2006 September 17 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 3

The Rev. Monty Brown remembers when billboards for the greyhound track near his church in Charleston, W.Va., pictured the wiry hounds in action. Today they picture slot machines.

With large shows at Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino, along with many smaller tasting events at package stores and restaurants, Eastern Connecticut is no stranger to the growing popularity of wine.

ATLANTIC CITY: Old. Cluttered. Ugly. All are adjectives that describe rows of stores that front most Atlantic City boardwalk blocks between the casinos. Then look at the casino hotels and the Pier at Caesars.

Herb Greenberg submits: One of the big issues here with Multimedia Games has always been competition. Now David Bain of Merriman Curhan Ford, without question the bull’s bull on the maker of equipment for Indian casinos, says his channel checks “yielding indications of risks in the company’s gaming markets that were more significant [… ]

Las Vegas-based Eighth Wonder, one of four bidders vying for Singapore’s second casino license, on Sunday said former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is a security consultant for the project.

With her kerosene lantern, Francine Kupsch helped lead California Indians into the golden era of casino riches. A film crew recorded Kupsch as she used the lamp’s glow to teach her son to read and talked about how gambling profits would bring electricity to her reservation: “We’ll have a refrigerator.”

Laughlin appears to be shedding its image as a Nevada gambling town where there’s little change. Practically every hotel-casino along the Colorado River - and one major property that doesn’t have “hotel & casino” in its name - is undergoing an upgrade or expansion.

Networks are betting that serialized dramas are just the thing to grab viewers.

With more and more bingo players abandoning real world bingo halls to play bingo on the Internet, an important fundraising tool is in danger of being lost. www.BingoHelps.com aims to remedy this by funneling a percentage of online bingo revenues to support charitable causes. (PRWEB Sep 17, 2006)