A West Springfield woman and an Enfield man have pleaded guilty to participating in a telephone betting operation in Agawam.
Deborah Counos, 54, of 1608 Westfield St., West Springfield, pleaded guilty to possession of an apparatus for registering bets and using a telephone for gaming. She received fines totaling $1,250.
Paul Kendall, 53, of 620 Gatewood St. in Enfield, pleaded guilty to the same two counts.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Sony has built the ability to order pizza into its latest online multiplayer game. Type the command "/pizza" while playing Everquest II, a fantasy game with 330,000 active players, and get the Pizza Hut Web site, where you can place orders for delivery.

Chris Kramer, spokesman for Sony Online Entertainment, said he believes this is the first time a game accepts orders for real-world items.

Sony plans to integrate the pizza function more tightly into the game, so players can charge pizza to their monthly game subscription bill.

MASHANTUCKET, Connecticut -- As reported by the Norwich Bulletin: "The Foxwoods Resort Casino raffle prize -- a $500 entry into a Texas hold 'em poker competition -- was appropriate for winner Denise Jacques, a Foxwoods regular.

"Jacques redeemed her husband's winning ticket, since he was at a poker table playing a hand during the drawing. The couple drive from Worcester, Mass., to Foxwoods or Atlantic City, N.J., to gamble every week, and have been customers at Foxwoods since it opened in 1992.

Chicago (IL) - 2004 was a key year for the gaming industry to recognize that there enormous growth left in online gaming and set the stages to go more aggressively after more players in the coming months. While gaming experience promises to become even more dazzling, the industry learns how to convince players to shell out extra cash.

If you are not among the millions playing online yet, then you are missing a trend. Sony Entertainment says it has 750,000 registered online players, Valve and Blizzard each have more than 200,000 users playing Half-Life 2 and World of Warcraft simultaneously online. Microsoft also is in big business and reports more than one million registered users for its Xbox Live service.

The world’s biggest Internet poker company has announced the appointment of advisers to a possible flotation on the London Stock Exchange that could value the business at about £3 billion.

PartyGaming, the Gibraltar-based group that launched the PartyPoker website in 1997, has revealed the appointment of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Investec Securities to advise the company on its “strategic options”.

Chinese police have arrested nearly 600 people in 22 provinces as part of their crackdown on gambling, the official China Daily newspaper reported.

Police raided two online gambling rings, one of them Taiwan-based, which they suspect may have handled bets worth as much as $60m (£32.1m).

Gambling is illegal in China, but is increasingly popular online and in casinos just across China's borders.

Border police have stepped up searches of travellers for illicit cash.

St.Louis - ST. LOUIS -- President Casinos, Inc. today announced results of operations for the third quarter ended November 30, 2004.

For the three-month period ended November 30, 2004, the Company reported a net loss of $0.8 million, or $0.15 per share, compared to a net loss of $2.6 million, or $0.52 per share, for the three-month period ended November 30, 2003.

Revenues for the three-month period ended November 30, 2004 were $9.2 million, compared to revenues of $11.1 million for the three-month period ended November 30, 2003.

PENNSYLVANIA – As reported by the Pittsburgh Enquirer: " The slot machine long ago shed its one-armed-bandit image. Soon, your thumbprint will be the only thing the device needs to tap all sorts of information about you.

"The casino of the future will know your favorite games and when you are most likely to play them. It will recall your favorite meals and what designer labels you prefer in casino clothing shops. And it will track the car you arrived in and whether you are staying overnight.

"Such technology isn't too far away. A completely wired casino, where various computers talk to one another to monitor a customer's every move, represents the next wave in the high-tech world of casino gambling.

Next Generation Entertainment and Winward Casino Group are very concerned for the people that have been affected by the earthquake and subsequent Tsunami. The devastation caused in numerous countries is beyond what anyone could have expected.
In an effort to help all of the people affected by this disaster, Next Generation Entertainment and Winward Casino Group pledge 100% of revenue generated by all their websites on January 5th. Next Generation and Winward Casino Group websites which include, WinwardCasino.com, WorldwideVegas.com, Bingohall.com, BingoPalace.com, OnlineBingo.com, and Vicsbingo.com typically generate between $100,000 on a given week day. We pledge the proceeds from Januart, 5th to the International Red Cross and ask that they be 100% ear marked specifically for Tsunami Victims relief. Our thoughts and prayers go out to those affected and hopefully this can make a difference.