Check your wallets, purses and seat cushions: There’s a lottery ticket out there worth $100,000.

Someone bought a lottery ticket that matched five numbers in the Nov. 10, 2004, drawing, but they never came forward to accept the $100,000 prize. The ticket holder has until Nov. 10 to claim the winnings.

Affiliates are anticipating high fees from the 25 New Generation games being launched by online casino, HCN.

The games are based on some arcade favourites from the past and present including, Mega Ball, Pop Bingo, Bonus Bowling, and Roller Coaster Dice. The popularity of these games is hoping to draw high commissions for the casino affiliates.

Channel 425 has just announced that they will soon be launching a new betting show, aimed at the armchair gambler. The new show, called ‘4-5 Favourite’, will be aired from 12th October and will inform and entertain gamblers with sports and betting features.

The new show will give punters a varied programme of sporting news and information as well as highlights and previews of the biggest races, matches and events

The future of Strip-area development will be casino communities.

Richard Lee, vice president of First American Title, said plans are being geared toward the creation of "pockets" of self-contained communities on or near the Strip.

Lee was the keynote speaker at Thursday’s Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) commercial real estate symposium.

The online poker room now offers players a free poker school with no costs or obligations, just free lessons and tips from top poker professionals at your disposal.

Celebrity Poker School aims to attract new players to online poker without making them start at the bottom of the learning curve.One section that is expected to spark particular interest is ‘Playing Online Tournaments’.

If Mississippi`s casinos, trashed by Hurricane Katrina, do not rebuild, it could cost the state thousands of jobs and billions in taxes and earnings.

All 13 of the region`s casinos in Biloxi, Gulfport and Bay St. Louis are closed and more than half were destroyed by the hurricane. Mississippi is losing $500,000 in gambling taxes every day.

Both of Connecticut's mega-casinos Monday reported their best month ever for slot machine revenue, thanks to frequent promotions and a July that had five weekends.

Overall, slot revenue grew by about 3 percent over the same month a year ago, with 13,622 machines in operation around-the-clock at the Foxwoods Resort and Mohegan Sun casinos. Close to $2 billion was gambled, mostly on quarter machines.

Tony Blair and his culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, are facing fresh questioning over their controversial legislation to introduce a new generation of casinos to Britain, amid Conservative claims that they misled MPs over rules against money-laundering.

Jowell’s Tory shadow, Teresa May, pounced on revelations in the local media Observer detailing exchanges between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Treasury about rules designed to curb criminals who use casinos to launder large sums of money.

Government legislation, passed before the election, will grant licences for 17 new large casinos to be established around the UK from September 1st.

Duncan Bannatyne plans to spend more than us$ 31 million developing three casinos across the UK once the details of new gambling legislation are unveiled on September 1. He launched his casino empire when he converted one of his health clubs on Newcastle Quayside, which opened in February.

State regulators ordered Foxwoods Resort Casino to shut down an Internet promotion Friday, saying it violated Internet gambling laws and illegally expanded gambling off the Indian reservation.

The casino, among the world's largest, markets its "PlayAway" promotion as a way to play slots and card games from home.
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Gaming Commission said Friday that it was reviewing a letter from the state Division of Special Revenue.