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Jan 31, 2007

Boom to Bust

They lost half their revenues over a weekend but internet gambling firms haven’t played their last hand.

What do you tell your shareholders when hundreds of millions of dollars are stripped from your shares in the course of a day? That’s the quandary internet gambling companies faced on October 2, 2006, the first day of trading after the US Congress banned online betting. The news came as a total surprise to the market as the anti-gambling legislation was tacked on to a broader bill on port security. With big UK players like PartyGaming and Sportingbet getting more than half their revenues

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