Just like Maryland, Delaware is holding the possibility of having budget deficits and looking for means to balance the books without giving up the needs of the people or worthwhile projects or programs. After years of debate, voters of Maryland have already approved the referendum that authorizes the playing of slot machines but with limited numbers only. However, the fruits of this venture can only be seen in few years more. Meanwhile, Delaware has already been enjoying the benefits of legal gambling for several years now.
Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware has proposed a huge pay cuts and increased on tax for all state workers. He is also considering an extreme expansion of gambling which includes sports betting, riverfront entertainment and some table games like blackjack and poker. It is his objective to transform Delaware into a Vegas-like gaming tourist destination. This is an effort to balance the state budget and to offer something unique to the region. Most residents will appreciate this means of raising revenues, though as it appears in the first glance gambling may not be the golden goose. Casinos in Delaware get a steady cash flow, in which big portion of it goes to state’s treasury.
On the other hand, Maryland realized that venturing into gambling may not pan out the today’s economy as what they expect. They were disappointed with the initial round of bidding for slots licenses. It was also remember that in 1976 when Delaware venture too in sports betting, it was a big flop.
Sports like horse racing can be considered as competitive event. Betting on sports gambling is becoming more compelling. Everything about the sports gambling including the odds, the potential payouts, and the increased opportunity for corruption greatly affects the performance of the players, especially if they are bribe and threaten to throw a game and influence the outcome of the game in favor to those who give a higher stake.
Gambling can be a slippery slope. Slots used to be nothing but just one harmless entertainment. When it became a successful they decided to expand new more additional games. Where will it stop?
Any other state such as Delaware that is looking for extra revenue would be foolish to put many financial eggs into one basket which is gambling.

It’s not too often that you hear about the game of craps when you’re reading up on the online gambling news. I know because I read a whole lot of online gambling news! That said, I was pleasantly surprised to come across the online casino, Craps.com, in my recent foray of scanning the news headlines.

A Playtech Software powered site, Craps.com, is owned and managed by Playtech’s leading online casino network, Imperial E-Club (Intercontinental Online Gaming), and boasts some of the most popular Playtech online casinos of today, including the long standing Casino Tropez, European player favorite Casino Europa and the Italian Stallion, Casino Bellini.

And while you can certainly play online craps at all of these casinos, Craps.com was developed in celebration of this exciting games, which incidentally, can offer one of the lowest House Edges in the casino if played with the proper Craps Strategy. In fact, the casino started off by offering craps, and over time, began to offer the full suite of Playtech’s 100+ cutting-edge games.

What’s all the hubub about, you ask? Well, besides the fact that Craps.com is celebrating their second birthday, one lucky player recently nabbed an approximate $120,000 jackpot on the “Queen of Pyramids” progressive video slot here. See - I told you they offer more than craps :).

So, yes, while craps is definitely a game of strategy that can help stretch out your bankroll (assuming you know which bets to make, or should I say, not to make), other less strategic games like slots can certainly “blow up” a bankroll, so to speak. For this particular jackpot on Queen of Pyramids, the lucky player - Marie Claire P. from France (Playtech casinos are closed to U.S. players by the way), had only been playing twenty minutes making $.25 bets.

The ironic thing is that she could have won plenty more if she made the max bet. Such is the way with progressive jackpot casino games. Nonetheless, $120,000 is nothing to scoff at on a $.25 wager. It’s definitely a nice chunk of change to put toward some wagers on the craps table.

Wednesday, an anonymous source leaked a list of banned Web pages the Australian government plans to block access to. The list, which appeared on WikiLeaks.org, not only includes the URLs of child-pornography and terrorist websites, but also those of several online-gambling, legal pornography and Christian-church sites.

Australia’s capitol in Canberra, ACTThe list is reportedly the work of the Australian Communications and Media Authority and includes 2,395 URLs. The government agency compiled the list as a catalogue of sites it plans to block access to using Web-filtering software.

The list was meant to be confidential, and the ACMA has since added WikiLeaks.org – a nonprofit, anonymous document repository for whistleblowers – to the blacklist. According to WikiLeaks.org, an “Internet filtering-software maker” provided the list.

Betfair.com CEO Andrew Twaits was furious after learning that the list includes his company’s domain name. According to ComputerWorld.com, Twaits was unaware that the ACMA considered Betfair.com a Totalizator Agency Board competitor. Australia’s Totalizator Agency Board, or TAB, is the nation’s state-sponsored sports-betting monopoly.

“We didn’t know (about the ban),” Twaits said. “We’ve been licensed to operate in Australia for three years and have never received a complaint or any allegation that Betfair locally or globally is not permitted to be used by Australians.

“The global Betfair site is used by Australians every day.”

Although it is illegal for offshore online-gambling sites to offer their services in Australia, Twaits insisted that the law does not apply to its sports-betting site because the company blocks Australians from accessing its poker and casino products.

“I need to find out what the implications are and how we got on the list,” Twaits said. “I’m amazed that this has happened.”

The following gambling URLs are currently included on the ACMA’s blacklist:

FullTiltPoker.com
GamblingClub.com
Betfair.com
PokerNews.com
Bodoglife.com
CDPoker.com
CoralPoker.com
PacificPoker.com
PartyPoker.com
PokerRoom.com
VegadPalms.com
WilliamHillCasino.com
HollywoodPoker.com
PokerStars.com
AbsolutePoker.com
ParadisePoker.com
MansionPoker.com
DuplicatePoker.com