Naples News – Like Lucy does with Charlie Brown, the Legislature keeps promising Floridians an overhaul of gambling in the state — then pulls the ball away. This year was no different, with a grand run-up starting months before the legislative session. Lawmakers spent nearly $400,000 on a 700-page study. The takeaway? Expanding gambling would offer “at least a mildly positive impact on the state.” Then a group of senators led by Naples Republican Garrett Richter took to the road, holding a series of public workshops around the state. One telling, early sign: The Orlando-based No Casinos in Florida group…

iGaming Business – The Bulgarian State Commission on Gambling has added five more websites to its blacklist of online gaming domains that are prohibited from operating in the country. Websites owned by Swedish operators RedBet Gaming and Cherry are amongst the latest domains to be banned from offering online betting services in Bulgaria. Cherry’s EuroSlots.com website has been blacklisted by the Bulgarian regulator, as have RedBet’s Heypoker.com and Whitebet.com domains. The regulatory body also moved to ban Casinoluck.com and Nextcasino.com. SOURCE

Australian Gambling – Gambling on company devices at your office could now see your boss in a whole world of financial trouble. Companies could now be fined more than $1 million for breaching safety standards if proven liable for workplace gambling under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. A business that supplies laptops, smart phones, computers or tablets without a gambling policy or an attempt to block the sites could even be up for criminal convictions. The issue has been raised this week by responsible gambling foundation spokespeople ahead of Responsible Gambling Awareness Week. Holding Redlich senior associate and workplace…

World Cup 2014 – As predictable as a Gary Lineker tweet, an Alan Hansen denouncement of anyone who “writes off the Germans” and a limp quarter-final exit in a major football tournament by England, is the collective media clairvoyance predicting an imminent billion-pound betting bonanza at the World Cup in Brazil. Brazil 2014 kicks off on June 12 in Sao Paolo as 31 of the best teams in the world—and England—battle it out amid the heat, unfinished stadia and street crime to lift the coveted trophy. And sports-betting fans across the world will have their laptops, tablets and PCs at…

CBS News – In Las Vegas, it’s legal to bet on a horse race, but not the race for presidency. That could change if state Senator Tick Segerblom has his way. Segerblom said he wants a law allowing Nevada casinos to make room for people who want to pick win, place or show on America’s top political job, “especially when you have an industry like we have here in Nevada. We bet on everything.” Turns out his idea isn’t so new after all. In the early 1900s gambling on candidates was illegal, but Americans gathered outdoors in New York City…

Courier Mail – Daniel Tzvetkoff, the Queensland business whiz who became an informant and key player in the shutting down of America’s multimillion-dollar online poker industry, could avoid more jail time in the US. Tzvetkoff faced a 75-year sentence in a federal jail when he was arrested in Las Vegas in 2010 for illegally processing more than $US1 billion, but the 31-year-old, along with his parents and mother-in-law, have made a passionate plea to a New York judge ahead of his sentencing. Tzvetkoff, who handed over more than 90,000 documents to US prosecutors that helped them go after the heads…