http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com Casino City Times is The Source for the latest gaming news, gaming strategy and gambling tips from the industry's leading experts. en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/48043.html Sometimes the most important part of a legal document are the words that are not there. Gov. Charlie Crist, for example, just signed a new compact with the Seminole Tribe. It expressly allows the Tribe to have slot machines and banking card games, like blackjack. What the compact doesn't mention is limits. So, the Tribe is free to... Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/48043.html http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/47446.html Law school classes are conducted using the case method. Students are given published court opinions and then questioned on what they deduce the law is. This produces lawyers with the mistaken belief that the first place to look when conducting legal research is reported cases. It is dangerous to forget that the final say on the law... Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/47446.html http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/46581.html Should the prohibitions on internet gambling have a carve-out for online poker? The question is much more complicated than it seems. If the argument is that poker is not gambling but rather a contest of skill, should the exemption be limited to poker tournaments? What is "online" – what about people playing against each others at... Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/46581.html http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/46582.html Last column I started the discussion of whether the prohibitions on internet gambling should apply to online poker by asking the fundamental question: "What is poker?" Twenty years ago I actually had to answer that question under oath in the "7-card down" case I described in my last column. The fight was about what games were... Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/46582.html http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/46478.html Legal gambling can be one of most profitable businesses around. Take for example Penn National Gaming. The company owns four Argosy and four Hollywood casinos; manages the 200,000 square foot Rama Casino in Canada; owns three other casinos, including the Empress Joliet; operates telephone and internet wagering on races, and owns nearly... Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/46478.html http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/46220.html "Buy when there is blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own." Baron Nathan Rothschild There is a generally accepted definition of an economic recession – a decline in gross domestic product for two consecutive quarters. But people don't agree on what is a depression until years after the fact. There is a difference,... Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/46220.html http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/46162.html How can we make poker legal? The cleanest way is to get a statute passed through the state legislature. In my book, GAMBLING AND THE LAW, I show how California became the draw poker capital of the world because the state enacted laws in the 19th century that outlawed specific games, like 21 and faro, but left draw poker off the list... Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/46162.html http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/46072.html There ought to be a law prohibiting anyone from writing a book about gambling who does not know how to make a bet. (There also ought to be a law against writing books if you can't write, but that is a different subject.) Gambling has been at the heart of many stories. The best, inevitably, are by writers who know gamblers, because... Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/46072.html http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/45134.html The casino of the future can be found today, in countries like Vietnam and Cambodia. Many countries have allowed casinos, restricted to foreign tourists. The ones I visited in Cambodia were in hotels in Siem Reap, near the famous ruins of Angkor Wat. What is unusual is to see table games like roulette and baccarat. In a majority of... Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/45134.html http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/44624.html The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has issued the latest, but undoubtedly not the last, decision in the fight over the Emerald Casino license. The Opinion offers some important lessons for anyone who wants to be involved in legal gaming. First, a disclaimer: I was an expert witness for the Illinois Gaming Board in the hearing before... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://Rose.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/44624.html