<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Gambling: News &amp; Videos about Gambling - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Gambling</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Gambling from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:03:27 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Gambling: News &amp; Videos about Gambling - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Gambling</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Gambling from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Macau casinos roll a pair of hot IPOs</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/02/news/companies/macau_ipos.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/02/news/companies/macau_ipos.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>In recession-battered Las Vegas, there is still plenty of elbow room at the craps tables. Not so in Macau. Gambling revenue in the Chinese region soared in September, according to figures released this week, and two hotly anticipated stock offerings show that the high rollers have returned.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>States: No luck from gambling</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/21/news/economy/gambling/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/21/news/economy/gambling/index.htm</guid><description>Recession-weary Americans aren't gambling the way they used to -- and that could be a problem for many U.S. states already struggling with record budget gaps due to the weak economy.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Elko, Nevada: Where the recession never hit</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/17/news/economy/elko_gold_nevada.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/17/news/economy/elko_gold_nevada.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>At a time when local officials coast to coast are frantically slashing municipal budgets, furloughing employees, and trying to soothe recession-wounded constituents, Curtis Calder, the city manager in Elko, Nev., has a hard time coming up with much to worry about.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Online gambling for the Facebook generation</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/14/technology/online_gambling.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/14/technology/online_gambling.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>If your favorite book happens to be Seabiscuit, you already know the answer to the following question: What are the three legal forms of online gambling in the United States?</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Native Americans see unity as path to prosperity</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/05/08/native.american.group/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/05/08/native.american.group/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The slot machines are ringing, music is blasting at the crowded poolside bar, and people are dancing to celebrity DJs at hip nightclubs. But this is not a scene on the Las Vegas strip. This action is taking place on an Indian reservation.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 11:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Web is the winner in March Madness</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/18/technology/breaking_views.breakingviews/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/18/technology/breaking_views.breakingviews/index.htm</guid><description>The annual March Madness U.S. college basketball tournament, which starts on Thursday, is a pressure cooker for the 65 teams involved.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Casinos crap out</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/17/markets/thebuzz/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/17/markets/thebuzz/index.htm</guid><description>It looks like the house doesn't always win, after all.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Atlantic City to Have 7-Day Smoking Ban</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1849022,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1849022,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Atlantic City gambling floors will go smoke-free for seven days
  before allowing visitors to light up again because the city can't
  legally stop a smoking ban from taking effect</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Biloxi, Mississippi: Alive and thriving</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/getaways/02/26/biloxi.mississippi/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/getaways/02/26/biloxi.mississippi/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Flip through a rack of postcards in any Biloxi, Mississippi, gift shop, and along with images of magnolia trees and sunsets, you're likely to find a few satellite shots of Hurricane Katrina looming over the Gulf Coast. "Why not?" asks a store clerk downtown. 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But years ago, Aaron Walsh started playing slot machines on military bases. He became a gambling addict. It eventually ruined his military career.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 16:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Legalized gambling lifts a depressed town</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402375/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402375/index.htm</guid><description>About 20 miles south of Memphis, along the Mississippi River, Tunica County, Miss., used to be a popular stop for journalists and politicians looking to be appalled by black poverty.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wall Street's poker gamble: All-in with WPT</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/12/news/funny/poker_wpt/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/12/news/funny/poker_wpt/index.htm</guid><description>Poker may not seem as hip as it was just a few years ago. And nobody's feeling that more than shareholders of WPT Enterprises, operator of the World Poker Tour.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ultimate Fighting Machines</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/11/01/8392010/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/11/01/8392010/index.htm</guid><description>This would be a particularly awesome time for the Fertitta brothers to finally disagree. 