2006 August 01 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 7

COLUMBUS Two religious leaders Monday called on state officials to investigate what they called a “pervasive pattern of deception” in the campaign to gather signatures for a constitutional amendment that would legalize slot machines at seven Ohio racetracks and two Cleveland locations.

Gambling is more popular than ever among young people, but experts say it’s a huge challenge providing help to those who get hooked.

BetOnSports, one of the largest online betting and gambling companies in the world, will ignore a federal criminal prosecution and civil case aimed at shutting its billion-dollar U.S. operation, a federal prosecutor said in court Monday.

Defending champion Joseph Hachem turned the poker table into his bully pulpit Monday, aggressively raising players he considered out of line and increasing his own stack at the main event in the World Series of …

CHICAGO _ Playboy Enterprises said Monday it will jump into the burgeoning online poker business _ though not in the United States. That’s not surprising given that the U.S. Justice Department’s stance that Internet-based gambling is illegal.

The issue of whether to call the Legislature back to Harrisburg to make changes in the law legalizing slots casinos is mired in politics again. Gov. Ed Rendell and Republican and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate can agree on one thing: The law should be refined.