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Tuesday evening "The Delaware Gaming Competitiveness Act of 2012" passed the Delaware House.

House Bill #333 authorizes internet gaming under the control and operation of the Delaware Lottery.

According to the bill, "Internet lottery games would be offered solely to persons within the State of Delaware at the current time. A person's location would be determined from a person's computer or mobile device."

Online poker and internet gaming hot topics in 2011

Online poker players are familiar with Black Friday, that was on April 15, 2011, when the federal government closed down internet poker in the United States. Since that time internet gambling has been illegal in the United States.

Since Black Friday numerous states have discussed and debated various aspects of internet gaming. There has been talk on Capital Hill to establish federal guidelines for online gambling and federal laws have been proposed to legalize online poker.


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The internet gambling world has been growing in leaps and bounds since its invention not so long ago but has been plagued by one big issue. The transferring of funds by banks and payment service firms has been made the method that governments control the activity. In the USA and other nations which have tried to prohibit offshore firms from offering online gambling for real money its the transferring of money associated with betting that is targeted.


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After much speculation the UK Gambling Commission has begun to investigate the social gaming scene and as a result caused much discomfort for many online gaming operators.
The Commission have launched the investigation after they said the lines were becoming blurred between traditional casino games at online gambling sites and social games played on social networking sites.

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Playtech, the Aim quoted online gaming company, has agreed to pay its founder and largest shareholder nearly £5.6m per year in a series of deals which have raised eyebrows amongst some analysts in advance of an expected move to London’s main market this summer.

The Isle of Man-based company has agreed to pay companies owned by Teddy Sagi, the billionaire Israeli businessman, €6m per year for the licences to use software for online social gaming and traditional gambling activities such as online casino, poker and bingo. Mr Sagi, who has a 48.3 per cent stake in Playtech, will also receive 20 per cent of revenues from the social gaming business.

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One in three Americans believes winning the lottery is the only way to get rich, and as our economy weakens, that number is only increasing. While it’s discouraging to see the American Dream devolve into a game of luck, it’s even more upsetting that the Obama administration has further empowered state lottery bosses to profit off of vulnerable communities by unilaterally legalizing online gambling.

If the Obama administration wants to legalize Internet gambling, it should be done through the proper, transparent legislative channels rather than an unaccountable decision by Eric Holder’s Department of Justice.

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Now that creator and judge Simon Cowell has finished his search for new co-judges to sit with him and L.A. Reid, the auditions for the next season of The X Factor have begun and as one contestant found out the hard way, if you aren’t going to take it seriously, neither are the judges.

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The early news surrounding the hires of Britney Spears and Demi Lovato began with Spears looking to assert herself as the alpha female of the group, trying to override Lovato’s opinions on one potential artist. However, the two came to an agreement when The X Factor crew were in Kansas City to check out their talent without Cowell, who was ill and replaced by Louis Walsh, who is a judge on the British version of the show. Cowell would have definitely spoken up as one performer tried to audition with his back to the judges; likely, the male performer wouldn’t have been able to get a note out before Cowell sent him packing. The performer wasn’t good enough to pull a stunt like that, and then he had the nerve to be snarky with the judges, but his words may have fallen on deaf ears as the judges all got up and left. They would eventually return to the panel, but not until that bad apple was gone.

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But this is what happens at this portion of reality-performance shows as some people just want to receive attention, whether it is positive or negative. The most entertaining parts of the show is often the auditions, and you will likely see this on an episode of The X Factor, which begins airing on Fox in September. If they wanted to prevent something like this from happening again, they wouldn’t show it.
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Manne wrote: On June 5, 2012, the licensed online gambling sites in Spain went live under the new regulatory mechanism. Some of the better known operators were PokerStars, 888, Bwin.party, Ongame, Poker770 and Bet365. All launched their .es domain web sites, thereby isolating the Spanish online gambling players from the international .com web sites.

