Colorado News - Page 12

The convention center at the Ute Mountain Casino, Hotel and Resort was filled with the nervous murmur of gamblers, stacks of red, green and blue chips, professional blackjack players and TV cameras Saturday for the last of the casino’s three World Series of Blackjack 2006 satellite tournaments.

News Brief: Charges against the last three card players cited in a 2005 Colorado gambling raid were dropped Thursday, closing a case that focused statewide attention on the legalit

World renowned blackjack tournament pros were out in full force during the second tournament of the World Series of Blackjack held at the Ute Mountain Casino- Hotel & Resort January 6th and 7th in Towoac, Colorado.

he Ute Mountain Casino crowned Patricia M. Nicholas of Durango, Colorado on December 2nd as its first of three representatives for the televised finals of the World Series of Blackjack 2006 in Las Vegas.

News Brief: The Colorado attorney general says poker games played in bars and restaurants statewide are illegal, but 4th Judicial District Attorney John Newsome, like other district attorneys, doesn’t plan a massive crackdown on poker nights.

News Brief: A record $200,000 fine for sloppy accounting practices was levied Thursday against the owners of the Mardi Gras Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado.

News Brief: The first woman to break the glass ceiling in Kansas City’s casino industry has been named senior vice president and general manager at Mountain High Casino.

Ute Mountain Casino Hotel & Resort is partnering with GSN, The Network for Games, on the broadcaster’s third year of the franchise series World Series of Blackjack 2006.

News Brief: The Arapahoe Park horse-racing track's new owner has added more race dates to it 2006 calendar.

PitBOSS Entertainment, Inc. has completed a controlling interest asset and shareholder acquisition with AAA Builders & Partnership and trust represented by Michael Lieberman Esq. for controlling interest in a Colorado Casino.

News Brief: Pueblo County Commissioner Loretta Kennedy, who had supported a proposed Indian casino and hotel on Pueblo's historic Riverwalk area, said Tuesday she was shocked that two tribes voted to abandon the project.

News Brief: Plans for a $100 million American Indian casino in Pueblo fell apart over the weekend when the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma overwhelmingly voted not to give up 27 million acres of historical land claims in Colorado for a 5-acre casino site in Pueblo.

Global Casinos, Inc. implements Aristocrat Technologies' Oasis Casino Management System in its Bull Durham Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado.

News Brief: City and county elected leaders will be responsible for giving other taxing entities their share of money from the Indian-owned casino proposed for Pueblo, Colorado.

News Brief: Officials for Citizen Action for a Prosperous Pueblo won't say who has contributed money to the Colorado anti-casino group.

News Brief: A Denver jury agreed with federal prosecutors that the owners of SeaEscape played a crucial role in an alleged credit card scam during the 1990s.

American Indian tribes planning to build a hotel-casino in Colorado are focusing on Pueblo after being stalled in a bid to build one near Denver International Airport.

News Brief: Colorado casinos pumped another record number of tax dollars into the state's coffers in fiscal 2005, but the increase was the lowest since the state legalized gambling.

News Brief: Residents and tourists headed into the cool of Colorado's casinos during the dog days of July, spending enough to make it an all-time record month.

Last month's massive rock slide is helping increase gambling business in this historic town, which was already benefiting from the construction of the Central City Parkway.