Gambling

Rita Coleman sat in her usual comfy chair at her usual video terminal at Johnny's Rec Room in Pompano Beach on Monday, but there was something unusual perched near her screen. It was an envelope addressed to Florida governor Rick Scott, containing a four-...

The Players Poker Championship (PPC) South America Poker Classic (SAPC) in Aruba is less than a month away, with the PPC returning to the island May 4-9 at the Radisson Aruba poker room. Vincenzo Giannelli from Venezuela will be the featured pro at...

DOWAGIAC — The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians will open its third area casino, this one in Dowagiac, at noon April 30, the tribe announced Monday. Although much smaller than the Pokagons’ gaming facility in New Buffalo and half the size of...

The World Poker Tour Showdown returns April 1-16 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, with a nine-flight opening tournament, the televised $5,000 buy-in WPT Main Event and a $20,000 high roller event. That's a pretty good variety. The opening...

 Those of you in the industry already knew this, but I'm a few days behind: Mike Smith has left the Isle Casino and Racing to open a new 55-table poker room at Maryland Live! Casino. He'll reunite with his friend Rob Norton, who is Maryland Live!...

The state's casinos had the largest decline ever for slot revenues in February, with both Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun posting steep declines. Together slot revenues slipped 20.5 percent, the worst month since December 2007 when the casinos'...

Just sharing what was sent to me... Local, state and federal law enforcement officials and prosecutors today announced the charging of 57 individuals for their roles in an organized $300 million conspiracy orchestrated by Allied Veterans of the World. ...

The last Big East basketball tournament as we know it hits New York's stage this week at Madison Square Garden. What sportswriter Dan Wetzel recently described as "the most honest event in college sports" is breaking up after a messy divorce that will...

Chad Barnhill, the general manager of the Horseshoe Casino that will be constructed along Russell Street, is in Cincinnati today to observe a sort of soft opening (the Cincinnati newspaper is live blogging the event) for the Horseshoe Casino there that...

Already fierce competitors, Nevada and New Jersey are preparing to open a second front in their fight for gambling dollars, this time in the virtual world of online gaming. On Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a law legalizing Internet...

The company that spent $42 million in a failed attempt to block expanded gambling in Maryland will be the first to introduce table games in the state. Hollywood Casino, owned by Penn National, got preliminary permission Tuesday to operate 20 table...

DOWAGIAC — If gambling appeals to you, as it does to many in the area as reflected by the success of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians’ Four Winds casinos in New Buffalo and Hartford, Mich., there soon will be another venue available to...