TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) – The odds were stacked against retirees at the Twin Falls Senior Center earlier this month when police arrived to break up a long-running poker game after receiving an anonymous tip.

About 20 seniors had played at the center for more than five years but police say nothing in Idaho law permits gambling at any age.

Residents told The Times-News they paid in $20 to play and the pot was split among the top chip holders.

Seventy-3-year-old Ora Deahl says she thought it was legal because the players donated up to $500 to the senior center each.

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The field for the 6th annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship presented by GoDaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name registrar, is flush with a who’s who of the poker world, including a dozen World Series of Poker Main Event champions, top all-time money winners, online studs, and Academy Award nominees.  Poker’s most prestigious heads up tournament brings 64 of the best poker players in the world to the Caesars Palace Poker Tournament Room to compete in its distinctive, bracket-style head-to-head format for $1.5 million in combined prize money.  The event will be taped for broadcast on NBC over six consecutive Sundays in April and May. T

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From The Quincy Cove

You know the gamers in the crowd are getting hyped up when they hear titles like, "online gambling bill hits house and senate". In recent Quincy Cove poll, respondents said that bingo is not just for retirement homes anymore. The industry has made enough waves that now it’s up for decision with the big guys.

Donny Chia covered the event in detail, "Hey guys what do you expect when you are in some kind of revolution phase? I mean before a revolution, there is some kind of unrest and lots of urging among masses from all quarters across a vast area.

Something similar like that is happening in most parts of the US in regards to gambling games!

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(Bloomberg) — Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino company expanding in Macau and Singapore, reported fourth- quarter earnings that met analysts’ estimates as growth in the Chinese gambling market countered a U.S. slump.

Excluding some items, profit totaled 3 cents a share, the Las Vegas-based company said today in a statement, matching the average estimate of 15 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. The company posted a net loss of $113.9 million compared with a loss of $136.5 million a year ago.

Macau accounted for about 80 percent of revenue in the quarter, as billionaire founder and Chief Executive Officer Sheldon Adelson invests in Asia to take advantage of record betting in the only part of China where casinos are legal.

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TMZ.com has reported that 2008 Playmate of the Year and PokerStars poker player Jayde Nicole is being touted as a full service escort in Las Vegas who will come straight to your hotel room if the price is right.

Nicole knows nothing about this however and she is now suing.

TMZ has learned Jayde’s image is being passed around Vegas on those escort-for-hire cards that those people flick at passersby on the streets.

The flyer identifies Jayde’s image as "Tanya". 

When TMZ called the escort service, they guaranteed the woman whose image appears on the card would show up at their hotel room.

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2010 Bassmaster Classic odds have just been released by our friends at Sportsbook.com. 

Before you start laughing at your dear friend Carrie Stroup for promoting this event as something one can bet on consider this:  Gambling911.com was absolutely blown away by the amount of betting interest on this event.

"I remember last year," said Sportsbook.com spokesperson Dave Stanley.  "This did real well for us."

Yeah, betting on fish.  Next we’ll be betting on cockroach races.

It’s not too much of a stretch to suggest that the Bassmaster Classic ranks only second to horse racing and a few slots up from the Westminster Dog Show pageant in terms of betting interest. 

2010 Bassmaster Classic odds appear below and can be bet on at Sportsbook.com

2010 BassMaster Classic – Total Weight of the 1st Place

02/19/10          110          Over 48 Pounds and 10 Ounces

         -120                  

09:00 ET                   Under 48 Pounds and 10 Ounces

         -120                  

2010 BassMaster Classic – Total Weight of the 2nd Place

02/19/10          120          Over 45 Pounds and 09 Ounces

         -120                           

09:00 ET                   Under 45 Pounds and 09 Ounces

         -120                  

2010 BassMaster Classic – Total Weight of the 3rd Place

02/19/10          130          Over 44 Pounds and 10 Ounces

         -120                           

09:00 ET                   Under 44 Pounds and 10 Ounces

         -120                            Under 2.5 (-135)

 Carrie Stroup, Gambling911.com Senior Reporter

Breaking News:  A much publicized lawsuit filed by poker player Clonie Gowen against the world’s second largest online poker room, Full Tilt Poker (Tiltware) has been dismissed in favor of the defendants, Gambling911.com has learned.  

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No.         Dates    Description

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Filed & Entered:               02/11/2010

                Clerk’s Judgment

Docket Text: CLERK’S JUDGMENT in favor of Defendants Kolyma Corporation, A.V.V., Pocket Kings Consulting, Ltd., Pocket Kings Ltd., Tiltproof, Inc, Tiltware LLC, Howard Lederer, Raymond J. Bitar and against Plaintiff Cycalona Gowen. Signed by Clerk fo Court, Lance S. Wilson on 2/11/10. (Copies have been distribu

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The Finnish Slot Machine Association (RAY) and its lottery counterpart Veikkaus have been given the government green light to push ahead with legal online gambling ventures that include online poker and casino action (for RAY) and online bingo and similar number-based games (for Veikkaus)

RAY intends to introduce a variety of internet poker and casino games, which it believes will create an income of around €25 million annually.

Finnish media sources report that the new government licenses come into force on March 1, 2010, and that RAY hopes to start real money operations before August this year.

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