Tech giant Apple has scrapped dozens of apps for online casinos and betting from the App Store, at the behest of Dutch gambling authority Kansspelautoriteit (KSA).

The gambling regulator said 55 apps, including those from companies such as Unibet and Bwin, are no longer available for download by Dutch accounts.

“One of the app stores heeded the request of the Gaming Authority and deleted initially 49 and later six so-called real-money gambling apps,” the KSA announced on its website.

The apps were not available via Google.

The upcoming spring season in Japan could become more than just a season for cherry blossoms. It might also signal a new development for virtual currencies like bitcoin.

Japanese authorities are reportedly looking to end sales tax collections on digital currency purchases. According to the Nikkei Asian Review, members of the Finance Ministry and Financial Services Agency are discussing to “reduce costs for buyers and relieve operators of virtual currency exchanges of the administrative burden related to the tax.”

If the discussions are successful, sales tax collection on digital currencies could end as early as spring.

Japanese buyers pay an 8 percent consumption tax on top of other fees to get ahold of bitcoins at regulated digital currency exchanges. Japan, according to the news outlet, is the only country among the Group of Seven industrial economies that taxes bitcoin purchases.

Three Arkansas counties will generate a combined $122 million in annual tax revenue if the state chooses to legalize casinos in the state.

This was the findings of Oklahoma-based Economic Impact Group, which conducted a study on the effect of legalizing casinos in Arkansas just a month before residents cast their vote on the proposed constitutional amendment in November. The study was commissioned by

Tulsa World reported that the pro-casino group come up with the estimated possible additional tax revenue on the assumption that 18 percent of each casino’s net gambling receipts would go toward the state, another .5 percent would go to the county and 1.5 percent would go to the city.

“Based on our findings, we believe the passage of Issue 5 will result in significant Arkansas investment, creating or supporting thousands of jobs while providing a new source of tax revenue for the state and local communities,” economist Kyle Dean said in a statement released by the pro-casino group , according to the news agency.

Nevada taxpayers will have to ante up to make Sheldon Adelson’s dream of building a domed stadium in the desert come true.

On Tuesday, the Nevada Senate voted 16-5 to pass Senate Bill 1, which will raise hotel room taxes in Clark County—where Las Vegas is located, local media outlets have reported. The bill now moves to the Assembly.

The funds gained from the increased room tax—totaling $750 million—will be used to build a 65,000-seat domed stadium to lure the Oakland Raiders into the Nevada desert. The stadium is expected to cost $1.9 billion to complete, and the funds will go a long way towards helping Raiders owner Mark Davis, who has previously committed $500 million, and Sands Corp. chairman Sheldon Adelson, who also pledged $650 million to the project.

Under Adelson’s proposal, $750 million worth of municipal bonds will be sold, and the securities will be paid by a 0.9 percent tax—or about $1.08 per night—on hotel rooms.

Nevada taxpayers will have to ante up to make Sheldon Adelson’s dream of building a domed stadium in the desert come true.

On Tuesday, the Nevada Senate voted 16-5 to pass Senate Bill 1, which will raise hotel room taxes in Clark County—where Las Vegas is located, local media outlets have reported. The bill now moves to the Assembly.

The funds gained from the increased room tax—totaling $750 million—will be used to build a 65,000-seat domed stadium to lure the Oakland Raiders into the Nevada desert. The stadium is expected to cost $1.9 billion to complete, and the funds will go a long way towards helping Raiders owner Mark Davis, who has previously committed $500 million, and Sands Corp. chairman Sheldon Adelson, who also pledged $650 million to the project.

Under Adelson’s proposal, $750 million worth of municipal bonds will be sold, and the securities will be paid by a 0.9 percent tax—or about $1.08 per night—on hotel rooms.

The kids are not all right. That’s the belief held by the British government, which wants to end the televised marketing of gambling products. This new nanny state campaign occupied much of the front page of Friday’s edition of The Times newspaper, whose banner headline declared, “Gambling adverts face ban from daytime TV.”

British children must be shielded from the alleged risks associated with developing the gambling habit, according to gambling minister Tracey Crouch. She says, “The government is committed to ensuring that people, particularly the young…are protected from the risk of gambling-related harm.” Such conventional wisdom is actually unwise.

Our society is already suffering from the consequences of a generation of risk-averse, extravagantly “bubble-wrapped” childhoods. Ensuring that current and future generations of kids do not see gambling commercials on TV only guarantees that their ability to appreciate, navigate, and conquer an inherently risk-filled world will be further diminished, perhaps dangerously so.

The pioneering sociologist W.I. Thomas taught his early 20th century students that a taste for risk is essential to human development. He believed that the gambling instinct “is born in all normal persons. It is one expression of a powerful reflex, fixed far back in animal experience. The instinct is, in itself, right and indispensable.”

3-Barrels of a charitable flavour including a Twitch Stream team spearheaded by Jeff Gross raising money for the Michael Phelps Foundation; Daniel Negreanu gets ready to host his third annual celebrity charity poker tournament, and Roman Romanovsky encourages 20+ poker players to raise over half a million for effective charities.

Three stories carrying a charitable flavour and we will start with four guys who are currently playing their hearts out and raising money for The Michael Phelps Foundation.

Back in July, I caught up with Jeff Gross who revealed plans to set up a Twitch Stream house with PokerStars employees Kevin Martin, Jamie Staples, and Jamie’s brother Matt.

The quartet has their new home, and this week they are planning to play online poker, streaming live on Twitch.tv, non-stop for seven days. That’s 168 hours of action, folks, so get your eyeballs glued on to the screen and dig those hands deep into your pockets.

SlotJoint.com a Canadian-founded online casino, today announced that it had attained a triumvirate of consumer awards in recognition of the company’s ongoing commitment to offering some of the highest player Trust, Integrity and Responsible Gaming protection experience in the online casino industry.

The accolades include one from AskGamblers, with their Certificate of Trust and Leading Casino award title from consumer review website CasinoBonusesNow. The final award included of one the highest ratings from industry analysis platform, ThePOGG.com, for their Deposit Guarantee Seal and Audit Certificate. The guarantee seal ensures that if a casino unfairly treats players, ThePoGG.com will return the players’ deposits.

A spokesperson for SlotJoint.com commented: “With numerous online casinos to choose from, Trust, Integrity, and Responsible Gaming protection are growing areas of importance for players selecting which casino to play on. This commitment to deploying industry leading features, such as return-to-player (RTP), a self-check that allows casino players to view whether games are paying out as advertised, in conjunction with platform transparency was recognized. We are delighted that these leading casino consumer review platforms, whose mandate, is one of player protection, and education has issued SlotJoint with our multiple awards.”

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