2006 September 28 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

For those of you who jet-set around the globe playing cards, you may be happy to hear that India has got itself some pokah.
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This week, Youth Eastside Services launched the first state-funded program to help teens battle gambling addiction. The program is funded…

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DUBUQUE - The Key City is losing a riverboat casino, but not the riverboat itself. An announcement Thursday told about plans to renovate the old boat, build a new, on-land casino, and expand the city’s river museum.

COLUMBUS - A broad coalition of Christian clergy said Wednesday they will push parishioners to oppose a proposal to expand gambling in Ohio by displaying yard signs, campaigning door-to-door and preaching against the measure from their pulpits.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA– - iGaming Corporation announces today that it has entered into a non-binding Letter of Intent to acquire certain revenue generating assets of National Sports Services, Inc. , a Nevada-based sports information company.

A Superior Court judge denied a request Thursday from video poker operators to temporarily block the first phase of a state ban on the machines from taking effect this weekend, said a spokeswoman for the state …
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The Diamond Jo Casino in Dubuque said today it plans to build a new $50 million casino complex in the citys Ice Harbor along the Mississippi…

LAS VEGAS: Sheldon Adelson, named the third richest man in the US last week by Forbes magazine, has set his sights on No. 1. Adelson, who controls 69% of Las Vegas Sands, has amassed a $20.5bn fortune developing casinos and the Comdex computer-industry show.