“According to the Swedish gaming board Lotteriinspektionen, the illegal poker playing in the country is getting out of hand. The institution is now pledging to police to be tougher on underground poker clubs.
In Sweden, the government owned company Svenska Spel has a monopoly when it comes to providing poker games, both live and online. Despite this, there are a number of illegal poker clubs available, and many of them openly advertise their business on the internet.
“One of the remaining two people charged in connection with allegedly illegal poker games last fall has pleaded guilty to one charge of being found in a gaming house.
However, 40-year-old Bradley Sean Anderson has been given an absolute discharge and will not have a criminal record as a result of the plea he entered in provincial court here Tuesday afternoon.
“TEXAS HOLD’EM, one of the scores of variations on poker, is today the most popular form of the card game in the world. It’s played everywhere, from the neon-streaked sands of Las Vegas to the back bar of the Jubilee Hotel in uptown BrisVegas. Across Australia, some 500,000 people fight it out in venues each week: bowls clubs, footy clubs, RSL clubs, worn-out pubs and mock taverns – there’s a game around every corner.
“Long-awaited legislation introduced by Fungai Sibanda, the acting Director General of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), to the South African Parliament last week to regulate online poker and online gambling has run into opposition from some members of Parliament.
The National Gambling Amendment was proposed specifically as a way to prevent crime and to protect players, problem gamblers and the under aged as an alternative to the current completely unregulated environment.
Categories: Legal · South Africa
“New licensing minister and past National Pubwatch president Gerry Sutcliffe tells John Harrington that the trade will have to wait on some big decisions affecting pubs
Q: Why are maximum stakes and prizes for poker under the Gambling Act set at half the figure for pubs as private members’ clubs?
A: As with the current legislation, the Gambling Act draws a clear distinction between the respective regulatory regimes for pubs and clubs. Social gaming in clubs has a long and largely unblemished track record, whereas pubs have historically been limited to offering one or two low-risk games, such as dominoes and cribbage…”
“PokerStars.com, the online poker group that operates illegally in the US, will be allowed to advertise on British TV and radio from next month even though it is not regulated by the government’s new Gambling Commission.
It is just one of hundreds of internet gambling groups, unlicensed in the UK, which are to be granted freedom to advertise in Britain under the government’s Gambling Act 2005. They will not be regulated here or pay British tax.
Categories: Legal · PokerStars · UK
“CryptoLogic, the publicly listed gaming software provider whose partners include World Poker Tour, William Hill, Sun Poker, InterPoker, and Playboy, today reported a 46.5 percent decrease in revenues in the second quarter of 2007.
The company generated revenue of $16.2 million and said the decrease from $30.2 million in the second quarter of 2006 was “due largely to the impact of the U.S. prohibition of Internet gaming.”
“France’s protectionist policies regarding online gambling are facing mounting legal challenges, with the latest blow dealt by its own Cour de Cassation, France’s top court. In a ruling handed down last month, the court overturned a decision that had previously banned a Maltese competitor from offering online betting associated with horse racing in France.
The ultimate fate of the Maltese company Zeturf may take over a year to be known, as it must now work its way back through the court of appeals for a rehearing. But the decision handed down by France’s highest court will undoubtedly have immediate consequences regarding France’s historically predatory proceedings against online gambling competitors and the EU’s pending legal action against France.”
“Antigua & Barbuda, which has requested $3.4 billion in compensation from the U.S. after winning a WTO dispute over Internet gambling, most likely will have to settle for a much smaller amount according to John Jackson, an international economics law expert and professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
“Poker is not merely a game of chance but also requires skill and is therefore legitimate competition, a municipal court in the suburb of Lyngby ruled last Friday.
The ruling acquitted the president of the Danish Poker Association, Frederik Hostrup, of charges of arranging illegal gambling events. Hostrup had been sued by hotel and restaurant trade organisation Horesta on behalf of the nation’s casinos.
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