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Gambling News INTERNET GAMBLING BILL A POSSIBLE PROBLEM FOR GOP ON NOV 7

04 November 2006

FOX NEWS Friday, November 03, 2006 NEW YORK — A Republican-sponsored effort to clamp down on Internet gambling may turn out to be a bad bet for the GOP. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which President Bush signed into law Oct.

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Gambling News FRIST ANTE'S WITH ONLINE GAMBLING BAN, TIME FOR U.S. TO CALL - PEACEFUL PROTEST IN WASHINGTON

02 November 2006

EDITOR’S NOTE November 2, 2006 On Friday the 13th of October 2006, President Bush signed into law the Safe Port Act, a bill to tighten port security and make our country a safer place from terrorists. Attached to this bill was the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIEGA).

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Gambling News WTO LAST CHANCE FOR INTERNET GAMBLING IN US

02 November 2006

BLOOMBERG (www.bloomberg.com)By Warren Giles Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — Antigua, the Caribbean island nation accounting for a quarter of online betting, says its effort to overturn a U.S. ban on Internet gambling through the World Trade Organization is a last chance for the industry. WTO arbitrators first backed Antigua’s claim that the U.S. illegally discriminated against foreign Internet betting companies two years ago. Last month, President George W.

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Gambling News ONLINE GAMBLING CONFERENCE HOSTED BY GREAT BRITAIN - USA A 'NO SHOW'

31 October 2006

DAILY PRESS By JANE WARDELL – AP Business Writer – October 31, 2006, 8:19 AM EST ROYAL ASCOT, England — Officials from more than 30 countries debated ways to regulate the global Internet gaming industry on Tuesday, just weeks after the United States effectively banned online gambling.

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Gambling News NETELLER PROVISION OF SERVICES TO US CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW

31 October 2006

HEMSCOT Todney Hobson 31/10/06 13:27 Surprisingly strong quarterly figures from the online money transfer business has helped to assuage fears over the impact of anti-gambling legislation in the US. Surprisingly strong quarterly figures from the online money transfer business has helped to assuage fears over the impact of anti-gambling legislation in the US. NETeller signed up 3,218 customers in the third quarter to take the total to nearly 3.19m.

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Gambling News BUSH THUMBED NOSE AT WTO COMMITMENTS WITH THE SIGNING OF THE UIGEA

30 October 2006

EGAMINGPULSE On 13 October President Bush signed the law that triggered the market value meltdown of several internet gambling operators that derived much of their turnover from US punters (the most prominent being Partygaming, 888 Holdings and Sportingbet).

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Gambling News NELSON ROSE ON THE NEW ANTI INTERNET GAMING LAW

30 October 2006

POKER PLAYER by I. Nelson Rose Senator Bill Frist (R.- TN), doesn’t want to be President -he wants to be Dictator. Frist, the majority leader of the U.S. Senate, used his position of power to ram through the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. He didn’t even give the members of Congress a chance to read the bill. They were told about it late Friday night, mere minutes before they recessed to campaign for reelection.

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Gambling News PARTYGAMING AND 888 MERGER IN THE WORKS

30 October 2006

THE TIMES The Times Online (www.timesonline.co.uk) Louise Armitstead and Matthew Goodman TWO of the biggest UK-listed online poker operators, Party Gaming and 888 Holdings, have held preliminary talks about a possible merger to create a £1.6 billion company. Both firms have been trying to find a way to cope after sales were hit by the introduction of laws banning online gambling in America.

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Gambling News Gambling Legislation Poses Low Risk To Online Gamblers

30 October 2006

THE OREGONIANSunday, October 29, 2006ALEX PULASKI Peter Dumdeang’s voice rose above the TV patter in a bare-walled East Portland apartment, his insistence interrupting two other men who, like him, appeared hypnotized by their laptops. Things were desperate. Down to his last chips Thursday in an Internet poker tourney, Dumdeang needed one of two cards to survive. “C’mon, eight,” he pleaded.

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Gambling News UK CULTURE SECRETARY SAYS US GAMBLING LAW FLAWED

27 October 2006

BBC NEWS The US crackdown on online gambling is a “new prohibition”, which is likely to fuel a rise in fraud and exploitation, the UK culture secretary has said. Offshore sites could become the “modern equivalent of speakeasies”, illegal bars which opened in 1920s America when alcohol was banned, Tessa Jowell added. New US laws forbid firms from taking internet bets, and ban banks and credit card firms from allowing web payments.

