2007 September 22 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

While the Asia Pacific Poker Tour will continue as planed in Seoul, Korea, there will be no TV coverage, due to the local government’s rules on televising gambling, under which label they have placed poker. via What’s new on Launchpoker.com

AURORA, Colo. - A former Boulder County commissioner on Thursday pleaded not guilty in Arapahoe County District Court to a conspiracy charge about a suspected not-for-profit bingo scheme that prosecutors believe netted millions for him and nine co-defendants.

QUINCY - Ann Cutter has sat in the same chair, in the same corner next to the Pepsi machine, playing bingo every Wednesday night for the past 36 years.

WATERTOWN, Mass Pauline LaCava can rattle off locations of bingo games that closed in her hometown as fast as she can scan her bingo sheet, dabbing pink ink marks on numbers as they’re called

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A large majority of Kentucky residents want a chance to vote on whether casino gambling should be legalized in the state, but support for casinos is not so clear, according to a new poll.

PokerStars’ elite stable of poker pros and enthusiasts just grew by four members, and they are all faces you’re bound to recognize. via PokerStars.com Official Blog

WATERTOWN, Mass. — Pauline LaCava can rattle off locations of bingo games that closed in her hometown as fast as she can scan her bingo sheet, dabbing pink ink marks on numbers as they’re called at Saint Patrick Church in Watertown.

A slight plurality of Kentuckians favors casino gambling in Kentucky, but a large majority says voters should have the chance to decide the question.

BOSTON — There was no bingo at an elderly complex in Jamaica Plain after someone dispersed pepper sprays.