2011 June 22 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Earlier today, the entertainment world was rocked to its core by the news of an FBI investigation into secretive games of super-high-stakes celebrity poker.

ANGUILLA — (PRESS RELEASE) — Bingo.com , Ltd. , owner of the popular online gaming community Bingo.com today announced that it has appointed Jason Williams as President and CEO of the Bingo.com organization.

Lewis said Smith never told him how to vote on the bingo bill or offered him money if he would vote for it.

In this Jan. 24, 2011 file photo, Tobey Maguire, a cast member in “The Details,” is interviewed at the premiere of the film at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

A gambler mistakenly got a handsome payout at a Pennsylvania casino.

COMMENTARY | If the “Michigan Is Yours” group gets its way, seven new casinos will be built in the Michigan cities of Grand Rapids, Romulus, Detroit, Lansing, Mount Clemens, Saginaw, and Battle Creek. MIY bedazzles locals with promises of community funding and job creation. They speak half-truths with a forked tongue, however.

A few months back, I sat in a Sao Paulo churrascaria eating chicken hearts and sipping on a cold beer.

Compulsive gamblers are addicts no less than alcoholics and kleptomaniacs. Whether it’s online or at casino gaming tables, it can hurt people. Consider the case in Fife, Wash. On Sunday, a couple booked a motel and left their 3-year-old daughter alone while they headed out to the Emerald Palace Casino for a night of gambling.

Gambling moves next door to Chicago when the new Rivers Casino opens in Des Plaines next month.