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Horoscope for the Week of June 13, 2004

Tip of the Week: We are now in the last week of spring. The Wood Monkey is now sufficiently warm to get into the real swing of the game. The Gemini influence is stirring the pot. The play will peak in mid summer. There are many forces at play these days that signify change at root levels...read more

A Closer Look at the Paradise/Discovery Case

Tropical Paradise, the Costa Rica-based company that operates popular online poker site paradisepoker.com, in April sued media conglomerate Discovery in a federal U.S. court for several charges, including breach of contract, unjust enrichment, conversion and negligent misrepresentation...read more

Far from Over

After several months of delay, Ladbrokes finally received a favorable court judgment against gaming operator De Lotto in the Netherlands last week, delighting proponents of the right to distribute I-gaming services across Europe's state borders...read more

Horoscope for the Week of June 6, 2004

The Venus/Sun Occultation happens on Tuesday June 8 this year. This is a relatively rare event and some are making this out to be something very significant and special. Tip of the Week: The Venus/Sun Occultation happens on Tuesday June 8 this year...read more

WTO Speculation

The WTO dispute panel handling the case of Antigua and Barbuda vs. the United States decided that the United States violates its commitments under the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) by maintaining policies that prohibit financial institutions from processing interactive gambling transactions; this much we know to be true...read more

DOJ Seizes $3.25 Million from Discovery

The U.S. government further demonstrated its opposition to Internet gambling on April 6, when U.S. marshals seized $3.25 million from Discovery Communications, the company whose television network, The Travel Channel, broadcasts World Poker Tour. Tropical Paradise of Costa Rica paid the money to Discovery in October 2003 to advertise its online poker site, ParadisePoker.com...read more

Horoscope for the Week of May 30, 2004

Tip of the Week: We are on the eve of a very significant event that features Venus making an exact conjunction with the Sun. Venus makes contact with the Sun about once a year. However, due to the declination of Venus's orbit around the Sun, the planet of beauty crosses exactly over the face of the Sun from the perspective of Earth only once every 133 years or so, then twice in a row with an 8 year gap between Venus/Sun conjunctions...read more

The 'Good News' and 'Bad News' about CAN-SPAM

"The good news is that Congress finally passed a law on spam," attorney Mark Grossman told an audience while lecturing last week on the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act at the Global Interactive Gaming Summit & Expo in Toronto. "The bad news is that they legalized it." He then proceeded to explain how the law is actually more of a trophy that policymakers can tout as proof they are fighting the battle than a tough piece of legislation that will come anywhere close to stopping the rising tide of bulk commercial e-mail. In fact, CAN-SPAM doesn't outlaw spam, he said, but instead sets a national standard to which commercial bulk e-mailers should (not must) comply...read more

Ad 'Crisis' Takes Center Stage at GIGSE

"What advertisement crisis?" David Carruthers, CEO of BetonSports.com, asked during a spirited panel discussion on the topic of the current advertisement situation in the United States. "I plan to spend more on advertising this year than I did last year." He added, "We will succeed if everyone else does the same...read more

Nambling Notes - May 25, 2004

WSOP -- The World Series of Poker commenced Saturday at Harrah's Binion's Horseshoe Casino with 2,576 players competing for nearly $42 million in prize money. With such an enormous field of players pledging an entrance fee of $10,000, the tournament champion will walk away with cool $5 million in cash, while second place will clear $2.5 million, and third and fourth place will win prizes of over $1 million...read more