2006 December 30 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

By ANDREA JOHNSON, Staff Writer ajohnson@minotdailynews.com Andrea Johnson/MDN People play Texas Hold’em poker during the North Dakota State Championship Poker Tournament Saturday at the Vegas Hotel in Minot.
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There is only one doctor in the United States that specializes in a rare disease and one local boy needs your help to get to him.
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One of the biggest draws in Las Vegas has always been the freebies. For decades, casinos have been offering free drinks to keep gamblers happy. Now one local casino is taking things to the next level, by serving free dinner right at the gaming tables.

Station Casinos isn’t making much of a fuss over plans to build luxury condos just west of the Strip. According to the Las Vegas Sun, the casino company has quietly been buying homes in a neighborhood just west of Palace Station, near Sahara and I-15.

Bankrupts, government-aid recipients and anyone with a poor credit record would be automatically barred from the countrys first casinos, if the watchdog on problem gambling has its way.

New Jersey officials were within their rights when they suspended a trooper accused of speaking about gambling with another trooper who has since pleaded guilty to running a gambling ring, a court ruled Friday.

The state has crapped out in its bid to bounce a lawsuit filed by four Chicago-area casinos. The casinos are suing the state to try to evade a tax that would force them to share $36 million a year with horse tracks.

Heather Mitts played for the WUSA’s Philadelphia Charge before the league folded.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - 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.