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A tax revenue analysis estimates that regulating Internet gambling would generate between $3.1 billion to $15.2 billion in federal revenues over its first five years, and between $8.7 billion to $42.8 billion over its first ten years.

The Florida Policy Roundtable objects to the deal Governor Charlie Crist signed earlier this week with the Seminole Tribe.

The Morongo Casino Resort & Spa will host Top Rank's big Thanksgiving holiday boxing card on Friday, Nov. 23.

News Brief: More people face arrests in the ongoing investigation of a $22 million illegal sports-gambling ring operated in a poker room at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, according to a local law-enforcement official..

Today, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission granted UNITE HERE Local 54 participant status in the Tropicana’s upcoming licensing hearing.

News Brief: Gamblers crowded the gaming floor Thursday morning minutes after the Nooksack Indian Tribe's new Nooksack Northwood Casino opened for business at 10 a.m.

News Brief: It got downright nasty yesterday at the Commerce Department hearing over whether Philadelphia has authority to grant the SugarHouse casino permission to build on submerged lands on the Delaware River waterfront.

News Brief: The first of the Agua Caliente Casino's new renovations will be unveiled Saturday when the $3 million Lounge opens.

News Brief: Monroe City Council and its administrators are trying to determine what the Eastern Shawnee Tribe has to do to locate a casino in the community.

News Brief: Analysts said that given the Seminoles' already solid financial base and the threat of federal government intervention, Florida didn't have much leverage to push for a better deal.

MGM Mirage Chairman and CEO Terry Lanni used the Nevada Development Authority's annual luncheon Thursday to say the free meal is over.

For Robert Earl, co-owner and restaurateur behind Planet Hollywood, has pulled in a lot of his Hollywood friends for the two-day event.

Las Vegas lawyer Kermitt Waters said Thursday that within two weeks he expects to file his initiative petition to let citizens decide whether to triple the casino gaming tax.

Mount Airy Casino Resort marked the grand opening of its brand new luxury hotel today.

News Brief: One of the largest illegal sports gambling rings to infiltrate an Atlantic City casino was broken up Wednesday when State Police charged 23 people.

News Brief: Sacramento County court judges ruled Wednesday that voters should decide the fate of four newly approved gambling agreements between the state and four Southern California American Indian tribes.

News Brief: The 9,000-member Thoroughbred Owners of California has formally endorsed a set of historic Indian gaming deals the legislature made with four politically astute tribes in the state.

News Brief: As soon as Gov. Charlie Crist and Seminole tribal chief Mitchell Cypress triumphantly announced the deal, threats of lawsuits and predictions of doom flew.

There are only 5 more days until sales start for the Million Dollar Raffle game.

Critics of a federal ban on Internet gambling urged lawmakers Wednesday to repair what they said was a flawed, selectively enforced law that infringes on personal liberties.