Day: 19 September 2017

Lottoland Faces Further Opposition in Australia by One Nation’s Pauline Hanson

Tue 19 Sep 2017 13.44 Olivia Cole
Lottoland Faces Further Opposition in Australia by One Nation’s Pauline Hanson

The leader of the One Nation Party Pauline Hanson is to call on the Australian Parliament to suspend online betting on lottery draws in the country. She provided more details on her opinion during a visit to a bayside newsagent in Brisbane today. According to Ms. Hanson, such a step is absolutely necessary in order for local authorities to protect Australian jobs and prevent them from being lost to online betting brands which are owned by overseas operators such as Gibraltar-based Lottoland. One Nation’s Pauline Hanson shared that currently, Australia-based…

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Guy Smith Emerges as Chip Leader from WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship Day 1B

Tue 19 Sep 2017 10.42 Harry Evans
Guy Smith Emerges as Chip Leader from WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship Day 1B

Monday saw the ending of the second starting flight of Season XVI WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship, with Guy Smith emerging as chip leader of the pack, with a chip stack estimated to 210,800. Day 1B of the WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship gathered an overall players field of 682 entries, of whom it was Smith who managed to get the biggest chip stack at the end of the day. Still, he did not even get near the stack of 327,300 in chips that the chip leader of…

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Hypocritical UK Gambling Operators Try to Win Government’s Favour

Tue 19 Sep 2017 9.01 Daniel Williams
Hypocritical UK Gambling Operators Try to Win Government’s Favour

As reported by Casino Guardian, UK gambling operators, advertisers and broadcasting companies have offered the Government to take part in its addiction awareness campaign funding. The campaign is being coordinated by the Industry Group for Responsible Gambling (IGRG) and is worth about £8 million. At first, the willingness of betting companies to join the gambling addiction awareness campaign seemed like an act of nobility, but is it really so? Does the fact operators made their proposal at a moment when the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is…

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