The licenses were issued on June 1 by the Spanish regulatory authority, the General Directorate for the Regulation of Gambling, and some of the operators had issued press releases confirming the same. PokerStars spokesman Eric Hollreiser had said that they had been granted a license to operate in Spain. He added, "As always, PokerStars is committed to providing players with a superior customer service, software and security. You can rest assured that your funds in this transition are totally safe and available. We will provide more details on the transition next week."

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This is a great news for all Spanish players who were waiting for such a these type of opportunities to play casino games. It is really a great announcement for all.
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Manne wrote: US CASINO owner Steve Wynn has said that Wynn Macau’s latest casino resort in the former Portuguese enclave would cost $4 billion, as the company bets on continued growth in the world’s largest gambling destination.

In a media briefing at his Macau casino, Mr Wynn (70), chairman and chief executive of Wynn Resorts and Wynn Macau, also expressed confidence that the property would provide a return on investment despite the current economic climate.

“Growth of the market has been so spectacular, the expansion so dramatic, it is unrealistic for it to continue at that rate,” Mr Wynn said yesterday, although he added that the market did not need to keep increasing at such a pace for it to be a good place to do business.

Macau, located on the tip of China’s southern coast, has been a goldmine for casino operators, raking in more than five times the revenue that Las Vegas does as mainland visitors flock to the only Chinese city where they can casino-gamble legally.


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US casino owner has made a great announcement on Macao's casino. It is really made a good place for all casino players and we love to play casino games in this country.
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Manne wrote: Search after Gambling Forum at Google and you will se




SEO Tip #12 Long tail keywords.

Trying to rank high for very competitive keywords eg. “online casino” can be a losing battle. Try building back links for long tail keywords containing the competitive keyword eg. “top online casino games uk” as part of a bigger phrase. It might have less competition so ranking higher for it will be easier.

SEO Tip #11: Traffic is as important as back links.

Remember that 1000 back links to your site, but no traffic to your site will count negatively in Google SERP. Quality, optimized content will ensure traffic from “real” users and coupled with enough back links will ensure good rankings and authority.

SEO Tip #10: Beware of repetitive keywords usage.

Google has recently made it clear that it will downgrade sites and pages that are “too” highly optimized for search engines. Amongst the biggest culprits are links with the same keywords used in an unnatural frequency. This includes back links on other sites to your site. Tip: use long-tail keywords to spice things up.

SEO Tip #9: Don’t over SEO.

Google and the other search engines are getting smarter by the day. Google will penalize sites that it perceives as over optimized. The answer is balance. Put a few keyword on some pages and none on others - mix it up. Google is looking for good, natural, normal looking content.

SEO Tip #8: Interlink your pages.

A very important step which a lot of people forget is to interlink all the pages on their site. All search engines love to see pages on a site linking (logically of course) to other pages in the site. It helps them determine context, meaning and overall content value. Also remember to add logical title attributes to these links.

SEO Tip #7: Broken links.

You need to regularly scan your site for broken links or missing pages. Missing pages should be fixed or 301 redirected to a suitable alternative. Broken links can affect your page’s Google rank significantly so clean house regularly.

SEO Tip #6: Page meta description length.

Keep every page’s meta description unique and within 100 to 160 characters. Any shorter and Google will complain. You can use Google Webmaster Tools to check for issues on your site, specifically meta description issues.

SEO Tip #5: Website loading speed.

The speed it takes a user’s browser to load and display your site is critically important to search engines. A typical search engine spider doesn’t waste too much time waiting for a page to download before it tries to index it. It makes sense to make your page light - less or highly compressed graphics - and only enough information to deliver your message. In this case, less is more. If a page loads too long it might not get indexed for months. Use standard HTML tags like H1’s, , etc and CSS instead of heaving loading graphic images.

SEO Tip #4: New content and comments raises your value.

Google loves fresh, topical content on your site. Keep adding new posts or articles on a regular basis. There’s no hard and fast rule for this as long as new content is added, Google will visit your site more regularly. Try and get as many feedback or comment posts on your pages and articles as possible. A fresh, topical site that has lots of “action” on it is more valuable than a static site with no obvious readership. Topical comments can be used to generate valuable “backlinks” to your other web properties and can be used to create “linkwheels” (We will cover this next).