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Gambling News CONGRESS ACTS TO REMOVE GAMBLING OFFLINE. WHY?

26 October 2006

LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTEBy Mark ThorntonPosted on 10/26/2006 Congress purported to act to protect the values of the American people when it passed the “Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.” The result has been a serious blow to a growing industry. Whose values was Congress protecting? It had nothing to do with the American people at large.

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Gambling News WHILE U.S. SHUNS ONLINE GAMBLING, A WHOLE NEW WORLD OPENS IN EU

26 October 2006

INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE By Simon Packard and Amy Wilson Bloomberg News October 26, 2006 LONDON PartyGaming, the world’s largest online poker company, lost 75 percent of its revenue when the company shut down its U.S. sites to comply with a new law enforcing a ban on Internet gambling.

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Gambling News FRIST DOUBTS ONLINE GAMBLING BAN WILL AFFECT GOP OR VOTER /ELECTION TURNOUT

25 October 2006

LAS VEGAS SUN October 24, 2006 By Lisa Mascaro WASHINGTON – Could a cornerstone of Republicans’ American Values Agenda – the just passed law to ban Internet gambling – come back to bite the party on Nov. 7? That’s the prognosis of poker-playing scholar Charles Murray, who warned in a recent newspaper opinion piece of the political damage Republicans may face from the nation’s poker-playing masses this fall.

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Gambling News 888.COM FIRES UP TO 150 GIBRALTAR EMPLOYEES

25 October 2006

PANORAMA The gambling outfit Cassava, also known as 888.com, are to fire employees in their Gibraltar headquarters.

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Gambling News AN INTERVIEW WITH BODOG OWNER CALVIN AYRE - FEDS CAN'T STOP HIS ONLINE EMPIRE

25 October 2006

THE REGISTER EXCERPTS FROM INTERVIEW OF CALVIN AYRE BY BURKE HANSON, PUBLISHED AT THE REGISTER Tuesday 24th October 2006 23:26 GMT “American gaming enthusiasts have been asking themselves that very question, after Republicans in Congress recently amended the Safe Port Act (H.R.

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Gambling News BAN IS NOT THE ANSWER, WON'T STOP ONLINE GAMBLING

24 October 2006

THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER ADAM GOLDMAN Associated Press NEW YORK – Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a new Internet gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them on to overseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terrible scare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law at Whittier Law School.

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Gambling News ONLINE GAMBLING AND ITS ENTITIES ENTERS THE PROHIBITION ERA

24 October 2006

INTERACTIVE GAMING NEWS by Chris Krafcik H.R. 4411 – David Carruthers – Money laundering – Aiding and abetting – United States Congress – Bill Frist – Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 – Prohibition – Exodus These and other words and expressions have permeated the idiom shared by the I-gaming industry, serving as palpable reminders of long-standing legal battles and financial woe, of furtive politics and changing interests.

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Gambling News Will Online Gambling Legislation Turn Out To Be A Bad Bet for Republicans?

23 October 2006

FOX NEWS Monday, October 23, 2006 By Radley Balko LONDON — In the wee hours of the last night of the last session of Congress, Majority Leader Bill Frist attached a ban on Internet gambling to a port security bill. It was a dubious maneuver, which not only prevented any real floor debate over the ban, but also attached an intrusive, unnecessary, big government measure to a bill that addressed important national security concerns.

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Gambling News GAMBLING LEGISLATION TO AFFECT ECHO's BOTTOM LINE

21 October 2006

PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS TIMES Bill Lascher Staff Writer 10/20/06 Fallout from legislation targeting Internet gambling has landed in Ventura County. Camarillo-based Electronic Clearing House Inc., or ECHO, announced that its annual report for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 would look different after the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 was signed by President George W. Bush Oct. 13.

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Gambling News ONLINE GAMBLERS HEAD STRAIGHT FOR LOOPHOLES IN NEW GAMING LEGISLATION

21 October 2006

THE CAPITAL TIMES by Ben Popper Correspondent for The Capital Times The stakes aren’t particularly high at Tuesday night’s Intramural Texas Hold ‘em tournament at the SERF on West Dayton Street, where 25 players are competing for a grand prize of one T-shirt and the pleasure of a skilled game.

