Foxwoods Resort News - Page 29

WPT Enterprises and Foxwoods Resort Casino report that Foxwoods' newly expanded poker room, set to open in late March, will bear the World Poker Tour name.

News Brief: Boxing has seen better days, but Native American casinos are latching on to the sport and that may help revive it.

News Brief: HKS Design Group has been selected for the next phase of design work on the $700 million expansion of Foxwoods Resort Casino.

HRLogix, a leading provider of Web- based, paperless hiring systems, reports that they will provide recruiting solutions to Foxwoods Resort Casino.

News Brief: At Foxwoods Resort Casino or Mohegan Sun, Christmas decorations include a 17 foot-tall gingerbread house and Native American accents.

News Brief: A judge has ruled that a Massachusetts man violated the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act when he created the domain name www.foxwood.com and attempted to profit from Internet surfers looking for information about casino.

News Brief: When Benjamin P. Lathrop, the next mayor of Norwich, heard details last week of the $700 million expansion at Foxwoods Resort Casino, expected to create 2,300 new jobs, one of his first reactions was: “Where are they going to live?”

News Brief: When casino patrons heard Foxwoods Resort Casino was adding another 2 million square feet to the facility, they had one thing to say: Bring it on.

News Brief: The Mashantucket Pequots Tribal Nation has awarded Perini Building Co. a $462.8-million contract to construct a addition to the Foxwoods Resort Casino here.

News Brief: Mohegan Sun increased its slot machine winnings by more than 5 percent last month, to $74.9 million, while the house win at Foxwoods Resort Casino dropped more than 6 percent, to $68.8 million.

Foxwoods Resort Casino, the largest Casino destination in the world has purchased and installed iView's iGWatchTM Facial Recognition System.

News Brief: The Mashantucket Pequots went to U.S. District Court Monday to evict a so-called ‘cyber-squatter’ from an Internet site that attracts Web surfers looking for information about Foxwoods Resort Casino.

The state has received more than $40 million from July slot winnings at Connecticut's two American Indian-run casinos.

News Brief: Connecticut regulators told Foxwoods Resort Casino officials Thursday that the casino's new online game, PlayAway, is illegal and cannot be restarted.

News Brief: Foxwoods officials will have to wait one more day to learn if they can put their PlayAway online keno game on the Internet.

State regulators ordered Foxwoods Resort Casino to shut down an Internet promotion Friday, saying it violated Internet gambling laws and illegally expanded gambling off the Indian reservation.

News Brief: A regional travel index scheduled for release today will show a 2 percent increase in tourism in Eastern Connecticut for June, compared to the same time last year. The increase is primarily the result of the region's two casinos, Foxwoods and the Mohegan Sun.

News Brief: Staff Sgt. David John Walsh, on leave from duty in Iraq, visited Foxwoods Resort Casino last week to thank employees for sending care packages to soldiers.

News Brief: The owners of Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun sent their monthly slot machine payments to the state last week, bringing the total contributions for the fiscal year to $417.8 million.

News Brief: Security is always an issue at the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino, but both have taken special precautions since the terrorist attacks in America nearly four years ago.