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2015 NFL Betting Preview, Part 3: Top 10 futures bets for the 2015 NFL season

2015 NFL Betting Preview, Part 3: Top 10 futures bets for the 2015 NFL seasonThis is part 3 of 3 of Casino City's 2015 NFL betting preview. Other articles in the series include:Part 1: Top 10 degenerate tips for betting the NFL this seasonPart 2: Top 10 tips for the novice daily fantasy football playerWe are now at T-minus three days until the NFL season...read more

Deal Me In: Progressively riding your streak

Dear Mark: My brother-in-law swears that after every second win, you double your bet. He says you are keeping the first win after raising the bet and then using house money for the raise. So, his method is $5, $5, $10, $10, $20, $20. If you win six hands in a row, you win $70...read more

'Deflategate' verdict sends shockwaves through sportsbooks worldwide

ESPN programming came to a sudden halt. Twitter and Facebook exploded. New England Patriot fans rejoiced and the rest of the NFL let out a collective groan. Early Thursday morning, the fate of quarterback Tom Brady for the upcoming NFL season was finally decided when it was announced the All-Pro quarterback's four-game "Deflategate" suspension would be overturned...read more

GVC beats 888; bwin.party directors agree to 1.16 billion-pound merger deal

The bidding war to merge with bwin.party Digital Entertainment is finally over, as the company accepted a £1.16 billion ($1.7 billion) bid from GVC Holdings. bwin.party shareholders will own 66.6% of the new company, and current bwin.party CEO Norbert Teufelberger will serve as the new company's director.The move comes as a surprise for those following the bwin.party rumors this summer...read more

Multi-entry tournaments a catch-22 for daily fantasy sports

If you live in the United States, you can't escape the buzz around daily fantasy sports (DFS). Market leaders DraftKings and FanDuel spent all summer ramping up for the NFL season and are spending millions of dollars to acquire new depositing customers.DraftKings, in fact, ranks fourth in TV advertising spend over the last seven days, with an estimated $16 million...read more

2015 NFL Betting Preview, Part 2: Top 10 tips for the novice daily fantasy football player

This is part 2 of 3 of Casino City's 2015 NFL betting preview. Other articles in the series include:Part 1: Top 10 degenerate tips for betting the NFL this seasonPart 3: Top 10 futures bets for the 2015 NFL seasonIf you're an NFL fan and you like to gamble, chances are you have played in a fantasy football league at least once in your life.Season-long fantasy football leagues can be a ton of fun...read more

Gulf Coast gaming rebuilds after casino industry's 'single-biggest disaster'

BILOXI, Miss. — John Ferrucci recalls standing at the Broadwater Marina on a humid, late summer morning in August 2005, trying to determine the best way to slip the moorings of the President Casino barge and float it 35 miles west to Hancock County, where it would reopen as the Silver Slipper.Two days later, he was told to evacuate the area: Hurricane Katrina was bearing down on the Mississippi Gulf Coast."I had been through this several times," said Ferrucci, who has experienced his share of hurricanes in 22 years as a Biloxi casino operator...read more

Gaming industry commitment to New Orleans unwavering after the disaster

NEW ORLEANS — The most noticeable change in The Big Easy casino market 10 years after Hurricane Katrina is the 14-foot-high concrete-and-steel wall that encircles Boomtown Casino New Orleans."With the big iron doors, it kind of reminds you of 'Escape from New York,' " said Boomtown general manager Harold Rowland, comparing the Harvey Canal Floodwall to prison walls in the 1981 John Carpenter film.The 3.5-mile-long structure was built as a safety measure by the U.S...read more

Deal Me In: Overruling 'it lays it plays'

Dear Mark: OK, former Pit Boss, please handle the situation I had with one of your peers on a craps table. I had been playing for about an hour making $5 pass line bets until that final seven ended my night. However, like every other gambler, I would figure one more try might swing luck back my way...read more

Gulf Coast casino workers call area's recovery 'amazing'

BILOXI, Miss. — Hurricane Katrina wiped out the nation's third-largest gaming market along the Mississippi Gulf Coast 10 years ago today, washing away 13 casinos and 17,000 gaming industry jobs.Some casino workers, who lost their homes and all their possessions, left the Gulf Coast forever.Many others chose to remain, anticipating that casino, hotel, restaurant and service industry jobs would return.Today, as communities in southern Mississippi mark a decade since the Gulf's worst-ever natural disaster, not all of those workers are employed in similar roles they held before Katrina landed...read more