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D.C. continues rollout of online gamblingNews Story
The bright glass-and-copper library on Benning Road NE just beyond the Anacostia River opened last year as an anchor for redevelopment and a refuge for the mind. Now, District officials are deciding whether they should use the gleaming outpost in a depressed section of the city for another pioneering purpose: as a gateway to online gambling and the promise of millions of dollars in government revenue. The scramble is on to launch an online casino in the District, which is the first jurisdi
Jun 30, 2011, 8:57 am - Lottery News

'Hot spots' part of D.C. officials' plan to allow Internet-based gambling in cityNews Story
D.C. officials said they are planning to set up 20 to 30 online gambling hot spots in hotels, bars, clubs and other venues across the city by around Sept. 1, marking a major step in a bid to turn the nation's capital into a haven for Texas hold 'em and other potentially lucrative Internet-based games. By the end of the year if Congress doesn't revisit the issue, and if the technology works as promised adults in the District wouldn't even need to go such places to gamble. Instead, they would b
Apr 14, 2011, 9:54 am - Lottery News

Glitches with new D.C. Lottery system prompt complaints, long linesNews Story
Change did not come easily Tuesday for D.C. Lottery retailers and customers, who waited in lines and struggled with a new lottery system run by Greek gaming giant Intralot and Maryland businessman Emmanuel S. Bailey. After an unprecedented five-hour delay in commencing the lottery system about three hours of which put off payouts from winning numbers users on both sides of the bulletproof glass in D.C. convenience stores began the day with a host of complaints. The Washington Times visited
Nov 26, 2010, 12:27 pm - Lottery News

3 companies bid to run lucrative Texas LotteryNews Story
Three major gambling companies entered the competition by Tuesday to run Texas' lottery a massive operation that could pay $100 million per year to the winning bidder. Scientific Games Corp., Intralot Inc. and GTECH Corp., which holds the current Texas operations contract, submitted cost proposals for the games, said Texas Lottery Commission spokesman Bobby Heith. All are prominent companies in the lottery and gambling business worldwide and frequently compete with one another for U.S. sta
Jul 1, 2010, 9:24 am - Lottery News

Vermont sued over state lottery contract awardNews Story
The company that has operated Vermont Lottery games for the past 10 years is suing the state, trying to force the release of documents related to Vermont's decision to switch to another company. Scientific Games International Inc. alleges in a lawsuit that the state Lottery Commission, its executive director, Alan Yandow, and Attorney General William Sorrell have violated Vermont's public records law for about a year by refusing to provide the documents. Scientific Games, based in Alpharet
Jun 11, 2010, 8:48 am - Lottery News

Lottery vending machines coming to ArkansasNews Story
When the Arkansas Lottery awarded a contract to the Greece-based Intralot in August of this year, one requirement was that the lottery services company provide 100 ticket vending machines. The lottery commission has yet to roll out the machines, but a non-operational model can be seen at the claims center in downtown Little Rock. Lottery director Ernie Passailaigue says Arkansans will start to see the machines this spring, sometime around March or April. But while lottery officials hope to re
Dec 3, 2009, 8:13 am - Lottery News

Intralot's D.C. Lottery contact finally passed by councilNews Story
The lucrative and long-controversial lottery contract has finally passed the D.C. Council. Intralot, a Greek-owned multinational firm, has been approved to take over the city's online number games from longtime operator Lottery Technology Enterprises---a contract worth nearly $40 million over five years. The company's successful first bid ended in a political fiasco, with several councilmembers refusing to ratify the contract after raising questions about minority partners. A second round of
Dec 1, 2009, 8:00 pm - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery operator switch has some glitchesNews Story
A new company began running the Ohio Lottery's computer system on Wednesday, causing frustrating problems for some retailers and leaving some winning tickets incorrectly coming up as losers. Lottery spokeswoman Marie Kilbane said the problems were being worked out. What we saw early were mostly common problems we had predicted, such as some calls from retailers who had forgotten sign-on passwords. But overall, selling has been going well, Kilbane said. The Ohio Lottery decided last yea
Jul 1, 2009, 7:41 pm - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery switches to Greek operator IntralotNews Story
Greek company takes over operation of games At 11:59 p.m. today, in an office park in Strongsville, state officials and a gaggle of computer technicians, some from Greece, will change how Ohioans get their lottery tickets. Success will be measured by how few people notice. What happens inside the 80,000-square-foot, unadorned brick building not far from the Lorain County line is being watched like Y2K, at least in the world of state lotteries. A lot of people are rooting for us, and
Jun 30, 2009, 8:26 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery director under scrutiny for equipment debacleNews Story
A year ago, Ohio Lottery Director Michael A. Dolan persuaded skeptical lawmakers to buy $11.6 million worth of equipment to launch the state's new Keno game on a promise that the setup would still work after a year a premise that Dolan later admitted was false. Now, as Dolan prepares to ask the same legislative panel to approve a $41 million contract with a company to run Keno and other lottery games for the next two years, the director's own dubious promises could return to haunt him. On
Jun 1, 2009, 9:51 am - Lottery News