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SEATTLE (AP) - A hearing is scheduled tomorrow in federal court in Seattle for the son of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, Jacob Nickels, to change his plea to casino-cheating charges.

The 25-year-old had pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and theft charges in an indictment.

He is accused of accepting $5,000 to enlist a dealer in a false shuffling scam two years ago when he worked as a pit boss at the Nooksack Tribe’s casino in Deming, Whatcom County. The casino-cheating ring is accused of stealing millions of dollars by bribing dealers in seven states.

Earlier this month a card dealer from the Nooksack casino pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge. The dealer, 24-year-old Levi Mayfield, said he was recruited by Jacob Nickels.

Nickels grew up in Seattle and graduated from Garfield High School in 1999. He attended Western Washington University in Bellingham, but didn’t graduate.

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BEIJING: The world’s largest casino space boasting a 50,000 square metres of floor space was opened in Macao, considered as an emerging global gambling centre.

The $ 2.4 billion casino and hotel complex is owned by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, further boosting the southern Chinese city’s claim to be a major global gambling centre, surpassing even the Las Vegas Strip.

The Venetian boasts what it claims to be the world’s largest gaming space of 50,000 sq metres, housing 3,400 slot machines - with room to expand to 6,000 - and more than 800 gambling tables.

It has 3,000 rooms, a 15,000-seat sports arena, retail space for 350 stores, 108,000 sq metres of convention space, fine dining and a Cirque du Soleil-produced show, the China Daily reported. Its decor aims to replicate the beauty of Venice - with a Chinese touch. Chinese-style sampans as well as gondolas will sail down canals.

The resort also features a replica of Venice’s St Mark’s Square, the report said. Macao, a former Portuguese colony, a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China since April 2000, is the only place in the country where casinos are legal.

This week, a Chinese court in Shanghai, sentenced a South Korean national to two years in prison for running an illegal on-line casino.

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Red Lounge online casino has received the best Google rating for highest payout games.

Payout is the main emphasis of the Red Lounge’s promotions. New players get a £50 bonus once they sign up, and for the rest of the summer regular players get 15 percent off and VIP’s receive 20 percent off. It doesn’t matter how much players have won, 15-20 percent of the sum they have lost will be automatically transferred back to their account every Wednesday of every week for the rest of the summer.

Most of the games at Red Lounge casino focus on payouts. Its blackjack games for example, have been rated the best payouts by Inside Edge magazine, and Double Exposure 21 has 99.74 percent payout.

The casino’s Baccarat is also on the hot list as one of the best payouts of its kind and is currently offering players 4 percent commissions, combined with 9 to 1 payouts.

Red Lounge is always looking for new players and its policy is exclusively targeted to satisfy the needs of all its customers. The company’s generous payouts are combined with its exceptional customer service and one of the best graphics among online casinos.

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A Sunday morning tradition turned into a windfall of winnings for 55-year-old Vallejo man John Wendler and his wife Judy.
“We like to go to breakfast on Sunday mornings, and I gave her a choice,” said the automobile technician. “Did she want to go to breakfast in Berkeley, or to Cache Creek? The salmon BLT sandwich is a treat for us at the casino. Judy chose to go to Cache Creek - thank God she did!”

That’s because Wendler was treated to more than just a great breakfast. He won the first and largest Super Cache Fever Jackpot ever, receiving a check for $225,000.

“I saw the sign for the Super Cache Fever Jackpot when we first walked in,” said Wendler. “I just thought, ’some lucky dog will get it.’ I never figured it would be me!”

The big winner said it was hard to believe he actually won.

“All of a sudden the machine just quit, I thought the doggone thing was broke!” said Wendler. “I just about died when I found out I was the winner. I didn’t know whether to laugh, cry, fall on the floor or what!”

The couple, who have been married for 23 years, say they plan to use their winnings to pay off their mortgage. Judy also plans to travel with her girlfriends on a cruise this April.

And there’s one more tradition they’re going to keep.

