31 news articles found
Gaming Board hears pitch for resort casino near Harrisburg - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
... both strongly urged the state Gaming Control Board not to grant a gambling license to a modest Holiday Inn five miles west of Harrisburg. Developers want to turn the Holiday Inn into a "resort casino" that would ...
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Legal Internet gambling may help big casino firms, hurt small ones - Las Vegas Sun
casino companies see a potential gold mine in legalizing Internet gambling, some operators of small ... The Nevada Resort Association , which represents larger casinos at the state level, has not taken a position ...
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Casinos, table games bring mixed results to Pa. communities
The opening of Pennsylvania casinos, such as Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs and Mount Airy Casino Resort, and the recent addition of table games have brought both positive and negative economic and social changes to nearby communities.Casinos are directly
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Downstream Casino Resort offers the excitement of Vegas - Daily Oklahoman
Two years ago — 10 months and 26 days after ground was broken — the resort opened with 2,000 gambling machines, 32 table games, a poker room and rooms for high-limit table games and slots in the casino.
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Legal Internet gambling may help big casino firms, hurt small ones
Although major U.S. casino companies see a potential gold mine in legalizing Internet gambling, some operators of small, neighborhood casinos in Nevada — which make up most of the properties in the world’s largest concentration of gambling halls — see problems.
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Downstream Casino Resort offers the excitement of Vegas
Downstream Casino Resort in the northeast corner of Oklahoma offers gambling, live entertainment, fine dining and a peek at Quapaw tribal history and culture.
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Nevada regulators probing MGM resort - ESPN.com
LAS VEGAS -- Nevada gambling regulators are investigating MGM Resorts International after Michael Jordan's underage son bragged on Twitter about partying at a nightclub on the Las Vegas Strip. Nevada ...
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Business.view: Singapore's gamble | The Economist
For Singapore, the immediate opportunity is to give the many business people who visit a reason to stay for the weekend rather than leave as soon as their work is done. Hitherto there has been little fun to be had other than hitting Orchard Road’s glitzy shopping malls. The new resorts have certainly learned from Las Vegas to offer the punters far more than just gambling. Marina Bay Sands will host international entertainers and celebrity chefs. Its SkyPark, convention facilities, art installations and so on are all set in a visually striking modern complex approached via the “world’s first curved double-helix bridge”.
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Police: Woman Leaves Child Alone At Casino Hotel
Connecticut state police say they arrested a Massachusetts woman on allegations she left her 9-year-old daughter alone in a hotel room while she went to a gambling area of Foxwoods Resort Casino.
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Casino proposed near Gettysburg battlefield divides townspeople in an old American resort - Minneapolis Star Tribune
This time it's the Mason Dixon Resort & Casino, proposed on a hotel ... Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board rejected LeVan's first plan in 2006 amid an outcry that gambling would sully the character of the battlefield ...
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Gambling conference moving Vegas venues in 2011 - AP - msnbc.com
The gambling industry's marquee conference is moving to the Sands Expo and Convention Center ... owned by Venetian resort owner Las Vegas Sands Corp. The conference and trade show holds its 10th meeting this year,
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Expansion of Gaming Likely a Threat to CT
Q&A talks gaming with Clyde W. Barrow, director of the Center for Policy Analysis at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. The center began studying casino gaming in 1995 when then Gov. William Well proposed a gambling site in New Bedford. By 2004, it became apparent that casino gaming would remain a perennial issue in most New England states, so the center established the New England ...
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Macau Casino Gambling Revenue Rises 40% on VIP Tables - BusinessWeek
plans to invest an additional HK$800 million ($103 million) to accelerate construction of a Macau casino resort to tap the gambling boom, Chairman Lui Che Woo said in Hong Kong Aug. 31. The company also said Aug. 31 ...
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