A Connecticut legislative committee wants someone else to decide which of the state’s competing casino expansion bills should go forward.

On Wednesday, the General Assembly’s Public Safety and Security Committee approved two different casino expansion bills by large margins following minimal debate, almost as if the legislators were trying to get these hot potatoes off their desks and onto someone else’s as fast as humanly possible.

In fact, legislators freely admitted that their votes were intended to allow the full House and Senate to weigh in on the proposals, both of which carry the potential for significant ramifications above and beyond their stated language.

The Senate bill would approve the state’s two gaming tribes opening a joint venture casino off tribal lands in the East Windsor area. The Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes, which operate the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos, respectively, say the third casino is necessary to compete with the MGM Resorts casino being built just across the border in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Colombia has announced plans to block over 300 online gambling domains in a bid to boost interest in its regulated online gambling market.

Last week, Colombia’s gambling regulator Coljuegos asked the country’s Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications to block 325 online gambling domains from beaming their signals into the country. The naughty domain list is a who’s who of the online industry, including familiar names like 888, Bet365, PokerStars, Unibet and William Hill.

Colombia has taken a more proactive route to online gambling regulation than most of its Latin American counterparts, having approved online gambling legislation last October. But a punitive 19% value added tax applied to player deposits left most operators convinced that applying for a Colombian license was a waste of time.

The Colombian government demonstrated a rare willingness to respond to operator concerns by scrapping the VAT requirement in December but the change failed to result in the expected flood of new license applications. Coljuegos president Juan Pérez Hidalgo recently complained that unauthorized online operations were depriving the government of over $100m in lost revenue on an annual basis.

UK bookmakers Ladbrokes Coral have prevailed in their fight with a punter who claimed Coral had unfairly refused to honor a £250k winning wager on Glasgow Rangers’ relegation.

In September 2011, punter Albert Kinloch (pictured) walked into a Coral betting shop and placed a £100 wager at 2,500:1 odds that Rangers would be relegated at the conclusion of the Scottish Premier League season. Five months later, the high-performing but financially struggling team was forced into administration and required to play the following season in the Scottish Football League’s Third Division after re-emerging under new management.

Kinloch believed he was owed £250k while Coral claimed Rangers hadn’t really been relegated, at least, not in the way Coral intended when it posted the team’s relegation odds. Both sides lawyered up and made arguments in the Court of Session in Edinburgh in January.

On Wednesday, Judge Lord Bannatyne addressed the parties’ different definitions of ‘relegate’ by saying that “the reasonable man is not only directed but driven to the rules of a particular sports when placing a bet in a sporting context. The natural and ordinary meaning of a sporting term is the definition of that term within the rules of the sport.”

West Virginia has become the latest US state to seek legal online gambling within its borders.

Tuesday saw the introduction of HB 3067 into the West Virginia House of Delegates. The bill, introduced by five Democratic delegates, seeks to authorize the West Virginia Lottery Commission to oversee the licensing and regulation of online poker, casino and race betting options for local gamblers.

HB 3067 limits potential online gambling licensees to the state’s four racetrack casino operators, who are currently authorized to offer video lottery terminals and table games at their facilities. Licenses would cost $50k and online licensees would pay 14% tax on their gross gaming revenue.

The bill allows for the state’s licensees to partner with online gambling technology providers, but operators will be required to market their online gambling portals using their own brand name, “not the brands of third parties,” to ensure that “actual control and supervision remains with the licensed entity.”

Tony Fung’s Aquis Entertainment is off to a rough start this year.

This week, the Casino Canberra reported a loss of AUD7.7 million (USD5.84 million) for 2016, which, in turn, puts Aquis in a negative position with liabilities of AUD31.3 million (USD23.76 million) outstripping the casino operator’s assets by AUD14,300 (USD10,856).

The company’s 2016 financial statements, filed at the Australian Stock Exchange, showed that its gambling revenue was up 21 percent to AUD22 million in 2016. Food and drink revenue was also up for the year at AUD2.23 million, while spend per visitor was up 33 percent.

To be fair, Casino Canberra is not expected to be back in black this year. The casino, which was acquired by Aquis in 2014 for AUD6 million, had to be refurbished—to the tune of AUD13.6 million—before it fully opened its doors to public. The refurbishment works were conducted in the first half of 2016, which saw the casino’s operations moving to a temporary facility with only 16 gaming tables, offering minimal food and beverage service as well as reduced levels of visitation due to the smaller facility.