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That's because the dispute resolution clause in their ownership contract of the Ultimate Fighting Championship states that "in order to resolve a Deadlock among the LLC Members, Frank and Lorenzo shall engage in a Sport Jiu-Jitsu match under the rules as set forth herein."</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:38:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Harrah's gets $15 billion buyout bid</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/02/news/companies/harrahs/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/02/news/companies/harrahs/index.htm</guid><description>Harrah's Entertainment Inc., the world's biggest casino operator, said Monday it had received a $15 billion buyout offer from private equity firms Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group., sending shares of the whole gaming sector up.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A portrait of an online gambler</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/07/20/online.gambling.profile/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/07/20/online.gambling.profile/index.html</guid><description>The habit started seemingly innocent enough, buying scratch tickets at local liquor stores and gas stations 10 years ago. But a few years later, he would find himself -- night after night -- in a Kinko's FedEx store. He wasn't there for the copiers, but for the Internet connection. And he was in trouble.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Caught in the gambling Web</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/07/20/online.gambling/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/07/20/online.gambling/index.html</guid><description>He dreamed that with the next game, the next jackpot, the next click of his mouse, he would solve all his problems. But as he got sucked deeper into the anonymous world of online gambling, his problems only got worse.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Casino hackers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/07/13/popsci.gambling/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/07/13/popsci.gambling/index.html</guid><description>Kathleen Budz had been at the slots in the New York-New York casino for only a couple of hours when the big money came along.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Casinos reopen as N.J. ends budget crisis</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/08/nj.budget/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/08/nj.budget/index.html</guid><description>New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine signed a $30.9 billion compromise state budget into law Saturday evening, formally ending a financial impasse that essentially shut down the state and some of its businesses.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 10:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>From Good to Grand</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/07/01/8380229/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/07/01/8380229/index.htm</guid><description>AT LAS VEGAS'S NOBHILL RESTAURANT, GAMAL Aziz is feasting on Tasmanian trout topped with apple-ponzu dressing and basking in the glow of parchment-paper chandeliers. 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"It's very nice, very picturesque," he thought. "But it's under- water! They've relegated me to the boonies!" Like every other bigtime casino developer, he was well aware of Macau's potential: The former Portuguese colony south of Hong Kong is the only place in the Chinese-speaking world where betting is legal. It's located a short drive or plane ride away from a billion-plus Chinese --who, by the way, are the world's most ferocious gamblers. But out here? On a future landfill project several miles from the crowded downtown peninsula where the action had always been? Still, the more Adelson thought about it, the more he became convinced that he had spotted something glittering beneath the blue water of the South China Sea. More than glittering: a gold mine. A bustling gambling</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mayor moves to heal New Orleans' lifeblood industry</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/07/neworleans.casinos/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/07/neworleans.casinos/index.html</guid><description>Mayor Ray Nagin called Friday for a major expansion of casino gambling in hurricane-hit New Orleans in a desperate attempt to quickly heal its battered lifeblood industry -- tourism.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Floating casinos may come ashore</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/29/hurricanes/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/29/hurricanes/index.html</guid><description>After all 13 of Mississippi's  floating casinos were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi lawmakers are considering a plan to rebuild closer to land.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gaming leaders mull Miss. moves</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/06/news/economy/katrina_casinos/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/06/news/economy/katrina_casinos/index.htm</guid><description>In another sign of the gaming industry's anxiety about its future in the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, CEOs of the top casino companies are expected to discuss the matter next week during the industry's annual G2E trade show in Las Vegas.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Uncertainty and fear to rebuild</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/05/news/economy/katrina_business/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/05/news/economy/katrina_business/index.htm</guid><description>Before Katrina, Mississippi's Gulf Coast had evolved from a swampy backwater to a boom town of casinos, tourism and beachfront entertainment employing thousands.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Heaven From Pennies</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/08/01/8269645/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/08/01/8269645/index.htm</guid><description>Just three years ago, penny slot machines had three main growth markets--eBay, museums, and the city dump. 