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Police are searching for the true owner of a $12.5 million lottery prize, as 3 people are charged with theft.

As speculated online gambling will be introduced in Ontario.

Six Midi Bac players accused of cheating Casino Rama.

Speculation among experts that Ontario may be next to offer online gambling.

The “Best Poker Players Never to Win a World Series of Poker Gold Bracelet” list got one player shorter over the weekend, as Gavin Smith won the $2,500 Mixed Hold’em championship (Event #44) to earn $268,238 and his first WSOP bracelet on Saturday night.

Scott Montgomery, who finished fifth in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, won the fourth $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em championship at the WSOP on Wednesday night to win $481,760.

Aadam Daya, a 31-year-old business analyst from Mississauga, Ontario, won the $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship (Event #3) at the World Series of Poker to collect a whopping $625,872 and his first WSOP gold bracelet. Daya topped a huge field of 4,345 players in the tournament, played over Memorial Day weekend.

Canadian researchers are trying to understand what makes slot machines addictive.

Police chase finished with a truck smashing into the front door of Niagara Fallsview casino.

6-year sentence for banker who robbed banks to fund his gambling debt.

News brief: Ontario is placing a $38- million bet on a plan to help problem gamblers.

International news brief: An Ontario woman is facing child abandonment charges after she left her sleeping infant in a parking garage while gambling at Caesars Windsor casino.

International news brief: Caesars Windsor allowed customers to take a spin of its 50 new slot machines.

International news brief: A woman who stole from her employer to feed her gambling addictions has sued two casinos and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.

News brief: A Barrie woman won almost $400,000 while playing the slots at Georgian Downs.

News brief: Slot machines at Western Fair in Ontario were shut down Monday after a water pipe burst at the popular spot.

News brief: The Canadian bookkeeper embezzled more than $1.2 million and lost it gambling on slot machines.

News brief: Ontario Provincial Police have arrested a Windsor woman whom they accuse of stealing a $3.5-million lottery ticket from her husband with the help of her daughter.

News Brief: Cheating gang hit more than a dozen casinos in U.S., Canada.

News Brief: For years, the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino in Port Perry, Ont., had a simple policy when it came to cleaning the casino's bathrooms – male employees cleaned the men's rooms and female staff the women's.