2005 November 07 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 7

By Beardslee, Mike Ten years ago, as a significant increase in new technology in the gaming industry required casinos to become far more tech-savvy, integration problems became all-too familiar among gaming property IT managers.

The provincial Liberals want significant cuts to the number of video lottery terminals (VLTs) — and possibly to other gaming machines located in casinos as well — staking out a position sharply different from those of the two main provincial parties.

With diamonds in both ears, his hair slicked back and a pool stick habitually between his fingers, Shawn Michael’s friends call him “Tom Cruise” — after the actor’s “Vincent” in “The Color of Money.” Michael …

A former financial consultant who stole £10 million in an elaborate scam to fuel his obsession with horse racing is due to be sentenced later today. Gambling-mad swindler Graham Price, 58, left a signed IOU for £7 million in the safe of the Halifax Bank agency he ran in Gowerton, south Wales.

Prosecutors could be set to investigate more than 1,000 people, including the presidents of soccer clubs, referees and players, who have won at least 100,000 euros on lottery and sports betting games run by the state betting agency (OPAP) between 2000 and 2004, sources told Sunday’s Kathimerini.

Some say it looks bad for L.A. County sheriff’s officials, who enforce gaming laws, to hold gatherings at Commerce gambling hall.

Nov. 7, 2005 — BT agilemedia, the UK’s leading provider of participation media services, announced it has teamed up with Zone4Play Inc.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. Welcome to one of the most hallowed patches of ground in the country. A Gettysburg gambling casino. Investors want to build the Gettysburg Gaming Resort and Spa with 3,000 slot machines less than two miles from the biggest and bloodiest battlefield of the Civil War.

Forget shuffleboard, needlepoint, and bingo. Web logs, usually considered the domain of alienated adolescents and home for screeds from middle-aged pundits, are gaining a foothold as a new leisure-time option for senior citizens.