“We’ll be at Cache Creek this Sunday morning again,” said Wendler. “We have a tradition that if we do well at the casino, we will treat ourselves to an ice cream. We were so excited about the win that we forgot it - so we have to go back to get our winning ice cream!”

“Cache Creek Casino Resort and the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians would like to congratulate Mr. Wendler and his wife on their good fortune,” said Mike Leonard, vice president of marketing at Cache Creek. “We hope that this jackpot can do some wonderful things for their family.”

Super Cache Fever Jackpots are promotional payouts available on all slot machines, any denomination, at Cache Creek Casino Resort. The promotion is for a limited time and started March 23. The Super Cache Fever Jackpots start at $100,000 and are guaranteed to hit by $300,000.

Cache Creek is Northern California’s only casino resort. It operates 3,100 slot machines and 142 table games throughout its 100,000-square-foot facility.

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BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI –Casino employees and those who aspire to work in the industry have just over a week to enroll in the fall semester of casino courses to help them advance or secure a job.

Similar to employees in any large corporation, “A lot of managers are finding out to get to the next level they’ve got to have a college degree,” said Alan Silver, director of Casino Resort Studies at Tulane University. Casinos are recruiting the best and brightest people, he said, and many Coast casinos offer tuition reimbursement and flexible schedules to employees enrolled in college.

Professor Tony Hawthorne, chairman of Tourism Management at the University of Southern Mississippi, said the university makes it convenient for casino employees to take college courses. Three of their classes meet just once a week in the later afternoon or evening and the fourth is an online course that students complete at their convenience.

Scholarships are available in casino studies at both universities. Classes start at Southern Miss today and at Tulane on Feb. 29, but registration for both is open until Labor Day.

This month Tulane signed a 2+2 agreement with Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College that allows students to transfer all their credits in the hotel and resort management program, up to a maximum of 60, directly to Tulane. There they will earn an additional 60 credits toward their bachelor’s degree, studying with instructors “who have years of experience in the industry and also advanced degrees,” said Silver.

“We think it’s certainly a very beneficial program for everyone,” said Assistant Dean Rosaria Guastella.

Seth Diamond is studying at Tulane’s Edgewater Mall Campus in Biloxi while working as director of food and beverage at Boomtown Casino Biloxi. Although he finds it challenging to schedule work and school, Diamond said his employer, Penn National Gaming, is pro-education and his professors at Tulane are reasonable with their requirements.

“The gaming industry has been very good to me and my family,” said Diamond, who started in the casino business 20 years ago. His college courses give him insight into casino operations beyond food and beverage, he said, and provide future opportunities.

This fall’s classes are the first to meet at the Long Beach campus of Southern Miss since it was damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The university received state permission to offer the program right before the storm, and Hawthorne said, “This is the first time we’re offering a full slate of courses.”

Students can transfer their credits from any of the state’s junior colleges. The program is part of the Business Administration Department and all students get a strong business background, taking core classes in computers and marketing. Among the instructors is David Paster, who for years was a consultant to the casino industry in Las Vegas.

The students can benefit from the partnerships and internships being formed between the Coast casino industry and the universities. Casino executives have gone into the classroom and online to share their knowledge and their enthusiasm for the industry.

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Two Members of America's House of Representatives have published an editorial in the New York Post newspaper outlining why they believe in regulating online casinos rather than banning them.

Representatives Steve Israel, a Democrat, and Republican Pete King were original co-signers of Barney Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act (IGREA), House of Representatives Bill 2046, and said that the Treasury Department is in charge of a number of jobs, including protecting the President, investigating counterfeit money and tracking terrorist financing and should not be made to look after the ban on online casinos.

The Treasury Department is now being asked 'to spend their time and resources going after something far more trivial, people who play cards from their home computers', the two Long Island Representatives wrote.

The article, Web Gambling: Tax, Don't Ban, even pointed out that 'years ago, the Treasury’s Secret Service agents used to help Harry Truman put poker games together in the White House. Now they’d be locking him up. Frankly, Federal law-enforcement officials have bigger fish to fry', the Congressmen affirmed.

