Committee to Seek Changes to Discriminatory Law (CSDL) campaigning to end laws that allow tourists to gamble but disallow Bahamian citizens.

Casino Affiliate Programs (CAP), a trade group of 7,000 online gambling affiliates, is hosting an annual marketing conference in the Shangri-La hotel in Sydney, Australia on November 25 to 28.

New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez has submitted an act to the US Senate to classify poker as a game of skill and set up framework to license and regulate online providers.

The $700 million dollar MGM Grand at Foxwoods opened in May. 270 employees were laid off during the next six weeks. Now, 700 more jobs are to be cut over the next few weeks.

The Fitzgeralds Casino/Hotel, a Reno landmark since 1976, will close on November 30 putting almost 500 employees out of work.

The third leg of the SkyPoker UK Tour will arrive in Edinburgh on January 31, 2009.

PokerStars has announced an expanded schedule for their second season of the LAPT that will begin earlier this year to tie into the highest part of the Latin American tourist season.

Once a casino, a historic riverboat is being taken apart and relocated to be converted into a hotel, convension center, and museum.

Clubs Victoria alleges that Tabcorp offered them $20 million dollars to not pursue changing Victoria's gaming license structure and not participate in any bidding process for gaming licenses.

The APT annnounced the final leg before getting approval from Singapore authorities, there has been no response from the Singapore officials. APT has “made alternate plans to take it to another Asian city.”

The Asian Poker Tour has announced that the first leg of next year's tour will be held from January 27 to February 1, 2009 at the Dusit Thani Manila Hotel in Makati, Philippines.

Atlantic City approved a smoking ban in April which provided for casinos to be able to set up smoking lounges, but the city council has decided to postpone the ban for a year due to the economic situation.

Leaders of poker rooms from around the globe, both online and off, met Wednesday in Budapest, Hungary for the World Poker Congress.

iMEGA filed a brief on Sept. 29 with the US Court of Appeals. The new suit claims that is unconstitutional to make the financial institutions responsible for determining what is a legal transaction.

Despite the credit crunch and the need for creative financing by Chairman Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas Sands Corp. remains on track with the planned end-of-2009 opening of Singapore's Marina Bay Sands.

The new poker television show ClubWPT launched on Oct. 5. It features 6 poker amateurs each week from the US and Canada, competing for a chance at cash prizes and  the chance to become the next poker stars.

The decline in Las Vegas Sands shares has seriously lowered main shareholder, Sheldon Adelson's personal net worth.  But, Las Vegas Sands will continue with its grand expansion plans. The company has three major projects currently in the works.

The Gold Coast Titans is an Australian rugby club that has partnered with Betezy to form a new betting agency. Revenue from the venture will help fund the club and its charitable organization, the Gold Coast Titans Community Foundation.

September saw a 15.1% decrease in casino revenues over the same month last year.

Susquehanna analyst stated that the upside potential in ISLE's shares no longer met criteria for a Positive rating.

After close to a decade of catering to online gamblers, one of the oldest internet gambling sites has ceased operations.

Players in the team poker tourney would get rewarded both for individual play and team scoring.

The country of Rwanda was all set to see the country's first casino open on October 21 but the opening has been delayed.

The PTA plans five stops planned for 2009 and plans to increase to six the year after.

Between the casino, hotel and the tenants in the complex, there will be about 1,400 jobs created at the site. Nearby businesses are looking forward to the new traffic that the casino is expected to draw to the area.

After surpassing Las Vegas revenues last year, Macau has reported a loss in gaming revenues. With most of the big names in Las Vegas invested in Macau, this contributed to further stock declines for US casino companies.

Lifting the restrictions on gambling advertising has the potential to bring in millions of dollars in new revenues to Google as well as the other major search markets.

Kentucky's Governor ordered an action filed against 141 online gambling operators. The civil action case sought seizure and forfeiture of domains used to promote illegal gambling. Domains included Bodoglife.com, AbsolutePoker.com, PokerStars.com and others.