Five players are charged with breaking the Football Association’s (FA’s) gambling rules. With some accused of betting thousands of pounds on their team to lose. The betting scandal traces back to Accrington Stanley’s last game of the last League Two season at home to Bury. Four players who were then playing at Accrington, have been charged with betting on a victory for the visitors. These four players are Jay Harris, David Mannix, Robert Williams, Peter Cavanagh and Andrew Mangan, who was playing for Bury was also charged.
Both Harris and Cavanagh have played in the game which ended in a 2-0 victory for Bury. The five face serious consequences which includes possible long suspensions, if proven guilty. An FA statement said: ”All five are alleged to have placed bets on Bury to win this match. Mannix is alleged to have placed stakes to the value of approximately £4,000; Mangan £3,500; Harris £2,000; Williams £1,000; and Cavanagh on a £5 accumulator.” The FA were alarmed after reports of unusual gambling patterns in the lead-up to the match with higher amounts being staked in certain areas of the country. Under FA rules, players, managers or coaching staff are not allowed to gamble on the results or progress of any match or competition in which the participant is participating or has any direct or indirect influence.
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Irish Minister of Sports Martin Cullen says there is a small chance that internet betting in Ireland could be banned.The Irish government will be revealing an emergency budget on Tuesday, where a reduction in funding for horse racing will be announced.
Cullen said: “The big players will need to come to the plate. A view will need to be formed about internet and offshore betting. I will use whatever legal levers are available to me to get at that funding in terms of trying to get some tax out of it.” The reality is that most betting occurs offshore. “The ultimate choice would be to ban it. That approach has been taken in America and perhaps it will be taken in other countries as well. However, I do not want to go down that road. I believe there is a means of taking action.” Cullen stated. An estimated 1.5 billion Euro a year in gambling revenue could be reached in Ireland. “By the end of this year, 80 per cent of our internet customers will be from overseas. Therefore, a tax on this is effectively a tax on Irish jobs for very little return, only €5m would be raised by taxing Irish-located telephone betting businesses.”
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The NCAA is going through the country advertising anti-gambling laws and threatening states that think about sports betting or internet gambling as revenue producer. But this very same organisation is littered with members taking advertising cash from casinos or other gambling organisations.
The NCAA gets a lot of criticism for its hypocritical ways. The organization ought to operate for the benefit of student-athletes, but puts itself out there as an aggressive corporation. Exploiting their fame is forbidden, punishable with crazy penalties, but the NCAA cashes in on a regular basis on the exploits of their students. Even with the NCAA threatening Delaware it will never host a sanctioned event if they legalize sports betting, schools across the country are betting on their favourite teams. Oregon was a state that had legal sports gambling funding education in the state, but was pressured to drop the program by the NCAA.
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Gamblers who are trying to win big on Saturday’s Grand National may receive attacks from hackers, looking to cash in on online betting. Webroot’s Threat Research team reports an increase in the number of keyloggers that are being updated by the malware creators.
Nick Banks, managing director EMEA of Webroot’s Consumer Business Unit, said: “Since January 2008, 44% of the keyloggers identified by our automated threat research method have been updated, while 28% of new keyloggers identified so far this year have already been updated. Hackers churn out updates or new variants to get past detection at the desktop, so that they can continue to harvest personal information unchallenged.” Online gambling is expected to increase in revenue’s, with sites offering double ups on deposits and big jackpots being won. Webroot has developed a free computer scan tool to check for spyware, viruses and other threatening forms of malware.
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In a change of events which could see either the end of gambling in Florida or the beginning of a new age of high-stakes and busy poker tourism. Florida governors want to pass a new legislation. The Senate wants an overhaul where the minimum age is lowered and the stakes raised. The Florida Senate is trying to pass legislation that will change the and poker landscape in the ‘Sunshine State’ forever.
No more 100 dollar maximum no-limit tables, no more 500 dollar maximum tournament buy-in, if the proposals make it through. In their place will be increased buy-ins, increased table limits, thousands more slot machines, more game choice and a predicted 1billion dollars extra in annual state revenues. There are also plans to lower the legal gambling age of Florida residents from 21 to 18. The lifting of limits would also lure the World Poker Tour to the sunny Florida shoreline. But there are clouds on the horizon and the legislation is not certain. The Florida senate is up against the Florida House of Representatives.
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