Birmingham Mail – A Birmingham gambling addict who lost £10,000 in a decade-long betting spree went on the rampage after frittering away his last £230. Hassan Yousaf smashed up a roulette machine with a stool, causing damage put at £6,000 at a Birmingham bookies. The 26-year-old lashed out at Ladbrokes branch in Green Lane, Small Heath, just a year after being convicted over a similar attack at a bookies in Manchester. After the first vandal attack, Yousaf told police he had gambled away £10,000 on fixed odds machines since he was 16. He told Birmingham Magistrates’ Court he was not…

Auckland Now – A new game show with a difference has hit our TV screens in a bid to help people recognise the early signs of harmful gambling. “This is a new approach to help people protect themselves and others from gambling harm,” Grant Reihana, Team Leader for Raukura Hauora o Tainui says. Department of Internal Affairs figures show more than $2 billion is lost to gambling nationwide each year. Mr Reihana says the same data shows more than $53 million was  lost to non-casino gaming machines in the Auckland region alone during the first three months of 2014. The…

Ever wanna try election betting? Well, Nevada is thinking about it, too. What are the odds of Hillary Clinton being elected as the next president? Folks in Nevada may just get a chance to place a wager on who will win federal elections under a plan that has resurfaced. A legislative committee will decide Tuesday whether to recommend if Nevada should allow election betting on federal races, making available here bets that can already be placed overseas. State Senator Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, introduced a bill in the 2013 Legislature to permit wagering on federal elections. Senate Bill 418 passed…

iGaming Business – Canadian mobile agency Plastic Mobile has been selected to serve as the ‘vendor of record’ on the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s (OLG) mobile roster. Under the agreement, which will run for three years, Plastic Mobile’s portfolio of gaming and transaction-based mobile applications will link up with OLG. “We’re very excited to work with OLG and to take part in mobilizing lottery and gaming across Ontario,” Plastic Mobile president and chief operating officer Melody Adhami said. “As mobile continues to flourish across industries, we’ll be working closely with OLG to bring mobile innovation to the forefront of…

Wall Street experts have seen the future of Atlantic City casinos — and there will be fewer places to play. A panel of analysts speaking at a regional gambling conference Tuesday in Atlantic City said a market that has already lost one casino this year still has too many. Adam Rosenberg, a managing director with Goldman Sachs, said “reducing capacity” is already underway, which he considers positive. Srihari Rajagopalan, a debt analyst with UBS, agreed. “You are seeing the market right-size, which is a positive,” Rajagopalan said. “There are unprofitable casinos shutting down.” Earlier this month, the CEO of Caesars…

Las Vegas Review Journal – Just as the recession began to grip Las Vegas in 2008, gaming executive Terry Lanni made a prediction. During an interview at his offices in the Bellagio, Lanni said a Las Vegas market recovery was not going to be like any other time tourism and gaming businesses experienced a downturn. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, it took 18 to 24 months for tourists to get comfortable with domestic travel. The recession of the 1980s took a bite out of the tour and travel trade nationwide. An aggressive marketing campaign by the Las…