2010 December 31 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

This year has been absolutely amazing. It’s been full of change, loved ones, unforgettable experiences, and lots of poker, but when I look back at 2010, what I will undoubtedly remember most is my move to work for PokerNews .

For the better part of 25 years, Mike McMahon occasionally swapped his management cloak for a bookie’s hat, collecting bets for the officewide betting pool at the West Coast headquarters for retailer Mervyns corporate offices.

Upping his bet Billionaire investor Carl Icahn plans to pump still more cash into his bid to buy Donald Trumps bankrupt casinos, according to papers filed in federal court. Icahn already had agreed to buy a majority of the $486 million bank debt on the three properties: Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort and Trump Marina Hotel Casino. In the latest filing, Icahn …

Deborah Giardina was running the Wynn Hotel poker room in Las Vegas last summer when she noticed that many of her regular players were not at the tables.

John Rosholt pursues one of his passions - rock climbing - in an undated family photo.

In Montana, license fee income generated by video poker machines fell 16% in 2010, even though the number of machines on location increased 3%, according a report issued by the Montana Gambling Control Division .

It’s nearly five years since No-Limit Texas Hold’em was introduced to the world’s live gaming capital a ‘ Macau.

John Racener will never be the same. As the year wound to a close, he was making an offer on a home on the coveted Bayshore Boulevard, after cashing in a lump sum check worth $5.55 million.

A court action in which the pro-online gambling action group Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association is involved entered a new phase this week when the U.S. Department of Justice opposed an attempt to legalise sports betting in the state of New Jersey. The Department notified Judge Garrett E, Brown of its opposition to the […]