he folks at Remington Park -- and Oklahoma's entire horse racing industry, for that matter -- can only hope their winning streak matches Linda Mason's.

Last week, Mason netted $7,200 playing the slots in Las Vegas.

Monday, she took a shot at Oklahoma's newest casino: the 650-machine, second floor at Remington Park.

A record $200,000 fine for sloppy accounting practices was levied Thursday against the owners of the Mardi Gras Casino in Black Hawk, putting state casinos' total penalty at nearly $2 million since 1993.

Colorado's casinos have been hit with more than 50 fines totaling $1.9 million in less than 13 years. Infractions have included failure to properly document revenues and using a deck with missing cards for 12 hours on a blackjack table, according to Colorado Division of Gaming documents.

Nearly half the fines imposed against the state's casinos are for poor accounting procedures...

Back when Las Vegas was just a dot in the desert and Hollywood was still a good place to grow bananas, you could put a nickel in a slot machine in Bangor, Maine, and win 50 cigars. Storm clouds were gathering on the horizon, however, as the county attorney's "campaign for purity" got under way. Like selling liquor, gambling was illegal, and the forces of virtue were on the march.

When Penobscot County's new county attorney, Hervey H. Patten, was asked by a reporter on Jan. 1, 1905, whether his campaign included gambling, he replied, "Yes, slot machines, gambling houses and everything must go. I will clean them out. The county is alive with the slot machines into which many men and even boys dump their entire earnings while their families suffer for the necessities of life. It is a curse which has endured altogether too long."...

Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. may build its new St. Louis County casino with insurance payouts from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, suggesting it places a higher priority on building in St. Louis than rebuilding its hurricane-destroyed casino.

Pinnacle Entertainment owns and operates casinos in Nevada, Louisiana, Indiana and Argentina, owns a hotel in Missouri, receives lease income from two card club casinos in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and owns a casino site and has significant insurance claims related to a casino previously operated in Biloxi...

House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi signaled yesterday that the House might ignore legislation, passed last month by the Senate, that would allow the state's four struggling racetracks to install slot machines.

The speaker's remarks were a blow to an industry that has pinned its hopes on the bill and spent lavishly to lobby lawmakers for its swift passage. If passed, the measure would allow the racetracks to install 2,000 slot machines each, to buoy the 4,000 jobs they support, backers say. The racetrack owners say their facilities will shut down without the bill, sapped by an exodus of customers to casinos in Connecticut and businesses with slot machines in Maine and Rhode Island...

The owner of the Planet Hollywood chain of theme restaurants presented city officials with plans for a $380 million casino along the Penn's Landing waterfront yesterday.

The presentation came during a flurry of activity at City Hall as Ameristar Casinos Inc. announced it was no longer competing for one of two slot parlor licenses in the city.

Las Vegas-based Ameristar's decision to pull out of building a $450 million gambling and entertainment venue in Fishtown came unexpectedly, and it was made public after company representatives met with Mayor Street...

The state Gaming Control Board failed yesterday to agree on rules setting geographical boundaries for slot machine suppliers, rejecting a compromise plan that sought to patch differences over the thorny issue.

The continued impasse could push the approval of licenses for the first group of slot venues into late spring, and perhaps into June, gaming board chairman Thomas A. Decker said...

A recent survey suggests that the online gaming phenomenon has well and truly grabbed the attention of the Great British public.

The survey, conducted by cyberslotz.co.uk, reveals that online gamers spend on average £1820 a year gaming on the Internet!

Responses from more than 800 people showed that on average they visit an online gaming site at least once a fortnight. There, over a period of two and a half hours, they stake an average of £70...

As the originators of mobile fun casinos in the UK, Mainline Fun Casinos have been in operation for 34 years. As Europe’s premiere mobile fun casino company, Mainline has hosted fun casino evenings for clients such as Sir Richard Branson, Hewlett-Packard, Mercedes, The Brit Awards, along with a host of private clients.

What is a Mainline Fun Casino Night? A fun casino night hosted by Mainline is one of glitz, glamour, and most importantly fun...

House leaders claimed legislation they passed last week would create jobs and improve the quality of life, while the Senate passed a bill some said would create jobs and diminish the quality of life.

The jobs bill considered by the House has been under discussion for more than a year, and it's just now beginning to inch forward...