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A trek to Nevada was the only way to get the excitement and ambience of a casino without leaving the country..</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Mother of Stunt Marketers</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/07/01/8265505/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/07/01/8265505/index.htm</guid><description>You've probably heard how Diana Duyser scored $28,000 on the Internet. In 1994, after sitting down to eat a grilled cheese sandwich, Duyser made a shocking discovery: A scorch mark on her bread res...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Britney Spears' pregnancy test sells</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/12/news/newsmakers/britney_pregnancytest/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/12/news/newsmakers/britney_pregnancytest/index.htm</guid><description>The Internet casino noted for its unusual eBay purchases acquired Britney Spears' alleged pregnancy test for $5,001, according to a statement Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 10:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Offshore offer for Trump casinos</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/29/news/international/trump/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/29/news/international/trump/index.htm</guid><description>An offshore online casino operator says he's making a bid to acquire a 31 percent stake in Donald Trump's casino companies, according to a published report Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Online wagering's gamble</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/17/commentary/column_sportsbiz/sportsbiz/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/17/commentary/column_sportsbiz/sportsbiz/index.htm</guid><description>It seems strange to say this, but placing an online bet shouldn't be a gamble.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>MGM Mirage Offers to Buy Mandalay</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/07/news/midcaps/mgm_mirage.dj/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/07/news/midcaps/mgm_mirage.dj/index.htm</guid><description>MGM Mirage (MGG) Friday night said it has offered to buy rival casino operator Mandalay Resort Group (MBG) for about $4.55 billion in cash.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Larry Bird Finds Trump In His Backyard</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/05/31/370704/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/05/31/370704/index.htm</guid><description>Lounging in his gold-bedecked 727 not long ago, Donald Trump explained one of his rules of investing: "I only do a deal if I think it has the greatest glamour." </description><pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The house wins again</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/21/markets/casinos/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/21/markets/casinos/index.htm</guid><description>When most gamblers get on a hot streak, they have to worry about it coming to an end. 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Members of Congress, sports organizations such as the NCAA and some federal prosecutors believe they can hold back the growth of Internet gambling.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>1Q winners and losers</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/23/markets/bestworst/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/23/markets/bestworst/index.htm</guid><description>Like a drawn out New Year's Day hangover, the first quarter hit the stock market hard.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Teacher's Bet A former professor at Harvard Business             School, Gary Loveman is taking Las Vegas to school. As the     </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/03/08/363688/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/03/08/363688/index.htm</guid><description>It looked like a textbook acquisition. For four months Gary Loveman, the CEO of gambling giant Harrah's Entertainment, had been negotiating with Becky Binion Behnen, the daughter of legendary Las V...</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2004 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Betting on Pepsi, Bud or Charmin</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/27/news/companies/superbowl_ad_bets/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/27/news/companies/superbowl_ad_bets/index.htm</guid><description>Many viewers of this weekend's Super Bowl will tune in for the commercials as much as the game itself. Now they can join fans of the game and place bets on those ads.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A Potential Jackpot</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/09/01/348666/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/09/01/348666/index.htm</guid><description>State budgets have seen better days. In the most recent fiscal year, estimated state budget shortfalls totaled close to $75 billion, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. But tha...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Online Gambling's Mr. Big John Anderson's Web casino             is a profit machine. If only he could convince the U.S.        </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/04/01/339813/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/04/01/339813/index.htm</guid><description>There's something of the night about this industry," a Merrill Lynch investment banker has warned. One evening in November in the lobby of London's Landmark hotel, where the elusive operator of the...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2003 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Lee &amp;amp; Jim Medick FOUNDERS--MRC GROUP</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2002/02/01/317818/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2002/02/01/317818/index.htm</guid><description>This husband-and-wife team admits that moving their polling company from New Jersey to Las Vegas five years ago wasn't a sure thing. They'd found a nice niche conducting surveys for Atlantic City c...