2006 July 06 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Gambling industry officials said that Atlantic City’s 12 casinos could reopen within hours of the budget signing.

Even as casino floors closed this week because of a lack of government monitors, this long down-at-the-heels gambling mecca welcomed two more glitzy, Las Vegas-style developments the latest in a three-year effort to lure a more upscale crowd.

PROVIDENCE — The latest full-page newspaper ad in the campaign to sell the proposed Harrah’s-Narragansett Indian casino to voters has put the spotlight on one of the big unanswered questions surrounding the ballot proposal and its implicit –…

Casinos count cost of two-day shutdown caused by New Jersey governor’s gamble to fix $4.5bn hole in state’s budget.

The regions two American Indian casinos hope to attract some return customers from the influx of visitors this week as a result of the shutdown of New Jerseys gaming facilities.

United States Representatives Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia) and Jim Leach (R-Iowa) have merged legislation that would crack down on Internet gambling into a single bill that they expect to debate on the House floor next week.

Lady Luck smiled on New Jersey casinos Thursday. Soon, the dice will be rolling again.

In what we’re absolutely certain isn’t a publicity stunt meant to exploit the current buzz around Tom Cruise’s inability to fetch an acceptable price for the first photographs of his rapidly…

Andrew Rogers, left, raises Perry Friedman’s bet during the Masionpoker.net Poker Dome Challenge at the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on June 3, 2006.