2007 January 02 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Foreign investors are taking aim at Macao, Singapore, Japan, Vietnam and other Asian places, as governments move to lift decades-old restrictions on casinos, said Sean Monaghan, an analyst at Merrill Lynch in Singapore.

PokerStars beats the winter blues with their fourth annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure happening this Thursday, January 4, at the famed Paradise Island Atlantis Resort and Casino.
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The Brookridge Woman’s Club will have its annual Brookridge Bingo Bash on March 10 in the community clubhouse, 8150 Hampton St. Doors open at 8:30 a.m.; the bash begins at 10 a.m. There will be a $3,200 payout.

The ?Hispanic paradox? is one of the most puzzling discoveries in research on aging.

KOROR, Palau (2 Jan 2007) — If a Korean developer can cover all of the required bribes to Palau’s corrupt politicians and greedy local chiefs, the pristine island of Peleliu will soon take its place as yet another ugly and overdeveloped Caribbean-style tourist trap littered with the flotsam of modern tourism including a huge casino, golf courses and high-rise hotels.

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Contact Sleeping all day made us really tired yesterday so we didn’t stay up to watch the debut of “Poker After Dark,” starring Shana Hiatt , but you can view the entire opening episode over at the NBC website …
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GUYANA — As reported by the Stabroek News: “The government will lay the casino gambling legislation in Parliament on January 11 with the expectation that the debate on and passage of the bill would be completed at the earliest time thereafter.

Card Sharks & Computer Brains Vol. 11 Issue 01 How a group of bioinformatics researchers at the University of Alberta created some of the world’s leading poker-playing software By Jim Veenbaas When Darse …
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