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Lakes Entertainment, Inc. Announces Sale of Ranch Land - 2004-01-28
Lakes Entertainment, Inc. revealed today that the sale of the 2022 Ranch land situated near San Diego has been completed. Roughly 1,978 acres were sold to the Riverside Land Conservancy, a California non-profit public benefit corporation.

Lakes Entertainment, Inc. currently has development and management agreements with four separate Tribes for four new casino operations, one in Michigan, two in California and one with the Nipmuc Nation on the East Coast. Lakes Entertainment also has agreements for the development of one additional casino on Indian-owned land in California through a joint venture with MRD Gaming, which is currently being disputed by the Tribe. Additionally, the Company owns approximately 80% of World Poker Tour, LLC, a joint venture formed to film and produce poker tournaments for television broadcast
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It’s a full house - 2004-01-28
Tony Gines, 22, and Joe Melillo, 24, both of Paramus, sized up the competition for a Texas Hold'em poker match at the Sands Casino Hotel Friday night. At first look, the group seemed like normal poker players - older guys with bad toupees and loud shirts; young men heavy on attitude and bravado.

But Gines and Melillo weren't nervous. In this room they were seasoned vets. Melillo had been playing Hold'em for a solid year. Gines, all of six months. And the "players" in the room were dominated by doctors, lawyers, plumbers and truck drivers, not to mention a few grandmas and soccer moms, many of whom were in their first poker tournament ever. The buy-in for the event - $35 bucks.
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