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Hollywood Poker Club is inviting everyone to a sneak preview celebration with a huge free celebrity tournament.

News Brief: House Speaker John M. Perzel last week proposed changing the chamber's internal rules to bar most forms of ownership in gambling companies.

No one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing, so the jackpot will grow to an estimated $177 million.

A single Mega Millions ticket matched all six numbers in the Friday, October 1, 2004 drawing for the estimated $101 million jackpot.

Lottery players in Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Waterloo and Cedar Falls have the first chance at playing the first electronic scratch game beginning today.

News Brief: Slot machines, playing cards and even the famed Las Vegas skyline won't be on Nevada's quarter.

News Brief: Courts are finding that casinos have no duty to protect compulsive gamblers from themselves, even if players are on a blacklist.

News Brief: Horse racing account-wagering companies might not be affected by recent amendments added to a pair of bills being considered for federal anti-terrorism legislation that would restrict the use of credit cards for Internet gambling.

News Brief: The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a dispute over tribal gambling, a victory for California tribes and their new high-profile supporter, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

News Brief: Indiana's riverboat casinos must pay an estimated $200 million in back taxes under a ruling that the state Supreme Court let stand.

News Brief: Voters will decide Nov. 2 how much power they should have over gambling expansion in Michigan.

News Brief: Six casinos were granted relief Saturday from the thousands of union workers picketing their properties in a contract dispute that saw 11,000 hotel and restaurant workers walk off the job early Friday morning.

News Brief: For the first time since California voters legalized Nevada-style gambling on Indian lands, two tribes are negotiating with San Diego County to reach agreements that are required before they can break ground on casinos.

News Brief: The chairman of the Kansas Tribal Affairs Committee says the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska is considering building a casino in Sedgwick County, and Wichita's former mayor is part of the effort.

News Brief: Some casinos around the Midwest are working to please their customers by cleaning up the smoke-filled air in their establishments.

News Brief: The Ho-Chunk Nation's interest in building a casino in south suburban Lynwood, which it announced earlier this year, has sparked a debate that has raged with barely a reprieve.

News Brief: Two years of dockside gambling in Indiana have meant a cash windfall for the state's beleaguered budget and for local governments.

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

The gaming industry's best and brightest, big companies and small, will raise the curtain Tuesday on the very latest, hottest and hippest in gaming technology as the Global Gaming Expo 2004 opens at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board on Friday endorsed a common stock offering designed to raise $575 million for the company building the $1.6 billion Palazzo megaresort on the Strip and expanding to Macau.