Greektown Casino is betting big on big bettors. The smallest of Detroit’s three casinos Friday unveiled its all-new High Limit Gaming Area, where high rollers can take big gambles — up to $100 per pull on the slot machine and up to $10,000 per bet on table games like blackjack. Greektown’s original High Limit area [...]
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An Ohio lawmaker whose district includes River Downs said Nov. 26 he plans to introduce legislation in 2009 for casino-style gaming that would support the horse racing and breeding in the state. Republican Rep. Louis Blessing of the Cincinnati area said he would introduce legislation in to allow either video gaming machines at Ohio’s seven [...]
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The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Tuesday distributed more than $3.1 million in its semi-annual distribution of gaming revenue to local governments in mid-Michigan – an amount down 16.5 percent from last November. “This is the lowest distribution we have made in 12 years,” said Tribal spokesman Joe Sowmick. He noted the revenue came during a [...]
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We’ve seen a steady increase in the popularity of our designer daubers since we first introduced them to our ecommerce site Wholesale Bingo Supplies about a month ago. What are Designer Daubers? Designer Daubers are simply small dabbers with designer tips that have different shapes for dabbing on your bingo paper . For instance, one [...]
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The Global Gaming Expo is the casino industry’s largest pep rally. For the past several years, the convention where the gambling world’s latest and greatest bells and whistles are unveiled has been full of managerial bravado and bluster. Not this year. The three-day event, which wrapped up Thursday at the Las Vegas Convention Center, sounded [...]
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Casinos in Romulus will move back to the front burner, and what’s happening in the auto industry and in the state economy means that it’s not a moment too soon, city officials said Tuesday. Mayor Alan Lambert and other key city employees will meet with the members of the Sioux Indians, who hoped to build [...]
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Officials who distribute local revenue-sharing proceeds from the Odawa Casino Resort have agreed to hold onto much of the latest payment until a dispute over its allocation can be settled. Three local educational institutions — Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District, North Central Michigan College and Public Schools of Petoskey — are legally challenging the approach which [...]
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Gambling, which some Kansans saw as a golden goose for state revenue, is looking more and more like a horse that’s been ridden hard and put away wet. Those who supported legislation to build as many as four destination casinos in Kansas touted the industry as virtually a guaranteed money maker for the state. And [...]
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The following can be attributed to Joe McCoy, chairman, Greektown Casino management board. McCoy is commenting on recent developments and reports of Greektown Casino’s Chapter 11 reorganization: “Contrary to certain exaggerated claims you may have read or heard in the news media, Greektown Casino is open for business, will continue to be open for business, [...]
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Since purchasing the former Great Lakes Downs racetrack in July, the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians has gone on a land-buying spree in Fruitport Township. The tribe has acquired an additional 10 parcels since July. The Little River Band has created a 233-acre land holding for which it paid $13.5 million, according to the [...]
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