2007 March 17 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 3

Police raided two more suspected pea-shake houses Friday in what is becoming the biggest crackdown on illegal gambling in Marion County in at least a decade.
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Winter sports Austria wins team event at World Cup ski finals: Austria demonstrated its dominance and depth Friday by winning its third…

Police raided two more suspected pea-shake houses Friday in what is becoming the biggest crackdown on illegal gambling in Marion County in at least a decade.

Nick Cavinta was spent — out of luck, out of favors, out of money. The metalworker had gambled away his paychecks in casino blackjack games for two years — since a divorce that left him depressed and lonely. He’d tapped out friends, children, credit cards.

Take what the game has to give you.” What the game had to give James at the World Poker Tour’s 2005 Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Las Vegas’ Bellagio was more than he expected and, frankly, more than he …
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The state Gaming Control Board seeks input from resorts over slots casinos.

Appeals by companies that lost out in a round of bidding could cost hundreds of millions of dollars in gambling tax revenue and delay promised property tax relief.