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• She acknowledged that smaller casinos are struggling to claim their piece of the market.
• "You really need volume to operate a successful poker room," she said. "The overhead can't be absorbed by just a few tables."
• In the end, the very thing that made poker so appealing - its air of tradition and class - may be its undoing, at least on the gambling floor, William Thompson said. After all, casinos make their billions by giving people new and stimulating ways to lose money.
• While slot machine developers can roll out a new "Family Guy" or "oodles of poodles" game ever few months, poker remains unchanged.
• "With slot machines, you can keep reinventing them, so it's going to last longer. They're throwing new wrinkles in all the time," he said.
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Wild Card 2 lottery ticket sold in SD worth $6,000
• DELL RAPIDS, S.D. (AP) -- A lottery ticket sold in Dell Rapids is worth $6,000 in the latest Wild Card 2 drawing.
• South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched all five white ball numbers in the Wednesday drawing but missed the Wild Card to win the game's second prize. The odds of doing so are one in about 127,000.
• The ticket holder has about six months to claim the money.
• Wild Card 2 is played in the Dakotas, Montana and Idaho. The jackpot is at $220,000 for the next drawing, on Saturday.
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10 Things to Know for Today
The Associated Press
• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. WHO'S RUNNING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
• With the pope's retirement, ultimate power now resides with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and the College of Cardinals.
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• 2. NO EXPECTATIONS OF BREAKTHROUGH AS CLOCK TICKS TOWARD SPENDING CUTS
• Obama summons leaders from both parties to the White House to stake out their fiscal positions hours away from sequestration.
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