gambling-vault : Prospect of gambling coming to A.C. impacts Staten Island

gambling-vault : Staten Iceland is the feeling that if the impact of recent Delaware legalize sports betting gambling survives court challenges, and if efforts are successful, similar to betting gambling on Atlantic City casinos. There is no movement in the swing against sports betting gambling in New York State, the hinterland with the Indian gambling casinos on reservations and slot machines at horse racing around eight tracks, including Yonkers Raceway.

But if New Jersey politicians can overturn the federal ban on sports betting gambling, District residents could be the two-plus-hour trip to Atlantic City to plunk around $ 50 at the Super Bowl, the NCAA college basketball tournament, or even at this day the Yankees - Orioles game.

"If you do not have gambling and the people want to do it, they migrate," said Jonathan Peters, a professor of finance at the College of Staten Iceland in Willow Brook. "It would be the betting gambling options available."

Prosecutor Daniel Donovan is not enthusiastic about this prospect.

"It could be a new group of players," he warned. "People involved in their [office] Super Bowl pools, you can say:" Would not it be more interesting to place a bet on the game? "This newly created player can press the [end] to the customers of illegal sports betting gambling" on Staten Iceland.

Earlier this spring, Delaware legalized sports betting gambling and table gambling games.

Delaware is one of four states - Montana, Nevada and Oregon are the others - the forms of sports betting gambling grandfathered under a 1992 federal law prohibiting sports wagering nationally.

Delaware officials predict that an additional $ 55 million in annual revenue for the state treasury if the sports betting gambling plan proceeds. Sports betting would be allowed only if they are on the state of the three racinos (racetracks and casinos) - Delaware Park, Dover Downs and Harrington Raceway.

The nation of the four major professional sports leagues - Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League and National Hockey League - against the movement, joy broad legalized betting could create incentives to cheat on games and sets.

The four pro leagues with the NCAA action in Delaware federal court 24th July in an attempt to block the plan.

The sports betting gambling market is lucrative. An estimated $ 380 billion per year is illegal gambling to play sports. About $ 90 million is bet on the Super Bowl alone.

Hope for a piece of cake bets - and prevent threats to the nation's second largest gambling gaming market in Nevada - New Jersey State Sen. Raymond Lesniak, Trenton action in federal court in March to federal sports - betting ban. Jon Corzine supports the government campaign.

The main beneficiaries would be Atlantic City, a convenient weekend for Staten Islanders.

Every day hundreds of community residents will board buses that in the South Jersey gambling casinos. Most are seniors, the gambling slot machines and gaming gambling tables, said Laura Cagnetta, Sales Manager for the Port Richmond-based Atlantic Express, buses, the seven days a week to Atlantic City.

On the basis of this clientele, they need not have an uptick in numbers of passengers to Atlantic City, where sports betting gambling is legalized.

"It could help a charter [bus] company," said Mrs. Cagnetta, and added that bars or other groups could sponsor New Jersey junkets to wager on big games.

The assumption that the model applies Nevada - Sportsbetting comprises only 1.2 percent of state gaming gambling revenues - Peters, professor of CSI, said Staten Islanders are not likely to flock to Delaware or Atlantic City in droves.

But they could be the tip of the 100 miles or so south to the definition of a little money for big sports events like the Super Bowl, World Series and NCAA Final Four tournament.
"It could serve as a catalyst at certain times of the year, but I do not think it would have enormous impact," he said.

Donovan, the prosecutor, said legalized gambling will never eliminate illegal gambling betting.

For one thing, bookmakers offer better rates than the state. And in many cases, it is convenient to use with the local bookmakers as travel to a legitimate institution.

For these and other reasons, the prosecutor does not think legalized out-of-state would impact illegal sports betting bets here. Illicit gambling on Staten Iceland is not a major problem, the "no more or less than it in every community in America," he said.

But Donovan expressed concern that legalized sports wagering could be the equivalent of the biblical Apple tries to make the Adam in the Garden of Eden.

"Gambling is an addiction, like drugs and alcohol," he said. "It could be a larger universe of potential customers for Bookies."- gambling-vault

Gambling : All Bets for Russia's Casinos is off?

gambling : In one dive fell this week in Russia, lost more as 400,000 casino workers their jobs and closed the increasing number of unemployed persons than the country' on; S-economic crisis deepens. At midnight Wednesday the neon lights of the casinos were turned off and playing resounding over Russia and down-taken, stopped the Rouletteräder to spiders and the noise of the coins, which are buried into the play automat wells, stopped.

