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News Brief: Poker rookie, Wilma Glorioso, competed against nine other players at Harrah's North Kansas City Casino & Hotel, including the 2003 world champion of poker and walked away the winner.

News Brief: The Seneca Allegany Casino will bring in between $133 million to $178 million in slot machine revenue in its first full year of operation, according to a casino impact study funded by the city of Salamanca.

News Brief: Track officials at Vernon Downs and Raceway Ventures are still focused on one man to financially revive the track: Eric Spector.

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

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

The Chehalis Tribe broke ground this week on an impressive 70 room and suite hotel on the grounds of the Lucky Eagle Casino.

News Brief: The Casino Queen, like most of its competitors in Illinois and Missouri, is following an industry trend and phasing out tokens in favor of tickets.

News Brief: A few years ago, casinos across the United States were closing their poker rooms. Now the nation is swept up into a poker frenzy and casinos have been quick on the draw.

News Brief: The California Gambling Control Commission voted 3-1 to give the Hawaiian Gardens Casino a one-year conditional operating license.

Last month's Clark County Commission decision apparently did not settle a longstanding dispute over parking between Strip casino titans Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson.

News Brief: Leaders of an Oklahoma tribe are exploring becoming partners in a stalled project to create a casino at Monticello Raceway, potentially cutting their New York brethren out of the project.

Foxwoods Resort Casino, the largest casino in the world, is raising the stakes by celebrating its $300 million expansion today with the opening of the newly expanded Rainmaker Casino and Hard Rock Café.

Since no ticket matched the winning numbers, the estimated Mega Millions jackpot grows to $52 million for the Friday, August 20, 2004 drawing.

News Brief: In 1935, one of Mexico's national heroes, President Lazaro Cardenas, banned casinos across the country.

Just when it seemed as if every brand imaginable had made it to the Strip, along comes Hooters -- billing itself as delightfully tacky, yet unrefined -- with plans to plant its high-profile brand on one of the quietest little hotels in town.

News Brief: Despite near-daily rain over the first 18 days of the 36-day Saratoga Race Course meet, on-track handle has increased 13% and total handle is up 3.9%.

News Brief: Security concerns apparently stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have prompted Borgata to conduct random searches of cars pulling into its valet parking lot.

The likely new owner of the Aladdin, whose gaming licenses are up for final approval before state regulators next week, is trying to send reassuring messages to rank-and-file employees of the Strip hotel-casino that their jobs are safe.

News Brief: People were lined up well into the evening at Casino Morongo at the first day of their job fair.

A Las Vegas businessman who was turned away last year from obtaining a state casino license has won preliminary approval from the Nevada Gaming Control Board, which praised him for his turnaround.