Kiwi Job Performance Numbers Ready to Take a Hit in ‘06
READ MORE: Online Gaming, Policy
It’ll take a little legal wrangling, but New Zealanders may be able to begin gambling from home and at work,almost guaranteeing that the jobs and social lives of Kiwis every where are bound to suffer mightily:
Thanks to a A contract concluded last week with US-based provider Gtech will see a refresh of New Zealand’s entire population of Lotto terminals, currently numbering 1,450 and growing. This will be followed by the introduction of new products, including “remote interactive gaming”, or RIG.Where RIG has been offered overseas, it has often been provided over the internet as well as through dedicated networks, Lotteries spokeswoman Helen Morgan-Banda says. Whether it is offered over the internet here will be the subject of further negotiation, “but we have the legal right to offer interactive gaming, under the Gambling Act”, she says.
Helen Morgan-Banda gave an emphatic “two snaps up” after that statement.
Dice Set to Roll for Online Gambling [ComputerWorld]
Gambling 911 Continues to Wield Online Sportsbook Billy Club
READ MORE: Cybersquatting, Gambling 911, Online Gaming
The vigilante crew at Gambling 911 continues to pester MySportsbook.com about its cybersquatting problem. Although MySportsbook was acquired by SportingBet a few weeks ago, there still seems to be some issues with MySportsbook.com using “sleazy” tactics to infiltrate other sportsbooks such as Winward, 5Dimes, and Oasis Casino. Will there be bloodshed in the online gaming community? The cyber equivalent of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre? Or maybe it’ll be just a pillow fight ending in flying feathers and domain names.
Google Makes Aussie Lawmakers Pissy
READ MORE: Google, Online Gaming
The Australian Interactive Gambling Act of 2001 is starting to crack down on search engines that advertise online casinos—especially those that advertise on sites where “it is likely that the majority of that site’s users are physically present in Australia.”
One of the biggest violators of this law? Google, of course. The omnipresent search engine is apparently wrankling the Aussie lawmakers due to those crafty ad links that run down the side panel when words are misspelled. The big tip-off apparently was when one lawmaker had a typo in the word “koala bear” and 47 ads for Party Poker appeared.
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Don’t Switch Numbers! You Reduce Your Totally Randomized Odds!
READ MORE: Online Gaming, Roulette, Strategy
From Online Casino Report:
If you are not consistent in your bets and your numbers are all over the board, it weakens your chances of winning at online casino roulette. Over the long run, it would benefit you to stick to certain numbers, since there is the same exact chance that the ball will land on all the numbers. By switching numbers with each spin of the roulette, you reduce your odds of winning at online casino roulette.
So, that’s our plan tonight is to sit a home, pick our lucky numbers and just wait the roulette machine out. Eventually, 37, 3, and 39 will have to hit, right? Talk to you guys in a couple weeks, we have to go put on our bathrobe and play online roulette.
Tips For Playing Roulette in the Online Casino [Online Casino Report]
Online Gaming Stocks: Buy Before the Bubble
READ MORE: Investments, Online Gambling, Online Gaming, Stocks
According to the latest report on online gaming insitutional trading, the trades are starting to spike rapidly as plenty of investors are trying to hop on the chuckwagon and make a big score before the US government jumps in and shits all over everything. But what are the chances of that actually happening? Psshaw. Wire Act. That’s crazy talk—we hope.
Gaming Stocks Worth a Shot [Gambling911]
The Odds Are Good that Online Gaming Will Continue to Thrive [Informit]
One day, everything will be a wager, from a hand of poker to the likelihood you'll be struck down by a bioterror attack before the next brain backup. One day. For now, there's Oddjack. It's a sneak peek at the future of gambling.
