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New York Jurisdiction News
Albany poker club closed again
22 Jan 2009
News brief: A poker den on North Allen Street was shut down on Wednesday and is the site of two armed robberies in less than a year.
Poker firm sues state of New York
29 Oct 2008
News brief: The Free Poker Experience wants to run free poker games in bars.
Defeated Nikolay Davydenko not upset by question at US Open
3 Sep 2008
News Brief: After he lost to a qualifier ranked 130th at the U.S. Open, Nikolay Davydenko says he can beat everyone and lose to everyone.
Montel Williams hosts celebrity poker bash
12 Mar 2008
On Thursday, March 13, Montel Williams will bring celebrities and poker fans together in a gala bash to benefit Multiple Sclerosis research.
Staten Island ties in alleged gambling ring
18 Dec 2007
News brief: A Brooklyn man who was one of five arrested in an Internet sports gambling ring in New Jersey had ties to Staten Island
TVG launches NY online betting platform
1 Nov 2007
TVG announced today that it has launched an Internet wagering platform to residents of New York State at tvgnewyork.com on behalf of Yonkers Raceway.
Davydenko addresses tennis gambling inquiry
27 Aug 2007
News Brief: Tennis player Nikolay Davydenko talked Monday about the difficulty of fighting off the intense press focus and chided reports that a Russian Mafia might be involved.
Found lottery tickets are worthless
8 Jun 2007
News Brief: More than $1,400 in lottery tickets found Sunday in Schiller Park are worthless, Syracuse police said Wednesday.
Connecticut wants NY to block online bettors
3 May 2007
News Brief: Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is asking New York gambling regulators to block Connecticut residents from placing Internet bets on horse races in New York State.
Bally, NY Lottery sign extension deal
16 Apr 2007
Bally Technologies has signed a contract extension with the New York Lottery to keep the Company's revenue-share machines in operation through at least Dec. 31, 2010.
Man wins $34.5 million lotto jackpot
7 Mar 2007
News Brief: A 44-year-old Happauge truck driver and his wife will be renewing their weddings vows at Disney World after he hit a $34.5 million Lotto jackpot.
D'Amato signs with the PPA
5 Mar 2007
Former U.S. Senator Alfonse D’Amato has signed on as a lobbyist for the Poker Player’s Alliance, a PPA spokesperson confirmed Monday.
New York wins big with lottery
29 Jan 2007
News Brief: Since 2001, the New York lottery has generated a record-breaking run of profits, more than $2.2 billion last fiscal year, making New York the nation’s big winner in state-sponsored gambling.
NETeller Update: Lawrence posts bail
22 Jan 2007
NETeller co-founder Stephen Lawrence posted bail Friday after appearing before a District of Southern New York Judge.
Online gambling operation in Queens busted
16 Nov 2006
Queens DA announced the indictment of twenty-seven individuals and three corporations on charges of unlawfully operating a highly sophisticated online gambling operation in Queens County and elsewhere in the world.
Sportsbook.com Offers Odds on NY Series
3 Oct 2006
Sportsbook.com odds makers are favoring a second subway series in six years for this
year's fall classic as both the New York Mets and New York Yankees are the
front runners.
Seventy-Nine Percent of Americans Agree that New Yorkers Have Good Poker Faces
15 May 2006
According to a recent survey by Russell Research, Americans think that Robert DeNiro, Donald Trump, Joe Torre all have good poker faces.
Hemophilia Charity Offers World Series of Poker Tournament Entry at 2006 Game Night
24 Mar 2006
Gamblers at the National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) 2006 Game Night will have a chance to win a seat to a World Series of Poker event, but the real winners will be people who suffer from hemophilia and other bleeding disorders.
New York Poker Operation Busted
30 Jan 2006
News Brief: Nassau County police have folded what they called an illegal "Texas Hold 'em" game secretly operating inside a Farmingdale warehouse.
Poker's Lucky Streak Seen Fading
27 Dec 2005
News Brief: The worldwide poker industry appears to have hit every possible inside straight, flush and full house that it could accumulating a large pot of cash in the process.
He was an Ace Among Poker's Kings Before Caving in at 45
4 Jul 2005
News Brief: Stu, or Stuey the Kid, Ungar was the swashbuckling enfant terrible of poker before it blew up into a mainstream obsession in the 1990s.
New York Online Horse Wagering Finds Supporters
18 May 2005
News Brief: New Yorkers would be able to legally wager on trotters and thoroughbreds with the click of a mouse if horse-racing industry advocates and some state lawmakers have their way.
Wagering Company Claims to be NYRA Scandal Whistleblower
27 Jan 2005
International News Brief: Euro Off-Track, the wagering company that lost its simulcasting agreements with the NYRA after being named in a federal indictment of 17 individuals on charges of illegal gambling and race-fixing, claims to have acted as a whistleblower in the case.
PokerRoom.com to Host Tsunami Benefit Tournaments
6 Jan 2005
PokerRoom.com, one of the world's largest online poker sites, will host two poker tournaments this weekend to benefit the victims of the devastating tsunamis in Southeast Asia.
History of Bingo Amounts to More Than a Hill of Beans
4 Jan 2005
News Brief: Bingo was modeled after the Italian lottery, 'Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia,' which used a game card with three horizontal rows and nine vertical rows.
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