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Three companies say they're interested in building one of the two new, smaller casinos in Atlantic City that state lawmakers authorized earlier this year. A group including the Seminole Indians of Florida, through their Hard Rock franchise Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment, which scrapped plans to build a $2 billion Boardwalk casino, and a group of Atlantic City-area business people told New Jersey casino regulators Friday they want to participate in a pilot program to jump-start the nation's second-largest gambling market....
The business tax approved in a 2006 overhaul of school finance laws is a failure. Designed to pay for a one-third reduction in property taxes, the new business tax is not producing enough funds to make the maneuver revenue neutral.And lawmakers know future budgets will have painful shortfalls if action is not taken to fix the problem.The Legislature's failure to address the problem in the 2012-2013 biennium is water under the bridge.But now leaders must look ahead at ways to...
Critics call the cafes “strip mall casinos.” These are places where you can pay to surf the web and be rewarded with a sweepstakes entry. As WLRN Miami Herald reporter Gina Jordan tells us, there are differing opinions about whether the state should regulate internet cafes or whether that should be left to local governments.miamiherald.typepad.com
Соглашение действительно до 2013 года. Компания Copag ранее в этом году стала официальным спонсором оборудования Латиноамериканского Покерного Тура (LAPT) 4 и 5 сезона, а также Карибского Приключения PokerStars и Бразильского Покерного Тура в 2011 и 2012 годах.Новое расширенное соглашение о спонсорстве, которое действительно с момента подписания, означает, что Copag будет поставлять GPTL игральные карты, а также маркетинговые и рекламные материалы на следующие оффлайн события от PokerStars:Азиатско-Тихоокеанский Покерный тур (APPT) – Сезоны 5-7Австралийско-Новозеландский Покерный тур (ANZPT) – Сезоны 3-5Бельгийская Покерная Серия...
Strong attempts to overturn the law have so far failed. Now a bill in Congress aims to open a crack in that wall. It would legalize only one type: online poker.What’s the key argument for letting Americans bet on their favorite card game?Poker is predominately a game of skill, proponents say, in which players compete with each other, not the house. Chance is only a distant factor – perhaps 12 percent over many hands, according to one study – at...