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Intralot wins a 7-year contract with Montana Lottery

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The global supplier of integrated gaming and transaction processing systems, Intralot, announced a contract with Montana Lottery for the supply of the Lottery’s new On-Line and Instant Gaming System. Commencing on March 31, 2006, the term of the contract is for seven years with three one-year extension options.

Intralot wins a 7-year contract with Montana Lottery in US

Emmy winners try their luck backstage

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Forget your typical backstage interview room. Been there. Done that.
For this year's Emmys, Access Hollywood decided to do something a little different for our celebrity guests.

As the night's winners made their way to the trophy tables to pick up the hardware — they don’t get to keep the ones they receive onstage — their next stop was in the Access Emmy Poker Room for a game of Access Hold 'Em.

Alabama is on the road to legalizing bingo

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Calera, a city in Shelby County, Alabama, is on the road to legalizing bingo. The City council voted that if Representative Mike Hill drafts a bill to hold a referendum on bingo in Shelby County, they would support the referendum. Mayor George W. Roy, however, was clear in saying that the vote does not mean that city council would push for the referendum. He said that if the Representative wished to have the referendum, the council would support it.

Mobile gambling, a growing business

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If you have about gambling the classic image of a casino, full of people, who wants to place their bets, maybe you may want to think again.

According to an Informa Telecoms & Media report, cited by Digital-Lifestyles.info , the market
for mobile gambling content is going to soar from US$1.2bn of annual revenues in 2005 to US$7.6bn by 2010, with more than 200 million consumers gambling the odds using mobile devices.

"Mobile gambling is already generating significant revenues, but there is room for sharp growth in the years ahead," says Stuart Dredge, the report's author...

A lotto luck for Limerick grandmother

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It was the luck of something -- twice -- that has proven plentiful for a Limerick grandmother.

Not two weeks after Dolores McNamara escaped death after a terrorist attack in the Turkish tourist city of Kusadasi, she won the largest lottery in Europe's history.

The 50-year-old grandmother won €115 million euros ($140 million) in the EuroMillions game.

McNamara had been vacationing at her holiday home in the resort town at the time of the attack, but escaped without injury...

Instant millionaires with Lotto

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Overjoyed staff from the Tesco store on George Street hugged each other as they celebrated a life changing experience by winning a share of one of the biggest jackpots in the draw's history.

They were given the day off work yesterday, to celebrate the amazing windfall after picking the winning numbers 7, 12, 16, 24, 29 and 37.

Stunned team leader, Rose Bradley, 53, one of the winners, who has pocketed what is believed to be a £4.2 share of the cash as she held three syndicate tickets, said winning was unbelieveable...

Couple Celebrate huge Lotto win

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It is game, set and match for a tennis fanatic from Hailsham who has won £150,000 on the Lotto.

Neli Ileva won a staggering seven prizes in total in the Lotto draw on Saturday July 2, including matching five numbers plus the bonus ball to win £147,516.

The 51-year-old, who is a cook at the Farmstead nursing home, had been glued to the television for the past two weeks watching Wimbledon, and was just settling back into her normal routine when she realised that she had won.

New president for European Lotteries

Wortmann succeeds Hans-Jürgen Reissiger of Deutsche Klassenlotterie, Berlin, who did not run again for election after 4 years as President of the association. Wortmann is 58 years old, and has been working with the Westdeutsche Lotterie since 1994.

In his first address, Wortmann stressed how vital it is for the European institutions to understand the importance of a legal orientation and consequently maintain the State monopoles in the gaming sector. Seeing that, contrarily to other domains of activity, in the gaming sector it is not a question of offering consumers the possibility of unrestricted expenditure, but of channelling the gaming impulse

New president for European Lotteries

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The General Assembly of the European State Lotteries and Toto Association (EL) held in Rome on 15 June 2005 appointed Winfried Wortmann, General Director of Westdeutsche Lotterie of Münster, Germany, as its new President.

Wortmann succeeds Hans-Jürgen Reissiger of Deutsche Klassenlotterie, Berlin, who did not run again for election after 4 years as President of the association. Wortmann is 58 years old, and has been working with the Westdeutsche Lotterie since 1994.

A New Lottery Shell Game

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During its 2005 session, a bill moved through the Florida Legislature without drawing much attention. Late last month, Gov. Jeb Bush signed it into law. Again, it received little notice in the news.

Players of online lottery games -- Lotto, Mega Money, Fantasy 5, Cash 3 and Play 4 -- will find it interesting: It allows the Lottery Department to divert a larger percentage of money to prizes in those games.

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