2009 October 07 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

ALBANY - Although gambling revenues are on the decline nationally, New York’s lottery and video-gaming venues are outpacing last year’s sales, state records show.

Top Chef Las Vegas finally does some Vegas-ey type of stuff when the Quickfire is at the hands of a Slot machine and the chefs get paired up and, eventually, get pissed off at each other. Just another day on the Las Vegas strip as we watch the brothers, Michael and Brian Voltaggio, along with […] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Top Chef Las Vegas Chefs Cook In A Small Kitchen”, url: “[[[SHIFTOUT …

Key sticking points - natural gas drilling on state lands, table games in casinos, and a welfare bill - continued to hold up Pennsylvania’s state budget on Wednesday, the eve of the 100th day since the state’s fiscal year began without a full spending plan.

An M.E.C. bacon bingo is slated for Sunday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the arena auditorium.

TAIPEI, Oct 8 Although residents of the Penghu Islands last month voted against allowing casinos there, Taiwan has not ruled out another throw of the dice. An eager party from another group of islands, Kinmen, has applied for a vote on casinos during its county elections in December. The government is also moving ahead with plans to draft laws regulating casino operations on its remote islands …

Las Vegas Sports Consultants, which recommends betting lines for 90 percent of casinos in Nevada, set the Colorado Rockies odds to win the World Series at 14-to-1. The Rockies are not the longest shots on the board. The Twins are a bigger underdog…

Electronic charity bingo could be in trouble, thanks to the election of some bingo opponents to Birminghams City Council.

Retired for nearly five years, Sherman Lewis was about to go to the senior center to call a bingo game when the Washington Redskins phoned. Lewis, therefore, left behind one set of “I’s” — I-18? I-20? — and instead became a “fresh set of eyes,” inserting himself in an awkward situation with a struggling team.

City has 3 bingo halls