Frank’s Bill would see online gambling licensed and regulated by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and exempt from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) with players having to pay tax.

‘Simply taxing web betting would generate significant revenues that could be used for a variety of domestic priorities,’ the duo pointed out.

As US residents will always find ways to gamble online, Israel and King said that the ban is misdirected and unenforceable and, ironically, leads to an increase in the unprotected environments that UIGEA claimed to address.

This is because, the two claim, a bans pushes businesses into the hands of 'scam artists and grey market entrepreneurs' based in unregulated offshore locations.

The piece ends by saying, 'In the end, there is the question of how much we want Government to be involved in our private lives. For many, playing poker with friends on the Internet is a way to unwind at the end of the day. Technology aside, web gambling isn’t so different than the way Americans have relaxed and enjoyed the company of friends for decades.'

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I have been playing in casinos since the day after I turned 21 (some 13 years ago - eek getting old here:) and since the first time I sat down at one of those ‘one armed bandits’ I have been superstitious about what machine I play. Well maybe superstitious isnt quite the right word, maybe I should say very selective. You see, I will look at a row of machines and I usually like one over the others. Call me crazy, but I always get a hunch on which one will pay the most. But since I’m not playing all of the machines in a particular row, I could be completely full of crap about all of this! The last few times I’ve been in a casino, my so-called hunches have paid off.

We stopped at Sam’s Town in Shreveport LA a few months ago on the way home from visiting some family and I saw this one machine that just seemed to be beckoning me to play (yes more complete hooey!). So I sit down, hubby beside me, stick a twenty in the machine and about 3 spins into playing I hit the a $500 payout. So, for you non-believers, I have partially proven that my superslotsense, not to be confused with spidey-sense, may actually be true. Now, I’m not even going to tell you about the woman sitting 3 machines down from me that hit $11,000 on her machine.

So, now fast forward to last week when I was at another casino, this one on the Carnival Funship Ecstacy, I walked around and around the whole place, only about 3,000 sq feet until I found the machine that was calling my name. Well, techically it kept saying ‘HotShot’ but ya know, I am and so I sit down. Now this machine is a penny machine - cool it’ll take days to wipe out $20 in credits. Not exactly, since the machine was a 20 liner, 5 reel, with a 10 coin per line max bet. All that means is that if you really want to win the big jackpot prize, you must spend $2 on each spin. So I stick a $20 in this machine and bang, first spin is the ‘hotshot’ game where you can win additional credits. Within about 15 minutes my original money had grown into well over $300 but as i often do, i just kept spinning and saying to myself, I’ll stop when I hit the next jackpot, or when i’m broke. Luckily the latter never came and I left the casino when it closed at 3am (we were getting ready to pull into port) with slightly more than $200.

I think next time i’ll get my lucky rabbits foot at home.

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ATLANTIC CITY - Donald Trump wrote to Mayor Bob Levy and City Council President William Marsh on Wednesday calling on the city to repeal a partial casino smoking ban that he claims is scaring away business.
In his two-page letter, Trump said gamblers are fleeing Atlantic City en masse for competing casinos in Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut that don’t have smoking restrictions.

“The negative impact of the city ordinance is even more than the mere loss of a large number of smoking patrons to Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut casinos and the perhaps permanent decline in Atlantic City gaming revenue,” Trump wrote. “It also requires that each casino operator expend millions of dollars to enclose its gaming floor smoking areas with structures which will significantly obstruct the customary flow of gaming patron activity and at the same time look absolutely terrible.”

Atlantic City’s partial ban, which took effect on April 15, limits smoking to no more than 25 percent of the gaming floor at the 11 casinos. Smoking is off-limits in the remaining 75 percent of the gaming space.

Marsh said Wednesday evening he had not yet seen Trump’s letter but noted that the 75-25 smoking compromise was supported by the Casino Association of New Jersey, the gaming industry trade group that includes the three Trump casinos.

