Gambling News by House of Odds

Hong Kong - A casino in the Chinese gambling resort of Macau refused to pay out a 5-million-US-dollar jackpot won on a slot machine game, a news report said Saturday. A Hong Kong woman saw the jackpot flash up on the machine at the Star World Casino .Casino refuses to pay out 5-million-dollar slot machine 'win' (EARTHtimes.org)

Casino gambling has always had it critics. Nw a political campaign is taking aim at the casino in Aurora, trying to score points with voters in Kentucky. CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports. VIDEO: See Parts Of The Ad That Has Aurora's Mayor UpsetKy. Governor Uses Aurora To Show Evils Of Gambling (CBS 2 Chicago)

A Pennsylvania company with gambling operations in 12 states is the first applicant for a contract to manage a state-owned casino in Kansas.Casino Application Filed (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Penn National Gaming Inc. hopes to build a $295 million resort-and-casino complex in Cherokee County, in the state's southeast corner. The company, based in Wyomissing, Pa., delivered its application Friday to the Kansas Lottery.TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ The state has received its first application from a prospective casino developer under a gambling . (WIBW-TV Topeka)

Gambling tycoon Sol Kerzner isn't the only Mashpee Wampanoag casino investor with a charge of bribery on his record.Second Wampanoag casino investor has bribery record (The Standard-Times)

A Pennsylvania company with gambling operations in 12 states is the first applicant for a contract to manage a state-owned casino in Kansas. Penn National Gaming Inc. proposes a $295 million hotel-and-casino complex in Cherokee County, in the state's far southeast corner. It filed its application Friday with the Kansas Lottery, which would own the casino under a new law. The new law permitted .State's first casino application comes from Pa. (The Wichita Eagle)