2006 October 08 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

SINGAPORE (AFP) - A Las Vegas firm has promised “lots of ace cards” as it prepared to join two other contenders in bids for Singapore’s second casino licence.

Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) — Genting Bhd., which gained control of the U.K.’s biggest gaming operator three days ago, said a successful bid for a Singapore license may help propel its ranking to among the world’s three biggest casino companies.

CINCINNATI The fight over a proposal to allow slot-machine gambling in Ohio boils down to a clash of business interests and a dizzying assortment of numbers.

Coincidence or Rigged? I found Steve’s article on your 8-7-2006 e-mail interesting. I just returned from The Horseshoe in Tunica and, while playing the 50-cent slots saw something unbelievable and made my wife say, “Something’s rigged”.

Denver got a big lift right before the bye week by winning at New England. Some Broncos fans were calling for rookie QB Jay Cutler after Jake Plummer struggled in…

Director of Finance, THISDAY Newspapers, Alhaji ‘Deji Mustapha, has called on Muslims to shun gambling, irrespective of the name it is called.

Ministers want to make Britain the world centre of internet gambling, documents released by Whitehall showed today. The records showed that ministers and officials have met internet gambling tycoons and their representatives no less than 26 times over the past two years.

The first firings in the Israeli online gambling industry have started, as IM Intermedia dismissed half of its 100 workers yesterday. The firm supplies services for online marketing and data mining for online gaming companies in the United States, and its customers include Intercontinental Online.

The dice are rolling hot on the tables of what was once a sleepy Portuguese colony. With millions of mainland Chinese high rollers arriving every year, developers in Macau are racing to turn the former enclave into Asia’s glittering gambling capital.