CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) – A plan to roll back a voter-approved ban on smoking in public places died weeks ago in the Nevada Legislature, but lobbyists for the gambling and tourism industries are using the last few days of the 2009 session to try to bring it back to life.

Fresh off a vote to increase Illinois’ income tax, senators approved a major gambling expansion to add another possible piece to the state’s budget puzzle.

A shill is an associate of a person selling goods or services who pretends no association to the seller and assumes the air of an enthusiastic customer. The intention of the shill is, using crowd psychology, to encourage other potential customers unaware of the set-up to purchase said goods or services. [...]

Labor organizations Monday said expanding gambling in New Hampshire could bring in more cash to shore up the state budget while providing much needed jobs.

Detroit — A Sterling Heights man accused of paying bribes to influence University of Toledo football and basketball games is to have no involvement with gambling and can’t even sell lottery tickets at the store where he works, a federal judge ordered Monday.

The value of a starting hand can change dramatically after the flop. Regardless of initial strength, any hand can flop the nuts—for example, if the flop comes with three 2s, any hand holding the fourth 2 has the nuts. Conversely, the flop can undermine the perceived strength of any hand—A♣ A♥ would [...]

Among deal’s requirements: No more betting, and stay out of Runyon’s The accused elderly ringleader of a gambling and loan-sharking operation run out of a local steakhouse has taken a plea deal that spares him from dying in a Florida prison.

May 8 (Bloomberg) — Olympic Entertainment Group AS , the only publicly traded casino operator in eastern Europe, reported a first-quarter loss as a recession in its main markets hit gambling demand.

A pick 6 is a type of wager offered by horse racing tracks. It requires bettors to select the winners of six consecutive races. Because of the great difficulty in picking six straight winners, plus the number of betting interests involved, payoffs for successful wagers are quite high, sometimes in the [...]

U.S. Representative Barney Frank will unveil legislation on Wednesday to roll back a U.S. ban on online gambling, he said in a statement on Tuesday.

A US congressman announced plans Tuesday to introduce legislation that would allow online gambling in the United States.

Roll your own is poker jargon used for a particular ruleset in certain poker variants, particularly in stud poker.In traditional stud poker games, cards are simply dealt to each player, either face up or face down according to the rules of the game being played, followed by betting. In roll your own [...]

The Republican minority leader in the Minnesota Senate is predicting that gambling revenue might end up helping lawmakers erase a $4.6 billion budget deficit.

Technical details will be worked out today or Tuesday The Legislature is scheduled to resume negotiations today on a gambling deal with the Seminole Tribe.

Two-up (also known as swei or swy) is a gambling game, and one of Australia’s many contributions to the world of gambling (another being the totalisator).
Rules of the Game
The game is conducted in a flat circle of approximately 20 feet (6 metres) or larger. The only equipment required (aside from materials for [...]

TALLHASSEE (FBW) – Contending Florida House Speaker Larry Cretul will be the “final arbiter” of whether there is a major expansion of gambling in the Legislature this year, Bill Bunkley is asking Florida Baptists to contact Cretul immediately and urge him to oppose gambling expansion.

Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety last week penned a letter to 11 ISPs asking them to block access to 200 gambling Web sites and their phone numbers because they violate a 1961 law known as the Wire Act.