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Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value ( referred to as " the stakes ") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and / or material goods.
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For instance, in the UK, the regulator of gambling activities is called the Gambling Commission ( not the Gaming Commission ).
Gambling is also a major international commercial activity, with the legal gambling market totaling an estimated $ 335 billion in 2009.
The Gibraltar Regulatory Authority is the Gambling Commissioner under the Gambling Act 2005, and therefore the regulatory body.
* Gambling is a menace to society, deadly to the best interests of moral, social, economic, and spiritual life, and destructive of good government.
In the UK, spread betting is regulated by the Financial Services Authority rather than the Gambling Commission.
3NT is played as ' Gambling ' ( where it used to show 24-27HCP ), 1-1 is not anymore a 4-4-4-1 ( Impossible Negative ), and the " Unusual Positive " is used instead.
However, the California Gambling Control Commission has confirmed that Flynt is the sole proprietor and gaming licensee of the Hustler Casino.
Gambling on horses is prohibited at some tracks ; Springdale Race Course, home of the nationally renowned Toronto-Dominion Bank Carolina Cup and Colonial Cup Steeplechase in Camden, South Carolina, is known as one of the tracks where betting is illegal, due to a 1951 law.
Gambling by making money through the losses of others is viewed as a " form of greed ", and is prohibited.
Fort Hall Indian Casino, Idaho, USA. Gambling is allowed within Indigenous peoples of the Americas | Native American reservation lands.
Gambling and wagering
# Gambling ( betting, wagering, operating / promoting / assisting gambling, gambling equipment violations, sports tampering )
Gambling and money
Gambling with health and life, Marsh must make his last show a major hit and financial success if he is to have enough money to retire on.
On October 2, 2006, PartyGaming announced that it would " suspend all real money gaming business with US customers " in light of the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006.
Gambling money online can come from credit card, electronic check, certified check, money order, or even wire transfer.
In 2011, the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York filed United States v. Scheinberg, a federal criminal case against the founders of the three largest online poker companies, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Cereus ( Absolute Poker / Ultimatebet ), and a handful of their associates, which alleges that the defendants violated the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and engaged in bank fraud and money laundering in order to process transfers to and from their customers.
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Gambling, particularly on craps or horse races, was a common theme of Runyon's works, and he was a notorious gambler himself.
Jonathan H. Green's book, An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling ( G. B. Zieber, Philadelphia, 1843 ), described the spread of the game from there to the rest of the country by Mississippi riverboats, on which gambling was a common pastime.
According to an article in The Times dated 10 April 2009 approximately 30, 000 spread bet accounts were opened last year, and that the largest study of gambling in the UK on behalf of the Gambling Commission found that serious problems developed in almost 15 % of spread betters compared to 1 % of other gambling.
Gambling on his popularity, Robinson decided to form a solo act, which was extremely rare for a black man at that time.
Lady Luck arrived at the Lake and unpacked her bags in 1944, when Harvey's Wagon Wheel Saloon and Gambling Hall opened as one of the area's first gaming establishments ( technically on the Nevada side of the state border in the South Lake Tahoe ( Nevada gaming area ).
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Helloween has since completed their studio album Gambling with the Devil, which was released on October 23, 2007.
In 2003 his radio show Su Alegre Despertar was awarded the world record for the longest running still active radio show, after running non-stop for 53 years ( Rambling With Gambling ran on New York City's WOR Radio for 75 years but ceased in 2000 ).
In 2005, O ' Neill entered closed-door meetings with the Pittsburgh Gambling Task Force to help them reach a " no-endorsement " stance on what casino to recommend.
Boyd Gaming embarked on its first expansion in 1979, when it opened Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall on Boulder Highway at Nellis Boulevard.
Gambling genius David Sklansky has laid claim to formulating the game on a well-known poker forum, positing that he invented the game in 1982 using the name “ Casino Poker ”.
Gambling facilities were actually built on piers extending into the Potomac River so as to ensure they were inside Maryland, as the state border runs along the southern low tide line of the Potomac river.
On May 26, 2007, Rep. Barney Frank ( D-MA ) introduced HR 2046, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act and on June 7, 2207, Rep. Jim McDermott ( D-WA ) introduced H. R.
" He goes on to make the key point that political, social and economic conditions in the aftermath of the Restoration encouraged excessive gambling, so much so that a Gambling Act was deemed necessary in 1664.
5767, the Payment Systems Protection Act ( a bill that sought to place a moratorium on enforcement of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act while the U. S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve defined " unlawful Internet gambling ").
5767, the Payment Systems Protection Act ( a bill that sought to place a moratorium on enforcement of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act while the U. S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve defined " unlawful Internet gambling ").
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