California's Casino Boom
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Deals with Native American tribes boost further expansion of gaming in the state.
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California and Washington state are in the midst of a high-stakes, election-year showdown with American Indian tribes over casino gambling.
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Anti-obsession controls already in place Due to its proximity to mainland China, gambling development in Macau has exploded - recently even surpassing Las Vegas' legendary Strip in revenue terms - and international players, such as Ladbrokes, have been positioning themselves to expand into the mainland itself when the time is right.â¦
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In the early 1990s, Los Angeles' area Commerce Casino was a hot bed of activity. At the time, the casino was just a card room where low and high stakes poker was played. Off to a side room, the last dying breath of high-stakes Backgammon was still being played, and mostly by some of the top players in the world including "Action" Dan Harrington.   The casino was very popular and a lot of top players would play there when they were visiting the LA area. This caused a problem - lines for games, especially Poker, would get too long and players would get impatient.  The owner of the casino, a man I've never met, came up with a brilliant idea: install several pinball machines to keep the waiting list happy.
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From Stardust to just dust. The Las Vegas Strip's first mass-market casino-hotel was imploded early Tuesday in a hail of fireworks to make way for Boyd Gaming Corp.'s $4.4 billion megaresort Echelon.
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Updated casino games combining new technology and mechanical reel games.
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Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, the  heart of the U.S. gambling industry, are starting to feel the  pinch from a slower economy and high fuel prices after a  two-year run with Lady Luck.
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Sacramento -- The last time Californians saw the issue of gambling on a ballot, the question was whether to allow big-time casinos on Indian land.
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A winner with gamblers, Borgata Hotel Casino &amp; Spa wants to make room to accommodate more of them. The 2,010-room casino hotel, which is to break ground on a $200 million
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The march of the gamblers House of Cards- GIGSE 2007 The Tuesday morning session at the Global Interactive Gaming Summit and Expo (GIGSE) brought the focus back to the most important and dynamic gaming market in the world right now: the EU, where a series of decisions by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and liberalizing efforts by some member states have catalyzed a rapidly growing gambling sector.â¦
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Las Vegas-style super-casinos are a step closer after Prime Minister Tony Blair saw off a Commons rebellion over gambling reforms.
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SACRAMENTO  In a deal worth billions of dollars, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed to give a small Santa Rosa Indian tribe an exclusive gambling franchise for the entire San Francisco Bay area.
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The 124-year-old Hong Kong Jockey Club, whose racetrack revenues are one of the secrets of the territory's economic success, is facing a decidedly modern threat: glitzy casinos being built by Las Vegas operators in nearby Macau.
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Mississippi is moving quickly to attract the really big gamblers -- casino companies
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With roaring growth expected to continue this year, Macao is poised to overtake all of Nevada as the biggest gambling territory in the world.
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 9--Golf courses and recreational centers are draws for many residential developments, but few can promise live theater and an art gallery at the front gate.
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The planned purchase of the storied  Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas by Landry's Restaurants Inc.  LNY.N is further evidence of how gambling has become  mainstream entertainment, analysts say.