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Robert Norton has been promoted to vice president of gaming operations for the Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. Michael Tamburelli has been promoted to vice president and general manager of the Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. Kansas City, Missouri property.

Rudi Schiffer gives us the latest news from the Tunica, Mississippi casinos.

News Brief: Mississippi state gaming authorities have reported a rash of cheating at Tunica's slot machines, with at least six arrests this year of increasingly sophisticated criminals.

News Brief: October revenues, which were just under $93.5 million, dropped 4.4 percent from the same period a year ago. The reduction follows a 7.8 decrease in September.

Rudi Schiffer gives us the latest news from the Tunica, Mississippi casinos.

News Brief: Rumors are circulating that Caesars Entertainment's mid-south headquarters in Gulfport will close because of a corporate merger, but a spokesman for Harrah's Entertainment said the restructuring is still being mapped out.

Rudy Schiffer discusses the kind of effort that goes in to the World Poker Open and the problems that accompany the WPO's growing popularity.

Rudi Schiffer gives us the latest news from the Tunica, Mississippi casinos.

For Q2, the Isle of Capri reported net income of $0.5 million or $0.01 per diluted common share compared to net income of $10.7 million or $0.35 per diluted common share for Q2 2003.

News Brief: The Seminole Tribe spent more than $5 million trying to defeat a proposal that could bring slot machines to South Florida racetracks and jai alai frontons. South Florida's tracks and jai alai frontons spent nearly $15 million on the slot proposal.

Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc. is announces its 2004 Mississippi Gaming Seminar on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Jackson Country Club.

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A 64-year-old phone company retiree hit a whopping $6,366,947 Wheel of Fortune statewide progressive slot jackpot at the Ameristar Casino Vicksburg.

Rudi Schiffer gives us the latest news from the Tunica, Mississippi casinos.

News Brief: Hurricane Ivan took nearly $10 million away from Mississippi's coastal casinos.

News Brief: Chances are that the President Casino Biloxi will have new ownership, possibly with South Mississippi connections, by next spring.

Jacobs Entertainment, Inc. has elected not to proceed with a casino hotel development in D'Iberville, Mississippi.

News Brief: Colony Capital, which purchased Harrah's Tunica and Bally's Tunica as part of a $1.24 billion deal, will rebrand Harrah's as Resorts Tunica to reflect its flagship Resorts International casino in Atlantic City.

News Brief: Jim Belisle and Lakes Gaming Mississippi LLC are proposing a gambling barge in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

News Brief: Secretary of State Eric Clark has asked a group he organized to drop discussions of inland casinos as a means of protecting the coast's gambling industry.