2008 January 03 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

“I guess I’m what you call a very tight player, I wait for a good hand and play very aggressively”

Much of the published research on the economic cost of compulsive gambling has deep flaws and may overstate the problem, the U.S. casino industry said Thursday.

The Garden City chapter of Children’s Medical Fund welcomes kids of all ages to our annual Family Bingo Night! This event will be held on Friday, January 25th from 7 p.m. until 8:30 p.m . at the Lutheran Church on Stewart Avenue.

A hearing set for today to determine which lawyer will represent former Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford on federal corruption charges has been postponed and three new indictments have been unsealed in a … via Asheville Citizen-Times

The Elmira Jackals, proud member of the ECHL, announced today that right wing Chaz Johnson has been loaned to the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League and that the club has received defensemen Andrei Plehkanov (plah-HAHN-ahv) and Kyle Wharton (WOHR-tuhn) from the Syracuse Crunch (AHL). The Jackals also released goaltender Adam Horvath.

“But they do very little, in fact almost nothing, to stop people getting into that problem in the first place, and we think it’s high time we started taking that more preventative approach.”

WAVE 3 investigates how some places are trying to get out of a new smoking ban in Louisville. The operators and charities that get money from bingo halls say a new ban will put them out of business. Only WAVE 3 was at a meeting Wednesday where they talked strategy. WAVE 3 Investigator Janelle MacDonald has a look at some of the numbers.

Old Saybrook The Estuary Council of Seniors will host bingo games on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month at 1 p.m. in

“We put a proposal for a family-friendly club, an inclusive club”