SPRINGFIELD — A state report shows Illinoisans are gambling less, and the state’s budget is suffering as a result.

Why would the Times run quotes slamming its own work? This Sunday, The New York Times turned in a 4,500 word investigation into John McCain’s relationship with gambling and the gambling industry.

The Poker Hall of Fame is a group of poker players who have played poker well against top competition for high stakes over a long period of time. Originally established by the Horseshoe Casino, membership is now awarded by Harrah’s World Series of Poker.Members of the Poker Hall of Fame include [...]

Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — Intralot SA , the world’s second- biggest gambling services provider, agreed to buy 21 percent of Lawrence Ho ’s Melco LottVentures Ltd. for HK$305 million ($39 million) because of rising lottery-ticket sales in China.

An Asian Handicap is a sports betting term used to describe spread betting in football (soccer). Described as Asian because of its Eastern origins, the phrase has little else to do with the region. This form of soccer betting has gained increased popularity over the last few years and is now offered [...]

John McCain, Congress?s most influential member on gambling issues, has a history with the industry complicated by personal ties and opposing loyalties.

One dollar chips from various Las Vegas casinos.
Casino tokens are small colored metal or plastic discs used in gambling establishments.
There are two main types of tokens used in casinos: multicolor tokens of various denominations called chips, used primarily in table games; and metal token coins, used primarily in slot machines. Some [...]

Canadians contributed five times more to government coffers through gambling last year than they did 15 years before, with Prairie residents spending the most, a new Statistics Canada report shows.

State is attempting to seize the domain names of 141 gambling sites in an effort to stop illegal online gaming. Domains in question include absolutepoker.com and pokerstars.com.

In Baccarat Chemin de Fer, it will have been noticed that a given bank only continues so long as the banker wins. So soon as he loses, it passes to another player. In Baccarat Banque the position of banker is much more permanent. Three packs of cards are shuffled together. (The number [...]

Former Milford, N.H., Selectman Doug Bianchi has been handed a suspended jail sentence, a fine and 200 hours of community service after being convicted of helping a gambling operation at the town’s Veterans of Foreign Wars post.

A court hearing on whether the state of Kentucky can gain control of the names of more than 140 online gambling Web site names has been delayed.

Ace Invaders is a three line video poker game produced by International Gaming Technology. The game plays like other multi line video poker games except the bottom line is a Bonus Poker game, while the top two lines are both stud poker based games. The pay schedule for the Bonus Poker game [...]

A progressive jackpot is a jackpot (highest payoff) for a gaming machine (usually a slot machine or video poker machine) where the value of the jackpot increases a small amount for every game played. Normally multiple machines are “linked” together to form one large progressive jackpot that grows more quickly because [...]

A federal judge has dismissed a $20 million racketeering lawsuit against seven casinos by a former New York City attorney who said they had a duty to stop her from gambling. In a ruling issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Renee Bumb wrote that Arelia Margarita Taveras failed to support her claim that gambling [...]

Get real on web gambling
Kansas City Star, MO
Rick’s Gambling & Tourism column in today’s Star Business Weekly looks at the US’s untenable position in the worldwide on-line gambling industry. …
State cracks down on Net gambling
Kentucky.com, KY
By Jack Brammer FRANKFORT — Kentucky is commandeering 141 domain names of Internet gambling sites in [...]

A timeline of events surrounding the gambling scandal involving former NBA referee Tim Donaghy.

Tuesday will mark a historical moment for the NBA, but not what it wants to commemorate. The league has determined that for the first time in major professional U.S. sports, a referee will walk into prison a convicted felon on a gambling charge related to his employment.

Russian roulette (in Russian: (Русская) Рулетка, оr (Russkaya) Rulyetka) is the practice of placing a single round in a revolver, spinning the cylinder and closing it into the firearm without looking, aiming the revolver at one’s own head in a suicidal fashion, and pulling the trigger. The number of rounds placed [...]

MANILA, Philippines—The unprecedented, seemingly irremediable inflationary trends that everybody experiences today may have so robbed Trade Secretary Peter Favila of his sense of Christian discipline and values that he now wants to make this country a gambling capital like Malaysia, Singapore and Las Vegas.