2006 July 15 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

CARLSBAD - The Boys & Girls Club Bingo Hall will be holding its monthly Appreciation Day today. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. and sales start at 1 p.m. Bingo starts at 2 p.m. Master packs will be sold for $5 and extra packs will be $2.50. For more information, call the Boys & Girls Club at 885-8449.

The British public has splashed out £4.2bn in casinos over the last 12 months, a £73m hike on the previous year’s figure.

Nice and quiet is exactly how Emmanuel Robin Tan likes his city, so the 28-year-old has not got a good word to say about the coming construction of Singapore’s first casino in downtown Marina Bay.

DES MOINES, IA - The number of Iowans who called the state’s gambling treatment hotline jumped 17 percent in 2005, as the state’s casino industry posted record revenues of $1.14 billion for the fiscal year ending in June 2006.

DES MOINES, Iowa The number of Iowans who called the state’s gambling treatment hotline jumped 17 percent in 2005. That’s as the state’s casino industry posted record revenues of one-point-one-four (b) billion dollars for the fiscal year ending in June 2006.

MADISON, Wis. Casino gambling on American Indian reservations in Wisconsin will continue under a state Supreme Court decision released Friday. The court declined to curtail the Las Vegas-style gambling that is currently legal on land held by 11 tribes in Wisconsin. Those tribes operate 28 casinos.

Chip Reese wins World Series of Poker $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship Chip Reese outlasted an elite field of poker super stars to take down the inaugural World Series of Poker $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship.

The leader of a group pushing for casino gambling filed a lawsuit Friday challenging Secretary of State John Gale’s decision to not allow the question on the November ballot.

By Rick Armon, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Jul. 15–An Oklahoma Indian tribe hoping to bring casino gambling to Ohio has a deal with a Lawrence Township development company to buy nearly 50 acres along state Route 21 in Stark County.