2006 December 29 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Welfare groups in New South Wales have expressed concern about a new law allowing clubs with poker machines to develop adjoining retail space.
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At the end of a busy year, I am indulging myself in a lengthy analytical post about who we Americans are and how we got that way. I request your patience–the inflammatory meat is at the end! My only criterion for the Bingo! Award is that, once I have read the book, I think about it every subsequent day, saying to myself–oh! I understand that (whatever it is) now, because I read blah blah.” By …

Apparently it is official, the Internet is full of the news that Party Gaming has purchased online gaming sites Empire Online as well as Intercontinental Online Gaming for approximately $66.3 million USD in …
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There will be changes in the smoking policy for the Catholic Diocese of Evansville. This comes just weeks after a fire, which started because of cigarettes left over from bingo night, severely damaged Good Shepherd School. Hundreds of students were displaced as a result.

LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) — In the wake of a recent liberalization of gambling laws, a British government advisory panel has issued a warning about electronic gaming machines.

Gibraltar’s PartyGaming online poker company has agreed to buy two gambling Web sites to replace revenue lost when it was forced to stop accepting U.S. wagers.
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Party Poker owner PartyGaming used its own chips to acquire a number of casino and poker websites.The group will issue new shares currently worth 72 million US dollars for the assets of Empire Online and …
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Work shortages are leading a growing number of Sicilian youths into croupier work, drawn by exotic destinations and the chance of steady employment, according to the director of Palermo’s first croupier school.
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Atlantic City’s casinos aren’t stubbing out the cigarettes just yet. The City Council in New Jersey’s gambling mecca put off a vote Friday on banning smoking in casinos to give the nightspots more time to get ready.