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MGM, Boyd Gaming to form company with bwin.Party31 October 2011 MGM Resorts International and Boyd Gaming are forming a new company with European online gambling giant bwin.party to offer online poker in the United States when it is regulated by the government.Boyd announced today that it would own 10 percent of the joint venture...read moreTop-10 WSOP dream bets31 October 2011 The final table of the World Series of Poker's Main Event is set to begin in less than a week, and after more than three months of waiting and anticipation, this year's champion will finally be crowned. While the players have likely been scouting their opponents and looking for ways to gain an edge during the past few months, another group of people has been scouting the field, too, hoping they can handicap the field and beat Vegas oddsmakers.For the first time, Nevada sportsbooks have been cleared to take prop bets on the WSOP Main Event...read moreMississippi casino holding $20,000 blackjack tournament31 October 2011 Cash is king and VP Adolph Lepre knows that and to that end has cooked up a $20,000 guaranteed cash first place pot for Fitzgeralds Casino Hotel - Tunica's Mississippi’s Hot Hands blackjack tournament that is now on us, this Thursday and Friday (Nov...read moreArticles by Howard Stutz
![]() Trump pushing for Internet poker regulation31 October 2011 LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Proponents of Internet poker legalization gained a high-profile ally 10 days ago.
Billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump partnered with a New York hedge fund and announced plans to launch a gambling website bearing his famous name once Congress legalizes and regulates the activity.
"Internet gaming makes total sense," Trump said, wanting to keep Americans' gambling dollars within U.S...read moreWhy slots that look identical may differ greatly31 October 2011 Everyone knows, or should know, the returns for bets they make in the casinos. On propositions that win, lose, or push, earnings are fixed multiples of the money at risk. On those with diverse possible outcomes, such as video poker hands or reel-type slot machine symbol alignments, returns follow predetermined schedules based on results obtained.
But payoffs aren’t the whole story...read moreAbsolute Poker, UB.com headed for liquidation28 October 2011 Absolute Poker and UB.com are preparing to liquidate their assets to pay players who have been unable to withdraw money from their sites since the owners of the online poker rooms were named in a criminal complaint by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in April.Blanca Games, which owns the online poker rooms, has presented a liquidation proposal to the U.S...read moreArticles by Howard Stutz
![]() Genting proposes $3.8 billion Miami casino28 October 2011 MIAMI, Florida -- Las Vegas Sand Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson loves to say “bigger is better” when discussing his casino projects, such the company’s Venetian Macau, which boasts a 500,000-square-foot casino.We may find out Thursday what he thinks about the plans of his rival for a casino project in Miami.According to the Miami Herald, Malaysia-based Genting Group is proposing to build a $3.8 billion waterfront resort project that rivals the largest Strip hotels and would contain four times as much casino space.The Genting project would have 5,200 hotel rooms...read moreDeal Me In: A truly thoughtless object: The roulette ball28 October 2011 Dear Mark: While playing roulette, black appeared seven times in row, then red, then black four times, red again, then black five times, red once, then black another five times. A pattern similar to this appeared for more than two hours. It surely did not help when my favorite number is 23 (red), and making an outside bet of red...read moreGambling and the Law: Sweden gets it mostly right28 October 2011 The Supreme Court of Sweden has just ruled that poker is either a game of skill or a game of luck, depending upon the rules.
At first, this sounds almost like a joke. But, in fact, the Court got it almost completely correct.
The poker game under consideration was Texas Hold ‘Em...read moreGambling and the Law: Amnesty for Internet poker sites?28 October 2011 Poker operators who took online bets from residents of the United States have received enough good and bad new this year to last a lifetime.First, Nevada regulators approved a partnership between Caesars and 888. Steve Wynn announced he would work with PokerStars in the hopes of setting up PokerStarsWynn.com, to accept American players...read more |
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