2005 July 22 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Foxwoods Resort Casino’s newest game has an online component that may encourage children to gamble and may be illegal, state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Thursday.

VICTORIA - Gambling is a large and growing business in B.C., but it’s run fair and square, Auditor-General Wayne Strelioff concludes.

Newly anointed World Series of Poker champion Phil “the Unabomber” Laak beat the world’s best poker robot on July 15.

Tim Reeves served 450 days in federal prison, forfeited more than $100,000 in cash, a strip of land and two pickup trucks as part of an agreement in which he pled guilty to running an illegal football gambling operation in Dothan from 1994-97.

A London-based but Australian-listed sports betting company has been given a licence to bet from the Territory by the NT Government. Canbet Sports Bookmakers Pty is owned by International All Sports (IAS), which already operates from Darwin.

State Law Enforcement Division agents and Greenville County sheriff∙s deputies arrested 10 people on gambling charges after raiding eight locations Wednesday.Authorities also seized 59 illegal video gaming machines and $9,754 in cash. Authorities arrested Willie Darby and Sara Sanders, both of Clinton; and Timothy Robinson, Claudette Neeley, Daviequoa Goodman, James Dixon, Earlyness Outlaw,

The Japan Sumo Association, the supreme governing body of the sport, will bring sumo to Las Vegas for the first time in the sport’s 1,500-year history for the three-day Grand Sumo Championship tournament Oct. 7-9, 2005, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & C

(WTNH, July 22, 2005 12:37 PM) _ The world’s largest gambling casino has been told that one of its newest games violates state law.

Buy-in is $10. Bring your own chips , poker or potato. The game is Texas Hold ‘Em and yes, parents will be coming downstairs to check on things.