2006 October 13 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Posted: 11:30 PM, Oct. 12, 2006 Last Updated: 12:58 PM, Oct. 13, 2006 By Marshall Zelinger Millions of online gamblers will soon have to settle for the real thing.
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Wonderful success. Thats all I can say of our recent Fall Fling and Ed Hendrickson Day celebration at the South Range Eagles. This was an especially special day for Ed Hendrickson on his retirement as our BINGO chairman for almost 30 years.

Reuters News Agency, with files from Bloomberg News LONDON - PokerStars.com , the world’s second-biggest Internet poker firm, said yesterday that a looming U.S. ban on on-line gambling would not apply to poker, …
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NBC is set to launch a new series “Poker After Dark,” which will air at 2:05 a.m. ET six nights a week.
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The newly approved Safe Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006, which President Bush signed Friday, included a provision aimed at closing the doors of many of the over 2,500 online gambling casino web sites operating in the United States.

PPA, Poker Pros and Average Americans Express Outrage WASHINGTON — President Bush signed into law a ban on online wagering, impacting 23 million Americans who enjoy the game of poker on the Internet.
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Plans to site Britain’s first super-casino in the former Millennium Dome suffered a fresh blow yesterday after a report commissioned by one of the project’s supporters warned that it could lead to addictive gambling.

In the wake of bill passed in the U.S. which contained language banning certain online casino gambling activities, the existence of regular online casino gaming in America might seem to be in doubt, but as far as free online casino games are concerned Americans who like to play online casino games need not really worry.

President Bush signed a bill Friday to help prevent terrorists from sneaking a nuclear, chemical or germ weapon into the United States inside one of the 11 million shipping containers that enter the nation each …
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