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News Brief: Nassau County police have folded what they called an illegal "Texas Hold 'em" game secretly operating inside a Farmingdale warehouse.

Saratoga Gaming and Raceway will celebrate its Second Anniversary of operation and to commemorate the occasion has hosted a full month of special promotions giving away over $200,000 in cash and prizes.

News Brief: Bettors dropped more than $2 billion at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway's video gaming machines last year, twice as much as bet in 2004.

News Brief: Many legal experts say the federal courts will have to take the lawsuit against the Seneca Nation’s plans to open a gambling hall in downtown Buffalo seriously.

News Brief: A handpicked group of seven architectural firms has been invited to submit proposals to design the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino in downtown Buffalo.

News Brief: Saying they are ‘calling the bluff’ of the Seneca Gaming Corp., an anti-casino group Tuesday morning took the first step in an attempt to stop a proposed Buffalo casino.

News Brief: The worldwide poker industry appears to have hit every possible inside straight, flush and full house that it could accumulating a large pot of cash in the process.

News Brief: The Seneca Niagara Casino has unveiled its new nightclub, Hush, an ultra chic venue that parallels places found in Las Vegas, Miami's South Beach area and midtown Manha

News Brief: The Seneca Nation of Indians is moving ahead to develop the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino on vacant land in downtown Buffalo's Cobblestone District.

News Brief: The Oneida County health department has issued the Oneida Indian Nation a fine up of to one thousand dollars after receiving complaints about smoking in the Turning Stone Resort and Casino.

Turning Stone Resort and Casino has signed a multi-year contract to use the products and services of Global Cash Access, Inc.

News Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case filed by a group of antigambling organizations seeking to overturn a 2001 New York state law that authorized the broad expansion of legal gambling in New York.

News Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively ended the legal challenge to the expansion of gambling the state approved in New York state in October 2001.

News Brief: In light of a recent ruling, Senator Charles Schumer is asking the New York state Legislature refrain from all negotiations with the Shinnecock regarding the construction of a casino.

News Brief: Seneca Nation representatives met face-to-face with commissioners from Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, owners of the historic DL&W Terminal, to discuss the possibility of opening a casino.

Bally Gaming and Systems reports that a lucky winner has hit the largest New York Lottery video gaming progressive jackpot ever, winning $195,700.25 on a Jackpot Celebration Bally/SDG video gaming machine at Saratoga Gaming & Raceway in Saratoga Springs.

News Brief: The Oneida Indian Nation has expanded its retail offerings at Turning Stone Resort and Casino.

Saratoga Gaming and Raceway will present $60,000 in charitable donations to six local organizations at a press conference and check presentation on Friday, November 4.

News Brief: In a move they hope will move them closer to that elusive Catskills casino, the St. Regis Mohawks are abandoning Kutsher's Sports Academy for a proposed casino at Monticello Raceway.

News Brief: Members of an anti-casino group spent the weekend collecting signatures on a poster-sized letter that criticizes the Senecas' Buffalo casino as a social and economic mistake.