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Victim of Its Own Success

#146 © Copyright 2008, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I. Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com Most casinos in the world face one of two major problems with their government regulators. Either the system is...

How To Handle Slot-Walkers

#136 © Copyright 2007, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com In the movie “Rat Race,” Duane and Blain Cody, the characters played by Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, walk...

Jackpot for a Casino Thanks to Great Lawyering

#08-13 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com. Legal gambling can be one of most profitable businesses around. Take for example Penn National Gaming. The...

Pathological Poker

#08-14 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com. Is it fair to ask someone who plays primarily, or exclusively, poker whether he is a compulsive gambler? Is...

Billion Dollar Easy Cases

#147 © Copyright 2008, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com This summer the Supreme Courts of Kansas and Florida decided cases that will change the face of casino gambling...

What Is Poker?

#08-15 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com. Should the prohibitions on internet gambling have a carve-out for online poker? The question is much more...

Enforcing a Stupid Law

#148 © Copyright 2008, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com “The problem with political jokes is they sometimes get elected.” Anonymous What do you do with a law that...

Another “What Is Poker” Case

#08-16 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com. Last column I started the discussion of whether the prohibitions on internet gambling should apply to online...

More Pathological Poker

#08-17 © Copyright 2009, all rights reserved worldwide.  Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com. A couple of columns ago, I listed the 15 questions I developed to test whether a poker player is a...

It Was Twenty Years Ago

#149 © Copyright 2008, all rights reserved worldwide. Gambling and the Law® is a registered trademark of Professor I Nelson Rose, www.GamblingAndTheLaw.com It was 20 years ago, almost to the day, that the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (“IGRA”), was signed into law....