Gambling News by House of Odds

Do you lose time from work due to gambling? Are you reluctant to use gambling money for normal expenditures? Do you often gamble until your last pound is gone?Helping gambling addicts would be a better bet than hysteria (Daily Telegraph)

Professional sports players have been warned that they face two-year jail sentences if they break new laws that come into force under the Gambling Act today.Gambling players must learn to deal with two years inside (Guardian Unlimited)

Betting: Sports players face jail sentences if they break new laws that come into force under the Gambling Act today.Gambling players must deal with two years inside (Guardian Unlimited)

Galveston, Texas (population 57,500), a dagger-shaped island 2 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, has never been a traditional second-home retreat.Barrier island lures 2nd-home buyers (The Record)

Computing Which? hack gets skinned With the UK's 2005 Gambling Act coming into force tomorrow, and online gambling hugely more popular than it was*, is it time to assess the landscape of internet betting for British consumers? Computing Which? magazine says yes, and publishes the result of its painstaking investigation today.UK online gambling regs go live tomorrow (The Register)

New gambling laws to protect children and vulnerable people, cut crime and keep games fair will be in force from Saturday 1st September.New UK Gambling Laws Come Into Force, (Tax-News.com)