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Maryland gambling exclusion expanded to lottery tickets
Maryland has become the third state to offer a voluntary system to restrict the ability to play the lottery, officials announced Tuesday. The program is an expansion of the casino exclusion program launched in 2011, several months after Maryland's...
Tags: Lotteries, Behavioral Conditions, Powerball Lottery
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Five questions with ... Chad Barnhill
Moving to Maryland has been a learning experience for Chad Barnhill, general manager of the Horseshoe Baltimore Casino that will fill the sweeping vacant lot currently greeting drivers coming into the city on Russell Street. At home within the walls...
Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Tourism and Leisure, National Government, Butterfly Ballots, Baltimore Orioles
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Already king of slots, Maryland Live looks to take share of table game market
Cards started turning and dice began rolling early Thursday morning at Maryland Live, already the largest slots casino in the Mid-Atlantic. Opened just 10 months ago, the casino next to an Anne Arundel County outlet mall rakes in more money from slot...
Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Baltimore County, Gambling, Cordish Cos., Halethorpe
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House approves letting casinos give away cash to play table games
The Baltimore SunCasinos could give free cash to table game players under a bill passed by the House of Delegates Thursday. The measure now heads to the state Senate. Proponents said the change is necessary to allow Maryland casinos to compete with in what Del. Eric...Tags: Justice System, Local Government, Montgomery County (Maryland), Howard County
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Play starts at Maryland's first table games
Many were off work because of a snowstorm that never came, so they went to Hollywood Casino, tucked off Interstate 95, in search of games they thought they'd never see here: blackjack, roulette, craps and poker. For the first time Wednesday and about...
Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Hanover (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Cordish Cos., Cecil County, Media Industry
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Casino's first early morning draws small, dedicated crowd
When 2 a.m. came Friday, the sound of coins hitting metal — electronically replicated, of course, since the slot machines pay out with a printed ticket — continued at Maryland Live casino. About 1,000 people stayed where they were, plugging...
Tags: Hanover (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Casino and Gambling Industry, Gambling, Cordish Cos., Health and Medical Professionals
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Table games could hit Maryland in March after commission approves new gaming rules
Maryland’s casinos will be allowed to open 24 hours a day under new regulations approved Thursday by the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission that also relaxed limits on ATMs and lending to gamblers in the facilities. With the advent of...
Tags: Hanover (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Kirby Fowler, Cordish Cos., Lotteries
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Maryland gambling commission relaxes limits on lending, ATMs
Maryland's casinos will be allowed to open 24 hours a day under new regulations approved Thursday by the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission that also relaxed limits on ATMs and lending to gamblers in the facilities. With the advent of full-...Tags: Hanover (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Cordish Cos., Kirby Fowler, Lotteries
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Many look to cash in on expanding Maryland casinos
Dorsey Nicola was shaking the dice and staring down the green felt, where chips were stacked like miniature skyscrapers and multiplying. The craps table was hot last week as a half-dozen students lined the perimeter and Nicola kept throwing sixes. The...
Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Gambling, Teaching and Learning, Addiction, Health and Medical Professionals
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Md. better off with table games
Voting "Yes" on Question 7 to legalize table games such as poker in a few well-chosen casinos will be doing a favor for all residents of Maryland. Gov. Martin O'Malley has promised publicly on television that tax proceeds from such games will be spent...Tags: Gambling, Martin O'Malley
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Expanded gambling: pathway to jobs or wrong-way street?
Second of three articles about state ballot questions Ambrose "Bo" Vogt, a union construction worker from Pasadena, believes the effort to expand gambling in Maryland would create jobs in a field in which work has been scarce. But Tamara Davis Brown, an...
Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Pasadena (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Lotteries, NASA, Prince George's County
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University of Maryland launches problem gambling center
As the state is poised to add several new casinos and possibly table games such as poker, the University of Maryland School of Medicine said Thursday that it would create a center aimed at training thousands of health professionals to help gambling...
Tags: Baltimore County, Gambling, Inner Harbor, High Blood Pressure, Health and Medical Professionals
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