2007 June 13 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

MIDDLEBORO The weight of the casino gambling question was on residents shoulders this evening as they packed the high school auditorium to slow the pace of a freshly drafted deal with the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, a draft no one outside its drafters…

“We’re in our motorhome probably 11 months of the year, six months in Canada and six in the U.S. “We run around a fair bit.”

On May 1, the Parliament voted 61-0 passing the Gaming Control Bill 2007 making way for casinos and internet gambling in PNG. Eight of the MPs walked out of the chamber before the vote.

VERONA, N.Y. (AP) - Federal officials have decided the Oneida Indian Nation’s lucrative Turning Stone casino can stay open. Oneida spokesman Mark Emery says the US Department of the Interior upheld the legality of the casino’s 14-year-old gambling compact with the state of New York.

Purple Lounge, the leading luxury online poker and lifestyle site, announces the launch of its eagerly anticipated casino offer. via Winner Online

A poker player might expect to see commercials while watching a poker tournament on TV, but while playing in a tournament? Not normally, but that is how one online poker room has decided to generate revenue … via What’s new on Launchpoker.com

Sigma Phi Gamma Beta Delta chapter is sponsoring a basket bingo at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, June 30 at the Knight-Bergman Center in Warren. Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased from any member. Some of the featured baskets this year will be filled with extra goodies supplied by local businesses.

The county will send out requests for proposals to every casino developer in the country to see what their ideas are for a destination casino at the Kansas Coliseum.

Zero36 (http://www.z36.biz), a leading developer and operator of Mobile Gambling Services, today announces a partnership with Genasys for the joint operation of Zero36’s Location-Based Mobile Casino Filtering System in Spain. As part of their agreement, Genasys will provide Zero36 with the real-time location of users playing on the Zero36 services to ensure compliance with Spanish regional …