JAMES Packers gamble on casinos has already cost him billions but the workers at his Macau investment are the latest to pay the price. Crown Macau sta....
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Gambling company now pushing own casino proposal
The company that spent $36 million to defeat a gambling measure last year has returned with a proposal to transform Ohios seven horse-racing tracks in....
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The Gambling Commission has found nothing
Last summer, officials from the Gambling Commission, accompanied by police officers, visited Kevin Wrights home and the base for Bobbys Fund.That mark....
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New East Manchester: Proposals for casino site coming in spring
Regeneration company New East Manchester has promised “hundreds of millions of pounds” will be invested in the area during 2009.Eddie Smith, chief exe....
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Casino plan for Excel revived
Excel could still become Londons premier gambling venue if plans to open a casino on the site are revived. Reports this week claimed Excel chiefs were....
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United Coin takes over management of Sparks casino
United Coin Machine Co., of Las Vegas, one of the state’s largest slot machine route operators, has agreed to run a small Sparks, Nevada, casino for a....
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Binion still casino hunting
Jack Binion is back in Las Vegas from a recent trip to Macau where he took a close look at the state of the casino business and decided that for the m....
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Mark Lipparelli named to the Nevada Gaming Board
Mark Lipparelli, a former employee of the Nevada Gaming Board who spent a number of years in executive positions with gaming companies, has been named....
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$135,000 winning lottery cards were printing errors
A CANADIAN who thought he had won $135,000 on four lottery scratch tickets has been told they were printing mistakes and he wont get the cash.Thomas N....
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Malta-based companies abetting illegal Internet gambling operations
Malta has served as a payment distribution base for the multi-billion dollar Bodog gambling empire, which is embroiled in an American Internal Revenue....
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Bets are off for Macau gambling boom
Macaus landscape shows the far reach of human ambition - land reclamations have joined up the two islands of Coloane and Taipa to make a gambling and ....
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Pubs given commercial gambling warning
Licensees have been warned not to allow commercial gambling on their premises after a customer was cautioned following an investigation in Chester. Th....
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Gamblers to be able to bet and win twice as much on slot machines
The machines maximum payout has been raised from £35 to £70 while users will be able to stake £1 rather than 50p, under a relaxation of the rules repo....
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Casinos given green light in Taiwan
After months of intense debate in government, the green light is finally given to embark on the development of a casino industry in the islands of Tai....
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Casino developer flips 15 CPW unit for $27M
A 2,848-square-foot apartment on the 38th floor of the tower at 15 Central Park West flipped for $27 million, twice its purchase price but less than i....
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Lottomatica seeking to capitalise on Italys burgeoning gambling habit
From the country that pioneered the modern form of lottery 500 years ago and whose Christmas tradition is to play tombola - bingo - it should come as ....
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Casinos Warm to the Idea of Legal Online Gaming
Strip casinos have been struggling lately to keep up their gaming revenues. Fewer people are visiting Las Vegas and that means even less are gambling.....
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Out in Nevada desert, gambling runs dry
First, a casino boom in Mesquite, now a bust. Its bad for the city and hard for its residents.Reporting from Mesquite, Nev. -- Two decades ago, real e....
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Excel in chase for big casino
THE home of the London Boat Show, the Excel exhibition centre in London’s Docklands, has revived plans to open a large casino. Excel is understood to ....
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Bookie pays out £3000 after taking pity on OAP for coupon mistake
A BIG-HEARTED bookie has paid out £3000 to a pensioner who bungled his betting slip. The 65-year-old has placed an identical fixed-odds coupon for 10 ....
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Player wins 2.79m jackpot at Grand Lisboa
On the night of December 30, a 29-year old female visitor from Nanjing won the progressive jackpot of 2.79 million Hong Kong dollars with a “Royal Flu....
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Gambling companies poised to turn page after year of sharp declines
Good riddance 2008.The average daily share prices of most of the major publicly traded casino operators and slot machine makers ended the year on a po....
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