2007 October 14 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

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Harrah’s Entertainment pitched a proposed Rhode Island casino to college students as a place take a break from studying, but others fear a rise in gambling addiction.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is pushing for a casino in Eilat, after three years of freezing the matter. Two teams are currently studying the possibility of establishing a gambling resort, TheMarker has learned.

Bingo games, once valuable social events and fundraisers for communities, are in decline throughout the state, according to churches, veterans groups and nonprofit organizations.

At a Chinese restaurant within sight of the Canadian border, Tanya McLaughlin doesn’t hesitate when asked whether local people want to see legalized gambling in this economically challenged city of 3,400.

“Last Saturday, one guy came up to me and said, I know who did it and Ill tell you as soon as you get the reward, because I need the money, “

A pensioner who won £1m playing bingo at the weekend is the second seven-figure prize-winner at the same Glasgow hall in just three weeks. The 69-year-old woman hit the jackpot at the Glasgow Forge bingo hall in the east end of the city on Friday night, on only her second visit to the club.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) - Churches, veterans groups and nonprofit goups all say the same thing: no one’s playing bingo anymore. Once an important part of fundraising and socializing, the church bingo game is now an endangered species in the state.

Executives negotiating to open a lavish Mashpee Wampanoag casino in Middleborough last year simultaneously waged a very different effort just 40 miles away, spending millions to defeat a potential rival Indian casino in Rhode Island by warning voters of gambling’s social and economic dangers.