2008 July 29 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Shane Sigsbee continuously pushed the action and his aggressiveness paid off big time.

Jason Balduf/Staff Reporter A Laurel Hill businessman was charged this weekend with operating several illegal poker machines.

This July 27, 2004 file photo shows the pool area at the Rocky Gap Lodge and Golf Resort near Cumberland, Md. Two casino operators have expressed interest in buying the lodge from the Maryland Economic Development Corp., if state voters approve slot-machine gambling this November, a MEDCO board member said July 28.

Texas hold ‘em card games may be popular among poker players, but they aren’t a legal form of gambling in Pennsylvania - as one area fire company is finding out the hard way.

South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson is criticizing Newberry County Council members who want to replace property taxes with revenue from video poker machines.

After weeks in Turkish detention, one of the remaining two Sportingbet employees still held was released this week, still none the wiser on the charges he faces following a raid in May by Turkish authorities on Sportingbet’s subsidiary Superbahis.com.

A new search engine is getting wide publicity this week after featuring in an Associated Press report. ‘Cuil’ (pronounced “cool”) is the brainchild of Anna Patterson, who’s last Internet search engine was acquired by Google in 2004 to boost its own now dominant system.

In a move that seems to have taken everyone by surprise, the U.S. Trade Representative has apparently asked a European Union delegation for a postponement of meetings planned for Washington DC on the US government’s online gambling and WTO policies scheduled for early next month.