Legal online sportsbooks agencies in Panama registered around USD 26.3 million in 2007, a 87.8% more than in 2006, when they received a total of USD 14 million, according to a report from the Gambling Control Committee (JCJ). According to the executive secretary of the Gambling Control Commission, Raúl Cortizo, from Panama Republic, has just authorized a company to administrate and operate ten sub licenses of online casinos and ten sub licenses of agencies of online betting sportsbooks.
With a local team heading to the Super Bowl and casino revenues down for the first time, New Jersey's Assembly Tourism and Gaming Committee is betting that the time is right to resurrect the idea of making betting on professional sports legal in Atlantic City. Spearheaded by assemblymen Nelson Albano (D-Cumberland/Atlantic/Cape May), Louis Greenwald (D-Camden) and John Burzichelli (D-Gloucester)...
Trenton, New Jersey - New Jersey legislators on Thursday revived an effort to legalize betting on professional sports in Atlantic City casinos, rejecting claims by the National Football League that the move would risk the integrity of sports. An Assembly committee pushed forward legislation that would ask voters to allow casinos to offer professional sports wagering.
Betting and gambling turnover in the German market amounts to ca. Euro 30-31 billion annually. The betting sector currently makes up 5%-10% of the total gambling market. Since several years many things have changed in regards to the structure of the German betting market. In the past the punter only had a chance to bet with two (more or less exiting) state offers and some heavy punters found their way to the limited number of private horse betting operators.
The time has finally come – after some delay, the final and decisive round in the fight for the German betting market will start on November 8 in Karlsruhe. The case before the Federal Constitutional Court (BverfG) will mark the final turning point in what has been an exciting year for the German betting industry. Never before in Germany has betting been discussed and written about as much as this year: Spiegel, Capital, Welt, ... all these major German news makers made the betting market one of their top subjects.
