A Tribal Gaming decision is headed before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has decided to hear Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette’s arguments against the opening of an Upper Peninsula Indian community’s casino in Vanderbilt. The high court this fall will review a federal appeals court ruling last summer that cleared the way for the Bay Mills Indian Community to go ahead with the Vanderbilt casino. The small northern Lower Peninsula town is about 100 miles from the Bay Mills Indian Community on Lake Superior north of Brimley and west of Sault Ste. Marie. “Today’s ruling sets the stage for an…

From BBC Twenty-eight British and Irish expats and holiday-makers have been fined after police in Portugal caught them playing bingo for biscuits and drinks. Landlady Marianne Pittaway, from North Yorkshire, was fined 700 euros (£595) for hosting the game at The Yorkshire Tavern in Albufeira, on Friday night. Ms Pittaway, 34, also received a four-month suspended prison sentence. She said she was “still in shock” and that the country’s regulations were “wrong in a lot of aspects”. Ms Pittaway, who has been in Portugal for eight years, said her bar would “definitely not” be staging bingo again following Friday’s raid….

From Reuters Australian gaming firm Echo Entertainment (EGP.AX) has submitted plans for a $1 billion expansion of its Star casino in Sydney, including an option that would allow rival Crown Ltd (CWN.AX) to open a VIP-only casino. Echo, which holds the sole licence to operate a casino in Sydney until 2019, has been lobbying to extend this right in an attempt to block Crown’s plans to add to its Melbourne casino. Crown, controlled by billionaire James Packer, has said it wants to open a VIP casino in Sydney as part of a A$1 billion six-star hotel and residential waterfront development,…

In North America, Tribal online gambling is being considered. After all, the online gambling industry is full of start up operations which are in some instances breaking new ground in the field of internet wagering. Now, Native American operators are secure in their traditional methods of offering punters the best there is. Canada has many Tribal Casinos which have recently been attempting quite successfully to offer an internet version of the usual casinos games and poker rooms. Bernard Shepherd who is the former Chief of the Wapi Muskwa Nation, is a well known personality in the establishment of Canadian Tribal…

Many card players say time flies during the annual World Series of Poker. The world’s best poker minds wait all year for the 62-event, 48-day series only to feel like it ends right after the first “shuffle up and deal” command. This summer’s WSOP is no different, running as fast as an electronic shuffle machine through three-and-a-half weeks. More than half of the championship bracelets have already been handed out, and today marks the official midway point with 24 sessions officially completed. Three-and-a-half short weeks from now, a new Main Event final table of nine players will be the talk…

From My Central Jersey The PokerStars website entered into a contract to buy an Atlantic City casino with “their eyes wide open,” and now has to live with the consequences of the failed deal, the casino said in court papers. The Rational Group, the Isle of Man-based parent company of PokerStars, struck a deal in December to buy the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel. But the agreement stated that either side could cancel the transaction if The Rational Group did not get preliminary ownership approval from New Jersey casino regulators by a certain date. When that April 26 date passed, the…