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Reporting Big Winners To The IRS

#137 © Copyright 2007, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com In a decision that is nothing but bad news for the legal gaming industry, the Internal Revenue Service has...

Regulators Punt On Internet Gaming

#138 © Copyright 2007, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com Federal regulators, given the impossible job of enforcing an unworkable law, have punted, issuing proposed...

No One Likes The Proposed UIGEA Regs

#142 © Copyright 2008, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com In “The Wisdom of Crowds,” the author, James Surowiecki, shows that many times, in the words of the subtitle,...

Proving Poker is a Game of Skill

#08-6 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com How can we make poker legal? The cleanest way is to get a statute passed through the state legislature. In my...

What Asia can Learn from Las Vegas, and Vice Versa

#144 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I. Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com Macau has been called the Las Vegas of Asia. Since the casino industry in this Special Administrative Region of...

An Attempt To Gut The UIGEA

#2008-7 © Copyright 2008, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com On April 10, 2008, a Congressional odd couple introduced a bill that would eviscerate the Unlawful Internet...

Foreign Operators Don’t Have To Pay U.S. Wagering Taxes

#08-8 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com A federal magistrate has ruled that foreign internet gambling companies are not required to pay U.S. excise...

How To Win A Video Poker Jackpot – By Suing The Casino

#2008-9 © Copyright 2008, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com. Stella Romanski couldn't win a hand in a casino. But she hit the jackpot, thanks to a runaway jury and...

Minimum Age To Bet On The Internet

#08-10 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com. About every other week I get asked, “What is the minimum age to gamble on the internet?” Usually these are...

Not Your Grandmother’s Bingo

#145 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I. Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com One of the biggest fights in the often strange world of legal gaming is -- What is bingo? This has been fought...