2006 August 01 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 5

DEVELOPERS are set to be given the go-ahead to change a planned health club into a bingo hall….

IT was all smiles at a Pilling primary school after an inspector delivered a good end of year repo… DEVELOPERS are set to be given the go-ahead to change a planned health club into a bingo hall….

It may be HOT and many folks are still on vacation, but August kicks off the best time of the sports betting calendar: Football season! Competition on the field wont be as intense as September, of course, as wins wont be as important as evaluating young talent and trying to keep players healthy.

A Massachusetts man is $450,000 richer after he became the first person to win a new multistate slot game.

LINCOLN, R.I. — A Massachusetts man is $450,000 richer after he became the first person to win a new multistate slot game. Richard Keels of Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood won $709,000 Sunday at Lincoln Park. He chose a one-time cash payout of $454,000, according to the Rhode Island Lottery.

An internet gambling addict who stole more than £1 million from his own firm before blowing it on betting sprees has been jailed for five years. Book-keeper Bryan Benjafield earned £16,000 a year but spent up to £17,000 a day on internet poker games, on-line casinos, races and sports of every kind.

SINGAPORE — American gambling giant Harrah’s Entertainment and Singapore property firm Keppel Land Ltd. announced Monday that they would submit a joint bid for Singapore’s second casino license.

MIRABEL, Que. — If a golf tournament’s main sponsor is a casino, who better to invite than John Daly? Golf’s favourite long-ball hitter revealed in his best-selling autobiography John Daly, My Life In And Out Of The Rough that he has gambled away at least $50 million US in his career.

Bingo lovers are about to get a new option in Colchester, and the new game room will benefit a veterans’ organization and an educational group that teaches children about people with disabilities and diversity issues.