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News Brief: City Councilor George Rotondo wants to put out the welcome mat in Revere for a Cape Cod Indian tribe that soon may be looking for a place to build a casino.

Why learn how to play poker from a book when you can get a private lesson from the player who literally wrote the book?

News Brief: Harrah's has been bullish on the repositioning of Caesars Palace, designating the flagship brand for overseas expansion, particularly in Singapore, where it is pursuing a multibillion-dollar resort concession.

News Brief: Jumer's Casino Rock Island officials will announce today they will double-down on their construction project in southwest Rock Island.

News Brief: Canal Fulton Mayor John Grogan said Friday that he"s been told by developer Steve DiPietro that the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is exclusively negotiating with Canal Fulton on plans for a gaming site in the area.

Convention authority officials in October will lead a weeklong business recruiting trip to Mumbai and New Delhi, India, to pursue more trade show business.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $61 million.

Steve Wynn celebrated the first anniversary of Wynn Las Vegas Friday with a ground-breaking ceremony for the resort's second hotel-tower.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers in Friday's drawing, the Mega Millions jackpot grows to an estimated $41 million for the Tuesday, May 2, 2006 drawing.

The Small Town Poker Tour announced today a series of Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournaments at Indian casinos across the country. Proceeds from the tournaments will benefit the North American Indigenous Games.

Wynn Resorts will break ground on its newest expansion, Encore, on the site of the original Desert Inn.

News Brief: For four years, members of Lincoln’s Vietnamese Buddhist community have scrimped and saved for their dream of a new temple. Now they’re $400,000 closer — thanks to a gift from Powerball winner Quang Dao.

News Brief: The Missouri Gaming Commission on Wednesday fined Ameristar’s Kansas City casino $5,000 for improperly posting a $20,000 lid on Pai Gow poker jackpots.

Nevada Gold & Casinos, Inc. reports that the New York State Racing and Wagering Board granted a temporary conditional track license to Nevada Gold NY, Inc. on behalf of Tioga Downs

News Brief: The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority has been removed from the laundry list of defendants in a civil lawsuit filed, aimed at preventing the Seneca Nation of Indians from building the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino in downtown Buffalo.

News Brief: Next month, Pechanga Resort & Casino near Temecula will become the latest tribal gaming hall in California to require table game dealers to pool their tips and split them equally instead of keeping what they make individually.

Allegiant Air, the Las Vegas-based low-fare air carrier, has abruptly canceled an ad deal with Bodog.com, an online casino company that would have turned six of the airline's jets into flying billboards.

News Brief: The odds of a casino coming to the Lehigh Valley, the Poconos or both got better this week as opposition to a proposed $650 million slots parlor, hotel and convention center in Limerick Township intensified.

The board of directors for the casino industry's top lobbying group agreed unanimously this week to call for a one-year study of Internet gambling by a federal commission.

Whether Las Vegas gaming and hospitality employees will stay away from their jobs to participate in the planned Day Without Immigrants protest was anyone's guess.