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Mike Aponte and David Irvine, former members of the MIT blackjack team, will impart their blackjack wisdom to students during the year's first one-day group seminar.

Starting in March, El Cortez gamblers will be able to eat as they play slot machines and table games.

News Brief: Nevada gamblers bettors wagered $93.1 million on Sunday's game between the Indianapolis Colts and Chicago Bears, down from the 2006 total of $94.5 million.

News Brief: It's possible that a lottery in Wyoming could generate $12 million in annual revenue and profits between $1.4 million and $3.6 million, according the nonpartisan Legislative Service Office.

News Brief: A public opinion poll commissioned by a competitor of Pinnacle Entertainment’s proposed riverboat casino-hotel resort in south Baton Rouge indicates major local opposition to the project.

News Brief: Mohegan Sun on Feb. 25 will host a Chinese New Year celebration to ring in 2007 on the Chinese calendar.

News Brief: Casino Control Commissioner Michael C. Epps rejoined the agency Tuesday after a 64-day hiatus caused by delays in getting his nomination approved by the state Senate.

ews Brief: Oregon tribal officials broke ground Monday on a $40 million expansion of the Spirit Mountain Casino, featuring development of an events center, set of conference rooms and new youth activity center.

News Brief: Atlantic City Council is scheduled to vote on an ordinance to mostly ban smoking on casino floors at its 5 p.m. meeting today.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $77 million jackpot, the jackpot for the Friday, February 9, 2007 drawing grows to an estimated $91 million.

Vibrant Development Group has joined the East Coast Gaming Congress as an organizing producer.

Jamie Gold has agreed to settle a dispute over the World Series of Poker Main Event $12 million prize, according to the Associated Press.

Undeterred by an override of similar legislation last month by the Navajo Nation Council, Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., on Monday vetoed two more pieces of legislation that sought to create chapter gaming enterprises.

News Brief: The state’s take on any prospective table gambling revenue should be used to pay off West Virginia’s pension debts, said House Majority Leader Joe DeLong, D-Hancock.

News Brief: A federal judge sent a former state Teamsters union president back to prison for two years, saying he violated probation by continuing to run a video gambling ring after his release and likely before.

News Brief: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is close to approving a $600-million Monticello casino, his spokeswoman said.

ews Brief: The Mashpee Wampanoags are on the hunt for land that could be used for a casino as the debate over gambling heats up once again on Beacon Hill, sources familiar with the tribe’s search said.

News Brief: The Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska is getting a $1 million grant, but a lawyer says the tribe has no plans to use it to start up a casino in South Yankton, just across the Missouri River from Yankton.

News Brief: County officials have approved an investigation to allow for a referendum to let the Mississippi Band of Choctaws build a casino along Miss. 57 near Interstate 10.

News Brief: The opening of Western Pennsylvania's first slots parlor, that at Presque Isle Downs, appears likely to be delayed beyond the Feb. 15 target date.