OnlineGambling

The severity of America's gambling addiction isn't too far behind the nation's drug problem, and it's growing. In 2007, Americans lost more than $92 billion gambling, almost 10 times more than what U.S. moviegoers spent on tickets -- and about nine times what they lost 15 years earlier.

If you like to try your luck online, stay away from CashBreak.com, an online gambling site many consumers say is a scam. CashBreak.com makes the following boast on its homepage: "The Internets [sic] Greatest Games and they're all FREE!" The games include online poker, bingo, keno, slots, solitaire...

Imagine this: you're sitting in a boring presentation, and see a man in the row in front of you with his iPhone in his lap, playing blackjack online. As you watch, he wins a hand and $20 in real money. This is the dream of the mobile gambling industry, a dream that a new white paper by research...

With casinos sprouting like kudzu across the U.S., many states are looking to gaming taxes to help fill the hole poked in their budgets by the recession. Now, the federal government has raised the stakes by taking the first step toward legalizing online gambling. According to Bloomberg...

Online poker in the U.S., despite regulations against it, has grown in lockstep with cable programs devoted to poker. A new investigation by the Washington Post and the CBS show 60 Minutes revealed how two online sites were hacked, resulting in the scamming of millions of dollars in poker...