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03/10/2010
The casino behind the 6:5 blackjack payout

Which Colorado casino proposed changing the rules to allow operators to lower the payout on blackjacks from 3-to-2 to 6-to-5? The Double Eagle Hotel & Casino in Cripple Creek, according to Division of Gaming spokesman Don Burmania.

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03/09/2010
Pa. casino hotels are A.C.'s new threat

Still reeling from the specter of table games in Pennsylvania later this year, Atlantic City gambling operators have to deal with a new threat: Casino hotels in Pennsylvania, too.

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03/08/2010
Online Slot Machines in France

A DRUGS smuggler, who swallowed 123 condoms and 1.7 kilos of cocaine, has been arrested in Switzerland.

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03/07/2010
We the people want blackjack

In Florida's just-opened legislative session, the Bill of Rights looms large. Citing the Second Amendment - which always has preeminence in pandering - legislators rushed to protect the trust fund for concealed weapons permits.

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03/07/2010
Atlantic City retools

First it was a beach, then it was home to Miss America and the streets of Monopoly, then it became the gambling mecca of the East Coast.

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03/06/2010
Gambling bill raises the stakes

A new expanded gambling bill that was aired at the State House yesterday was portrayed by supporters as a jobs-laden economic recovery package that will also provide funds to restore crucial social services devastated by recent budget cuts.

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03/05/2010
Betting on a Philosopher's High-Tech Stone

Why have first deputy chief of staff Vladislav Surkov's plans to build a Russian Silicon Valley prompted such a large public debate on whether modernization is possible without democracy? In my opinion, discussing the theory of modernization with Surkov is like discussing game theory with a con artist.

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03/05/2010
Gambling Bill Would Create 6 Casinos, Allow Black Jack

A new expanded gambling proposal that goes well beyond earlier ideas of video slots at Rockingham Park may be gaining some traction at the State House.

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03/04/2010
Gambler sues casino over loans, losses

PAOLI, Ind. - During a night of blackjack at the former Caesars Indiana, Kentucky businessman Jimmy L. Vance sipped at least seven bourbon cocktails and gambled away $75,000 loaned to him by the casino.

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03/04/2010
High-class playground, on the cheap

Instead of spitting chips, Ben Stubbs accepts his fate and explores a ritzy playground on the cheap.

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03/03/2010
Mendota Heights Girl Scout leader charged with theft from troop

Joleen Marie Hopkins, 54, was charged Wednesday with two counts of felony theft by swindle and four counts of theft in connection with the alleged theft from accounts belonging to a Mendota Heights troop and its chapter in 2008 and 2009.

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03/02/2010
Take advantage of blackjack surrender

QUESTION: I have been counseled a 'surrender' bet is a bet that favors the house in blackjack.

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03/01/2010
Mount Airy table games hearing Thursday

Gaming regulators will hold a public hearing Thursday in Paradise Township to examine Mount Airy's petition for table games.

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02/27/2010
Gaming board backs Mohegan table games plan

Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs' proposal to add 83 table games received support at a public hearing Wednesday before Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board officials at the Fox Hill firehouse.

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02/27/2010
Garrido's Victim Relives Painful Ordeal 1hr

Phillip Garrido is charged with crimes that shocked the world. But Katie Callaway Hall said she's known for decades what he could do.

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