Casino Built Where Gambling Is Illegal
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ST. IGNACE, Mich. - Gambling is the only thing missing from a new Indian casino in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, mistakenly built in an area where gambling is illegal.
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Here's a good bet. If Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton decides to do some gambling in Nevada, check out the blackjack table. "I'm not much of a gambler, but I have gambled," the New York senator said in a brief interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, adding that her favorite game probably is blackjack.
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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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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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New Jersey&#039;s casinos ushered the last of the gamblers away from slot machines and tables Wednesday, and janitors locked the doors behind them as a state government shutdown claimed its latest victims.
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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 17 -- A federal judge on Thursday refused to shut down nine casino-based sites for Saturday's caucuses, delivering a victory to Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in what has become an increasingly bitter Democratic contest here.
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American casino operators are planning a 5 billion pound (7.2 billion euros, $9 billion) punt on Britain becoming the gambling mecca of Europe.
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Looking to gain a foothold in the potentially lucrative United Kingdom gambling market, Caesars Entertainment says it will construct a Las Vegas-style hotel-casino in London.
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IRELANDâS online bookmakers are lining up to grab a share of the $73 billion (â¬56.3 billion) American gambling market following a landmark ruling by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) last week that US legislation prohibiting gambling over the
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Singapore has picked Las Vegas Sands   LVS.N, the world's top casino operator, to build and run its   first casino, a project that will cost more than S$5 billion   ($3.2 billion).
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Rolling the dice at a craps table or  wagering a paycheck playing poker may not be the most rational  use of money, but one casino operator is hoping investors will  find its stock a better bet.
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MGM Mirage, the world's No.2 casino operator, opens a 600-room, Las Vegas-style resort in Macau on Tuesday, raising the stakes in a Chinese gambling haven increasingly crowded by global players.
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Private equity firms have found a new business where they can place their multibillion-dollar bets: gambling.
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The country&#39;s biggest casino operator, Stanley Leisure, says it plans to build a new casino in Leeds, in a deal that could create more than 1,000 jobs.
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Russia's gambling industry is to be confined to four special zones in different parts of the country, all outside the cities.
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A few years ago, casinos across the United States were closing their poker rooms to make space for more popular and lucrative slot machines.
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At the blackjack tables in Las Vegas, they would be called card counters.