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News Brief: Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center announced plans to use its portion of the Seneca Niagara Casino revenue to upgrade inpatient behavioral health services.

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino gave Freddy Howard a check for slot winnings despite an outside investigation that proved Howard wasn't entitled to anything due to a computer glitch.

Less than a week after a ticket won an estimated $163 million jackpot, another Mega Millions player has matched all six numbers to win the jackpot.

Foxwoods Resort Casino has installed the RoninCast dynamic digital signage system into their BB King Theatre district.

Over 500 players entered the Borgata Poker Open final tournament with the same goal and dream -- to be one of the final six with a seat at the televised World Poker Tour final table.

The Ultimate Game at Wynn Las Vegas will be televised nationally on FOX Sports in 2007.

21-year old Limit Hold'em specialist Mark Newhouse wins $1.5 million at the 2006 World Poker Tour Borgata Open.

Tony Green, a 34-year old salesman from Anchorage, Alaska, earned a seat in the Main Event of the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) by winning the first of seven online poker tournaments in the Milwaukee's Best Light Texas Hold'em Challenge on Sunday night.

The Pechanga Poker Room offers a respite from the hustle and bustle of the approaching weeks with the 'Novemberfest 2006 Poker Tournament.'

The names and faces filling the final six seats at the 2006 World Poker Tour Borgata Open is a cast of relatively unknown players, but that doesn’t mean this group lacks solid tournament poker experience.

News Brief: The Muckleshoot Tribe, a sovereign nation that is exempt from the smoking ban, has opened a non-smoking tribal casino.

News Brief: The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians plans to build a new $80 million casino and resort at the site of its Turtle Creek Casino along M-72.

Hundreds of Mississippi Gulf Coast residents, dignitaries and more than 1,000 newly employed casino workers celebrated the grand opening of Island View Casino Resort on Monday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m.

The third day of action at the Borgata Poker Open, part of the World Poker Tour, saw another round of intense battles as players tried to make moves and secure their position in the final six spots.

News Brief: Fantasy Springs Resort Casino is hosting a job fair from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, Sept. 25.

Pennsylvania's first new harness track in 41 years, Harrah's Chester Casino and Racetrack in Chester, is having it"s grand opening today.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $179 million.

Somewhere there is a ticket worth an estimated $163 million. That ticket, which was purchased in Bainbridge, Georgia, matched all six numbers in the September 15, 2006 Mega Millions drawing.

To assist the public in responding to the BIA"s Notice of Availability, the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Council is sharing its perspective on the proposed project.

The highly-regarded tournament recorded the largest turnout of players in the history of Atlantic City poker with 540 players anteing-up $10,000 for a shot at the biggest prize pool in Borgata Poker Open history.