2008 February 05 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

A local hotel and casino owner is gambling that Kentucky lawmakers will approve gaming legislation.

A Bingo Palace cashier is accused of stealing $136,000 from the North Dakota Association for the Disabled gaming site over the past three years, according to Grand Forks police.

THREE people have been arrested over more than a million dollars worth of damage to poker machines at pubs and clubs in northern NSW. via AdelaideNow…

Her “I Love Bingo” T-shirt has real meaning as bingo player Rosemary Miller happily collects the evening’s 50-50 cash prize from Lions Ed Pearson and Paul Cukjati at the evening Lions Clubs first bingo game of the new year.

HAZARD, Ky. (AP) The outcome of a state Senate race in eastern Kentucky on Tuesday may depend on how residents feel about casino gambling.

A revised teachers’ union petition to increase Nevada gambling taxes to raise about $250 million a year for public education was filed Tuesday, with changes aimed at safeguarding it from legal attacks by the casino industry.

A BINGO club has agreed to pay out £9,000 to a pensioner whose winning call was not acknowledged. Gala Bingo said it would hand over the cash to 70-year old Uda Banks after reviewing audio footage of the game played at Pool Meadow in Coventry city centre two weeks ago.

The New Freedom Lioness Club will hold its Sweetheart Bingo on Sunday at the New Freedom Community Center.

Titan Poker (http://www.titanpoker.com), the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, will send a highly skilled delegation of poker players to the South African Poker Open. Three of these players will travel from Canada to attend this exciting Sou