1st July latches the all Russia' s, which plays the plants, is the result of an anti-vice-law through imprinted 2006 from president at that time Vladimir Putin (now prime ministers) little thought the casinos was at all really resulted in, which debris-talk are. To the time as, it Putin cushion its picture as clean living helped, Workaholicpräsident as well as agreements with interests over crimes in the industry. Present president Dmitry Medvedev supported the law, with the result of reasoning of 30 main casinos and of 500 playing resounding in Moscow alone Wednesday.

The head patrolled and guaranteed police that the business the government' considered; S-regulation. However the government had a counter offer: to four development zones around the country cause, in which casinos could be established. The problem is these zones is in some the furthest ranges of Russia: the GebirgsAltai region of Siberia, along the Pacific coast in the far east close North Korea and China, the Kaliningrad enclave on the Baltic Sea and the southern Azov Seeregion. To reorganize some casinos expected, werdene smaller stirring up hook associations, which are still certified, it get in far fewer funds and employ few people.

The predominant majority of those, which worked now in the play, must other where look, in order to redeem the changes. Officials tried tamp down the anger of the former casino employees with promises of the new jobs in the service industry, but those evenly unemployed persons remain sceptical. " I am " much procures; mentioned Mikhail Smirnov, the 6 a-yearlyformer managers of Moscow' S-casino Bakara and the father of three young children.

" I must change my life completely. I must look for a new job, since I have three children, which me." of; depend; After 14 years in the casino business, Smirnov was one of those, which never thought that reasoning really and didn' one happened; T-disturbance, which looks for another job. Now he says, loses its children its health insurance and he' ll must the money use, which it put aside for its training. It added that nearly everything has its former colleague unpaid loans.

"Are we going to move? Of course we are not," Konstantin Kopylov, the owner of the Kristall casino told the RIA-Novosti newswire. "You cannot run a business on someone's wish. Business is run in the areas where a profit can be made."

Given that most never thought the shutdown would come to pass, ground has barely been broken in these zones, and the massive investment they will require to become gambling destinations means it will be years before the casinos reopen, if ever.

What is more likely, experts say, is that gambling will simply be driven underground, thereby increasing the very criminality that the closures claimed to address. Many players will turn to the Internet and to other countries, if not to illegal gambling.

Some psychiatrists say they expect to see a spike in gambling addicts coming to them for help.

Casino officials say there is interest from other businesses in acquiring the coveted real estate previously occupied by the casinos.

Still, gambling has long been frowned upon in Russia and many won't be sad to see it exiled.

"Let them close. For that matter, get them out of Russia altogether," Galina Beleznikova told The Associated Press.

ABC News' Tanya Stukalova contributed to this story, as did The Associated Press.- gambling

Gambling Vault - New bill would stem gambling cash to Pa. campaigns

Gambling Vault -Harrisburg, Pa. - Legislation designed to thicken the walls of the Pennsylvania game between industry and government officials sailed through a Senate committee Tuesday, as lawmakers are taking seriously a legalization of table games in casinos.

The bill was approved unanimously by the Senate Community, Economic and Recreational Development Committee after countless press conferences and legislative hearings on the gaps in state regulation of casino.

It is the first major reform of gambling legislation to pass a Senate committee since 2006, when state regulators approved 11 licenses for slot machine casino in Pennsylvania.

"I think it's a strong message, and I think we are on the way to restoring public confidence" in the regulation of casinos in the state, said Sen. Jane Orie, R-Allegheny, a leading critic of the status of head of gambling regulator, the Pennsylvania Board of Gaming Control.

A key priority in the bill is to restore the ban on cash contributions to political causes by executives of the gaming industry and investors.

In April, the Supreme Court overturned a State's five-year ban, saying a ban on contributions were far more in practice than is requested by the 2004 law.

On Tuesday, a government monitoring group, Common Cause Pennsylvania, said that included $ 4.4 million in political campaign contributions in Pennsylvania to individuals and groups in the gambling sector since 2001.

"This study helps to explain the game industry's winning streak in Pennsylvania," said Barry Kauffman, executive director of the group. "And to think that gambling interests go borrachera now have the opportunity."

The 51-page bill also toughens the game board of the "revolving door" policy, which requires higher and midlevel employees to wait two years, instead of just one, before working in the industry. The policy also could include attorneys, an issue that could gain control of the Supreme Court of the State, which reserves the regulation of lawyers by itself.

The bill has the support of the leaders of the Senate and could pass the chamber as soon as this month, but its prospects are uncertain in the House.

Currently, a bill to legalize table games is pending in the House, and another is expected to be introduced in the Senate within days, with some lawmakers talking about the income tax as a way to help fill the state depth of its deficit.

Pennsylvania has eight slot machine casinos currently operating and another Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, which is expected to open within weeks. -Gambling Vault

Casino owners have lobbied for the legalization of table games, saying it will create valuable jobs and establishments more competitive by expanding the industries of gambling in states along the borders of Pennsylvania.