2006 October 04 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Posted on Oct 4th, 2006 with stocks: WPTE Zac Bissonnette submits: World Poker Tour Enterprises produces the “World Poker Tour” and “Professional Poker Tour” shows which air on the Travel Channel.
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STEUBENVILLE Skilled gambling is facing further restrictions in Steubenville. City Council on Tuesday introduced amendments that will further limit skilled gambling in the city.

12:30 pm, Oct. 6 - A forum about Proposal B, which would legalize slots at the Guam Greyhound racetrack, is under way at the University of Guam’s student center.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State government is collecting more cash from gambling pursuits than ever before, a new report shows as talk of expansion plays a key role in the fall elections and beyond.

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A plan by Boyd Gaming Corp. to sell its 1,350-room South Coast hotel-casino in Las Vegas to veteran Nevada gambling figure Mike Gaughan was endorsed Wednesday by the state Gaming Control Board.

Forget the buffalo, Kevin Costner is doing some legal wrangling in South Dakota these days. Mr. “Dances with Wolves” is asking the state’s supreme court to review a lower court ruling forcing him to pony up $6.2 million to two former business partners who ran the Midnight Star, a casino the actor owns in the Black Hills, where much of his Oscar-winning opus was shot.

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Acquisition of the Pahrump Nugget Hotel and Gambling Hall by Golden Gaming Inc. was endorsed Wednesday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

(CP) - The Canadian Hockey League has asked its lawyers to look at an off-shore internet gambling website where bets can be placed on major junior hockey games and the Memorial Cup.

The online sports and gaming group ukbetting has appointed the investment bank UBS to deal with unsolicited approaches for the business.