2008 September 14 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

A bingo hall might bring to mind an old smoky room but Big Bucks Bingo is a high-tech hall with a purpose. Bingo lovers have the opportunity to rake in the cash while supporting a good cause.

Playing with house money, Mike Shanahan went for the 2-point conversion with 29 seconds left and Jay Cutler hit rookie Eddie Royal over the middle to give the Denver Broncos a 39-38 win over the stunned San Diego Chargers on Sunday.

On Monday, Connecticuts casinos will release the August slot machine revenue results, numbers which will show whether Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun continued their slide because of a soft economy and changing spending habits.

A mere 50 miles separated Brazoria County from devastation Saturday, the width of an eyelash for a monster like Ike. Surfside Beach was pummeled with heartbreaking surf that took a bit of the beach and more of the infrastructure with every crashing wave.

In football, as you know, there are traditionally “no easy games”. Women’s ice hockey, on the other hand, appears to be a different matter, at least if you’re playing Bulgaria.

STAMPING out gambling joints in Baguio City, including the controversial bingo-socials and several other mini-casino joints, remains to be Baguio’s newly installed police director Senior Superintendent Wilfredo Franco’s litmus test.

It’s conventional wisdom that when the economy fails, gambling wins.

Six months after the brutally beaten bodies of Ernie Scherer and his wife, Charlene Abendroth, were found in their Castlewood Country Club home, investigators have not yet made an arrest, but they say they may …

SAN DIEGO Eleven people accused by the federal government of taking part in an organized ring of casino cheaters have been indicted by a federal grand jury here on conspiracy and racketeering charges.