Archive August, 2009

City seeks comments on video poker

The city of Naperville is seeking public input regarding whether to allow video gaming within city limits. To help facilitate input, residents or interested parties can e-mail videogaming@naperville.il.us with their comments. Input will be accepted through Monday.
In July, the Illinois General Assembly passed the Video Gaming Act, which legalized video gaming as a method to [...]

TableMAX Moves for Preliminary Injunction Against Shuffle Master, Inc.

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — TableMAX Gaming, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of TableMAX Corporation (Pink Sheets: TBLX), a developer of electronic table games (ETG), announced today that the Company and Vegas Amusement, Inc. have moved for a preliminary injunction to prohibit Shuffle Master, Inc. (Nasdaq: SHFL), from making, using or selling its [...]

Raise stakes, legalize online poker

Howard Lederer, aka “the Professor,” is a professional poker player, not a gambler. If Congress will acknowledge this distinction, it will rectify one of its recent mistakes.
In 2006, Congress, cloaking cunning with moralizing, effectively outlawed Internet gambling by making it illegal for banks or credit-card companies to process payments to online gambling operations. This was [...]