One was hooked on pachinko to the point of suicide; the other took a samurai approach to gambling. A recovering pachinko addict and a professional gambler tell The Straits Times their stories. THE EX-ADDICT Mr Sachio Ooishi, a 42-year-old electronic product sales manager, began playing pachinko at 17 and quit only 18 years later. “At…
Walter Fisher dropped 31kg and made more than $US500,000 in the process. Picture: Walter Fisher WALTER Fisher was on a heater. Gambling lingo for a lucky streak, a heater is a run of unbridled fortune. From February until June 2016, the 36-year-old poker professional couldnt lose. I hit the zone and just felt it, he…
European data suggests that approving further online gambling in the United States will generate more wagering and more tax revenue, but it is not clear whether online will cannibalise some land-based revenue, one prominent analyst has said. US casinos, led by billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson, oppose online gambling in part due to claims that online…
When Japan’s parliament legalized casino gambling last year, it created a wave of excitement among casino operators and institutional investors. But sensitivities about gambling addiction have now focused the policy discussion on a concept known as responsible gaming. This is industry terminology for programs designed to deter customers with known gambling problems from entering casinos.…
Who would have thought that the 2014 Fifa propaganda drama United Passions could be unseated as the worst football film of all time? Certainly not me, and anyone else who sat through the Sepp Blatter vanity project showered money on Sam Neil and Tim Roth to rewrite history in favour of the former Fifa president.…
The head of junket lobby the Macau Gaming Information Association (MGIA) has received another suspended jail sentence, this time for defaming two people on his defunct name-and-shame website over unrecovered VIP gambling debt. The Court of First Instance last week sentenced MGIA chairman Charlie Choi, 45, to six months in prison and ordered him to pay 20,000…
The new NDP government plans to ask the BC Utilities Commission to review the economic viability of the $8.8-billion Site C hydroelectric dam. With, presumably, the projects shutdown a possible outcome. Contests, events & more from Tyee and select partners Incoming premier John Horgan has said he wants answers within six weeks. If the utilities…
John O’Keefe (26) ran up gambling debts after falling into depression following the death of his father in 2011. He was to be paid 200 for transporting the drugs valued at over 7,000. O’Keefe, of Windmill Avenue, Crumlin, Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of drugs for sale or supply at…
Las Vegas Review-Journal has published some new information regarding Australian high stakes pro Matthew Kirk’s recent lawsuit, where Kirk claims Kings Casino owner Leon Tsoukernik is refusing to pay him back a personal loan of $2 million. The Las Vegas Review-Journal has published a text message…
A $3 million exchange at an Aria poker table is now the center of a lawsuit filed in Clark County court. In late May, Australian poker pro Matthew Kirk, known for his unorthodox play, scooted increments of $500,000 and $1 million in chips across the felt to Czech casino owner and entrepreneur Leon Tsoukernik. At…
