2009 January 09 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

The company that spent $36 million to defeat a gambling measure last year has returned with a proposal to transform Ohio’s seven horse-racing tracks into gambling emporiums and allow four casinos in cities. Penn National Gaming Inc., the owner of a Toledo racetrack and one of the nation’s deepest-pocketed gambling companies, is talking to lawmakers about sponsoring a November 2009 ballot …

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The administrator of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, based in Owyhee on the Nevada-Idaho border, is taking steps to get a gambling compact with the state of Nevada.

Jail terms and administrative punishments have been handed out to six senior officials from Guangdong who used public money to fund their gambling habits, the provincial commission for discipline inspection said on Thursday.

Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (4:57 p.m.) The administrator of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, based in Owyhee on the Nevada-Idaho border, is taking steps to get a gambling compact with the state of Nevada.

FRANKFORT Legislation to expand gambling at Kentucky racetracks appears poised to clear the state House in coming weeks, a key milestone advocates have never before breached. Still, the odds that slot machines will ka-ching in Kentucky anytime soon remain long. Newly-elected House Speaker Greg Stumbo on Friday again filed legislation to allow video lottery terminals, or slots, at …

CLEVELAND — Ohio voters have said no to gambling four times.

Revenue at Atlantic City’s 11 casinos took a record-breaking plunge last month — the final insult in a second straight down year in a resort that’s still not used to losing streaks.

Poker wunderkind Tom “durrrr” Dwan has never been afraid of mixing it up at the tables, especially if the stakes are sky-high. So it should be no surprise that the 22-year-old Full Tilt pro is issuing a $1 …

Revenue at Atlantic City’s 11 casinos took a record-breaking plunge last month the final insult in a second straight down year for the resort city.