Posts Tagged ‘ban’

History of football

Posted by Nicolae on June 28th, 2008 under Football, Football (Soccer), Sport
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Throughout the history of mankind the urge to kick at stones and other such objects is thought to have led to many early activities involving kicking and/or running with a ball. Football-like games predate recorded history in all parts of the world, though the earliest forms of football are not known.
Ancient games
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Netherlands will act against the companies that infringe online gambling ban

Posted by Nicolae on January 30th, 2008 under Casinos, European Union, Legislation, Online Gambling
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The Dutch justice ministry introduced new regulations that will held criminally liable the banks and credit card companies that will facilitate online gambling on foreign sites for the Dutch citizens.
In accordance with Dutch News, in some months it will be published a list with the banned web sites (this decision [...]

Finland strategy to ban online gambling

Posted by Nicolae on January 16th, 2008 under European Union, Legislation, Online Gambling, Predictions
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The new borders of the Internet started with the online gambling. Internet meant, at its beginning, freedom of information, products and services. Now, it keeps from less to less this initial meaning.
I am a fun of the online gambling, especially online poker, but now I see it like an animal in a [...]

My predictions come true: a new Las Vegas in Russia

Posted by Nicolae on January 10th, 2008 under Casinos, Gambling industry, Las Vegas, Predictions, Projects, Russia
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My predictions about the boom of the gambling industry in Russia come true sooner than I expected. Russia’s Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov set up a gambling zone, Azov-City, in the Scherbinovsky district of Krasnodar area and the Azov district of Rostov region. A budget of about 18 billion [...]

Gambling predictions, 2008

Posted by Nicolae on January 2nd, 2008 under Asia, Atlantic City, Business, Casinos, Dubai, European Union, Gambling industry, Gran Scala, Las Vegas, Macau, Online Gambling, Predictions, Projects, UIGEA, United States
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It seems that it is very hard to make predictions on gambling, this year even more difficult than the other years, and online gambling much more difficult than the classical gambling.
2008 will be a very good year for the land casinos. Las Vegas has some big problems that will allow to other [...]

Germany will ban online gambling starting with January 1st, 2008

Posted by Nicolae on December 28th, 2007 under European Union, Legislation, Online Gambling
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Germany will ban any form of Web-based gambling or brokering of games over the Internet, beginning with January 1st, 2008, including the advertising of gaming over the Internet and on television.
Germany ratified an accord that preserves the country’s state monopoly for lotteries and most forms of betting. The new online-betting laws, [...]

Life is gambling, don’t ban the Life!

Posted by Nicolae on December 3rd, 2007 under Legislation, Online Gambling, UIGEA
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All our life and decisions are part, in fact, of the Big Gambling. Let’s take a look to the gambling definition: “wagering money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money or material goods”. And now, let’s think at most [...]