by Henrik Nilsson-Dahlbom
The online gambling has exploded in the last couple of years and the number of casino sites is ever increasing. You can play everything from craps to Pai Gow without leaving the comfort of your own home. But online gambling is a jungle, to say the least. And it can be hard to know where to put your hard earned money at stake.
By Froma Harrop -
THE FBI is shocked, SHOCKED that Americans will illegally bet an estimated $2.4 billion on March Madness college basketball. Perhaps they'll round up the usual suspects — all several million of them.
You see, gambling is immoral, except when done through lotteries, keno, off-track betting, Indian casinos, riverboat casinos, dog races, horse races, jai-alai frontons, card rooms and other wagering venues blessed by the states. And betting on college sports is especially evil, unless you do it in Las Vegas, whose casinos expect to make about $90 million off March Madness alone.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Calvin Ayre, Founder and CEO of the Bodog Entertainment Group, continues his march into mainstream entertainment with the launch of the Bodog.com $1 Million Battle of the Bands.
by Radley Balko -
Radley Balko is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute.
Online gambling is already illegal in the United States. Proprietors of gaming sites are all incorporated overseas. Yet Internet wagering is still a $12 billion industry.
History has shown us that prohibiting private, consensual behavior has never made that behavior go away. Because consensual crimes take no victims, vice laws are difficult to enforce. Police have to use informers and undercover work and sometimes need to break the very laws they're trying to enforce.
Online gaming firm 888 has said it is confident US politicians will ultimately reject a bill that proposes a tough clampdown on the sector.
On Wednesday, a committee in the US House of Representatives approved a bill to stop firms like 888 accepting credit cards or other types of payment.
By Mathew Miller -
Calvin Ayre has gotten very rich by taking illegal bets over the Internet.
On a warm, bright morning just outside San José, Costa Rica, Calvin Ayre, slightly hungover, was lounging in his bathrobe at a poolside office in his new $3.5 million, 10,000-square-foot compound. Sipping coffee poured by one of his five servants, the entrepreneur declared, paraphrasing Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, “I’m going to win this war without fighting battles. I’ve put a lot of energy into finding ways not to fight my enemies.”
By Lloyd Apter -
Trust is the number one issue in our business. The unique casino affiliate / casino affiliate program relationship is on one hand very open and non-exclusive, while on the other hand in order to achieve success, it requires a high level of mutual trust and co-operation between both parties. As a casino affiliate program manager, I constantly receive questions that address the honesty of our operations, reporting, tracking, payments etc... and I’m sure that the same is true for most casino affiliate programs.
By Sixto Ortiz Jr. -
Of all the ways fortunes are won and lost over the Internet, few endeavors have enjoyed the explosive growth or weathered the intense scrutiny of online gambling. Its popularity is surging, thanks to a proliferation of Web sites that cater to bettors, a poker craze that shows no signs of abating, and continued interest in wagering on huge sporting events such as the Super Bowl and the World Cup.