Foxwoods Resort News - Page 31

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.

News Brief: The World Poker Tour Boot Camp and Foxwoods welcomes students for a two-day intensive course in tournament-style, No Limit Hold 'Em.

Next Shift Enterprises, LLC and Game Time Marketing, LLC have reached an agreement with Foxwoods Resort Casino to bring a week-long celebration of professional hockey to New England.

News Brief: Poker winner, Kevin Cantwell, has paid $54,000 in child support repayments after his ex-wife heard about his $640,000 poker jackpot windfall.

News Brief: Foxwoods Casino is opening a championship-quality public golf course, another restaurant and several shops. That comes on the heels of a private golf course.

News Brief: A former construction worker pocketed $630,488 when he won the main event of the two-week New England Poker Classic at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut.

News Brief: Some 2,000 seniors arrived by bus Tuesday as part of Foxwood Casino’s promotion to improve business during the week.

News Brief: Snow is not good for Connecticut casinos' bottom lines, and executives said bad weather in January, particularly the mid-month blizzard, was responsible for rare year-over-year drops in slot machine revenue.

News Brief: Foxwoods, the world largest casino, is celebrating it’s thirteenth birthday.

News Brief: Governor M. Jodi Rell's proposed budget contains good and bad news for the towns surrounding the state's two Indian casinos, representatives here and across the region said Wednesday.

News Brief: With a page from the playbook of Las Vegas gambling giants, Connecticut's Indian casinos are taking their act nationwide in a bid to create wagering empires stretching from coast to coast.

Foxwoods Resort Casino, one of the world's largest casinos, will be getting bigger under a new plan approved by the Mashantucket Pequots' Tribal Council.

News Brief: On an average night, Foxwoods Resort Casino attracts 50,000 visitors. But New Year's Eve is not an average night

News Brief: You can count on the Beauregards and tens of thousands of others to visit Eastern Connecticut's two Indian casinos.

News Brief: Foxwoods Resort Casino's $99 million Rainmaker expansion added its final element this holiday weekend -- a valet parking area that would add 800 spaces to the casino.

News Brief: Catering to a predominantly Asian clientele on Thanksgiving Day, then hosting diverse crowds of gamblers over the long holiday weekend, is an annual tradition at Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun.

ews Brief: Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino won more money from their slot machine customers last month than in any previous October, the result of continued growth at the two facilities and a calendar that included two more weekend days than 2003.