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Major Online Poker Site’s Owners Gambled With Players’ Deposits

11:40PM September 21, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Even though they’ve been shut down for months, online poker sites are still finding new ways to get themselves into trouble. Full Tilt Poker — probably the most popular site for high-stakes players — is accused of taking players’ deposit money and gambling with it. More »


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How A Hacker Bootlegged The US Slot Machine Industry

3:30PM July 26, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

No one sets out to be an international slot machine kingpin: it just sort of happens. Our friends over at Wired took a look at Rodolfo Rodriguez Cabrera, who went from a Cuban engineering student to the head of a multi-million dollar bootlegging scheme. More »


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American Online Poker Is Under Attack Again

8:50AM April 22, 2011 | Max Behrman

Last Friday, the US Department of Justice unveiled a 52-page (52? LOL) indictment against three of the biggest online poker companies providing service for Americans – PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker – and alleged that they were guilty of money laundering, along with wire and bank fraud. More »


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US Government Accuses Online Poker Sites Of Fraud

9:48AM April 16, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Even if you don’t play online poker, you’ve undoubtedly seen ads for Full Tilt, Poker Stars and Absolute Poker, three of the bigger online gambling sites around. Guess what? They’ve all been charged with tricking banks into processing illegal gambling dollars. [Reuters]


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A Slot Machine That Rewards You With Alcohol

5:20PM February 22, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Slot machine? Shot machine? In the case of the BarBot, it’s the same difference. As part of a contest, a collective known as NYC resistor spent 300 hours assembling this slot machine drink dispenser. More »


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How A Statistician Beat Scratch Lottery Tickets

8:00AM February 2, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

In North America, the lottery is a $US70 billion-a-year industry, bigger than movies, music and porn combined. But it’s not infallible. That’s what Mohan Srivastava, a geological statistician, found out when he took a closer look at scratch lottery cards. More »


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Today’s One-Armed Bandit Wins… Even When You Win

12:00PM January 10, 2011 | Jack Loftus

In a 60 Minutes segment this evening, we learned today’s slot machines are so well designed that addicts often think they’re winning even when they’re losing. Other users report disliking jackpots (i.e. “winning”) because they slow down the action! More »


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Aussie Senator: Games Are Gambling Training

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10:13AM July 9, 2010 | Junglist

Nick Xenophon, independent senator in South Australia, has opened up a new front in his war on pokie machines to include arcade games that offer prizes. Such games supposedly teach kids that gambling is a normal activity and condition them to pokies venues and gameplay. More »


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Travel Between LA And Vegas Without Fear Or Loathing On The Gambling Train

1:00AM May 15, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Now that road safety laws have tightened up since the ’70s when Fear and Loathing was published, you’ll need to look at alternative transport for your LA-to-Las-Vegas trip if you want to play Hunter S. Thompson while under the influence. More »


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Bets Being Taken On Next Console To Suffer From “Global Glitch”

9:49PM March 3, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

UK bookies Paddy Power doesn’t have much faith in the state of console gaming. After the PS3′s spectacular shitstorm of a failure this week, they’re putting odds of 11/8 on it happening again. The Xbox 360 meanwhile has 7/4 odds. More »