2006 May 18 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Big profits for the resorts casinos in a usually slow part of the year show that the city is moving beyond being merely a day-trip destination, industry observers say.

In the realm of sports betting the cliché goes that teams are never as good as they look when they win nor as bad as they look when they lose. To a somewhat lesser extent, the same is true in horse racing.

Pyramid Chapter #594 Order of the Eastern Star will host its annual supermarket Bingo, Tuesday, May 30. The event will be held at Babylon Masonic Lodge, 250 West Main St., Babylon, across from Argyle Park. The doors open at 7 p.m. The donation is $5 and includes coffee, tea and cake. For details and

Six players went to the final table yesterday at the Mirage Poker Showdown’s Main Event, which will be the first episode broadcast in Season Five for the World Poker Tour .

Multimedia Games Inc., which makes electronic bingo and lottery machines, said Thursday chief financial officer Craig S. Nouis resigned to pursue other business opportunities.

Gamblers playing in online casinos are being warned that they may increasingly be targeted by hackers looking to steal.

Civitas poll shows NC not happy with president The Civitas Institute released its May 2006 poll results Wednesday, and the new poll showed that most North Carolinians aren’t happy with the job lawmakers are …

LONDON, UK — (PRESS RELEASE) — Betting on football is by no means new quite the opposite. It’s one of the oldest sports betting forms across Europe.

LINCOLN (AP) - Nebraska’s American Indian tribes, horse racers, county governments and even compulsive gamblers would get a slice of the pie under a casino gambling proposal backers hope to put up for a vote in November.