The small town of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, is set to become the poker destinations in the world next month after the World Poker Tour Enterprises Incorporated signed a deal to bring four new World Poker Tour events to the area. The Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg will host the 16-day Indiana State Poker Championship beginning from August 3 [...]
Moscow police raided casinos at the stroke of midnight to enforce a nationwide ban on gambling that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin engineered. Hundreds of police and city officials descended on casinos and slot machine halls. Also President Putin pushed through the ban in 2006 as part of an anti-vice campaign that included measures to curtail [...]
It’s all part of a Kremlin crusade to clean up a country that has long had a fascination with games of chance. It deprives the federal budget of billions of dollars a year in taxes, while leaving more than 400,000 people without work. Michael Boettcher, the British founder of Storm International said: “It’s like closing [...]
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