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Gambling News ANTI-GAMBLING LAW COULD BE SCRAPPED SAYS PARTYGAMING BOSS

20 October 2006

GUARDIAN UNLIMITED Simon Bowers Friday October 20, 2006 PartyGaming chief executive Mitch Garber has said he thinks there is a 50% chance of new prohibitionist US legislation which outlaws online gambling being scrapped within three years should the balance of power in Washington drift away from the Republicans.

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Gambling News ONLINE GAMBLING HEADS UNDERGROUND

19 October 2006

BusinessWeek Online By Catherine Holahan Updated: 12:00 a.m. ET Oct 19, 2006 It was getting late on Oct. 12, the night before a sweeping anti-Internet gambling bill would be signed into law. Paul McGuire was at his computer, enjoying one last hurrah on PartyPoker, a site that had pledged to kick off all U.S. users as soon as the law left President Bush’s desk.

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Gambling News INTERNET POKER BAN USHERS IN NEW ERA OF SOUR FEELINGS

19 October 2006

MySA – MySanAntonio.com Web Posted: 10/18/2006 11:05 PM CDT San Antonio Express-News Well, that certainly didn’t take long. President Bush was quick to sign the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act last Friday — legislation loosely tied on to the broader Port Security Act — sending the online poker community into a tailspin. The signing of the legislation was marked as a triumph for the security of the country.

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Gambling News The G.O.P.’s Bad Bet

19 October 2006

THE NEW YORK TIMES By CHARLES MURRAY Published: October 19, 2006 LAST week President Bush signed a law that will try to impede online gambling by prohibiting American banks from transferring money to gambling sites.

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Gambling News NETELLER WILL COMPLY WITH US REGULATIONS ONCE DETERMINED BY US FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

19 October 2006

19 October 2006 NETELLER PLCUpdate on US positionFurther to the Company’s announcement on 12 October 2006, NETELLER Plc today announced the following update in the light of the action on 13 October 2006 by US President George W Bush to approve and sign into law the SAFE Port Act incorporating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (“UIGEA” or the “Act”) which includes certain provisions to prohibit “unlawful internet gambling” by restricting gambling sites from acce...

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Gambling News ONTARIO TO INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO END ONLINE GAMBLING

19 October 2006

NATIONAL POST Peter Nowak – Thursday, October 19, 2006 Ontario is looking to quash Internet gambling by introducing a bill today that will ban such Web sites from advertising, a move legal experts say oversteps the province’s authority. Gerry Phillips, Minister of Government Services, will table a bill of amendments to Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act, including a section aimed at banning media organizations from running ads by gambling Web sites.

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Gambling News BLACK MARKET ON THE CARDS FOR ONLINE GAMBLING INDUSTRY?

19 October 2006

e-consultancy Posted 13:24 19 Oct 2006 by Richard Maven Sportingbet has warned that the US is encouraging the creation of a black market through its online betting ban, after announcing it is taking a hit of £210m on the sale of its business Stateside. Announcing its annual results this morning, the UK-based firm said its profits had risen by 75% to £71.

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Gambling News US PLAYERS AT CASINOMEISTER BUT NO CASINOS THAT TAKE US PLAYERS

19 October 2006

iGAMING BUSINESS16 October 2006 Casinomeister says the new U.S. legal climate presents ‘definite risks’ One of the longest established and most successful information portals in the online gambling industry, Casinomeister has reluctantly decided to discontinue promoting online operations that accept U.S. bets. The portalmaster, Bryan Bailey says that the move is a consequence of the new Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act which attacks U.S.

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Gambling News Same Song, Second Verse - Prohibition II: Good Grief

18 October 2006

MSNBC – Newsweek By George F. Will Newsweek Oct. 23, 2006 issue – Perhaps Prohibition II is being launched because Prohibition I worked so well at getting rid of gin. Or maybe the point is to reassure social conservatives that Republicans remain resolved to purify Americans’ behavior.

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Gambling News Online Gambling top gaining category before Bill passed

18 October 2006

EGAMEPULSE (www.egamepulse.com) Tuesday, October 17. 2006 Ironically, just prior to the landmark legislation passed by Congress in early October to stem gambling over the Internet, Online Gambling was the top gaining category in September, posting a 17-percent gain versus August. Leading the category was embattled PartyGaming with 10.9 million U.S. visitors, a 75-percent increase, followed by SportingBet PLC, the second-biggest gaining Web property during the month with 5.4 million U.S.

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