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Since no ticket matched all six numbers to take home the jackpot, that jackpot grows to an estimated $23 million for the Friday, July 28, 2006 drawing.

Electronic Game Card, Inc. confirms that the Santa Ana Star Casino has signed an agreement to use Electronic GameCards in a promotion for its gaming property in the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico.

The lotteries of Delaware, Rhode Island, and West Virginia have begun operation of America's first multi-state video lottery game.

The Missouri casino industry has launched a campaign to provide positive messages about casinos and a toll-free helpline on the back of “ticket-in ticket-out” stubs, the bar-coded tickets that have replaced metal tokens in most slot machines.

Boyd Gaming Corporation reports that it has reached an agreement to sell the South Coast Hotel and Casino to Michael Gaughan.

Penn National Gaming, Inc. reports that Amy McHale has been named General Manager of the Company's Bullwhackers Casinos in Black Hawk, Colorado.

Phil Hellmuth made World Series of Poker history by claiming his 10th gold bracelet early Wednesday morning.

News Brief: Five years ago, Stella Romanski set out to have lunch with her girlfriends. Now she's in the U.S. Supreme Court defending a judgment in her favor of $600,779. And 5 cents.

News Brief: Times are a-changing at the Golden Nugget hotel and casino and some familiar faces will be missing as the 60-year-old resort tries to maintain its customer base during its first phase of a million makeover.

News Brief: A Feb. 2 fund-raising dinner for Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle yielded $135,000 - much of it from backers of a proposed off-reservation casino, including local construction firms eager to capture a slice of the $808 million casino-hotel development.

News Brief: An Indian gaming reform bill sponsored by Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., that would bar tribes from establishing casinos off of their reservations has hit a snag, with more than a half-dozen senators putting a 'hold' on the legislation.

News Brief: Pennsylvania's top gambling regulator will not be charged with a crime despite being accused by Louisiana officials with falsifying records and collecting pay for hours she didn't work at a previous job there.

News Brief: The City Council will consider today whether Biloxi should allow gambling at two areas across from sand beaches, but Mayor A.J. Holloway said he will use his veto power to prevent the city's waterfront from going ‘wholesale casino.’

News Brief: A luxurious new casino, which opens Friday to the public, is part of a $111 million construction project at Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel that represents the most costly expansion ever at an Iowa gambling complex.

One established professional won his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet on Monday night, while another will be looking to make history with his 10th tonight.

Discovery Cruise Line launches a new cruise package that includes a stay at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

The Small Town Poker Tour will kick off round one of 2006 STPT Amateur Championships July 29 in Monroe, Louisiana.

It was a classic battle of the old guard versus the young gun, and after World Series of Poker (WSOP) veteran Jason Lester taught the young bull a quick lesson in heads up play, he left the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino in the traditional way, with a gold bracelet around his wrist and $550,764 in cash in a cardboard box.

The meteoric growth of the poker business has blinded the gaming industry's cops, and they seem unable to deal with the new realities that have accompanied the rise of Internet poker.

ews Brief: Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel officials will finally be able to show off their new facilities during Friday’s grand opening ceremony.