It might probably perhaps not be a practice that many of us agree with, but the majority people are familiar with all the notion of cockfighting fighting roosters against each other in order to gamble in the outcome. You most likely also remember dog fighting being in the news (especially when it football that is involved Michael Vick). But rats used for gambling purposes? That’s new to us.

Perhaps Not Your Typical Sportsbook

Yet that’s exactly just what authorities in Moscow found when they conducted a raid for an illegal gambling venue in the town. Police announced that during a raid of the bookmaker on Novy Arbat Street carried out month that is last they came across cages containing roosters, rats, as well as insects all of which they believed were utilized for gambling inside the venue.

Police didn’t say which establishment the strange collection of animals came from, though they did report also recovering more traditional equipment, including eight computers that contained information on illegal gambling activities.

While there was no recognition of the venue targeted in the raid, conjecture in the media has fallen on an entertainment complex known as Korona. Earlier this 12 months, The Moscow News ran a piece detailing the actions going on at Korona, which is located on Novy Arbat.

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Noted film critic Barry Norman has spent many a year deteriorating Hollywood blockbusters, casting their critical eye on all aspects, good or bad, of cinematic releases. But now the critic is casting his often scathing opinions towards television advertisements, specially those promoting gambling and lawsuits.

Glamorizing Gambling

‘Maybe many disturbing of each is the gambling commercials, which make betting look glamorous and surely appeal most strongly to the poorest and most desperate in our midst,’ stated Norman in an interview that is recent The circumstances in Britain.

‘There’s one when a good-looking young few are so wanting to watch the telly and see how exactly to lose all their cash that they vault on the straight back of their settee, the more quickly to review the numerous ways they can gamble their life savings away,’ he added, with the cynical tone you might expect from the movie critic.

Norman even indicts the BBC in the mix, stating that they air the results of this National Lottery draw during peak times ‘just to remind you that here is just one more, fundamentally more respectable, method to get rid of your money.’

Show Me the cash (plus they Did)

Norman, now a seen-a-lotta-life 80, ended up being the face area of the BBC’s movie review series ‘Film’ for over twenty years and left in 1998 t […]

For decades, ‘Las Vegas’ has been synonymous with ‘gambling mecca’ the sine qua non associated with casino industry, the benchmark for just how other gaming destinations desired to mirror themselves. But in only a few years, Macau the Chinese Special Administrative District who has left every other casino location in the dust, including Sin City has set a new standard in that regard, and 2013 looks to top the bar even higher yet.

Nevada Masters profits that are non-Gaming

While Las Vegas may nevertheless have lock on non-gaming revenues with the world’s most lucrative nightclubs, insanely high-end shopping and gourmet restaurants Macau is now the hands-down champion within the pure gaming revenue department, worldwide. So that as 2013 draws to a near-close, Macau’s gaming numbers check out once again catapult above not just all competitors including Las Vegas, but additionally above its own year that is previous financial influx.

In fact, by just the end of November, 2012’s numbers are already being left in the dust. With November’s $3.8 billion gross consumption in the Chinese enclave, added to what Macau gamblers introduced for the 10 months prior, the gaming destination has already been at $40.9 billion for year-to-date, versus 2012’s $38 billion, based on the Macau Gaming Inspection and Coord […]