2008 December 07 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

HOLLYWOOD — Two men suspected in a string of robberies at local casinos were in custody Sunday, according to a sheriff’s lieutenant. The men apparently followed people who won money when they left the casinos to head home and then robbed them. They were swarmed by sheriff’s deputies about 1 a.m. Saturday at a gas station at Western and Fountain avenues in Hollywood. They were in a car with …

The Sooners finished No. 1 and the Gators No. 2, setting up a national championship that will highlight two of college football?s dominant programs.

Batavia Downs will no longer be called a racino or be using the term video lottery terminals. The New York State Lottery Commission has give Batavia Downs the okay to call itself a Casino with slot machines.

Its been going on for months now- a heated debate over an electronic bingo venue that is expected to be built in the upcoming entertainment complex-Country Crossing.The Houston County Commission has been working on the legalities of the ordinance, and will be voting to approve the application for a bingo permit.

FAMILIES and pensioners cashing in on the Federal Government’s $10.4 billion handout package today have been warned not to waste it all on booze and pokies.

The Broadview Heights Senior Center has a bingo program twice a month on Tuesdays. The free game, on the first and second Tuesdays, started this week with 25 players. It runs from 11 a.m. to noon (or until prizes run…

With the excitement of the final elimination on day 3 of the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final subsided, focus has firmly shifted to the opening session of the APPT Sydney High Roller event.

Representatives of some of the world’s major sporting bodies have proposed the creation of a global anti-corruption agency to deal with match-fixing and corruption in sport.

AN 80-year-old Manny Pacquiao fan died of a heart attack while watching the fight inside the Lapu-Lapu City Sports Complex yesterday. A cook, 28, was also shot while watching the boxing match outside his shanty in the port area of Cebu City.