Labor has unveiled a Robin Hood-style plan to hike taxes on wealthy landowners, luxury car buyers and interstate online gambling companies to keep a lid on Queensland’s nation-leading state debt. Treasurer Curtis Pitt released Labor’s election costings on Thursday two days before the election insisting the “new revenue measures” would hit only a well-heeled…
A Morrisons manager who hanged himself over his gambling addiction was dumped by his girlfriend after apparently spending their holiday cash at the bookies, an inquest has heard. Philip Tomlinson, 29, took his own life at a beauty spot in July after he became overwhelmed by a ”punishing” addiction to online gambling, the hearing was…
A legal battle over a contested $3 million heads-up poker game that involved an Australian poker pro, a Czech casino mogul and too much alcohol could conjure up a decades-old case against a casino formerly belonging to now President Donald Trump. Back in 1995, a lawsuit against the then Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City…
By Clare Foges For The Daily Mail Published: 13:00 AEDT, 15 November 2017 | Updated: 13:01 AEDT, 15 November 2017 e-mail View comments Miss Coates is the queen of the UKs online gambling industry, a parasite that feeds off the dreams of the poorest and most vulnerable with promises of easy money By any measure,…
A flashy poker-promoting punk linked to organized crime was sentenced Monday to a year and a day behind bars. Isok Aronov, 33, helped operate a high-stakes Coney Island gambling den decked out with a professional poker table, an electronic gambling game, a lounge and massage girls who gave players back and shoulder…
Yesterday, high stakes poker players and owner of Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club weighed in with his version of events of the Matt Kirk and Leon Tsoukernik $2m debt incident, and his blog post might just cause people to change their current opinion on the situation. …
In the early hours of May 27, two of professional gamblings big names sat down for a private, high-stakes poker match. The setting was the Ivey Room, a posh enclave in the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Leon Tsoukernik, a Czech entrepreneur and casino mogul, was facing off against Matthew Kirk, an Australian…
Washington: In the early hours of May 27, two of professional gambling’s big names sat down for a private, high-stakes poker match. The setting was the Ivey Room, a posh enclave in the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Leon Tsoukernik, a Czech entrepreneur and casino mogul, was facing off against Matthew Kirk, an…
Authorities have been tracking down suspects in a gun shooting, a street brawl and disputes over debt, with the various incidents apparently all related to illegal betting on baseball games and illegal gambling operators. Top police officials in Taipei were left with egg on their face yesterday when two officers, surnamed Lee () and Huang…
Tune into a random Premier League match this season and youll likely see at least one side wearing a casinos logo on their shirts. Stick around for the halftime commercials (or just look at the pitch side advertisement boards) and youre bound to see another betting stores name come up. Also notice that on the…