Poker News – Three years after the opening of a legalized online poker market, France’s national regulator ARJEL launched its second awareness campaign against illegal operators. While regulated iGaming markets in Europe are engaged in finding measures to fight against the decline of the industry and open to shared liquidity talks, France has chosen to take a different approach, raising public awareness on the risks of playing on unlicensed websites. “You have only to lose when you play on non-ARJEL regulated websites” is the message the regulator chose to push with a campaign currently hitting French radio stations, national press…

There may be a lot of action when it comes to UK online gambling, but authorities in Australia have arrested a British individual for alleged ‘court side betting’ at the Australian Open tournament, according to the Daily Mail. The 22-year-old is alleged to have been watching games court side and using a special electronic device sewn into his clothes to send messages to an associate who places sports bets before a TV delay. The individual has not been named and police have not released any details as to whether he is resident or is visiting Australia. Victoria Police also confirmed…

Taiwanese and Chinese security forces jointly busted an Internet gambling ring Tuesday, shutting down a betting website that collected as much as NT$100 million (US$3.334 million) through a third-party payment process, according to Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB). The website operator sold gambling chips and points that can be used to exchange with those offered by various other Internet gambling websites and even converted into cash, a spokesman for the team said. Through the website, online gamblers could bet on hundreds of games by just printing out payment slips at convenience stores. The online gambling website’s operator is in Taiwan,…

The world’s largest casino company is cautioning investors that online bets might hurt, rather than help, its brick-and-mortar casinos. Caesars Entertainment, which owns four of Atlantic City’s 12 casinos, wrote in a filing with securities regulators late Wednesday that online gambling could reduce patron visits to its casinos in New Jersey and Nevada, and harm the company’s bottom line. In a report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Caesars wrote that Internet gambling will compete with the company’s business in Nevada, where online poker is offered, and New Jersey, where all casino games are now available online. “Caesars will,…

Just days before the New Jersey online gambling experiment goes live, the lawmaker responsible for pushing the issue in the first place is setting his sights on global gamblers. State Senator Raymond Lesniak plans to introduce a bill that would let international companies set up shop in New Jersey and then offer online gambling to people located outside the U.S. The idea is to play on America’s reputation for financial security: Legal gambling operations headquartered in New Jersey would presumably appear less likely to make off with customers’ money or crumble under shifting regulations. Lest he might fail to establish…

Futurity – Whether you think online betting is innocent entertainment or a shady activity may have to do with what you call it, according to a new study that shows how industry labels help shape consumer attitudes. “Changing an industry label from gambling to gaming affects what consumers, especially nonusers, think of betting online,” write Kathy LaTour, associate professor of services marketing at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, and Ashlee Humphreys of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, in a study published online in the Journal of Consumer Research. “A label like gaming prompts all sorts of…