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2002 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Billion-Dollar Horse Play The future of the sport of             kings is in the hands of three very different players. Can     </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/10/29/312430/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/10/29/312430/index.htm</guid><description>At times the sport of kings is still just that. On the first Saturday in May, expensively clad women in big hats and men in sharp suits flock to Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby, which just c...</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2001 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Wish You Were Here</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/10/15/311562/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/10/15/311562/index.htm</guid><description>On the day that President Bush asked Americans to observe a national day of mourning, all the Las Vegas casinos owned by the giant MGM Mirage shut down their tables for a minute of silence. 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When the economy began to slow late last year, investors rushed to casino stocks, betting that gamblers' passion for the roulette wheel and t...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Big Gamble Have American Indians found their new buffalo?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/02/288451/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/02/288451/index.htm</guid><description>Outside Philadelphia, Miss., a wrinkled man drops coins into a slot machine. 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MIX GRANDIOSE DREAMS WITH CRAZY POLITICS--AND SET IT ALL IN LOUISIAN</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/12/08/234913/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/12/08/234913/index.htm</guid><description>Want to see a white elephant? Just take a look at the photograph on the opposite page. </description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 1997 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>GAMBLING'S KINGS ON A ROLL AND RAISING THEIR BETS             LAST YEAR AMERICANS VISITED CASINOS MORE OFTEN THAN THEME         </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/07/22/214728/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/07/22/214728/index.htm</guid><description>STEVE WYNN: A $2.5 BILLION WAGER </description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 1996 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>DONALD TRUMP: AN EX-LOSER IS BACK IN THE MONEY</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/07/22/214724/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/07/22/214724/index.htm</guid><description>In the black days of 1991, Donald Trump often strolled with his finance chief, Stephen Bollenbach, from the peach marble atrium of Trump Tower to lunch at another Trump trophy, New York's fabled Pl...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 1996 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Welcome to the NEW Las vegas No longer just the smoky domain of one-armed bandits, the city of lost wages has something for all </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/01/24/78874/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/01/24/78874/index.htm</guid><description>Wholesome enough for a church outing. As antiseptic as a modern theme park. Able to attract free-spending families in a single swoop. Look, it's a Disneyland. It's a futuristic fun world. No, betch...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A ''GROSSLY UNDERSUPPLIED CONSUMER PRODUCT''</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/01/78571/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/01/78571/index.htm</guid><description>Better watch your wallet: One-armed bandits could be coming to your town, if they aren't there already. Slot machines, as well as other casino games, are springing up all over the country. Since Io...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 1993 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE DARK SIDE OF CHARITY GAMBLING Americans spend $10 billion a year at charity-sponsored bingo and casino games. But only about</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/10/01/88323/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/10/01/88323/index.htm</guid><description>When retired Army Lt. Col. Chuck Luce, 62, became executive director of the South Carolina Association for Retarded Citizens in January 1990, he was confident that the group's high-stakes bingo gam...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>RIVERBOAT GAMBLING IS BACK</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/04/22/74945/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/04/22/74945/index.htm</guid><description>The Mississippi River is recapturing some of its colorful 19th-century past as Illinois, Iowa, and Mississippi launch floating casinos to snare tourist dollars and increase state revenues. 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REGULATION BY THE SEA</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/22/74190/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/22/74190/index.htm</guid><description>We keep looking for something to happen in the great American casino industry, and it never happens, even though economic theory tells us it must happen. Baffling, eh? And definitely requiring an e...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>TRUMP'S TROUBLES His newest casino-hotel, the extravagant Trump Taj Mahal, is behind schedule. Even when the high rollers start </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/12/18/72878/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/12/18/72878/index.htm</guid><description>HAS DONALD TRUMP finally dealt himself a bad hand? He appears overextended on the Trump Taj Mahal, a new casino-hotel he is building in Atlantic City. 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It Takes All Kinds</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69328/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69328/index.htm</guid><description>ATLANTIC CITY -- Lately in this gambler's mecca, hordes of visitors are forsaking the blackjack tables, roulette wheels, and slot machines for the chance to bowl a few frames. At times, bowlers hav...</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Most Disorientating Datum, Radicals Inc., Counting the Stars in Court, and Other Matters. 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