Gamble On Your Flight With Flybe

Flybe recently announced an online gaming partnership with PAF, a charitable gaming operator and e-gaming pioneer, to allow passengers to experience online gaming while booking their flights, car hire, hotels and insurance on www.flybe.com.

The partnership with PAF will see Flybe offering passengers a wide range of games from bingo and keno to casino games such as black jack and roulette, providing customers with a fun and challenging experience while browsing and booking their flights and holiday extras.

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Holland To Start Online Casino

The Dutch government will join other countries, most notably the United Kingdom, in allowing online casino gambling. The online casino itself is set to be launched in June of this year, serving Holland residents with top quality and secure online gambling.

Holland Casino operates no less than 14 brick and mortar casinos across Holland and has been in
existence since 1976.

However, they are excited over the new partnership. “As we take Holland Casino online, we needed a quality partner who could support us with innovation and integrity,” said Ron Goudsmit, Holland Casino’s Vice-President for Business Development. Mr. Goudsmit and his state owned online casino company are not the only ones who are excited over the new deal.

The Dutch are regarded as avid online casino gamblers, and a state of the art, secure, safe and technologically advanced online casino will serve their gambling needs.

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Is Online Gambling Linked To Terrorism?

Federal officials are trying to link Online gambling to terrorism. Why do you ask? Because the U.S. government is upset because billions of gambling revenues is leaving the US that may be laundered; ending up in the hands of terrorist groups.

Many land based casinos have stayed clear of the Internet and offshore enterprises because of the Patriot Act. All U.S. casinos with annual gambling revenue of more than $1 million are classified as “financial institutions” by the Patriot Act and subject to strict government regulations, including adopting money-laundering programs, identifying the identity of foreign nationals and filing a Suspicious Activities Report to the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Online operations skirt all these rules.

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Online Gambling Ban Reversal Unlikely

According to American Gaming Association President Frank Fahrenkopf, it is unlikely that the new Congress will be persuaded to pass a law that would define poker as a game of skill.

With the recent changes in congressional leadership, poker players, are hoping that legislators will reverse the impact of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which caused the leading online poker room to stop taking action from Americans and made funding and withdrawing money from online poker accounts more cumbersome.

A law that defined poker as a game of skill would exempt online poker from the UIGEA. The climate on Capitol Hill is not favorable for any pro-Internet gambling legislation, according to Frank Fahrenkopf.

The AGA supports a congressionally mandated study of online gambling to see whether technology exists to make sure customers are playing from jurisdictions that allow betting, keep underage bettors from wagering and limit problem gambling.
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Restless Legs Therapy May Trigger Compulsive Gambling

According to a new Mayo Clinic study compulsive gambling with extensive losses (in two cases more than $100,000) by individuals without a prior history of gambling problems has been linked to a class of drugs commonly used to treat the neurological disorder restless legs syndrome (RLS).The study (which appeared in the Jan. 23 issue of Neurology) describes this compulsive gambling in RLS patients who are being treated with medications that stimulate dopamine receptors in the brain.

The extent of this problem is unknown. Apparently, it occurs only in a small number of RLS patients treated with drugs called dopamine agonists. Considering this potential side effect of dopamine agonists, the Mayo Clinic authors suggest that physicians screen all RLS patients for compulsive behaviors while taking a thorough medical history prior to prescribing dopamine agonists.

Patients should be monitored closely for signs of compulsive behaviors once dopamine agonist treatment has begun. The report suggests that the compulsion to gamble worsened with increasing doses of the dopamine agonists.

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