CCA News - Monday June 09, 2008

Casinos look to technology to reduce Macau's baccarat addiction

physorg.com - June 8, 2008

Gambling innovators are betting on creating culturally-specific slot machines and computerised games to lure Asian players away from well-worn seats at the baccarat tables to more profitable pursuits.

Gambling success brings controversy for U.S. tribe

Reuters - June 8, 2008

Most of the past 400 years have been miserable for the Mashantucket Pequot. Almost annihilated by English settlers and the smallpox, the survivors were enslaved and scattered. Reduced to just a few dozen members by the 1970s, they grew lettuce and tapped maple syrup, living in poverty in trailers on a scrap of Connecticut woods.

Slots hot again

fredericknewspost.com - June 8, 2008

The heat between Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Comptroller Peter Franchot over the question of legalized slot machine gambling in Maryland has been intense for months now. We expect that to continue until voters decide the issue in November.

Colonial Downs opens today

Associated Press - June 8, 2008

The Secretariat Turf Course is plush and green and the barns are filling up fast on the backstretch at Colonial Downs, where a nine-race card on Monday will kick off a 45-date thoroughbred racing meet, the longest in the track's 12-year history.

Court ruling gives racetrack temporary boost

collinsvilleherald.stltoday.com - June 8, 2008

Fairmount Park, along with other Illinois racetracks, received millions of dollars in good news on Thursday morning.