2008 March 07 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Jim Bennitt liked high-stakes gambling but concedes he wasn’t very good at it. The Chandler businessman is now at risk of losing everything he owns and his freedom.

“We’re looking for a few good men and women to join the UB ARMY and show this year’s World Series of Poker what UltimateBet players are truly made of”

For 22 years I worked as a croupier in an international casino in Bremen, Germany. For 17 years, I was the head of the workers’ council and also a member of the casino supervisory board.

Thursday, local religious and business leaders held a meeting to discuss their feelings about electronic bingo coming to Houston County. A charity bingo facility is planned to be built within the Country Crossing entertainment project.

JOHOR BARU: A one-man Internet gambling operation, which raked in bets amounting to RM15 million a month, was busted with the arrest of the operator in Kahang, Kluang on Thursday.

(KMOV)- A lot of area casinos are betting on a group of guests besides gamers. Visitors come to party but many never hit the casino floor. On Friday, tens of thousands of people will flock to those establishments.

A Las Vegas casino fire, a soft economy and poor weather held the win for Nevada casinos in January to $1.06 billion, down nearly 5 percent compared with the same month a year earlier.

ASHEVILLE — Jackie Shepherd told a judge today that he ran an illegal gambling business in Buncombe and Madison counties from 2000 to 2007. Charges against his sons have been dropped.

In an effort to better inform and mobilize their congregations, 35 members of the local clergy gathered at the Truman Hotel in Jefferson City on Thursday to talk about casino gambling.