SEO Tip #3: Original content is king!

ALWAYS user fresh new content on your web site. Google frowns on duplicated and copied content. You WILL lose rankings if you copy text from another page. If you struggle with new content, you can buy new content online. There are numerous services where you can pay someone to write an article for you. Another option would be to manually spin existing content.

SEO Tip #2: The importance of back links.

To ensure better Page rank, you need to create back links - links to your site - on other, high quality sites. You can do so by commenting of other blog posts and leaving your site’s address in the comment section of that blog. Try commenting on high ranking sites for more link juice !

SEO Tip #1: Remember your link attributes!

When you create links on your site, remember to create each link complete with all the attributes a search engine will look at: HREF, Title(A short description of the link’s purpose), anchor text (the keywords you are targeting on search engines, exact keyword or long-tail keywords).

Exact keyword - the exact keyword you are targeting on search engines eg. Online casino
Long-tail keyword - less exact keywords which can still capture traffic eg. Casino games online
Thanxx a lot manne for this quite easy to understand and helpful post.
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Proponents of legalizing online poker will have to fold their hands and wait for another deal.

The online gambling bill, Senate Bill 1463, was supposed to get its first major hearing Tuesday in the Senate’s Policy Committee.

Instead, the author pulled the bill before its first major hearing.

The legislation sought to authorize intrastate Internet gambling in California. If approved, the Internet Gambling Consumer Protection and Public-Private Partnership Act of 2012 would regulate and license online gaming and tax the gross revenue.

Read More: Online gambling bill folds before hearing - Sacramento Business Journal
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Ireland and the United Kingdom are awash in gambling outfits that have taken on the internet wagering trend with passion and resolve. Other land based bookies are just now looking at going online to round out their already saturated market.

The old school approach has been keeping some firms growing at an impressive rate with Boylesports as a good example as they opened 40 new retail outlets in Ireland last year. There are 177 Boylesports shops offering traditional style wagering in Ireland with a turnover estimated at €1.2 billion for this year. Going online for Boylesports is a natural transformation which has been progressing rapidly with the company splitting its online and retail divisions with the creation of Boylesports Online as the digital arm of the company.

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Online gambling specialist Playtech confirmed it plans to delist its shares from London’s AIM market and move to the premium segment of the LSE’s Official List.

In a statement released after the market close, it told investors it believes that the Official List is the most appropriate platform for the continued growth of the group by increasing Playtech's profile, assisting in the liquidity of the company's shares and providing a greater range of potential investors.

It currently expects to publish its admission prospectus on June 28 and that trading on the main market will start on July 2.

Playtech will make a further announcement in due course.

The group designs, develops and licenses software for the gambling industry.
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Take so-called “sin” sectors like gambling, for instance. Been to a casino lately? There’s a reason why the gaming firms, as they prefer to be called, run senior citizens by the busload out to slot-machine palaces on Native American reservations and directly from McCarran airport in Las Vegas straight onto the Strip.

When you gamble, you’re usually playing against the house, but you’re hoping for some return on your investment. Just about anybody would take root at a $100-a-hand blackjack table if they knew they could make 40%, 64% or 80% on the money — not from getting lucky by doubling down on 11, but by buying up stocks in three of the major online-travel sites since the start of the year.

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A new petition has been posted that is asking United States lawmakers to pass legislation that would regulate online poker.

The petition, started by the Poker Players Alliance, a lobbying group in the U.S., is aimed at a dozen Republicans in the hopes of persuading them of the need for online poker regulation.

The petition is nearly halfway to its goal of 10,000 signatures.

You can view and sign the petition, which was started by PPA Vice President of Player Relations Rich Muny, here. The text of the petition appears below:

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You hear about a lot of people doing strange things to get on television and especially in this era of reality/television shows, people are going above and beyond to get their 15 minutes of fame. However, a contestant on the latest season of America’s Got Talent may have pulled out one of the biggest lies in the history of these types of shows.

