2007 February 20 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Nevada gambling regulators are moving ahead with a Feb. 27 hearing on MGM Mirage’s casino venture in Macau with businesswoman Pansy Ho Chiu-king, daughter of Hong Kong billionaire and casino magnate Stanley Ho.

Zhu Yu was not the least perturbed that faux Italian frescoes - rather than Asian silk screens - decorated the ceiling of the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino hallway where he and his family watched on Saturday as …
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The Rendell administration and a leading financial forecasting company it hired disagree on the degree to which casino gambling will be an economic boost for Pennsylvania.

TODAY: (Updated 3:09 p.m.) DES MOINES Iowa opened the door just a crack to casino gambling in 1989 with a law allowing low-stakes betting on riverboat cruises.

Youth: Scouting celebrates century of building character XXENDBOLD Scouting started in England a century ago, but now has expanded all over the world, including here in Langley.
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KENTUCKY As reported by the Lexington Herald-Leader: “Bringing casino gambling to Kentucky will help fund pre-school classes for all 3- and 4-year-olds and a college scholarship program for students who agree to work in the state after graduation, if Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Beshear gets elected, the Lexington lawyer promised yesterday.

MetroNews Talkline Charleston Senator Ed Bowman says had he known then what he knows now, he would never have supported legislation to reduce, restrict, and regulate the gray video poker machines.
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Specialty chocolatier Images in Chocolate today announced the first custom imprinted chocolate poker chip available in the U.S. marketplace.
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Contact Def people from all around Illinois and the surrounding areas are expected to “flop” it like it’s hot this weekend in the area’s first ever poker tournament just for def people .
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