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Former San Diego Mayor Maureen O’Connor acknowledged in federal court Thursday that she took $2 million from her late husband's charitable foundation to pay for her addiction to video poker — and lost $1 billion wagering over the course of a decade.

A Maryland man visiting Atlantic City last weekend won a nearly $4 million jackpot while playing a $5 slot machine that offered a progressive jackpot. The gambler, who asked that his name and personal information not be released, was playing at the Bogata Hotel Casino & Spa late Sunday night when he hit it big.

The chief of Full Tilt Poker surrendered to authorities on Monday and pleaded not guilty to charges of illegal gambling and that the online poker operator defrauded its players.

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson said on Wednesday he plans to spend $35 billion on a mini-Las Vegas strip in Spain where he is courting the country's two top urban areas, Barcelona and Madrid, with plans for a casino complex.

Gambling authorities have revoked the license of Full Tilt Poker, saying the online site had "fundamentally misled" regulators about its finances ...

Several retired and active police officers and firefighters have been arrested in a federal raid on a New York City gambling ring, NBC New York has learned.

In Garden Grove, Westminster and other cities, some of the coffeehouses include not only loud music and strong java, but nudity, gambling and prostitution. Many in Little Saigon are hesitant to speak out against the establishments.

In an aggressive move against online gambling, federal prosecutors allege three Internet poker companies tricked banks into processing billions of dollars of illegal betting proceeds.

Ten people have been named in an attempted conspiracy by gamblers to bribe players to fix basketball games at the University of San Diego and UC Riverside, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Monday in San Diego.

Card-playing software is now good enough to win tens of thousands of dollars on major poker sites, and human players aren’t happy about it.