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Timothy Poe was a sergeant with the National Guard and he was a hit with the judges, as well as host Nick Cannon, after performing Garth Brooks’ “If Tomorrow Never Comes”. He then earned more votes when he told the story of an injury he suffered in Afghanistan when he tried to protect his fellow soldiers from a bomb, which broke his back and injured his brain.

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However, the Associated Press reported that their research showed that never happened as the Minnesota National Guard doesn’t have it in their records. It was also revealed that Poe submitted a picture of another soldier to America’s Got Talent, although he and his fiancée have said that was a mistake because he was in a rush to make the deadline. He gave a tearful interview to a television station in his home state of Texas and he doesn’t know what really happened, but Poe has since stopped all interviews.

Now the question is: should Poe be kicked off the show? Veterans are upset and they think that will stop the public from having sympathy for soldiers with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is a fair concern. But morally, if the accusations are true, this will go down as one of the more heinous things we’ve ever heard someone do to get on television, but that is what happens when people are desperate for fame.
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Manne wrote: The South Africa’s National Gambling Board concluded that there is a need for licensed and regulated online gambling for the African nation......

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Its good to hear this news, as by this the wager will get only legal gambling sites on net and the chances of fraud will decrease.
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A Federal Government report has recommended the introduction of online gambling licenses to eligible providers, in a plan to legitimise the sector amid concerns at its rampant expansion.

The Department for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has released its review of the Interactive Gambling Act (IGA) 2001 and argues that the effectiveness of the IGA could be increased by enabling and encouraging selected online gambling service providers to become licensed.

Strict conditions are likely to be put on licences, such as the cessation of poker machine gaming and other high risk forms of gambling, offering only lower risk services such as tournament poker and lotteries.

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The state House on Tuesday approved a bill authorizing online betting in Delaware and more venues for sports wagering and other gambling.

In addition to online slots and table games, the proposal by Gov. Jack Markell expands keno beyond Delaware's three existing casinos to at least 100 sites.

The bill, which was approved on 29-to-8 vote and now goes to the Senate, also authorizes betting on NFL games in at least 20 more sites other than the casinos.

Administration officials say revenue generated from the expanded gambling opportunities would allow them to eliminate $4 million in slot machine fees paid by the casinos and cut their annual table game fees from $6.75 million to $3 million.

The casinos would pledge in return to spend an amount equal to those cuts on traditional business expenses such as marketing, capital improvements and debt reduction.

Rep. John Viola, D-Newark, chief House sponsor of the bill, said it represents "the next logical step" in the evolution of Delaware's gambling industry.


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There are long-shot bets and then there are slam dunks like International Game Technology's plan to buy back its own stock – to the tune of $1 billion.

Thursday's announcement doubles the buyback amount from a previously announced plan, with $400 million in immediate repurchases of shares held by Goldman Sachs (ticker: GS). Investors declared a win, and shares of International Game Technology (IGT) jumped nearly 11%, or $1.39, to $14.61.

But there are likely more winnings to be had. Analysts on average see the stock headed to $20, for upside of more than 35%, as cash-strapped states from Kansas to Maine approve more casinos and slots in a desperate search to boost revenue.

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The Spanish government issued an incredible 277 online gaming licenses to operators and rejected only three license applications for the official opening of its newly regulated market.

Spain awarded online gaming licenses to all the major operators such as Betfair, Bwin.party, 888, PokerStars and bet365, but ensured that it was gaming for all by also awarding licenses to some of the smaller applicants which run only one of online casinos, sports betting, poker and bingo.

Secretary of State for Finance Miguel Ferre said upon announcing the 277 licenses that regulation would create new opportunities within the Spanish gaming and technology sectors, and would also make a valuable contribution to boosting the coffers of the cash-strapped nation.

Spain's Gaming General Directorate only granted most of the larger online gambling operators their licenses after those operators agreed to pay millions of euros in back-taxes to the authorities for gaming duties collected between 2009 and 2011.


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