2007 April 08 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

Las Vegas-based Ameristar Casinos Inc. agreed last week to buy Resorts East Chicago in northwest Indiana for $675 million in cash, its first stake in what it calls an “underserved” Chicago-area gaming market.

The Oneida Indian Nation will sue to keep Turning Stone open if the federal government revokes its approval of the casino, the tribe’s top lawyer said last week.

Despite late-night comedians’ jokes and lingering negative images of New Jersey, the Garden State attracted 71 million tourists last year, with 69 percent coming from out of state.

Members want to see Leopold’s spending plan before increases in any fees About two weeks after his proposal to tax rental cars crashed at the State House, County Executive John R. Leopold faces a challenge to keep his bid to raise the commercial bingo tax from stalling.

The Legislature considers a major expansion of slot machines in exchange for a cut of the profits. Unions are against it. SACRAMENTO Caught between the competing demands of politically powerful Indian tribes and labor unions, lawmakers return from spring recess this week to weigh a major gambling expansion.

R ichard Hoffer gets a kick out of gambling. He’ll tell you it’s a mug’s game between tales of his own mortgage teetering on a blackjack hand. He rubs elbows at kamikaze poker tables and reads subtle nuances in the shifting odds of a sports book.

Gambling fever has hit Beacon Hill, but you would hardly know it walking the marble corridors of the Statehouse.

As the Seminole Tribe prepares to debut a $32 million renovation of its Coconut Creek casino on Tuesday, tribal leaders have an even more lucrative ace in the hole to further expand its South Florida gambling empire.