Legal Stuff -- An Evansville, Ind. man is suing a riverboat casino there to get back the more than $175,000 he lost there between 1996 and 1999. David Williams, 52, is alleging that the operators of Casino
Aztar should not have let him gamble there after he had been involuntarily hospitalized for gambling addiction in 1998. After the
hospitalization, the casino told him he could come back only with
medical documentation that it posed no threat to his safety, yet somehow
he was let back in to gamble again. Williams is suing for his gambling
losses as well as punitive damages.
Makin' Deals --
Global Entertainment Holdings/Equities Inc. 's subsidiary,
Interactive Gaming & Wagering, has signed a deal for a new
licensing relationship with www.SpinnerSports.com, an
online sports book. Jay Harwood, the operations manager
for SpinnerSports, said IGW offered the best combination of features it
could find. "The IGW business model we chose was a perfect fit for our
company strategy," he said. "By being able to delegate the operations of
the site to a service provider, we are able to concentrate on what we do
best--marketing and customer service."
UK Bit -- The Times of
London reports that bookmaker William Hill saw a massive
increase in bets last week when the winner of the Man Booker
Prize for fiction was announced prematurely. Yann
Martel was named the
winner when a press release was mistakenly posted on the official Booker
Prize Web site before the prize committee had even voted on a winner.
Martel ended up being designated the official winner by the committee
for his book, "Life of Pi," when the committee voted on Tuesday.