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The International Gaming Conference & Expo has exceeded all of its early projections regarding attendees and exhibitors.

The International Gaming Conference & Expo, slated for April 9th-11th in San Jose, Costa Rica, will be held at the Costa Rica Marriott Hotel.

The International Gaming Conference & Expo’s agenda will incorporate more topics of interest to attendees than any other conference has ever undertaken in gaming-related matters.

The International Gaming Conference & Expo will feature an unprecedented panel of the leaders of the world's top online and off-shore sportsbooks.

The International Gaming Conference & Expo will to be held April 9th-11th at the Costa Rica Marriott, a four- star resort in San Jose, Costa Rica.

e International Gaming Conference & Expo will look at the impact of the World Trade Organization Ruling on Cross-Border Gaming involving Antigua and the U.S.

Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces a Poker Industry Convention and Expo that will be held the weekend of December 3-4, 2005 in Costa Rica at the Barcelo San Jose Palacio.

International News Brief: Veneto Hotel & Casino, Panama’s newest tourist attraction received several hundred members of the local and foreign press corps to a pre-inaugural tour last week.

The Poker Industry Conference and Exposition will be held the weekend of December 3-4, 2005 in Costa Rica at the Barcelo San Jose Palacio.

News Brief: Five men were arrested and charged with taking part in a $4 million-a-year gambling ring that ran between New Hyde Park and Costa Rica, police and prosecutors said today.

GTECH Holdings’ subsidiary, GTECH Brazil Ltda., has signed a new one-year contract with Caixa Economica Federal, the administrator of the National Lottery in Brazil.

Lottery & Wagering Solutions Inc. reports that its Board of Directors had decided to terminate all of its operations in Suriname.

International News Brief: With only a couple of days to go, casinos in Suriname are scrambling to meet a deadline set for February 28 or face closure by the authorities.

Jan L. Jones, former two-term mayor of Las Vegas and current Harrah's executive, will deliver the keynote address opening the seventh annual Caribbean Gaming & Hospitality Conference.

International News Brief: As Super Bowl weekend approaches, gambling sites ready themselves for a busy weekend and also the threat of having their service interrupted by online extortionists.

Lottery & Wagering Solutions Inc. reports that Suriname Leisure Company A.V.V. , a joint venture entity owned fifty percent by LWSL, was evicted from its premises in the Plaza Hotel in Paramaribo, Suriname.

News Brief: BetonSports says a government crackdown on gambling in the US had caused radio stations to cancel about $10m-worth of its advertising campaigns during the crucial American football season now under way.

News Brief: The owner of BetCRIS.com is determined to fight what's fast becoming the scourge of Internet-based businesses: high-tech protection rackets in which gangs of computer hackers choke off traffic to Web sites whose operators refuse their demands.

PlayersOnly.com has added a new poker room to its existing sports book and casino.

Senticore, Inc. has been awarded a broad-ranging casino gaming permit by the government of Venezuela to operate a complete land-based and Internet casino on Margarita Island.