it appears, with Network Nine Australia doing a first showing of the ‘Australian Families Of Crime’ featuring Melbourne underworld figure, Carl Williams, on the very same day as his real life death in HM Prison Barwon.

Williams was bashed to death by two inmates using a blunt instrument.

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The Morongo, in concert with Californian commercial poker rooms, had hoped to marshall tribal support to halt the Frank bill, clearing the way for it to set up an exclusive legalised Internet poker system within California.

Reporting on the proceedings of the National Indian Gaming Association conference this week, the publication Indian Country Today said that the divisive debate on Internet gambling closed with an anti-climatic vote to delay action on the Morongo resolution opposing the Frank bill.

“Tribal members of the National Indian Gaming Association voted 27-6 with one abstention to table what was intended as a compromise resolution in response to proposed bills by Rep.

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