2006 October 18 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

It was getting late on Oct. 12, the night before a sweeping anti-Internet gambling bill would be signed into law.
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The World Poker Tour announced today that it has partnered with DB Dealer, Inc. to launch the official WPT Digital Dealer Button, with a built-in blind timer, in time for the holiday season.
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October 10, 2006. San Jose, Costa Rica. World Bingo Network, operator of the world’s largest network of online bingo sites, today announced that they are still accepting US Players at all of their network sites.

Outspoken online gambling mogul Calvin Ayre took time away from his busy schedule filming reality television program Bodog Fight to answer questions about the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and its effects on his company’s gambling business.

The Gambling Commission’s decision to suspend Dunedin Casino’s licence for two days for failing to take adequate action over a problem gambler is “a slap with a wet bus ticket”, anti-gambling campaigners say.

Europe’s biggest gambling firm Gala would bid for UK state-owned bookmaker the Tote as soon as it became available, but is not targeting any of Britain’s listed Internet gambling firms, its chief executive said on Wednesday. The UK government is

LITTLE ROCK - Concerns that allowing charitable bingo could result in large gambling halls going up in the state have prompted a conservative group to drop an earlier hands-off stance and come out in opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment .

Ireland’s biggest online bingo site, RehabBingo.com, has paid out a E5 million in cash prizes since being launched less than a year ago, it said today.

October 18, 2006 — More than 300 World Tavern Poker players from across the country will converge in Las Vegas for 4 days of poker, parties, and prizes at the 3rd World Tavern Poker Open held October 20 — 23 …
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