Monthly Archives: April 2015

Hollywood Casino hotel on hold; operator faces big penalty

An agreement with the Unified Government called for Kansas Entertainment LLC to start work on the 248-room hotel this month or start paying penalties estimated at $1.25 million a year. The operator of Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway is folding plans to start work on a new hotel next to the casino this month, and they’ll have to ante up an estimated $1.25 million a year until they decide go forward with the project.

Alamos, AuRico to merger their gold businesses in US$1.5-billion friendly deal

Under the agreement, shareholders of Alamos Gold Inc. and AuRico Gold Inc. would each own half of a new company that owns the Young-Davidson mine in Ontario and the Mulatos mine in Mexico and other assets. The merged company would also own about five per cent of another new company, to be name AuRico Metals, which will have about US$20 million in cash and a number of mining assets.

How a man who worked for the Lottery Association may have hacked the system for a winning ticket

The 2000 movie “Lucky Numbers,” which stars John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow, depicted a con-artist duo trying to hack the lottery system. Eddie Raymond Tipton, who worked as the Director of Information Security for the Multi-State Lottery Association, was arrested last January by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations over a mysterious unclaimed Lotto ticket.

With Clinton in the Race, poker players wonder How it could impact gambling issues

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has officially announced that she will seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in the 2016 elections, marking her second campaign effort for the office. Clinton previously ran for president in 2008, but fell short after a long and closely fought campaign against current president Barack Obama. Claiming to […]

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PokerStars’ Server Issues Sparks Criticism from Players

The tech wizards at PokerStars have been forced to work some serious magic this weekend after a series of server issues forced the site to suspend many of its games and issue refunds to thousands of players. Despite possessing an exemplary record when it comes to server reliability, PokerStars has been hit by a constant […]

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Eighty Percent Of All Full Tilt Claimants Paid, Says GCG 

The Full Tilt Remissions process is now 80 percent complete, according to the Garden City Group (GCG), the claims administrator appointed by the US government to oversee repayments to victims of the Full Tilt fiasco. Full Tilt Poker was shut down by the US Department of Justice on Black Friday, April 15, 2011, and its […]

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