2006 June 16 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

A website will launch next week to curb online betting by gamblers who fear they may be addicted. Internet gamblers will be able to sign up to the Global Self Exclusion Database website, which will prevent them from opening an account with an online gaming site.

A Star-Telegram examination found the game can be lucrative for bingos pros, but sometimes leaves little money or control in the hands of the charities it is supposed to benefit.

Philadelphia Park has canceled the Pennsylvania Derby, the state’s premier thoroughbred race, saying the conversion for slot machine gambling has left the facility unable to handle the Labor Day crowds expected. Hal Handel, the track’s chief executive officer, said the Derby was being shelved to allow the track to continue converting the first two floors of its structure into a slot machine

Despite a push to approve slots licenses quickly, there is word casinos may not even open until 2009 or later. Some local leaders are calling that prospect a real disaster. KDKA’s Marty Griffin reports.

The McKell Cup is the day’s feature but the seventh event is a streong Class 6 under set weights conditions that should prove the best betting race of the day.

The ability to bluff, play mind games and keep your cards close to you chest are essential skills for any self-respecting politician.

tpoker writes “Following a previous story on Washington State making online gambling a felony, the Seattle Times reports that the first legal salvos have begun. ‘The first casualty in the state’s war on Internet gambling is a local Web site where nobody was actually doing any gambling. What a Bellingham man did on his site was write about online gambling. He reviewed Internet casinos. He had

Gambling can be an investment, and with little else working in the markets, betting on the house may be a winning proposition.

CINCINNATI — A group that was pushing a plan to put slot machines around Ohio because a competitor’s gambling campaign does not include Cincinnati has withdrawn its proposal.