Monthly Archives: January 2015

NBA Commissioner to Chris Christie: Join Me to Expand Sports Betting

With both powerful men calling for expanded legalized sports gambling, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is inviting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to join him in lobbying Congress to rewrite federal laws on the subject.

The NBA and the other major professional sports leagues are actually fighting New Jersey in court to enforce a federal ban on most sports betting outside of Nevada. That law has been in place for more than two decades.

But during an interview on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” that also aired on the ESPN/ABC podcast “Capital Games,” Silver said that rather than fight New Jersey and other states, his league can work with them to establish a uniform federal structure that would acknowledge that sports gambling already takes place in many venues that are far from Las Vegas sports books.

“Governor Christie, and I’m happy to join him, should turn his attention to Washington, DC, to Congress, and say, ‘Here are all the reasons it should be regulated, but let’s come up with a framework that makes sense on a national basis presumably that would allow states to opt in,’ ” Silver told ESPN’s Andy Katz.

Silver broke with his fellow American sports commissioners last month by endorsing expanded legal sports gambling in a New York Times op-ed. He told Katz that his intention was to “break the ice” to have a real conversation on the subject.

 

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'06 lottery winners still can't collect

Two brothers from Samut Prakan have been unable to claim two million baht they won in the three-digit lottery in 2006 because the Government Lottery Office claims their ticket wholesaler never submitted their stubs. The brothers, Pongsing and Rangsan Sermsart, told the media Friday that they bought 80 three-digit lottery tickets bought at 50 baht each for the draw on Jan 16, 2006.

Criss Angel, David Copperfield collaborator opening theme park in Utah

David Copperfield poses for a picture with a fan during the unveiling of his slot machine Thursday, June 26, 2014, in MGM Grand. Las Vegas illusionist and magic builder Curtis Hickman, who in his decade here has created illusions for Criss Angel and David Copperfield, has become chief creative officer of a 45-acre adventure park under construction at a cost of $100 million in Evermore, Utah.

Iipay Nation Ask Court to Dismiss Calif iBingo Case

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel filed a Motion to Dismiss versus the California Attorney General in the legal skirmish over the right to offer online bingo to California residents.

Such a motion is standard procedure in civil litigation after the plaintiff files a Complaint. The Iipay tribe promised to continue fighting after the state initiated the legal proceedings, so their recent filing seeking dismissal comes as no surprise.

A judge sided with the state last month in granting a temporary restraining order that put an end – at least for now – to the tribe’s Desert Rose Bingo endeavor. That online bingo site launched in advance of what the Iipay Nation are really after, and that is to roll out online poker via their PrivateTable.com website.

Private Table is open to Golden State residents for play-money, with a real-money launch repeatedly promised by Santa Ysabel throughout much of 2014. That launch has yet to take place, but the website has undergone a number of modifications in preparation of doing so, including naming a promotion for first-time real-money depositors.

Steve O’Dwyer Conquers PCA Super High Roller as Main Event Kicks Off

Steve O’Dwyer is almost $2 million richer today, after taking the top prize of $1,872,580 in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $100,000 Super High Roller event. The three-day tournament saw O’Dwyer beat out a record-setting 66 entrants, and it’s not his first rodeo, either: the poker pro also snapped first in November’s Hong Kong Super […]

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