2008 December 18 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

The Maryland Slots Commission held it’s first meeting Thursday.

Request for bids is expected to be sent to potential operators Friday At its first meeting tonight, the commission that will award licenses to run slot-machine casinos in Maryland approved a 150-page request for bids that is expected to be sent to potential operators Friday.

Responding to an order by the state Supreme Court, Attorney General Troy King on Wednesday filed a motion asking the court to allow his office to intervene in the electronic bingo suit currently before the court.

Gov. Charlie Crist is pushing lawmakers to quickly approve an invalidated gambling deal with the Seminoles while Attorney General Bill McCollum is asking federal authorities to shut them down.

An English-only rule at the card tables in Saskatchewan’s government-owned casinos sends a bad signal to visitors, the province’s francophone association says.

The Reel Life wants to state for the record that it does not use performance-enhancing drugs when playing the online slots. Well, unless coffee and Diet Coke are considered performance-enhancing. When one thinks of doping scandals, they think of Ben Johnson or BALCO or the Mitchell Report.

Donald Trump’s casino company on Thursday filed suit in federal court to get another shot at a potentially lucrative slot-machine license in Philadelphia.

Slot machines in the smoking sections of Pennsylvania casinos have performed far better in the last three months than machines in nonsmoking sections.

Officials of The Meadows Racetrack & Casino are planning in April or May to open their permanent facility, which will at least temporarily be the largest in Pennsylvania, more than doubling the number of its slot machines