2007 December 02 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Less than 24 hours after doling out a Bad Beat Jackpot valued at more than $300,000, Absolute Poker is reporting that the jackpot of its popular online poker game has once again reached six figures. via RGT Online

Shares in Rank, the casino and bingo club operator, are set to soar today after it emerged that Genting International, the gaming group owned by one of Malaysia’s richest families, has taken a 10 per cent stake in the struggling company.

In 1992 voters in Jefferson City approved having riverboat casino gambling come to town. Three years later they blocked the idea, by prohibiting the city from benefiting from any casino revenues.

A bid battle for down on its luck bingo and casino operator Rank could break out after Malaysian gambling group Genting took a large stake in the business.

“He’s … taking the sunglasses off!”

ROME, DEC. 2, 2007 ( Zenit.org ).- The past decade saw an enormous increase in gambling opportunities in many countries. Protests by those concerned over the social impact were largely ignored by governments eager for easy revenue.

LEDYARD, Conn. — Friends of Chad Dawson taunted Antonio Tarver early Sunday morning, right after Tarver thrashed overmatched Danny Santiago inside the adjacent bingo hall at Foxwoods Resort Casino.

Ohio’s most lucrative bingo game benefits a synagogue that has 65 members and shares an East Side storefront with a kosher caterer.

“I’ve been here 40 years myself. I look across the street every day. I can’t believe it’s that type of operation”