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News Brief: A field of 500 poker players is expected next week to attend the 10th Annual Shooting Star Tournament at Bay 101 in San Jose, California.

News Brief: The inventor of Dab It Poker, a game that mixes poker and bingo, is planning on spreading the game nationally.

News Brief: New York state could enjoy a more-than-$2 billion windfall if it sold its three thoroughbred racetracks and its interests in video lottery terminals and off-track betting to the highest bidders, according to a study set for release today.

News Brief: The state may step in to help some East Davie residents who have long complained of the loud bass noise emanating from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

At a media session before last Sunday's National Basketball Association All-Star Game in Houston, one of the sport's biggest stars was asked his opinion on next year's All-Star host.

The Las Vegas gateway hosted nearly 3.5 million people last month, up 5.9 percent from January 2005, the Clark County Aviation Department said Friday.

News Brief: The Cherokees would like to expand the Harrah’s Cherokee Casino to having live games, a move that could bring in more tourists and provide more jobs in the Western North Carolina community.

News Brief: The Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe of Martha's Vineyard will assert a right to build a resort casino under Indian gaming law if Massachusetts legalizes slot machines at the s

News Brief: Competitors for the lone Pittsburgh slots license already are consulting nearby training centers, hoping to fill the thousands of expected job openings with a healthy share of locally groomed employees.

News Brief: Despite a healthy investment rating, an impressive acquisition of Caesars and the largest stable of casinos among the world's gaming firms, Harrah's is still being haunted by a New Orleans casino that never really lived up to its early promises.

News Brief: The leaders of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe are watching the U.S. Senate carefully, wondering if the federal law that governs Tribal gaming operations might be revised.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the Mega Millions jackpot, the jackpot for the Tuesday, February 28, 2006 drawing grows to an estimated $256 million.

News Brief: Joliet's top financial officer is linking a surge in gambling revenue to the expiration of a two-year state tax increase on casinos.

News Brief: There’s a lot of slot talk at the new Diamond Jo Casino as hundreds of new slow machines start filling up the new casino.

News Brief: Casino operators vying for licenses to run slot parlors along Pennsylvania’s I-95 corridor are promising to pour money into city neighborhoods.

News Brief: Planet Hollywood's proposed casino on the riverfront would generate between $23 million and $60 million in gambling tax revenue for the federal, state and city governments in its first year, and generate at least 2,300 jobs, according to an economic-impact report made public yesterday.

News Brief: After failing in his bid two years ago to bring a casino to downtown Rochester, local mall magnate Thomas Wilmot is once again setting his sights on the small town of S

Caesars Tahoe is just months away from officially becoming the MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa, and today the property unveiled the names and concepts for its four new restaurants.

An ACLU representative told the Nevada Gaming Commission that government agencies and officials’ attempts to exert control over the type of entertainment that can be booked into Nevada casinos is unconstitutional.

Don Barden, founder of the privately held Barden Cos., announced the acquisition of downtown Las Vegas office space that will help the company expand Fitzgeralds.