2006 August 28 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

The man responsible for deciding where the UK’s first super-casino will be built has hit back at critics who have alleged political interference in the selection procedure.

Yuba Feather Communities Services Bingo is hoping youll join them on Thursday, Oct. 26 for an evening of fun and food. Highlight of the evening will be a potluck dinner at 5 p.m. (Just bring your favorite dish to share.) Minimum buy-in for bingo, which starts at 6 p.m., is only $7.

The supercasinos row took a sinister new twist tonight after the billionaire owners of the Dome who gave gifts to John Prescott falsely claimed a local vicar backed his plans for a massive gambling complex.

Regulators To Get Look At Southland’s Plans For Electronic Games Posted: 8/28/2006 4:58:05 PM Operators of Southland Park will ask state regulators Tuesday to approve a plan to open more than 900 video poker …

February 2004: Catfish Bend Casinos begins collecting 724 signatures, or 10 percent of the voters from the previous general election, for a petition to open a land-based casino in Riverside and form a nonprofit organization to hold the gambling license.

To keep tabs on the goings-on in Iowa casinos, it requires more than one level of security. Each casino hires its own security staff. But the state also assigns six to seven Gaming Enforcement Bureau agents from the Division of Criminal Investigation to work from each location.

Posted Aug 28th 2006 4:54PM by Joanne Lutynec Filed under: Tournaments , Online Games It is that time of year again - PokerStars.com have begun running satellites for the 2006 World Championship of Online Poker …

SOUTH KOREA — As reported by The Korea Times: “A hundred and sixty senior citizens have launched a nationwide campaign to root out gambling.

With young people just starting school, it’s a good time for parents to start to keep an eye out for problem gambling signs in their children, according to the Arizona Office of Problem Gambling.