2005 November 14 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

Police are searching for two masked robbers who stole money at a Seaside bingo game.

Shuffle Master Inc., a maker of automatic card shufflers for casinos, on Monday said it has agreed to acquire Sydney, Australia-based Stargames Ltd. for about $108 million.

JAMAICA As reported by the Jamaica Observer: “Spiros Athanas, whose Montego Bay based Internet gambling company was shutdown last year for breaches of the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission Act, is now free to resume betting as long as he does not take local bets.

BOSTON, Massachusetts As reported by the Providence Journal: “Ratcheting up their pressure on House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi, advocates of gambling legislation rallied outside the State House last week, arguing that blocking a vote on a slot-machines bill would rob the state of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions in lost revenue.

Why wait until March to start betting college basketball? The Big Dance might get all the hype, but the real value is found in the early season when teams are test-driving their retooled rosters and the books are blindly setting the spreads….

ANGUILLA, British West Indies—-Nov. 14, 2005–Bingo.com, Ltd. , operator of the Internet’s pre-eminent bingo portal, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2005.

BILOXI, Mississippi — Soon after the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina subsided and casino operators could climb into their broken gaming barges to survey the damage, reality set in.

IOWA As reported by the Des Moines Register: “The cowboy is known as Mr. Terrible, and a towering neon sign bearing his image greets the 16,000 cars and trucks that cruise daily on Interstate Highway 35 past Terrible’s Lakeside Casino.

SOUTH AFRICA As reported by the iAfrica Business News: “Representatives of South Africa’s rapidly growing casino sector have signed the country’s first-ever national gambling industry code of conduct, making it one of the first globally to do so outside the US.