Gambling News by House of Odds

Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Aristocrat Leisure Ltd., the world's second-largest maker of slot machines, said profit will stall a second year amid a rising Australian dollar and `difficult' trading in Japan and North America. The stock slumped the most in almost four years.Aristocrat Says Annual Profit to Stall a Second Year (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)

New City Authorities in Rockland County have arrested seven people following a year-long investigation into illegal internet gambling.Internet gambling arrests made (Mid-Hudson News)

As Steve Budin sees it, the legal sports betting industry in the U.S. is almost hopelessly behind the times. Not for long, though.Jeff Haney talks shop with a former offshore sports book pioneer on the Internet, the mob and the future of sports . (Las Vegas Sun)

WASHINGTON Coming off a resounding defeat in Congress a year ago, the country's top poker players are trying their hand at a time-honored Washington parlor game: lobbying. Nearly 100 leading card players are flying into the nation's capital this week to urge lawmakers to roll back a ban on Internet gambling. They are led by Senator D'Amato, the New York lawmaker turned lobbyist who serves as .Poker Pros Bet Big on Lobbying Congress (The New York Sun)

ANTIGUA: Island defends pursuit of US$3.4 billion sanctions against US in gambling fight ST. JOHN'S, Antigua -- Antigua and Barbuda's finance minister has defended his nation's bid to impose US$3.4 billion in trade sanctions against the U.S., which it accuses of ignoring a World Trade Organization ruling against a U.S. online betting ban.Caribbean Business News Briefs Package (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Seven men were charged yesterday with running a sports betting enterprise across Rockland as part of an Internet gambling ring that officials estimated raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.Seven arrested in Rockland on gambling charges (The Journal News)