2005 October 26 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

HONG KONG, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The owner of the Galaxy casino in Macau said on Thursday it planned to raise up to $500 million in bonds and had appointed Merill Lynch and Morgan Stanley to handle the offer.

Casinos are businesses and their business is to separate you from our money while giving you entertainment. Some people wonder if they cheat or if the games are rigged. The casinos don’t have to cheat because except for Blackjack and…

Monroe, NC — A man trying to keep a group of people from distrubing a bingo game got stabbed eight times. Police in Monroe say Coria Gomez asked the men to leave a bingo hall Friday on Purser Avenue.

UNMC is putting out a call for compulsive gamblers to take part in a national study.

The owners of sports betting website Sportsinteraction.com are so convinced that BEYONCE KNOWLES is pregnant with her first child, they’re refusing to take bets on the fact.

The Seminoles’ negotiations with the state to allow the tribe to install slot machines at its casinos are being stalled by the legislative impasse over gambling at Broward County parimutuels.

SYDNEY (AFX) - UK-based betting exchange Betfair said it has formed a long-term partnership with Australian Football League (AFL) to offer gambling on football matches.

Gaming machine services and monitor Unitab will undertake a development project to help manage information gathered by some 700 Linux-based appliances.

Despite the U.S. government’s efforts to keep online gambling advertising from seeing the light of television, media companies are beginning to fight back, and the I-gaming industry may be better for it.