2006 December 17 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Pennsylvania’s 2-year-old state gaming board is to award licenses Wednesday for two slot machine casinos to be built here, making Philadelphia the largest city in the country with casino

With the first six weeks of Orange County casino activity in the books, area residents havent come forward in droves with gambling problems.

If you are looking for a game of poker this evening, you may want to check out Phil Gordon’s Bad Beat on Cancer tournament running over at Full Tilt Poker at 9pm EST.
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The political makeup in the North Carolina House never gave Jim Black much room for error during his 12 years leading House Democrats, the last eight as speaker.
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Pro Poker Players Join Poker Industry Executives for a Night of Celebrations Late Friday night on December 15, poker players and industry executives joined together for a night of celebration at the Bellagio’s …
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PartyGaming played down the threat of Las Vegas casino operators stepping into the online gambling market in Europe - even welcoming it as a positive step.

In this 1970 promotional photo, released by WPIX-TV, the yule log burns as it has for 40 years in this scene from the annual broadcast on New York’s WPIX.
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A closer look at the game of Bingo, and the difference between the game in its land based casino version and its online casino version is a comfortable spectrum to view the fundamental differences between the two.

A television producer who believes he was cheated out of half of the $12 million pot won by World Series of Poker champ Jamie Gold is disputing Gold’s explanation of why the men agreed to share the winnings.
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