Wynn Seeks $1.63 Billion for Macau

(Bloomberg) -- Wynn Resorts Ltd.

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New Task Force Set Up To Go After Online Gambling

A new Assets Forfeiture and Financial Crimes task force has been implemented at the US Attorney's Office in Baltimore Maryland which is already being used to go after online gambling operations.

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State Economy Gets Boost From Sports Betting

The state of Delaware reports revenue of $257,870 their first week of offering legalized sports betting, and this is at the reduced exposure originally intended due to pending lawsuits.

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Golden Casino The Subject of Online Gambling Investigation

Gambling911.com can now report exclusively that the US Attorney's Office out of Maryland in conjunction with the US Attorney Office out of New York and Louisiana State law enforcement in addition t

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Barney Frank Online Gambling Bill Will Have to Wait

Online poker's greatest ally in Congress, Massachusetts Rep Barney Frank, has reported in to the Poker Players A

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Internet Gambling 10 Times More Dangers Than Other Addictions

By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent, The Guardian

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Sports Betting: Mark Lawrence Talks Football With Woo

With football season finally here, I've been continuing my insiders look with the pro handicappers I met at the VegasInsider.com Sports Handicapping Seminar.  Marc Lawrence is a true icon when it

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Former DC Cop Part of Gambling, Drug Ring

Federal prosecutors say a former District police officer and 11 others were part of a criminal ring that flooded Southern Maryland with cocaine for the past three years.

Darrell Alphonso Carter hasn't been a police officer for more than a decade. During some of the time since leaving the force, prosecutors say he ran a gambling operation in St. Mary's County that catered to the drug dealers he also did business with. The gambling was high stakes, with as much as $80,000 bandied about.

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Court Date Set for Antoine Walker Vegas Casino Debt Case

LAS VEGAS-(Associated Press) -- A Las Vegas court has pushed back a status check to Oct.

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Denmark: Man Must Turn Over All Winnings From Online Poker

A 35-year-old unemployed man has been told by the Supreme Court to hand over 194,000 kroner he won playing online poker, The

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BetFair Shock Poker Ad Suggestive 15 Year Old

An advertisement for the online betting exchange BetFair has many eyebrows being raised on Wednesday.

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Sports Betting Public Reeling After Monday Night Games

The sports betting public got a break Sunday afternoon and evening following big wins with heavily wagered on favorites Minnesota, Dallas, Green Bay and New Orleans.  They were not so lucky Monday

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Las Vegas Metro Undercover Drug Ops Hit Casinos

The Las Vegas Metro Police are undergoing an aggressive attempt to crack down on swimming pool "drug" parties at casino hotels throughout the strip.  The latest target:  Rehab at the Ha

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Delaware Appeal of Sports Betting Rule a Losing Proposition

Delaware's filing of a 24-page petition to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals asking the court to hear whether the state should be allowed to offer single-game sports betting will likely g

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MD Investigation Expands to Other Online Poker Groups

Gambling911.com can confirm that an ongoing investigation being conducted by the US Attorney's Office out of Baltimore has expanded beyond a single online gambling company.

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UltimateBet CEO Paul Leggett Comments on Scandal Findings

I wanted to blog today to discuss the recent decision by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission that was released on Friday.

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The Latest Full Tilt Poker Lawsuit

Another former "employee" of the world's second largest online poker company, Full Tilt Poker, has filed a lawsuit claiming he was "unfairly fi

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Gambling911 NFL, College Football Predictions 4-1, 3-1

Gambling911.com has gotten off to a terrific start with its College Football and NFL predictions (all of which are free).  After a 3-1 start last weekend in College Football, Gambling911 once agai

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Delaware: Back-room Business Booming for Bookies

By SEAN O'SULLIVAN and ADAM TAYLOR

The News Journal 

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NFL Results: Bettors Recover From College Hangover Hell

The gambling public came back with a vengeance Sunday afternoon following a brutal two weeks in College Football.  NFL results had the two most bet on teams come through for sports bettors.

The biggest was the Minnesota Vikings, who had nearly 95 percent of the action in their game against Cleveland.  By the 4th quarter, the Brett Favre-led Vikings were dismantling the Browns.

Dallas, which had the second heaviest betting action and 85 percent of the money coming in, also managed a win.

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College Football Betting: Gamblers Get Crushed Again

It is turning into one of the best College Football starts in online bookmaking history.  Week 2 delivered yet another punch to the gambling public, even worse than Week 1.  The ultimate blow cam

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More Online Gambling Seizures

Authorities have filed seizure warrants for the contents of three bank accounts associated with online gambling companies in recent days according to

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UtlimateBet Cheating Scandal Investigation Concludes

Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG ("Tokwiro"), the parent company of UltimateBet ("UB"), yesterday received a decision from the Kahnawake Gaming Commission ("KGC"), UB's regula

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Caster Semenya, South African Runner: She's a Man, Baby! (kinda)

A source, who is said to be close to the IAAF investigation, claimed that the 18-year-old athlete, Caster Semenya, had internal testes and no womb or ovaries.

The IAAF, the world governing body, refused to comment on the claim last night, but earlier in the day its general secretary, Pierre Weiss, said: “It is clear that she is a woman but maybe not 100 per cent.”   If Semenya does have internal testes, and no womb and ovaries, then she would be considered a hermaphrodite.

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Can’t Bet Canbet Closes Accounts Over Shared Environments

Many people bet from the same household, dormitory, Internet café, office.  The online gambling website, Canbet.com, may have gone over the top recently when it comes to these so-called "sha

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Delaware Casinos Invested Big in Sports Betting

By MAUREEN MILFORD

The News Journal

To Patti Key, the chief executive of Harrington Raceway and Casino, the show must go on.

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Planet Hollywood Poker Scam Nets Four Supervisors

Mary Manning, Las Vegas Sun

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Jenny Woo Involved in Car Crash

Gambling911.com Senior International Correspondent, Jenny Woo, was involved in a car accident late Wednesday night while driving on I-95 in South Florida.  Her car smashed into a median and spun o

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Founder of Miami Dolphins Joins Vegas Insider Team

Tim Robbie literally grew up around pro football.  From the age of 11, when his father, Joe Robbie, founded the Miami Dolphins in 1966, Tim worked in many different capacities wit

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Ex Mob Boss Acquitted of Gambling Charges

Former New England Mafia captain Vincent "Vinny'' Ferrara said he didn't commit a crime when he borrowed money from a longtime friend who was under investigation for illegal gambling.

And yesterday, a judge agreed. After a half-day, jury-waived trial in Norfolk Superior Court, Judge Kenneth Fishman found 60-year-old Ferrara not guilty of a single charge of conspiring to use a telephone for gambling persons.

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