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Enterprise developer Ronnie Gilley said last week the bingo bill may be dead for now, but the Country Crossing mega-entertainment park isn’t. “We’re marching on,” said Gilley last week after Alabama legislators allowed the Sweet Home Alabama bill to die in the Senate Rules Committee. The bill, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Quinton Ross of Montgomery [...]
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Wholesale Bingo Supplies is always looking for the latest bingo products, and the anytime new Designer Dab Daubers are introduced, they’re always fun. Well they’ve outdone themselves this time with their Presidential Daubers. These bingo daubers have a cool patriotic label and actually dab the likeness of the President which is pretty funny. So, if [...]
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Even the most experienced bingo managers can sometimes have a little difficulty when it comes to ordering bingo paper. With all of the different bingo book sizes, cuts and various terminology it can be confusing. Here is a video that can help. For more information on how to manage a bingo, please visit our Bingo [...]
The slump in Las Vegas may be bottoming out, but odds are good that a coming wave of new resorts will hinder any rebound in hotel rates or casino revenue. That could put a cap on profits at recession-battered casino companies. MGM Mirage, Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Wynn Resorts Ltd. this week reported stronger-than-expected [...]
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Flying largely below radar, the number of video bingo machines in Louisiana has grown by hundreds over the past five years – mostly in parishes that banned video poker more than a decade ago. In Lafayette Parish, which is one of those parishes, there are 75 machines in three places. While the business takes in [...]
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In an effort to extinguish a controversial issue, Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed an agreement with the Mashantucket Pequot nation Thursday for a voluntary, limited smoking ban at the Foxwoods Resort casino. The agreement is similar to one that Rell signed earlier this year with The Mohegan Tribe to limit smoking in a wide variety [...]
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Greektown Casino-Hotel will spend more time looking at ways to reorganize its debts rather than selling the property to exit bankruptcy, after multiple bids came in lower than expected, a financial adviser for the gambling hall said Thursday. Chuck Moore, an adviser from Birmingham-based Conway MacKenzie Inc., which is working on Greektown’s bankruptcy, told the [...]
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The chief executive officer of Mohegan Sun urged state lawmakers Tuesday to kill a proposal that would compel the two tribally owned casinos in Connecticut to ban cigarette smoking by 2011, saying the resulting drop-off in business would cost the state millions in slot revenues and lost jobs. “We are now competing directly with thousands [...]
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After mixed results in court battles to keep operating casino-style machines, California charitable bingo parlors are seeking financial relief in the Legislature and from tribal gambling funds. But casino tribes protest reinstating a $5 million account originally created to compensate charities for the anticipated loss of bingo machines. Charity groups argue that losing electronic bingo [...]
County Commission Chairman Lynn Sasser said Friday the county must find new revenue somewhere, and bingo might have been the answer. Asked if the county had considered electronic bingo as a means of possible revenue, Sasser said it is not an option now. “We had it in mind with that 565 amendment and we were [...]
