2008 October 15 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

JEFFERSON CITY Rep. Ray Salva, D-Jackson County, and David Knight, a southeast Missouri businessman, have sued the offices of secretary of state and state auditor on the grounds that an electoral ballot issue contains multiple subjects, violating the single-subject provision in the state constitution. The contested initiative, Proposition A, would remove the $500 gambling loss limit, raise …

By most accounts he was a cheat, an egomaniac, a friend of the mob, and he most brilliant man ever to have ruled the Las Vegas casinosbefore he was finally blacklisted by the Nevada gaming authorities in the 1980s.

Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal — sports handicapper extraordinaire, Las Vegas gambling executive and the inspiration for the blockbuster movie “Casino” — died Monday. He was 79. Rosenthal, who once survived a car bomb, ran the Chicago mob-owned Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda and Marina casinos through the 1970s and into the mid 1980s.

SPORTINGBET, the online gambling site, said it was seeing no signs of a slowdown yesterday, with more and more punters parting with their cash, despite financial turmoil an

Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal - sports handicapper extraordinaire, Las Vegas gambling executive and the inspiration for the blockbuster movie “Casino” - died Monday. He was 79. Read comments

Gambling issues lobby group GamblingWatch has criticised successive governments for forcing sports and community groups to develop an unhealthy reliance on uncertain gambling money for their existence.

Councillor Colleen Brown in officiating at the opening of a new service by the Problem Gambling Foundation stated that it was a sad day and an indictment that Manukau needed such a service but was clear that gambling was causing huge grief in her community.

$400M, 497-room hotel joins Salt River community. | {snl} Casino Arizona Resort & Sp

A two-year, $400 million project to bring a resort casino to Salt River has transformed the community’s horizon with a 15-story steel skeleton that will become a 497-room hotel tower.