Gambling
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Brazil’s Mobbed Up ‘Animal Lottery’ Battered by Online Gaming
Posted on: January 13, 2025, 05:52h. Last updated on: January 13, 2025, 06:19h. Brazil’s new online gambling market appears to have achieved what a century of public prosecutors have failed to do – smash the country’s Mafia-controlled numbers rackets. Brazilian police officers during an anti- organized crime operation in Rio de Janeiro. The “animal game,” a street lottery long controlled…
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Pace-O-Matic Can’t Get Kansas Courts to Say ‘Dragon’s Ascent’ is Legit
Posted on: January 6, 2025, 06:12h. Last updated on: January 6, 2025, 06:12h. Gaming machine manufacturer Pace-O-Matic’s efforts to have its dragon-shooting game “Dragon’s Ascent” declared a contest of skill by the Kansas Supreme Court has been shot down in flames. A screenshot from Dragon’s Ascent, above. Can no one in the entire state of Kansas explain to Pace-O-Matic whether…
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Family of Man Allergic to Shellfish Sues Vegas Eatery for his Wrongful Death
Posted on: December 30, 2024, 05:00h. Last updated on: December 30, 2024, 05:01h. Abraham Williams told his server at Beauty & Essex, an upscale restaurant at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, that he was allergic to shellfish when he ordered spaghettini with pesto sauce one evening last year. But shellfish is what he got, according to a wrongful death lawsuit…
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LOST VEGAS: Spring Fever Spa (aka The Soak n’ Poke)
Posted on: December 23, 2024, 04:50h. Last updated on: December 23, 2024, 05:12h. Rarely does a town’s most notorious sex hotel so blatantly advertise what it is, but this was Las Vegas. Not only that, it was the ’80s. A postcard advertising Spring Fever, which was located on Boulder Highway and East Sahara Avenue. (Image: KNPR) “Romantic private spa suites,”…
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Your Las Vegas Guide to New Year’s Eve-ing
Posted on: December 16, 2024, 05:16h. Last updated on: December 16, 2024, 06:23h. The Las Vegas Strip is the ultimate destination for New Year’s Eve, with a party that literally goes on for miles (four of them). Here are some of the most popular ways it offers to mark the passage of another year. This year’s fireworks on the Las…
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Kalshi Transformed Itself into ‘Online Casino’ Before Election: Regulator
Posted on: December 9, 2024, 05:16h. Last updated on: December 9, 2024, 05:16h. Immediately after a federal appeals court in Washington D.C. denied a U.S. regulator’s bid to block prediction platform Kalshi from offering trading on the U.S. presidential election, the company transformed its futures exchange into “an online casino.” Kalshi founders Luana Lopes Lara (left) and Tarek Mansour claim…
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Wyoming Could Enter iGaming Fray in 2025
Posted on: December 2, 2024, 06:18h. Last updated on: December 2, 2024, 06:18h. A Wyoming policymaker is expected to reintroduce iGaming legislation in 2025, potentially positioning the state to join the small group that currently permits that form of wagering. An American bison is pictured grazing in Jackson Hole, Wy. The state could approve iGaming legislation in 2025. (Image: Pony…
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Vegas Chippendales to Linq Back Up With Caesars Entertainment
Posted on: November 25, 2024, 06:11h. Last updated on: November 25, 2024, 06:11h. They’ve undressed for success at the Rio for 22 years. But after performing for around the 9,000th time for bachelorette and divorce parties there this New Year’s Eve, these dozen famously bow-tied hunks are moving to the Linq on the Las Vegas Strip. Opening day will be…
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Sportsbook Halts on College Games Last Longer Than Those on NFL
Posted on: November 18, 2024, 05:01h. Last updated on: November 18, 2024, 05:01h. It’s common for sportsbook operators to temporarily pause acceptance of wagers on certain games if large, odd-altering money has come in on those contests. There’s no uniformity for how longs these halts last, but recent trends suggest pauses on college football games take longer to be lifted…
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DraftKings Viewed as Bargain Among Gaming Stocks
Posted on: November 11, 2024, 05:06h. Last updated on: November 11, 2024, 05:06h. In DraftKings’ (NASDAQ: DKNG) four-plus as a standalone publicly traded company, rare have been the occasions that the stock has been considered inexpensive. Those instances arguably don’t exist at all, but at least one analyst believes shares of the online sports betting giant currently look appealing on…
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