2006 June 13 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Alderney, part of the UK’s Channel Islands, has appointed a prominent e-commerce executive to head up the jurisdiction’s already successful e-gambling sector.

Opportunity Village will be hosting the inaugural Opportunity Village Celebrity Poker Tournament on June 24, at Caesars Palace.

(Crains) An appellate court Tuesday ordered the Illinois Gaming Board to issue a four-year license to Emerald Casino Inc. but also said that license is subject to revocation proceedings.

Greeneville police on Monday charged the first two of 10 adult suspects in connection with a Friday, May 26, gambling raid on a former vacuum cleaner store on West Main Street.

The Poker Player Alliance got a boost of star power recently as Howard Lederer, poker pro, television host and author, joined its board of directors.

The request is a step toward establishing a World Trade Organization panel to investigate whether the U.S. restrictions on Internet gambling comply with international trade rules.

Before you decide to take that casino vacation package and head to Mississippi for a gambling weekend, you might consult Moody Scott’s masterful version of George Jackson’s “Last Two Dollars.” Simply Moody We Gotta Bust Outta the Ghetto brims with cautionary talesthe title track exhorts Moody’s hometown of Hammond, Louisiana (as well as Argentina and South Africa), to clean up the drugs and

Supporters have gathered the 1,000 valid voter signatures needed to allow a group to proceed with a larger petition drive to get a Cincinnati casino measure on the November ballot.

GUAM As reported by the Pacific Daily News: “Casino gambling will make a return to this year’s government-run Liberation Day carnival, ending a three-year ban by the current administration and possibly allowing the carnival to turn a profit for the first time since the ban.