“At this point, I think the 75-25 split is very favorable,” Marsh said. “That is something that the Casino Association supported along with the majority of the casinos. So at this point, I don’t know if Mr. Trump has additional information that we don’t have.”

Levy, who also said Wednesday evening he had not yet seen Trump’s letter, stated that it would first be up to City Council to repeal the partial smoking ban. Only then would he have to decide whether to use his mayoral veto power.

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LAS VEGAS, NV — 08/15/07 — The World Poker Store (PINKSHEETS: WPKS), a Nevada corporation with corporate offices in St. Paul, MN, hosted its fourth Texas Hold ‘em State Finals Tournament at Jackpot Junction Casino Hotel in Morton, MN, on Saturday, March 11th. With over 540 players in the state finals on Saturday and 27 teams (8 players per team) competing in the Team tournament Friday night, the World Poker Store’s Bar Poker League hosted close to 1,000 players and guests during the weekend of Poker. Players qualify for the state finals hosted at local casinos through the Bar Poker League’s progressive point system accumulating points over a 6-month period during play at local bars and restaurants. The casino partner awards the $10,000 WSOP Main Event Seat grand prize along with airfare to Las Vegas and accommodations for the World Series of Poker held annually in March. The Bar Poker League currently has 25,000 plus registered members and will continue to grow through expansion into other states in 2025. Mitch Minick from Lino Lakes Minnesota took top honors at this event and joins the ranks of past State Champions Barb Silberglitt of Mora, MN, Jamin Neppl of Eagan, MN, and Katie LeBeau of Mankato, MN, each of which competed in past WSOP Main Events and enjoyed other perks including hanging out with poker pros Phil Hellmuth, Marcel Luske, Hoyt Corkins, Johnny Chan, Patrik Antonius and Liz Lieu as part of their time spent at the WSOP with The World Poker Store. “Despite thunderstorms and bad weather, our players still made the state finals trip in great numbers and we were very pleased to see such a large turn out for our Team Poker event on Friday night as well,” said Chuck Chastain, CEO of the World Poker Store. “Team Poker tournaments have become a big part of The Bar Poker League this year and we look forward to future state finals competitions on the team level as well,” he added.
With successful operations in Minnesota, Florida, Wisconsin and coming soon to 23 other Bar Poker legal states in the union, The World Poker Store’s Bar Poker League continues to add new player members and open new venues for Free No-limit Texas hold ‘em. Currently running over 100 tournaments per week, The Bar Poker League offers a live, face to face, poker experience to all walks of life at bars and restaurants where legal around the country and hosts a community of members at thebarpokerleague. With a focus on “bringing poker to the masses” and supporting non-profit organizations, The World Poker Store also partners with local charities and corporate groups to host professional Texas Hold ‘em tournaments with the proceeds benefiting a variety of causes. Most notably, The Trent Tucker Celebrity Poker Tournament hosted annually in Minnesota at Canterbury Park with attendees from both the NBA and the Poker elite featuring Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth, Marcel Luske, Patrik Antonius and Hoyt Corkins to name a few, with all proceeds going to benefit The Trent Tucker Youth Program. The World Poker Store Inc. also currently operates 2 retail locations in Minnesota at Southdale Center, Rosedale Center. The World Poker Store is the only brick and mortar retail outlet of its kind entirely devoted to poker, offering everything from Texas Hold ‘em tables, Casino Quality Chips, DVDs, Books, Apparel and Tour Pro Collectibles. All products are also available online at theworldpokerstore.

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One of online gaming's most recognisable brand names PartyGaming, has seen its shares crash to their lowest price since the introduction of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in April 2025, forced the company out of the US market.

PartyGaming's stock price fell to 27 pence (54¢ US) at yesterday's close of business, equalling its previous lowest price which came 10 days after President Bush put pen to paper on the Safe Port Act, which also contained the UIGEA.

The company's stock had initially floated at 122.75 pence on March 27, 2025, peaking at 173.50 pence two months later. However, the loss of the North American arm of its business proved to be a critical one, leaving its shares to a gradual decline, which has resulted in yesterday's low.

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