Gaming

Police raid gambling house in Fayetteville and arrest 40 poker players and other gamblers.

A gang of gamblers from the US and Canada spent five years stripping casinos of tens of millions of dollars, using a cheating system involving high tech gadgets and corrupt card dealers.

Sony Online Entertainment have announced High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition – a poker game for the Playstation 2 that allows you to play poker online against your friends.

Backgammon Masters will be attempting to break records during the forthcoming Backgammon tournament, when they will be going for the world's farthest backgammon dice roll.

This Wednesday a new kind of poker game is heading to Xbox Live Arcade. Poker Smash, created by independent developer Void Star Creations, is a fast paced game somewhere in between poker and tetris.

The Fantasy Springs Resort Casino held a different kind of Texas Hold'em tournament recently – replacing the dealer, cards, and chips, with a set of automated touch screens.

A pub / hotel owner in Queensland, Australia, has pulled the plug on the poker machines at his establishment, stating that he could not bear to see his patrons losing all their money to the poker machines and leaving in tears.

Poker machine gamblers in poorer suburbs are among the biggest financial losers in Australia – paying out $128 million AU in just 1 year. On average, an adult in the city of Monash spends $960 a year on poker machines.

Timothy Elliott as the lucky buyer of a $1 million scratch card in the $800 Million Spectacular game – the odds of his ticket being the winner were 1 in 1,247,400 – but buying the lucky ticket was as far as his luck went.

A survey of New York teenagers has found that close to three quarters of teens in grades 7 to 12 have gambled at least once in the past year.