Gambling News by House of Odds

Columbia Pictures' new gambling drama 21 , directed by Robert Luketic and starring Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne and Kevin Spacey, opened in first place with an estimated $23.7 million from 2,648 theaters, and average of $8,950 per site. The studio said the debut for the $35 million-budgeted film exceeded expections, and it played strongly to old and young, male and female .

Prime Table Games, a Las Vegas based casino game development company, today ran a full-page statement in the global edition of The Wall Street Journal to coincide with a Congressional hearing scheduled for April 2, 2008 related to proposed regulations to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act .