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Keeping abreast - Wagering War leads, others follow
Image via Wikipedia No sooner do I run a pair of breasts on the blog for the first time in, er, ever, than Vegas East has its Eureka moment... Topless is the way to go for Atlantic City, casino exec says... "One casino exec thinks he knows the meth...
Red Dog Games
Casinos' Red Dog game was a new one on me but if just thinking about the rules of Craps and the maths of Blackjack makes your temples throb, the sheer simplicity of Red Dog has a certain appeal... "you are dealt two cards, face up. You decide if the ...
50 Luxury Gambling Vacation Destinations
From World Gambling Review: 50 top casinos around the planet. Did you know...The Bellagio Las Vegas has its own art galleryCalifornia's Barona Valley Ranch Resort & Casino hosts The Blackjack Hall of FameGermany's Casino Baden-Baden requires gues...
How casinos make you stick around
Image via WikipediaNo clocks, pumped-in oxygen: I thought I had casinos sussed when it came to their cunning ways of ensuring that Elvis doesn't leave the building.Oh no. Turns out there's lots more involved in being a smart casino. Mental Floss pris...
Spin this...
Image via WikipediaAnother in the series highlighting those fabulous PR coups that make you rejoice to be a gambler...'Toddler left for hours in freezing car outside Calgary casino'This'll be that casino-led 'urban regeneration' theory in action, I ...
Vegas mafia never ran city
Image via WikipediaBravely tackling one of Sin City's most sacred cows, Lesley NiƱo Fidance - a student at the Boyd School of Law - insists that the Mob never ran Vegas, in this this presentation to the loftily-named Gaming Research Colloquium.While...
Nazarian out to make Sahara less of a desert
If I'm being profiled in the Wall Street Journal as the potential saviour of a fading Vegas casino, I'd want the kind of portrait they've given Sam Nazarian, new owner of the down-at-heel Sahara Hotel & Casino (where...eeek..."life-size Arab figu...
It's not poker you're tired of, it's chasing money
Maybe this is how poker's bubble bursts: not with a bang but with gradual subsidence, so numerous are the pin pricks through which its allure departs.To read the forums these days is to read noticeably more threads like this one, where the musty whi...
'Bringing Down the House' - a review
Read this true story just before Christmas and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's been around for a while now but if you haven't read it yourself, I can recommend it.A team of students make regular sorties from Boston to the casinos of Vegas and plunder t...
Gambling journalism that made me smile
Just when I was still chuckling at the irony of American white folk fretting over all their land falling into Indian hands, I came across this cameo of eloquence in the Nepal Telegraph:"Talking to reporters the Manager of the NRC Mr. Bharat Kumar Sha...
Man's face gored by bull during poker game
Digg-bait? Me? Come on...I'm no fan of litigation-mania but the idiot who dreamed up this poker format, I hope they pursue to the gates of Hell, contributory negligence notwithstanding...H.O.R.S.E., yes. B.U.L.L., no:Playing Bull Poker - The most ama...
Sun up at last for Dusk Till Dawn
Many congratulations to Nottingham poker room Dusk Till Dawn for breaking the mould. And yah boo to Stanley, Gala and London Clubs International, for displaying that commendable relish for honest competition for which the UK betting industry is so ri...
