Last month, I spent a week in Las Vegas to visit my daughter. On Saturday, I found my way to the sports book in the Luxor and bet on two baseball games. I won both. On Sunday, I bet another and won that, too. Each bet was $20, a modest sum to pay for the…
His name is Abel, and hes played by Tahar Rahim (A Prophet), exuding twinkling, dirty, stubbled charisma. Hes an incorrigible gambler and a con man on first-name terms with the wrong kind of people vicious debt collectors and bouncers in underground gambling dens. He is bad news. But for Ella (Stacy Martin) the hardworking, capable…
Ex-footballer who tried to rob shops to pay off gambling debt is jailed BelfastTelegraph.co.uk A once promising footballer who turned to crime to fund his gambling addiction when injury abruptly ended his career has been jailed for a year after admitting trying to steal from shops. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/exfootballer-who-tried-to-rob-shops-to-pay-off-gambling-debt-is-jailed-36906427.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/article36906426.ece/0d4e2/AUTOCROP/h342/2018-05-15_new_40947564_I2.JPG Email A once promising footballer who turned…
The Supreme Court has handed down a historic ruling today, striking down a federal ban on sports gambling, paving the way for states to legalizing the practice. Writing the majority opinion in the 6-3 decision in Christie v. NCAA, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA), the…
Stephen Wilson needed one goal. The game was Englands ladies vs Norway. He had no clue who the players were, but a goal would earn him over four grand. And then it came. I should have been so happy but I pretty much just felt numb, admits Stephen. I knew deep down I was going…
By Travis Andersen Globe Staff May 11, 2018 It looks like a movie, but is real life. Thats how prosecutors described the beating that bookie Quang PT Le, 27, of Dorchester, delivered in November 2016 to a man who owed a $40,000 gambling debt. On Wednesday, prosecutors said, Le received a 6-year prison term during…
First-time feature director Marie Monge brings her terrific drama-thriller Joueurs to the Directors Fortnight section of Cannes. The English title she has attached to it is Treat Me Like Fire. Actually, I think the simple translation Players is better. Its an old-school lowlife adventure in the Paris underworld of gambling, co-written by Romain Compingt and…
Tory benefits minister Esther McVey is protesting against a campaign to regulate crack cocaine gambling machines. The controversial Liverpool-born MP strongly objected to plans to limit the maximum stakes on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBT) to £2, according to the Times . The Work and Pensions Secretary made her views known in the face of…
By Gary L. SmithGateHouse Media Illinois By Gary L. SmithGateHouse Media Illinois HENNEPIN A Putnam County man accused of murdering a sister-in-law and burying her in a shallow grave nearly two years ago had been using her as a traveling bank to help support a gambling habit that had driven him into debt, prosecutors…
Australias leader Malcolm Turnbull will use Tuesdays budget to try and woo back disaffected voters before Donald Trump and Xi Jinpings trade tensions undermine the most China-dependent developed economy. Malcolm Turnbull Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg A sudden surge in revenue is allowing Turnbull to offer tax relief instead of paying down the countrys budget deficit early.…