Connecticut News - Page 64

Casino City reporter Ryan McLane offers up some No-Limit Hold'em tournament strategy despite not doing so well in Event # 1 at the Foxwoods Poker Classic.

I’m pimping out my girlfriend this weekend. That’s right - Chrissy Newcomb is going to work for me on Sunday, with the potential to earn somewhere around $40,000.

News Brief: Mohegan Sun has donated $5,000 to the Norwich Newcomers Committee for services that will benefit the growing immigrant population in the city.

Mohegan Sun reports the installation of 20 half-cent slot machines in its Casino of the Earth and Casino of the Sky, and plans to install an additional 15 to 20 half-cent machines over the next two to three weeks.

The three largest Native American casino operators in the East will speak about "The New Power of Indian Gaming" in a special presentation of the 11th annual East Coast Gaming Congress.

News Brief: Connecticut labor officials say an investigation has uncovered more violations by a Massachusetts contractor who was underpaying dozens of employees at restaurants at Mohegan Sun Casino

News Brief: Foxwoods officials say that they’re not concerned about the Sands Macau’s claims of being be the world's largest casino, a title Foxwoods also claims and uses as part of its advertising.

News Brief: A Connecticut committee will hold a public hearing on bills aimed at increasing the amount that cities and towns receive from the state’s tribal casinos.

Mohegan Sun announced today that beginning May 1st all slot machines in its Casino of the Earth and Casino of the Sky will be 'coin free.'

News Brief: State lottery officials have closed the book on a Lotto ticket worth $3.5 million sold on Feb. 14, 2006.

News Brief: New Hampshire residents made nearly a half-million separate trips to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun during the past 12 months, according to a recent study.

News Brief: Mohegan Sun on Feb. 25 will host a Chinese New Year celebration to ring in 2007 on the Chinese calendar.

News Brief: Rhode Island residents made 1.7 million trips to Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun in the past 12 months, according to a report released today by the University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth’s Center for Policy Analysis.

News Brief: In the latest motion in its lawsuit disputing the town's taxation of leased slot machines, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe refocuses the arguments about whether its original complaint has legs to stand on.

News Brief: Unseasonably mild weather and an extra December weekend helped Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun post strong gains in slot-machine revenue for the month.

News Brief: There"s a legal dispute between the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe and the town of Ledyard, Connecticut, but the town insists it now involves the wrong party and the wrong venue.

News Brief: The Mashantucket Pequot tribal chairman said this morning that the tribe-owned Foxwoods Resort Casino cares about its employees.

ews Brief: About 400 Foxwoods Resort Casino workers are estimated to have called in sick Sunday in protest of what some employees say is an erosion of worker benefits, Foxwoods Employee Group Council Chairman Steve Getchell said Monday.

News Brief: A 38-year-old man was arrested after allegedly violating his probation by entering the Mohegan Sun Casino.

News Brief: Workers complaining about cuts in employee benefits at Foxwoods Resort Casino won the backing of a casino employee group Monday, though some of the group's representatives said they don't support a threatened sickout during the New Year's holiday.