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A list of online gambling news articles and analyses written by nichm for GamingZion.
Online Gambling World Wants To Wash Away Money Laundering

Online Gambling World Wants To Wash Away Money Laundering

Nich Moore July 3, 2014 17:16:18

Bet365 is assisting British authorities in a fight against money laundering spreading through online gambling. Gambling laws in the UK have been significantly overhauled over the last few years in order to keep them current with the state of the gambling industry. This has included both remote and non-remote operators and extended right across every […]

Caesars’ Scuttles Struggling  Atlantic City Showboat

Caesars’ Scuttles Struggling Atlantic City Showboat

Nich Moore June 30, 2014 20:04:05

Caesars announces closure of the Showboat Casino Hotel in Atlantic City as part of consolidation process The gambling news in the US is not getting any better. When the Atlantic Club closed in January due to bankruptcy it was bought by Caesars Entertainment and Tropicana Entertainment, but didn’t reopen. They stripped it for parts and […]

Atlantic City Casinos Face Tough Times

Atlantic City Casinos Face Tough Times

Nich Moore June 30, 2014 17:42:12

The Showboat is closing, the Revel is bankrupt and the Mayor of Atlantic City is looking to a multi-facetted future. With some of the best online casinos for US players being set up by those states forward thinking enough to award licences and properly regulate gambling’s future it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the physical world […]

Lottery Losers Lawsuit Looms

Lottery Losers Lawsuit Looms

Nich Moore June 30, 2014 16:32:50

New York duo desperately launch lawsuit to recover winnings despite throwing ticket away in error Whilst this US gambling news might sound like the pedestrian plot of poorly written sitcom but for two men in New York the melodrama is all too real. Having bought a winning lottery ticket, worth nearly a million dollars, they […]

MPs Go Online All The Time

MPs Go Online All The Time

Nich Moore June 30, 2014 12:24:48

British MPs are facing embarrassing questions after Freedom of Information request reveals their browsing habits Despite there being 8 bars in the House of Commons alone, a fair deal more for the peers, it would appear that rather than spending all their time drinking at subsidized prices, members of parliament spend all their time online. […]

Aging Anti-Pinball Law To Be Struck Down

Aging Anti-Pinball Law To Be Struck Down

Nich Moore June 29, 2014 10:07:57

Pinball tables due back on the menu as Oakland’s lawmakers finally get around to repealing old anti-flipper flicking ordinance. In gambling news that isn’t actually about gambling the big story is from the USA. Whilst you can, so we’re told by Roger Daltrey, play the silver ball from Soho down to Brighton you couldn’t, it […]

Murray May Make Magic Marriage Moment

Murray May Make Magic Marriage Moment

Nich Moore June 27, 2014 18:51:00

Andy Murray may propose to long time girlfriend Kim Sears this summer after a 9 year romance Olympic champion and defending Wimbledon winner Andy Murray, the man who put the dour back into winning competitions, is again under intense scrutiny not for the quality of his tennis but the state of his love life. When […]

Trio To Be Tried For Illegal Gambling Operation

Trio To Be Tried For Illegal Gambling Operation

Nich Moore June 27, 2014 14:44:37

Men face illegal gambling charges after their online betting operation was discovered and shut down by the authorities. Three men have fallen foul of US gambling laws in Charlotte, New York, and have been both arrested and indicted on charges of betting and money laundering. Paul Borrelli (66), Joseph Ruff (32) and Mark Ruff (40) […]

World Cup Wager Wins Rwandan Rwf156 Million

World Cup Wager Wins Rwandan Rwf156 Million

Nich Moore June 27, 2014 14:11:16

Rwandan wager nets a fortune for Munyakazi as he accurately predicts the precise scores of five games in the World Cup Jean Claude GatoyaMunyakazi is a lucky man, and not just because he’s got a fabulous name. Winner of a Sports4africa jackpot of Rwf156 million from just a Rwf600 stake. The 34 year old cattle […]

The Future Of Gambling Is Virtually Here Already

The Future Of Gambling Is Virtually Here Already

Nich Moore June 26, 2014 17:52:57

With a battle raging in the US over the development of the online gambling market we look at the futures on offer and see if we can assess where gambling is headed. The future of gambling, in the short term at least, looks like being a straight shootout between physical locations and the internet’s world […]