The highly disputed Royal Decree 958/2020 has been the subject of a ruling of the Spanish Supreme Court partially repealing the ban on gambling advertising.

Martin Cullen, Ireland’s Minister for arts, sport and tourism, said he will ban online sports betting if the country’s bookmakers don’t contribute more to the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund, reports The Independent. Martin Cullen, Irish minister for arts, sport and tourism, said he will ban online sports betting...

Manila, Philippines - San Juan Mayor Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito declared yesterday that he will not allow gambling joints to operate in the city despite pressures from gambling operators. “San Juan City residents are very conservative about this thing (gambling) and once the community is against it, I am very sensitive about it,” said Ejercito. The young mayor is referring to the stance of the local community with regards to the proliferation of poker clubs in Metro Manila.

High stakes: The gambling industry says a smoking ban in Illinois cost that state's casinos USD 415 million - or nearly 21 percent - in 2008, and the state USD 177 million in taxes. Colorado is the only other state that fully bans smoking in casinos, and its gambling revenues dropped significantly in the same year. Momentum growing: Two smoking ban measures have been introduced in the Missouri Legislature, neither of which exempts casinos.

Ernst Hirsch Ballin, the Dutch Justice Minister, is reportedly following through with plans to take legal action against Internet gambling sites that illegally target Dutch consumers and have so far refused to shut down their operations. The Remote Gambling Association and European Union have had little luck applying pressure to the Dutch Government over its Internet gambling stance.

A bill has recently been presented in the House of Representatives, that aims to modify several articles of the law 26,215, related to the funding of political parties. Such project proposes to ban the contribution of companies or people that operate games of chance. The project was presented by deputies of the party Espacio Solidaridad e Igualdad, Leonardo Gorbacz, Nélida Belous, Delia Bisutti and Verónica Benas.

While the US government may not have many allies when it comes to their stance on Internet gambling, it appears that Sweden may be one of those allies. The country appears ready to maintain a monopoly when dealing with online casinos. The Swedish National Gambling Consultation made its recommendations to the Swedish government last week and the recommendations were not good for online casino sites that are not working out of Sweden.

Problem gamblers could ban themselves from all of Great Yarmouth's arcades and card tables to tackle their addiction. It is hoped more than 50 gambling premises in the borough will sign up to the Count Me Out gambling self- exclusion programme by February. Many people are getting hooked on gambling as they see it as a way to make money during the credit crunch, but once they are addicted to gambling it can lead to crime.

In 2006, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) was passed into law in the United States. The law, while vague, ran several high-profile online poker rooms out of the market, including PartyPoker and Paradise Poker. Recently, Norway has followed suit, enacting its own version of the UIGEA. Poker News Daily sat down with Clive Hawkswood, the Chief Executive of the Remote Gambling Association (RGA), to learn more.

Washington (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve issued a final rule on Wednesday aimed at stopping illegal Internet gambling, two days after a leading Democratic lawmaker called for a delay because of the problems he said it would cause for banks. The regulation pleased Republican lawmakers, who still controlled the Congress in 2006 when it passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has asked Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to postpone issuing regulations opposed by banks and other financial groups that would implement a ban on Internet gambling. The “midnight rulemaking” would “tie the hands of the new administration, burden the financial services industry at a time of economic crisis and contradict the stated intent of the Financial Services Committee,” Frank wrote in a letter to Paulson and Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

A bill has been presented in the Lower House of the Argentinean province of Buenos Aires which would ban gambling via any remote communication method including mobile phones and the internet. The bill would require telecommunications providers to block access to sites that offer any form of gambling, and proposes a penalty on both gaming operators and network providers equal to ten to twenty times the value of all bets received from within the province of Buenos Aires.