2006 March 01 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

For years, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has watched its prospects of building a tribal casino in Massachusetts appear and disappear like a shimmering golden mirage on the horizon.

Busines of sport: The Sportsman will prefer football to rcing on the front page as it hopes to attract the modern punter.

The Mayo Clinic and a team of neurologists identified 11 cases in which compulsive gambling had developed almost overnight in people who were taking Parkinson’s medicine. Such studies have served to warn people with the incurable disorder. But such research also might help millions with gambling habits.

Gambling has virtually been a part of every culture since the birth of civilization and commerce. Archaeologists have uncovered marked bones and stones used as crude forms of dice. Games resembling today’s lotteries have been played since humankind began exploring arithmetic and mathematics.

WASHINGTON : Online gambling revenues reached US$10.9 billion worldwide last year even though betting is illegal in many countries including the United States, a survey showed.

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MADISON, Wis. — Madison native Phil Hellmuth Jr. will seek to defend his title in the 2006 National Heads Up Poker Championship beginning on Saturday in Las Vegas.

Nevada Gold & Casinos, Inc. today announced financial results for the third quarter ended January 22, 2006.

From now until the end of March, play 40 hours of live poker at Harrah’s and you’ll be entered into a freeroll where the winner gets a seat into the 2006 World Series of Poker .