iGaming Business – The UK Gambling Commission has reported that the number of people in the country participating in gambling activities dropped by 2% in the past year. In a study entitled ‘Gambling participation: activities and mode of access’, the regulatory body reported that 55% of respondents had participated in at least one form of gambling in the previous four weeks. The figure was down from 57% in 2012. Punters were most likely to have gambled ‘once a month, less than once a week’ although a significant number of respondents said their participation was ‘once a week’. The report also…

iGaming Business – The Italian Senate has passed an amendment to a government finance bill that will ban radio and television gambling advertising in the country. According to the Pokernews.com website, the amendment proposed to introduce a ban against the advertisement of real-money gambling. The amendment, which did not mention online gambling, was introduced by Socialist party Senator Riccardo Nencini as part of an effort to clamp down in compulsive gambling. Although having been initially opposed by several members of the government, the amendment passed with a unanimous vote and will now return to the Italian House of Representatives for…

The Conversation – “Aboriginal gambling” has become something of a hot-button issue in recent years. A number of academic research articles have documented the “risk factors” for Aboriginal people that increase their likelihood of develop gambling problems – enough to justify a recent overview paper by the Centre for Gambling Education and Research at Southern Cross University. Governments have not been lax in responding to the perceived evils of Aboriginal gambling. Gambling was one of four goods and services that the 2007 Northern Territory Intervention explicitly banned for the purposes of income management. Police in one remote NT community reportedly…

Card Player – A new casino is coming to South Korea’s Jeju Island. The price tag? A whopping $2.2 billion. The firms behind the plan are Genting and Landing International Development. According to Bloomberg, “Resorts World Jeju will be modeled after Genting’s Resorts World Sentosa, one of Singapore’s two gambling resorts, and will be developed by a 50-50 joint venture formed by the two companies.” The casino is slated to have 800 tables, including 200 for high-stakes gamblers, the firm said at a media briefing on Feb. 7. The site for the massive project has 2.3 million square meters. In…

Yahoo – Planning a trip to Vegas to party and strike it rich? Here’s a tip: you’ll have a better chance of winning if you avoid roulette. That’s because casinos have a big advantage in roulette. There are 38 numbers on a standard American roulette wheel: 1 though 36, plus 0 and 00. That means you have a 1 in 38 chance of picking the right number. But, if you bet a dollar and win, you don’t get $38 – you win $35 and keep the original dollar you bet, for a total of $36. That $2 difference between $36…

WLWT – A proposed ballot measure to let Kentucky voters decide whether to legalize casino gambling hasn’t garnered enough support yet to gain state Senate passage, a key supporter said Monday night. Senate Majority Caucus Chairman Dan Seum acknowledged he hasn’t lined up sufficient backing after emerging from a closed-door meeting of fellow Senate Republicans to discuss the hot-button issue. Seum, a Louisville Republican, said he wasn’t giving up on his proposed constitutional amendment, with more than half of this year’s 60-day General Assembly session still left. “At this point in time, I have no plans of putting it on…