2008 March 10 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

The local casino market grew at its fastest clip in two years in February, driven largely by the half-a-billion-dollar Lumière Place casino complex getting up to full speed on Laclede’s Landing.

A survey of nine aboriginal communities in New South Wales has found gambling is a serious and growing problem.

This week’s observance of National Problem Gambling Awareness Week will include the planned launch Thursday of the Kansas Responsible Gambling Alliance.

BRUSSELS, Belgium | The European Union launched an investigation Monday into U.S. laws on Internet gambling, after European betting companies complained that Washingtons actions against them were infringing world trade rules.

“It’s simply against the law to gamble without a license. If I decided to start up a poker game, that would be against the law, just like illegal numbers.”

Britain’s bingo operators are up in arms over an advert by the state-sponsored National Lottery that they claim pokes fun at an industry brought to its knees by Government policies.

Arelia Taveras is suing six casinos in Atlantic City and one in Las Vegas for $20 million claiming the casinos had a duty to notice her compulsive gambling and cut her off.

AMD’s 780G motherboard chipset is an effective solution for building a silent home theater PC or a powerful gaming rig on the cheap.

Wiregrass businessman John Downs supports Country Crossing, but he vows he’ll do anything he can to keep electronic bingo out of Houston County. “It is destructive,” says Downs. “We need to stand against it.”