Super Bowl feeds illicit gambling
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Massive windfall House of Cards The biggest betting day of the year - Super Bowl Sunday - has come and gone, and the numbers are in. Legal wagers in the State of Nevada totaled $93.1m, down slightly from last year's figure of $94.5m.â¦
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GENEVA -- A ruling from the World Trade Organization could open the United States to offshore Internet gambling. A WTO panel says the federal government should drop its ban on Americans placing bets at online casinos.
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In the spirit of Texas Hold &#39;Em, The Breeders&#39; Cup is raising the stakes. Horse racing&#39;s richest day is gambling on an untested racetrack tomorrow for the second time
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A comeback for Internet gambling may be in the works.
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Gambling, and especially poker, has invaded almost every form of television. So it stands to reason that ESPN would develop a drama about cardplayers.
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A star of Ireland's Gaelic football league was exposed Thursday as a director of an illegal dog-fighting club, an underground gambling activity that has wrecked the reputation and career of Atlanta Falcons football player Michael Vick.
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Serious gamblers demonstrate a similar pattern of brain activity to people addicted to drugs, a study suggests.
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Appearing on the Super Bowl can be just as much of an honor &#151; and a harrowing experience &#151; for an advertiser as it is for a football player. With some 90 million people watching and the cost for a 30-second spot reaching as high as $2.6 million, big-time money and bragging rights are both at stake.
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There's a lot to consider when planning the entertainment for an NFL game: keeping the mascot in line, making sure the fake smoke doesn't choke anybody, finding the right D to go with the fence.
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ESPN, which managed to offend the NFL with an edgy football drama, is back in the game with a project set in the world of high-stakes poker.
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(InfoWorld) - A law prohibiting U.S. financial institutions from processing payments to online gambling sites hasn't stopped U.S. employees from visiting sports betting sites, according to cybersecurity vendor ScanSafe. Attempted visits to online gambling Web sites by employees of ScanSafe's U.S. customers were up 77 percent in the week between Jan. 23 and 31. The Super Bowl, the National Football League's championship game, is Sunday. ScanSafe provides a Web-blocking service to large businesses, and it examines 6 billion Web requests a month. In October, President George Bush signed into law a measure prohibiting financial institutions from processing payments to gambling sites. The government has until mid-July to develop the processing regulations for financial institutions. But some online gambling sites have begun telling U.S. customers that financial institutions are already distancing themselves. On Wednesday, PokerRoom.com told U.S. customers to cash out. "The remaining companies that process cashouts from PokerRoom.com to our players in the United States have contacted us to say that in the near future they will no longer facilitate these transactions," said a message on PokerRoom's home page. "As such, we would advise all American players who have not cashed out already to do so immediately." The gambling provision, amended by Congress onto a ports security bill in late September, has had no impact on the number of people visiting gambling Web sites, said Dan Nadir, vice president for product strategy at ScanSafe. ScanSafe doesn't track whether those people completed bets, he said. "We suspected [the law] wouldn't have much of an impact," Nadir said. Some gambling sites will develop alternative payment mechanisms, he said. ScanSafe didn't provide the raw numbers of visits to gambling sites this past week, but gambling represented about 3.4 percent of the content it blocked for clients in 2006. By comparison, 15.1 percent of the blocked content was chat or instant messaging, 14.6 percent was advertising, 7.2 percent was Web mail, and 3.9 percent was pornography. Visits to sports betting sites such as Bodog.com were common this past week, Nadir said. About 53 percent of the U.S. visits to gambling sites ScanSafe observed this past week were to sports betting sites as opposed to casino or lottery sites. Bodog didn't immediately respond to an e-mail asking if its business has been hurt by the U.S. law. About 84 percent of ScanSafe's customers blocked employee access to gambling sites. Companies block employees from gambling sites for a couple of reasons: because they don't trust that gambling sites are safe, and because they don't want employees playing games on company time, Nadir said.
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Super Bowl host sites can infect visitors with malware.
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When the New England Patriots and New York Giants face off in Sunday's Super Bowl football championship, the mayors of their home towns will have an edible wager on the line.
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NFL fans spending time in Las Vegas always can place a bet on their favourite team for that week&#39;s game. Now, the Plaza Hotel is offering something more long-range.
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Regulation of online betting on the cards
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By Katherine Rosenberg, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Feb. 10--VICTORVILLE -- It was a gamble all around -- for both a woman carrying a large Las Vegas jackpot in her purse, and for the gas station attendants who later stole her winnings.
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By Carrie Johnson Washington Post  WASHINGTON -- If the U.S. government gets its way on Super Bowl Sunday, all bets will be off -- all online bets, that is.