Like clockwork, the cars roll over the stone parking lot just off Interstate 94 a little before 8 a.m. The drivers waste little time and head into the nondescript building for the first of three shifts at dealer school for FireKeepers Casino.
Two-thousand answered the call for 300 available slots as dealer-school students. They were [...]
The Michigan House voted Tuesday to ban smoking in workplaces including bars and restaurants, but to allow it on gambling floors at Detroit’s three casinos, cigar bars and smoke shops.
The 73-31 vote set up another face-off with the Senate, which last year voted for a total smoking ban, no exceptions.
The smoking ban remains a hot [...]
After coming up short in a first effort, a Democratic lawmaker has again introduced legislation that would roll back a ban on Internet gambling enacted when Republicans led Congress.
The legislation, introduced this month by Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, would allow the Treasury Department to license and regulate online gambling companies that serve American customers. [...]
Attempts to add an exemption for charitable bingos failed, as the Michigan House passed a smoking ban. Under this law proposal, the Detroit casinos and cigar bars patrons will be allowed to smoke, but bingo players won’t.
The bill will now move on to the Senate.
From the Detroit News:
The Michigan House today approved legislation to [...]
The world economy may be slumping, but don’t tell that to Macau — the former Portugese colony which is set to trump Las Vegas heading out of the worst global downturn since the Great Depression.
In the smoke-filled gambling halls of Macau’s MGM Mirage casino, hundreds of Chinese gamblers were crammed around tables flipping cards, playing [...]
Probably the #1 bingo related service call we receive is about pulltabs (charity tickets) jamming in a bingo or club’s pulltab machine. Often, a ticket jam is a pretty easy thing to fix, but can be a real pain if it keeps happening, especially if the person in charge has to make repeated trips back [...]
The Michigan House of Representatives has again passed a smoking ban. This version will exempt casinos and tobacco shops.
However, there is no word yet on whether or not charity bingos may join that list. Last year’s smoking ban legislation (which eventually expired before a compromise could be reached) did include nonprofit bingos amongst their [...]
High-rolling Nebraska philanthropist Terrance K. Watanabe is mounting an unusual defense to charges he failed to pay $14.7 million in Strip gambling debts.
He is accusing Caesars Palace and the Rio, both owned by Harrah’s Entertainment, of providing him with a steady flow of alcohol and — in the case of Caesars Palace — prescription painkillers [...]
“So far I’m getting used to these chips.”
Steve Feltner is on his first day of what he hopes will be his new career. He was laid off from his exterminator job and jumped at the chance to become a dealer.
“The way I see it, this job’s gonna be here for a really long time,” said [...]
It had been weeks since the Mohegan Tribe pushed a massive bet to the center of the table: a threat to immediately sue the state and place into escrow Connecticut’s share of slot machine revenue if lawmakers imposed a smoking ban on their casino.
On Tuesday, with as much as $400 million in annual revenue from [...]