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No Progress for US, Antigua in WTO Dispute

Meeting in Geneva under the chairmanship of the World Trade Organization's secretariat on Tuesday and Thursday last week, representatives from the United States and the islands of Antigua and Barbuda were unable to agree upon the composition of the dispute panel that will mitigate their argument. Antigua and Barbuda delivered a complaint against the United States to a WTO dispute body in June...read more

Online Player Sentenced for Illegal Gambling Activity

A North Dakota man pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor offense for online gambling. Jeffrey Trauman, who began sports betting online five years ago, had been so successful that he quit his job as a car salesman. He even reported on his tax returns that his occupation was a professional gambler...read more

Offshore Books Evolution Reflected in Panama Shop

Horse bettors are well aware of the correlation between a horse's performance and its pedigree, but the connection between bloodlines and projected achievement is also evident in human endeavors, hence the truism, "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree." Looking at the sports betting universe, in which we are constantly seeking noteworthy material for this column, we're struck by the high incidence of relevant stories being driven by quality individuals...read more

A New Kind of Betting Exchange

The "eBay" of e-gambling premiered last month at uBetWHAT.com, a betting exchange that invites members to wager directly with other gamers on any conceivable topic without the hassle of a middle-man broker or bookmaker. Will Ben and J-Lo get married by the end of the year? Will Barry Bonds hit a home run tonight? How much will the next Matrix movie gross on opening weekend? Will it rain in Memphis next Tuesday? "We are a Web site for anybody who wants to bet one-on-one with someone else." - Frank AquilinouBetWHAT Customers can post real-cash bets on anything imaginable using uBetWHAT's message board-like system. One user recently put up $500 with one-to-one odds saying that Kobe Bryant would lose at least one of his endorsements by Aug...read more

Have screwdriver, will gamble

Dear Mark,When I'm at a video poker machine, I sometimes hear people say that these particular machines are looser (sometimes tighter) than some of the other video poker machines they have played. If every game uses a 52-card deck, how can a video poker game be any different than any other machine? Shouldn't the odds all be the same at every machine? Tom T. Youbetcha...read more

Pentagon Mimicry?

TerrorBet.com has emerged in the wake of a failed pentagon attempt to establish a stock market-like gambling network to aid in the prediction of terrorist acts and major political events. The site, though it has no government sponsorship, seems to do essentially what the Defense Department's Policy Analysis Market would have done...read more

Heard it on the River

The big news in recent weeks has been the story that we picked up on the website www.casinocitytimes.com under 'gaming news.' By the time this column comes out the story will probably have been confirmed elsewhere but our version announced that Las Vegas-based AMERISTAR CASINOS has offered $1.39 billion, gulp, for JACK BINION'S Horseshoe Gaming Holdings Corp...read more

Subject: WOW! ELIMINATE SPAM AND INCREASE YOUR...

Staggering Statistics... Silicon.com estimates that a majority of Internet users receive between 11 and 100 spam e-mails per day. In March, anti-spam company Brightmail (www.brightmail.com) reported a 4 percent monthly increase in spam, a 100 percent jump from the same month a year before...read more

Poking right along

Dear Mark,Just wanted to know if you knew anything about this new game called 3-5-7 Poker? It's being played here in the Mississippi casinos. What do you think of it? Bill S. 3-5-7 Poker is a simple poker-based game recently finding a home in many a casino from sea to shining sea...read more

Heard it on the River

There are upwards of 33,000 people employed in Mississippi's casinos and now they all have another thing in common...they receive the only newspaper authorized by a state casino association produced strictly for them...read more