As reported by the Manila Standard Today: “Despite jobs for residents and millions to the city coffers, one official thinks that Manila has one casino too many. “The state-run Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. is set to open more gaming tables in fun houses and exclusive clubs with VIP rooms which translate to better lighted […]
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It took nearly four hours for Erick ‘E-Dog’ Lindgren and Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow to get heads up at the FullTiltPoker.Net Pro Showdown at Red Rock Casino, but just one hand for Lindgren to claim the victory and the $600,000 first-place prize. On June 22, Lindgren and Matusow outlasted five other Team Full Tilt members, […]
PartyGaming Plc (LSE: PRTY), operators of PartyPoker.com, The World’s Largest Poker Room(TM), today announces the launch of its new backgammon product, PartyGammon.com. Known as “the game of kings” and requiring skills of timing and calculation, backgammon is one of the world’s most popular games and one of its oldest, with variants dating back more than […]
Bodog.com, the online gambling and entertainment giant, has signed on as the official sponsor of Baron Davis and Paul Pierce’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” A Magic Night of Poker, Players and Stars Friday July 7th. For this private event, the Avalon and Spider Club in Hollywood will be transformed into a Las Vegas-style casino. Top […]
The Pokagon Gaming Authority, a wholly owned, unincorporated instrumentality of the Pokagon Band of Potowatomi Indians, has successfully closed its financing of $305 million in Senior Notes due 2014. The proceeds from the notes will be used to partially finance the construction of Four Winds Casino Resort. “We are excited to have completed our senior […]
As reported by the Louisville Courier-Journal: “A legal feud between the partners in the Orange County casino project apparently has expanded with the filing of a second suit. “A subsidiary of Indianapolis-based Lauth Property Group has filed a lawsuit against Bloomington businessman Bill Cook, its partner in the French Lick project. The filing comes after […]
The coalition of Native American tribal governments in Nebraska circulating the petition proposing to allow casino-style gaming for economic and community development purposes has chosen to discontinue the use of paid petition circulators. Recent controversies arising from the methods used by paid circulators employed by other petition sponsors contributed significantly to the tribes’ decision, including […]
As reported by the Buffalo News: “Nearly a thousand prospective blackjack dealers, pit cashiers, food service workers, security guards and even accountants packed an employment preview for the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino in downtown Buffalo Thursday. “Hundreds of job-seekers gathered at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, site of the job fair, more than an hour before […]
As reported by the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger: “Eighty-one slot machines and a restaurant that features Asian Cajun crawfish as its signature dish attracted a steady stream of customers to Treasure Bay Casino and Hotel in Biloxi on Wednesday, its first day to be open after Hurricane Katrina. “‘We’ve had a lot of regular customers and former […]
As reported by This is Lancashire: “A solicitors firm in Bolton has revealed how a local property firm is gambling on Blackpool winning the right to build a new super-casino for the region. “Mike Beaumont, property partner at KBL solicitors in Mawdsley Street, says his client, Sagon Holdings, is just one firm buying up swathes […]
The online gaming industry’s award winning independent standards authority, eCOGRA has launched a new website www.ecogra.com, to provide the online gaming population with a tool to find out reliable information on trustworthy poker and casino sites. The new website which has details on the rigorous inspection processes and a list of the safest online casino […]
By now, everyone knows that Keith Urban will marry Nicole Kidman this weekend in Australia. But – just days before the happy event – he has also agreed to join in Mohegan Sun’s 10th Anniversary celebration in Uncasville, Connecticut, October 19th-22nd. Urban will take center stage in the Mohegan Sun Arena on Friday, October 20th. […]
As reported by the Auburn Citizen: “One by one, speakers in the Auburn City Council’s public comment period praised Mayor Tim Lattimore for his passionate pursuit of economic development. “But the majority of the speakers – 12 of the 16 – said Thursday night they don’t want economic development to take the form of a […]
As reported by the Kansas City Star: “Spending by gamblers in Kansas City and elsewhere flattened out in May. ” ‘We are seeing a bit of a slowdown’ industrywide, Merrill Lynch gaming analyst David Anders warned investors last week. “Locally, riverboat revenues were up just 1.2 percent from May 2005, at $57.8 million. Though modest, […]