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“Paddy Power, Ireland’s largest bookmaker, has announced that it will not wait for the results on Election Day and will pay out over a million euros’ worth of bets on Obama to become the next president. Paddy Power occasionally makes early payouts when the betting public is significantly behind a bet.” [Link]
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Danielle Lloyd at the World Series of Poker 2008 in London.
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“Vegas barreled through previous U.S. economic recessions with no problem, but the current slowdown — marked by home foreclosures and then high gasoline prices — has had a much bigger impact on the gambling mecca than economists expected. And while free rooms and room discounts have kept hotels relatively full — occupancy is down just 1 percent in the year to July — gambling revenue is down 6.5 percent.” [Link]
“‘It looks very much as if this matter will … be sent to the WTO at the end of the commission’s investigation,’ Lode Van Den Hende, outside counsel for the Remote Gambling Association, told reporters as EU officials were in Washington to probe U.S. Justice Department enforcement actions.” [Link]
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