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Poker Jackpots (12/10/00)

Although Harrah's Las Vegas announced last week that the property's poker room is closing on Wednesday, the Strip resort won't be able to keep the accumulated bad-beat jackpots to which the room's poker players have contributed. Nevada gaming regulations require such jackpots to be awarded when a game is removed by conducting a concluding contest, tournament or promotion.

Parents, not casinos, blamed for growth in gambling addiction among children (12/07/00)

If your child or grandchild is under 21, the thought that he or she could be addicted to gambling is probably one of the least of your worries. After all, every casino in Nevada is forbidden to allow minors to gamble. And casinos, fearing retribution from the Gaming Control Board if minors are caught violating this rule, are usually quick to 86 offenders.

U.S. denies itself a stake in online betting industry (12/03/00)

LAS VEGAS - There was a time, not so long ago, when high-tech gambling meant learning the results of distant horse races via a wire that linked clandestine bookie joints from coast to coast. While the games themselves have changed little, betting has come a long way since the days chronicled in ''The Sting'' and ''Bugsy.'' The wire has given way to the Web, and oddsmakers based in Australia or the Caribbean use a digital tote board and credit cards to pick the pockets of gamblers in faraway lands.

Terrible's casino slates Wednesday opening (11/30/00)

Terrible's hotel-casino, the new Herbst family property on the site of the old Hotel Continental at Flamingo and Paradise roads, plans to open at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Terrible's general manager, Mark Sterbens, said the property's various life, fire and safety inspections are going well.

Strange figure in Binion case was a long-shot winner for prosecution (11/29/00)

It has been said that timing is everything in life. The examples are all around you. In baseball, the difference between a home run and a pop-up is about a pencil's width on a Louisville Slugger. In music, today's pop star is tomorrow's one-hit wonder and the answer to next week's oldies trivia question. If you're still not convinced timing is everything in life, look at the odd, strange trip Missoula, Mont., resident Kurt Gratzer finds himself on.

ONLINE GAMBLING: Stupak admits part in linking city seal, site (11/15/00)

Former Stratosphere developer writes letter to recognize he authored vegasone.com idea . After weeks of carefully chosen wording, Las Vegas businessman Bob Stupak has acknowledged his role as the author of a plan to link the city's seal to an Internet gambling site. The admission was delivered in a two-page fax sent to City Hall Sunday evening, as the City Council awaited a scheduled Wednesday meeting to consider the vegasone.com proposal.

E-gambling could get trial run (10/30/00)

Mayor proposes city lend name for money. A proposed Internet gambling site with ties to the city of the Las Vegas could have a three-month trial period. Mayor Oscar Goodman proposed the test run during a Monday City Council meeting to consider whether such a site should operate with the city's official name and seal.

As state, tribes argue, casinos keep going up (10/30/00)

SACRAMENTO -- Sprawling Indian casinos are going up all over California even though the state and tribes are at loggerheads over critical environmental standards. With many tribes racing against a May 15 deadline to open, the first big wave of construction likely will have passed before any agreement is reached on exactly what environmental protections are required by the state's Indian gambling compacts.

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A review of newer casino games including video poker.

NCAA urged to work with casino sports books (10/27/00)

CARSON CITY -- Nevada Gaming Commission Chairman Brian Sandoval Thursday asked the National Collegiate Athletic Association to work with regulators and the casino industry to help improve the state's college betting rules. Speaking at the commission's monthly meeting, Sandoval emphasized that his proposed $550-a-bet limit on college sporting events is a tentative proposal.

Reputed mob adviser banned from Illinois casinos (10/24/00)

CHICAGO (AP) - A man federal prosecutors once called the Chicago mob's "Wizard of Odds" has been banned from Illinois riverboat casinos, state gambling regulators announced Monday. Illinois Gaming Board officials moved to bar Donald John Angelini of Elmhurst from the state's casinos after he was spotted recently on an Illinois riverboat, Gaming Board spokesman Gene O'Shea said.

Nostalgia flows like fine wine as city's Old Timers get together (10/24/00)

You need only attempt to drive across town to be reminded that Las Vegas has changed forever. It is no longer a small town, but one of America's great economic success stories. Las Vegas has changed so dramatically and so rapidly, in fact, that it is not easy for newcomers to appreciate the funky small town that existed here not so long ago. Sunday night at the Stardust, a thousand kindred spirits met to turn back the clock at the fifth annual Old Time Reunion. It was a gathering of an increasingly rare character in Southern Nevada: The longtime Las Vegas resident.

AOL angers many by closing its bingo casino site (10/23/00)

NASHUA, N.H. -- For years, Sandi Simoneau of Nashua and her friend Patti-Ann Denapoli of Derry have been volunteer hosts in a family-oriented bingo chat room on America Online called RobbitJack Casino. It dates back to the days when AOL was called Quantum. Although the games were the focus of the casino -- no money changed hands, only tokens "good for bragging rights" -- the real draw was the camaraderie members had developed in this classic "cyber-community."

Indians' casinos could push California past Nevada to No. 1 (10/19/00)

LAS VEGAS - California eventually may become the largest statewide casino gambling market in the country, exceeding even Nevada, according to a panel of American Indian gambling industry experts. Citing reports by casino industry experts and Wall Street investment bankers, the panel predicted that tribal government casinos in the Golden State will generate from $4.7 billion to $10 billion a year by 2004. "I would suggest to you that there is no place in the country that has more growth potential than Indian gaming in California," Jacob Coin, executive director of the California Nations Indian Gaming Association, told attendees of the Executive Gaming Summit 2000 on Tuesday in Las Vegas.

Voters to decide whether to turn fallout shelter into a casino (10/19/00)

EDT WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) -- Decades ago, the government built a fallout shelter in the mountains where members of Congress could sit out a nuclear war. Now with the Cold War over, the elegant Greenbrier resort wants to turn the bunker into an exclusive casino. County voters will decide Nov. 7 whether to create West Virginia's first casino.

WORK OF ART FOR HEADS UP WINNER. (10/16/00)

The winner of the inaugural World Heads Up Championship will walk away not only with a six figure cash prize but also a trophy which will go up in value over the years. The organisers have commissioned an exclusive piece of sculpture by one of Europe's leading artists Etko Tutta. Etko Tutta of Slovenia specialises in paintings and bronzes with a gaming theme and his works have won international acclaim. His brief is to produce a unique bronze for the occasion. For those interested in the work of the artist it can be found on the internet on www.internetworldart.com

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