2007 January 15 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Protesting hotel owners and their supporters have disrupted an Australian Hotels Association press conference and chased the association’s president down a Sydney street.
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Two men and a woman were sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty to trying to defraud a casino using what police said was a scam they had not seen before in Britain.
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Three men were convicted and one was sentenced to nine months in jail for scamming casinos in England for more than $400,000. Yau Yiu Lam, 45, was sent to jail immediately for nine months.
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Posted Jan 15th 2007 5:00PM by Wil Wheaton Filed under: Odds & Ends Back in my teenage days, I was a big fan of the stupid dealer’s choice poker night.
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MUNCIE Playing a game of bingo using dates from Martin Luther King Jr.s life taught Daijah Wheeler a few facts about the slain civil rights leader ,such as where King was born, where he died and where he gave his famous I Have A Dream speech.

Yau Yiu Lam, Fan Leung Tsang, and Bit Chai Wong were caught cheating at poker in London, but only after winning some half a million dollars.
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UNITED KINGDOM As reported by the This is Local London: “A big-time gambling cheat who used hidden cameras to run a “sophisticated” casino sting has been sentenced to prison.

Derek Kelly is trying to prove poker is a game of skill Poker requires its players to absorb a “staggering” amount of information, a court has heard.
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By Erin Henk News-Post Staff JEFFERSON — Debbie Yoder is a self-declared basket bingo junkie. And while she admits she usually has good luck when she goes to the games, Sunday was the first time she’s won big.