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News Brief: The Sarasota Kennel Club, hoping to improve its hand, so to speak, opened the area's only poker room on Friday, One-Eyed Jacks.

News Brief: The no-limit Texas Hold 'Em charity poker events at Great Lakes Downs can now live up to their no-limit name.

News Brief: As the Horseshoe Casino casino expands, so must its parking garage, all the way to the main dock of the Hammond Marina.

News Brief: Casino operators nationwide are set to re-invest millions into their surveillance departments in order to replace aging analog recording devices with new digital technology.

ews Brief: The Draft Tribal Environmental Impact Report, prepared for the Pala Indian band analyzes the tribal casino expansion project's potential effects on traffic, water, public safety and eight other issues of concern, finding all can be mitigated satisfactorily.

News Brief: Richmond city council members last week approved a contract to provide services for a casino planned for unincorporated North Richmond, California.

ews Brief: Gamblers are flocking by the thousands by bus to the French Lick Resort Casino.

News Brief: Majestic Star Casino would deliver the biggest jackpot for taxpayers if it gets Pittsburgh's casino license, according to a state study released Monday.

ews Brief: Crawford County leaders pleaded with the Harrison County Council last night not to reduce the more than $1.5 million a year in revenue from casino taxes that Harrison sends them.

News Brief: The new, $20 million Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians casino is accepting job applications at its hiring fair.

News Brief: California’s unions and casino-operating tribes are poised to take up the casino compact struggle again as a new Legislature goes to work in January.

ews Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review lower court rulings against the Delaware Nation in a lawsuit that ultimately could have allowed the American Indian tribe to open a casino in Forks Township.

Hollywood Casino of Tunica, MS and their agency-of-record hawkeye | GROUP of Dallas, TX were big winners again at the Sixth Annual American Gaming Association Communications Awards.

Hoosier Park concluded its 12th season of Thoroughbred racing Saturday, Nov. 25. The meet offered 59 full days of racing, beginning Sept. 2.

40 gamblers told executives at the Global Gaming Expo that they want better freebies, more engaging slot machines and fewer junk mailers.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

When Nevada's first American Indian-run casino opened here in 1995, it didn't draw much attention. But 11 years later, Laughlin casino operators are noticing.

Change is an experience Laughlin casino operators, employees and visitors have been enduring and will continue to tolerate well into next year.

Dozens of sign-carrying protesters marched outside Wynn Las Vegas in a demonstration organized by the International Union of Gaming Employees, an inactive union that doesn't officially represent dealers at the resort or anywhere else on the Strip.

News Brief: On the surface, little appears to have changed in terms of Bangor"s social fabric since Hollywood Slots at Bangor opened its doors a year ago this month.