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Spain goes bullistic as big, fat lottery faces bald truthNews Story
The Bald One has left the Fat One. Now everyone's talking. For the past eight years, Spaniards have been cajoled into buying lottery tickets in El Gordo (the Fat One) the world's richest annual lottery draw by advertisements featuring El Calvo (the Bald One), a silent, mysterious figure showering good fortune at random upon Spaniards as a symbol of the Fat One's beneficence. But the Bald One, it seems, became too famous for his own good. Despite being one of the best-known faces on
Dec 20, 2006, 12:36 pm - Lottery News

Md. Lottery scrambles to hire new ad agencyNews Story
The Maryland Lottery can't air television commercials or buy other advertising for at least the next three weeks because the company that produced and purchased marketing spots for the state's games of chance went out of business. The Baltimore advertising firm Eisner Communications unexpectedly closed Friday, saying it had run out of money, leaving a number of large clients in the lurch. The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Provident Bank and Florida-based Spirit Airlines also are left lookin
Nov 14, 2006, 11:42 am - Lottery News

Texas Lottery hits new sales recordNews Story
Scratch-offs are biggest chunk of $3.77 billion, as Lotto Texas' popularity drops Officials with the Texas Lottery Commission took a gamble on scratch-off games a few years ago and, according to the latest figures, the bet's paid off: The agency's overall ticket sales rose to $3.77 billion in fiscal 2006, the highest total in the agency's history, with most of the increase coming from the games that provide immediate gratification. The big growth is in the scratch-offs, said Robert Heith
Sep 27, 2006, 11:37 am - Lottery News

Update: French arrests of BWIN ExecutivesNews Story
Arrests called 'scandalous' by company; French lottery monopolists may be behind the moves Friday's surprise arrests in France of two senior BWIN executives introducing a company sponsorship to the AS Monaco football club elicited an immediate expression of outrage from the Austrian public company. French lottery officials admitted the detentions were inspired by similar US Department of Justice attacks against international businessmen visiting the United States recently. BWIN joint ma
Sep 16, 2006, 1:42 pm - Lottery News

Now France targets gaming firmsNews Story
Shares in the leading betting companies fell heavily after the French authorities arrested the two chief executives of an Austrian gambling firm, signalling the start of a major French crackdown on online betting. Manfred Bodner and Norbert Teufelberger, the heads of Bwin, were arrested as they unveiled a shirt sponsorship deal for Monaco football club. advertisementAn officer in the French intelligence service said the authorities had been investigating the company since last year, but said
Sep 16, 2006, 12:42 pm - Lottery News

Analyst's outlook on Scientific Games downgradedNews Story
A Bank of America analyst on Monday downgraded Scientific Games Corp., which sells instant lottery tickets to more than 50 countries, saying that he was bearish on growth expectations in Germany. Analyst David Vas downgraded the stock to Neutral from Buy, and lowered his price target by $5 to $31. Vas said that instant ticket sales from two cooperative contracts in Germany have been sluggish due to legislative issues hindering the company's distribution and advertisement of scratch-off
Sep 12, 2006, 9:39 am - Lottery News

Another online gambling executive arrested in U.S.News Story
More than $1.5 billion (U.S.) in market value evaporated from the global online gambling industry yesterday after U.S. authorities arrested Peter Dicks, the chairman of Britain's Sportingbet PLC. Dicks, 64, was arrested in New York on a warrant issued in Louisiana for gambling by computer. His arrest comes less than two months after former BetOnSports PLC chief executive David Carruthers was arrested, charged with crimes including racketeering and fraud. Legal risk in the online gaming se
Sep 8, 2006, 5:19 pm - Lottery News

Oklahoma Cash 5 lottery game on sale todayNews Story
Starting today, stores that participate in Oklahoma's lottery games will be selling tickets for a new Pick 5 game. Lottery commission officials said Oklahoma's Cash 5 tickets go on sale today, September 1, with the first drawing to be held on Tuesday, September 5. It works similarly to Powerball, officials said, except players only select 5 numbers out of a pool of 36. Tickets cost $1 each and offer buyers a chance to win a grand prize of up to $25,000. Pleayers can also win $500 for m
Sep 1, 2006, 10:57 am - Lottery News

Two dads become millionaires, send sons to collegeNews Story
Two new New York Lottery millionaires announced last week have a lot in common; both are from Dutchess County, both are fathers, and both plan to use some of their million to send their son's to college. Sylvester Cuomo of Poughkeepsie is a Union Laborer who buys a few New York Lottery scratch-off tickets every week. On Saturday, August 5th, Cuomo went to his local Getty Gas station bright and early at 6:30 am to pick up his weekly scratch-off tickets. When he started scratching the New York
Sep 1, 2006, 8:09 am - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery chief takes job with newspaper publisherNews Story
The executive director of the Pennsylvania Lottery is leaving his post to work for the owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News, the state and the company announced Thursday. Ed Mahlman will be chief marketing officer for Philadelphia Media Holdings, which is trying to prove the notion about daily newspapers being in decline wrong with its recent purchase of the Inquirer, Daily News and related properties. In a statement, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell lauded the work Mahlman d
Aug 11, 2006, 12:00 pm - Lottery News