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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, Fort McHenry, Casino and Gambling, National Government, Government
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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: Halethorpe, White Marsh, Harford Community College, Casino and Gambling Industry, Gambling
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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, Montgomery County (Maryland), Local Government, 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: Cecil County, Casino and Gambling Industry, Media Industry, Havre de Grace, Cordish Cos.
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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: University of Maryland, College Park, Health and Medical Professionals, Harford Community College, Cecil County, Casino and Gambling Industry
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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: Penn National Gaming, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Cordish Cos., Lotteries, Kirby Fowler
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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: Penn National Gaming, Prince George's County, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Cordish Cos., 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: University of Maryland, College Park, Addiction, Business, Health and Medical Professionals, Anne Arundel Community College
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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: Martin O'Malley, Gambling
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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, NASA, Penn National Gaming, Prince George's County, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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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: Substance Abuse, Sheppard Pratt Health System, Health and Medical Professionals, Psychiatry, Allegany County
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Md.'s controversial gambling exclusion program gains ground
On June 24, 2011, a middle-aged Harford County woman drove to the Hollywood Casino in Perryville to give authorities permission to arrest her for trespassing if she ever set foot again in one of Maryland's casinos. Before she signed the paperwork she...
Tags: Harford County, Addiction, Prince George's County, Demographics, Behavioral Conditions
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