English computer security experts assert that number of gambling web-sites attacked by hackers is growing. Exact number of cyber attacks on these sites is difficult to determine, because the most of victimized companies refuse to report incidents to avoid breathing on their reputation.

Last in a series: New Mexico is at a gambling crossroads, facing its biggest public-policy questions since approving casino gaming and a lottery.

There are more questions than answers.
Will New Mexico allow Indian tribes to build off-reservation casinos? Will tribes with relatively remote locations be able to put casinos in populated areas, like the corridor connecting El Paso and Las Cruces?

Selectmen have agreed to set up a public safety committee to study the impact of slot machines at the dog track, if and when they are legalized by state lawmakers.

The committee will look at communities where slots have already been installed at local race tracks to determine the potential drain on local services.

A front-line employee of a casino is forced to obey two rules when it comes to casino customers. One, the player is always right, and two, if the player is wrong, see rule number one. Not easy when a decent percentage of players are running on high octane drinks and losing money.
But that doesn't mean that the casino patron shouldn't at least know some table civilities. These social graces will go a long way in making both your stay and the employee's job more enjoyable.

Most Canadians agree there's too much government-run gambling in the country and the boost in tax revenues isn't worth the social cost, a national poll suggests.

Most of those polled - 58 per cent - say increased opportunities to gamble have led to an increase in problem gambling, says a study by Decima Research released Wednesday. Only one in four respondents - 23 per cent - say the benefit of increased tax revenues offsets the negative impact of gambling.

MIAMI· Gambling opponents said Thursday they have dropped a lawsuit challenging the election results of a constitutional amendment that could pave the way for Vegas-style slot machines in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

Voters statewide approved the measure by 120,000 votes in November for the two south Florida counties to hold referendums on whether to allow slot machines at seven South Florida racetracks and jai alai frontons. The discovery of 78,000 uncounted votes in Broward helped solidify the victory.

Bill Scott also known as William "Billy" Scott is the bookie from Toledo, Ohio and the criminal who financed Cryptologic Inc. and Intercasino.com and Sands of the Caribbean as well as many illegal sportsbooks.
He laundered his heroin and other dirty money by financing Cryptologic Inc. and Intercasino.com. Today, he still does heavy business with the Russian Mafia, Cryptologic Inc. and uses their rigged software under a large number of different names. This is the perfect method to launder his dirty money, and Cryptologic Inc. needs him to support the falling share price of their junk and illegal company, openly trading on the stock market.

A gambler who started a £7 million blaze at a motorway service station after he lost £200 on a slot machine was jailed for three and a half years today.

Jason New, 31, showed no emotion as his sentence was read out at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court.

Insisting that slot-like games at American Indian casinos are illegal, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked a Texas video game maker to remove the machines it sold to the Pechanga and Morongo bands in Riverside County.
Schwarzenegger officials sent a letter Tuesday to Multimedia Games Inc., asking the company to "cooperate ... in securing the removal of these (video lottery terminals) from the casinos operated by Pechanga and Morongo."

As reported by the USA Today: "Twentysomethings have seized on the new Las Vegas as a 24-hour playground where the partying never ends. There's just one problem: They don't gamble as much as their baby-boomer parents.