2006 November 23 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

LONDON, England As reported by Reuters: “About half of the casino owners who rushed in applications for additional venues ahead of new regulation in April 2006 have already cleared the first hurdle, the Gambling Commission said on Thursday.Save

Located in a beautifully landscaped park-like setting, and situated inside the Capitol Beltway, the Fairview Park Marriott in Falls Church, VA recently completed an $8 million-dollar renovation project. The property improvements include 388 enhanced

High-speed chase on 401 follows heist at poker game Two masked gunmen stormed an all-night poker game at a North York social club yesterday, robbing and beating the players and firing several shots at cops in a …
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Nearly everyone in poker has a take on how the government’s recent crackdown on Internet gambling will affect traditional casino cardrooms, or “brick-and-mortar” poker rooms, as they have come to be known.
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I’ve had some good Thanksgivings, but none as memorable as the one I celebrated in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1986.
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LONDON (Reuters) - About half of the casino owners who rushed in applications for additional venues ahead of new regulation in April 2006 have already cleared the first hurdle, the Gambling Commission said on Thursday.Save

It started shaky but ended the same way for Tiger Woods - surrounded by hula dancers on the 18th green, wearing a floral lei and posing with a trophy. Woods rallied to win the PGA Grand Slam of Golf for a record seventh straight time, closing wit

Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian’s Tracinda Corp. said Wednesday that it plans to boost its majority stake in casino operator MGM Mirage Inc. and sell off shares in General Motors Corp. Tracinda — which is solely owned by Kerkorian — said it w

Four Chinese nationals and an Australian citizen have all received jail sentences for their involvement in a sophisticated $750,000 casino gambling scam. Four men - Songtao Zhao, 35, Haibin Shao, 40, Zhigang Liu, 35, and Jianwen Liu, 40, all Chine