Mount Pleasant Municipal Judge Larry Duffy last week decided that Texas “Hold ‘em” is a game of skill, not of chance, and is thus not covered under the laws of the state of South Carolina.
More than 50 percent of Florida
residents support the gambling expansion reached recently between the
state and Seminole Tribe, according to a Quinnipiac Poll released this
week.
Officials of the Kansas Racing and Gaming
Commissioners (KRGC) are poised to approve a $705 million Hard Rock
Hotel and Casino proposal at the Kansas Speedway next Friday during a
meeting in Topeka.
Following up on a campaign promise of
President Ma Ying-jeou, the Taiwanese government last week set up a
committee for the gambling industry which is charged with collecting
and studying gaming trends.
Suffolk County politicians William Lindsay
and Wayne Horsley are saying they have seen estimates that a gambling
establishment could generate millions in revenues. They say it’s also
possible 10,200 new jobs would be created, producing $445 million in
salaries.
Tribal gaming revenues in the U.S. may
exceed those of the 12 leading commercial gambling states, including
Nevada, in the short-term, according to industry experts.
New York Governor David A. Paterson is
planning to expand gambling to bars, restaurants and racetracks,
dramatically expanding the number of locales in the state where gamers
can place wagers. Paterson expects another $500 million in revenues
next year.
Bahnik claimed that local betting companies
could be losing out on “several hundred million” dollars a year to
foreign companies offering Internet gambling from outside the Czech
Republic, but making no contribution to taxes or employment within the
Republic.
Casinos owned by American Indian tribes reported that sales increased
by 1.2 percent in 2008, according to just released statistics from
state gambling officials.
Wall Street analysts are poised to share
their perspectives on the growth of the gambling industry at next
month’s Pennsylvania Gaming Congress & MidAtlantic Racing Forum.