2005 November 20 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

The king of card games, poker, is arriving at SKYCITY Auckland from today . The Poker Zone starts up today, featuring the internationally renowned ‘Texas Holdem’ poker game.

A MAN who went to gamble at cards lost his life after he was shot nine times on Saturday night. Kerwin Edwards, 27, was playing cards at Readymix Private Quarry Road, Laventille when two men called him out.

HONG KONG, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The owner of the Galaxy casino in Macau will launch marketing of a $500 million, two-part bond in Singapore on Wednesday, a market source said.

This week Indiana lawmakers and researchers from Purdue will meet to talk about families and gambling.

You might remember me mentioning a little while ago that I’d started playing poker.

The IDB Group, controlled by Nochi Dankner, is exploring the possibility of joining American real estate mogul Sheldon Adelson in his venture to turn Macau into the Chinese Las Vegas.

The ACT Government says it has an open mind on an appeal by licensed clubs to reconsider a ban on note acceptors in poker machines.

Billions of dollars are being spent on online gambling Web sites and the majority of that cash comes from American pockets. Despite being illegal in the U.S., Lesley Stahl reports, the industry is thriving.

GAMING group Tattersall’s says it is on track to achieve its forecast profit for the 2006 financial year as it pursues growth in the gambling sector.