SF News City Attorney Threatens Mission-Bernal Property Accused of Throwing Illegal After-Hours Parties An upstairs spot above two unassuming Mission-Bernal restaurants has reportedly been a hotbed of unpermitted late-night after-hours parties complete with gambling machines for the last two months, and City Attorney David Chiu is investigating.
SF News SF City Attorney Files Lawsuit to Shut Down Tenderloin Corner Stores Raided for Being Gambling Dens Those two Tenderloin convenience stores SFPD raided last month for being underground gambling dens were allegedly also dabbling in guns, ammo, and illegal weed, and City Attorney David Chiu just filed suit to shut them both down.
SF News SFPD Busts Illegal Gambling Den in Cayuga Terrace, One Day After Busting Tenderloin Gambling Den It’s been a jackpot for SFPD efforts to crack down on illegal gambling operations this week, as after a Tuesday raid on an underground Tenderloin casino operation, police on Wednesday popped a Cayuga Avenue home that also had an apparent illegal gambling den.
SF Politics Sports Gambling Won’t Make 2024 California Ballot, as Tribes and Betting Apps Are Still at Each Other’s Throats We will not be barraged with sports gambling campaign ads for the November election, as two ballot measures to legalize sports betting in California have been shelved. But we will still be barraged with ads for gambling apps that Californians cannot use.
Business & Tech Men Behind Latest Sports Gambling Ballot Initiative Revealed to Be Crypto Guy, High-Stakes Poker Guy Two dudes who sold an online gaming platform to a Nevada casino giant believe that they have the winning formula for a ballot measure that legalizes sports betting at tribal casinos in California, and they say they're willing the bankroll the whole thing.
SF Politics We May, Yet Again, Be Voting on Sports Betting In California Next Year Some mystery proponents have filed two proposed ballot measures for the November 2024 election that would again attempt to legalize on-site and online sports betting in California, restricting it to tribe-owned casinos.
SF News Torture Charges Filed In Gambling Den Beating Incident In Oakland Prosecutors say that a patron at an illegal gambling den in Oakland was stripped naked and brutally beaten for six minutes in a January 2022 incident caught on video, and the three men believed responsible now face torture charges.
SF Politics Both Sports Betting Props Go Down In Flames Despite Huge Spending; Prop 30 Also Fails Our long, statewide nightmare of sports-betting campaign commercials for dueling propositions is over, and for now California voters have roundly rejected all expansion of sports gambling — at casinos or otherwise.
SF Politics We’ve Got Polling on State Ballot Props: Both Gambling Measures In the Toilet, Wealth Tax Looks Like a Squeaker A combined $400 million-plus in spending has bought no love for the two competing sports gambling measures on California’s November ballot, whereas a new millionaire’s tax stands just 1% shy of the majority threshold it needs.
SF Politics Dueling Sports Gambling Ballot Measures Have Tribes, Sportsbooks Spending Big on Misleading Ads There are probably no good guys in the November ballot fight over gambling measures Props 26 and 27, but there is a record $425 million going into ads from tribes and online sportsbooks determined to grab financial control of internet sports betting in California.
Bay Area Sports Casinos Took a Bath Over Draymond’s Seven-Second Performance, as Clever Betters Took the Under in Prop Bets Turns out the house doesn’t always win, as a few bettors with quick fingers bilked online sportsbooks for a sum reportedly in the millions Sunday, when the Warriors announced Draymond Green would only play for a few seconds.
SF News Former Fancy Soda Shop Once Again A Late-Night Gambling Den The former site of an upscale candy and soda shop, The Fizzary, is once again in the news following reports that the location's current tenant is still running an illegal, late-night gambling and
SF News Fancy Soda Shop Turned Gambling Den FINALLY Shut Down Former Fizzary spot turned nightclub vandalized this weekend https://t.co/hQKKxnZZIC pic.twitter.com/ZMlElsgYQl— Capp Street Crap (@cappstreetcrap) December 7, 2015 After months of neighborhood complaints, at least one shooting, and
SF News Warriors Frenzy Extends To Casinos As Fans Bet Big The excitement generated by the as-of-yet undefeated Golden State Warriors extends far off the court, as sports fans around the country are placing bets on the team that is now the odds-on favorite
SF News Vigilante Tags Fancy Mission Soda Shop Turned Gambling Den Former Fizzary spot turned nightclub vandalized this weekend https://t.co/hQKKxnZZIC pic.twitter.com/ZMlElsgYQl— Capp Street Crap (@cappstreetcrap) December 7, 2015 Not everyone is a fan of the rare case of
SF News In Rare Case Of Reverse Gentrification, Fancy Soda Shop Becomes Gambling Den In what appears to be a rare case of Mission District reverse gentrification, the former home of fancy soda/candy shop The Fizzary has morphed into an illegal gambling den, complete with numerous
SF News Mission Gambling Club Shooting Comes On Heels Of Police Crackdown It was only last Thursday that Supervisor John Avalos called a public hearing to address his Excelsior District constituents' concerns regarding the ongoing problem of illegal gambling shacks in the neighborhood. His worry
SF News Police Crack Down (Again) On Cocaine-Fueled Excelsior Gambling Clubs It seems like only yesterday that the City Attorney's office announced it would be closing down illegal gambling cafés in the Excelsior. The sweepstakes cafés, which have operated under a legal loophole in
Arts & Entertainment Ellen DeGeneres-Themed Slot Machines Take NorCal Casinos By Storm If you were a celebrity who could put your name on anything, what products would you pick? Supplements? Blenders? An energy drink? If you're talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, the answer is "slot
SF News City Sues Bernal Heights' Kingston Shack 'Gambling Den' City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who last year successfully shuttered underground Excelsior gambling establishment Next Stop Business Center, is once again in crackdown mode. As the Weekly notes, this time his target is Kingston
SF News Illegal Gambling Spot In Excelsior To Close For Good As promised a couple months ago, City Attorney Dennis Herrera has succeeded in shutting down an illegal gambling parlor that accounted for "a hundred-fold increase in police calls" to the Excelsior neighborhood in
SF News Meanwhile, At Your Liquor Store... You have a few hours to get a ticket (because you're totally going to win!) before tonight's massive Mega Millions drawing. Speaking of, here are 20 lottery winners who lost it all. Maybe
SF News City Attorney To Close Illegal Gambling Cafes In Excelsior City Attorney Dennis Herrera plans on shutting down a reportedly most unsavory Internet Cafe in the Excelsior. Why? Because it's an alleged hotbed of illegal gambling. According to reports, Net Stop is at
SF News Do You Posses The WInning Lottery Ticket? A winning lotto tickets sold at Ali’s—located at 325 Mason Street—and it could nab you $75,475. The ticket is one of two winning tickets sold in Saturday’s "Fantasy
SF News California To Offer Powerball Lottery In 2013 Well, it's too late now. Anyway, just one day after lottery announced that winners in Arizona and Missouri nabbed a cool $580 million Powerball jackpot, California will join the lottery come 2013. Sacto
