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Top-10 Tweets Phil Hellmuth would have sent out upon winning his 12th WSOP bracelet

Phil Hellmuth — the poker player everyone has an opinion about — came oh-so-close to winning a record 12th World Series of Poker bracelet over the weekend, finishing second to John Juanda in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship.After holding a 3-1 chip advantage early in heads up play, Hellmuth saw the bracelet slip through his fingers, and with it, another opportunity to extend his lead on Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and the rest of the field in all-time bracelets.Just like everyone else who follows poker, we're devoted followers of Hellmuth on Twitter, and while we've enjoyed his post-tournament tweets, we couldn't help but wonder what he'd be tweeting if he'd won the title.Without further ado, we bring you our top-10 list of things Hellmuth would have tweeted had he pulled off the win.10...read more

Top-10 Tweets Phil Hellmuth would have sent out upon winning his 12th WSOP bracelet

Phil Hellmuth — the poker player everyone has an opinion about — came oh-so-close to winning a record 12th World Series of Poker bracelet over the weekend, finishing second to John Juanda in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship.After holding a 3-1 chip advantage early in heads up play, Hellmuth saw the bracelet slip through his fingers, and with it, another opportunity to extend his lead on Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and the rest of the field in all-time bracelets.Just like everyone else who follows poker, we're devoted followers of Hellmuth on Twitter, and while we've enjoyed his post-tournament tweets, we couldn't help but wonder what he'd be tweeting if he'd won the title.Without further ado, we bring you our top-10 list of things Hellmuth would have tweeted had he pulled off the win.10...read more

Top-10 Tweets Phil Hellmuth would have sent out upon winning his 12th WSOP bracelet

Phil Hellmuth — the poker player everyone has an opinion about — came oh-so-close to winning a record 12th World Series of Poker bracelet over the weekend, finishing second to John Juanda in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship.After holding a 3-1 chip advantage early in heads up play, Hellmuth saw the bracelet slip through his fingers, and with it, another opportunity to extend his lead on Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and the rest of the field in all-time bracelets.Just like everyone else who follows poker, we're devoted followers of Hellmuth on Twitter, and while we've enjoyed his post-tournament tweets, we couldn't help but wonder what he'd be tweeting if he'd won the title.Without further ado, we bring you our top-10 list of things Hellmuth would have tweeted had he pulled off the win.10...read more

Top-10 Tweets Phil Hellmuth would have sent out upon winning his 12th WSOP bracelet

Phil Hellmuth — the poker player everyone has an opinion about — came oh-so-close to winning a record 12th World Series of Poker bracelet over the weekend, finishing second to John Juanda in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship.After holding a 3-1 chip advantage early in heads up play, Hellmuth saw the bracelet slip through his fingers, and with it, another opportunity to extend his lead on Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and the rest of the field in all-time bracelets.Just like everyone else who follows poker, we're devoted followers of Hellmuth on Twitter, and while we've enjoyed his post-tournament tweets, we couldn't help but wonder what he'd be tweeting if he'd won the title.Without further ado, we bring you our top-10 list of things Hellmuth would have tweeted had he pulled off the win.10...read more

Top-10 Tweets Phil Hellmuth would have sent out upon winning his 12th WSOP bracelet

Phil Hellmuth — the poker player everyone has an opinion about — came oh-so-close to winning a record 12th World Series of Poker bracelet over the weekend, finishing second to John Juanda in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship.After holding a 3-1 chip advantage early in heads up play, Hellmuth saw the bracelet slip through his fingers, and with it, another opportunity to extend his lead on Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and the rest of the field in all-time bracelets.Just like everyone else who follows poker, we're devoted followers of Hellmuth on Twitter, and while we've enjoyed his post-tournament tweets, we couldn't help but wonder what he'd be tweeting if he'd won the title.Without further ado, we bring you our top-10 list of things Hellmuth would have tweeted had he pulled off the win.10...read more

Top-10 Tweets Phil Hellmuth would have sent out upon winning his 12th WSOP bracelet

Phil Hellmuth — the poker player everyone has an opinion about — came oh-so-close to winning a record 12th World Series of Poker bracelet over the weekend, finishing second to John Juanda in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship.After holding a 3-1 chip advantage early in heads up play, Hellmuth saw the bracelet slip through his fingers, and with it, another opportunity to extend his lead on Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and the rest of the field in all-time bracelets.Just like everyone else who follows poker, we're devoted followers of Hellmuth on Twitter, and while we've enjoyed his post-tournament tweets, we couldn't help but wonder what he'd be tweeting if he'd won the title.Without further ado, we bring you our top-10 list of things Hellmuth would have tweeted had he pulled off the win.10...read more

Top-10 Tweets Phil Hellmuth would have sent out upon winning his 12th WSOP bracelet

Phil Hellmuth — the poker player everyone has an opinion about — came oh-so-close to winning a record 12th World Series of Poker bracelet over the weekend, finishing second to John Juanda in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship.After holding a 3-1 chip advantage early in heads up play, Hellmuth saw the bracelet slip through his fingers, and with it, another opportunity to extend his lead on Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and the rest of the field in all-time bracelets.Just like everyone else who follows poker, we're devoted followers of Hellmuth on Twitter, and while we've enjoyed his post-tournament tweets, we couldn't help but wonder what he'd be tweeting if he'd won the title.Without further ado, we bring you our top-10 list of things Hellmuth would have tweeted had he pulled off the win.10...read more

Top-10 Tweets Phil Hellmuth would have sent out upon winning his 12th WSOP bracelet

Phil Hellmuth — the poker player everyone has an opinion about — came oh-so-close to winning a record 12th World Series of Poker bracelet over the weekend, finishing second to John Juanda in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship.After holding a 3-1 chip advantage early in heads up play, Hellmuth saw the bracelet slip through his fingers, and with it, another opportunity to extend his lead on Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and the rest of the field in all-time bracelets.Just like everyone else who follows poker, we're devoted followers of Hellmuth on Twitter, and while we've enjoyed his post-tournament tweets, we couldn't help but wonder what he'd be tweeting if he'd won the title.Without further ado, we bring you our top-10 list of things Hellmuth would have tweeted had he pulled off the win.10...read more

Top-10 Tweets Phil Hellmuth would have sent out upon winning his 12th WSOP bracelet

Phil Hellmuth — the poker player everyone has an opinion about — came oh-so-close to winning a record 12th World Series of Poker bracelet over the weekend, finishing second to John Juanda in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship.After holding a 3-1 chip advantage early in heads up play, Hellmuth saw the bracelet slip through his fingers, and with it, another opportunity to extend his lead on Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan and the rest of the field in all-time bracelets.Just like everyone else who follows poker, we're devoted followers of Hellmuth on Twitter, and while we've enjoyed his post-tournament tweets, we couldn't help but wonder what he'd be tweeting if he'd won the title.Without further ado, we bring you our top-10 list of things Hellmuth would have tweeted had he pulled off the win.10...read more

IGT to supply terminals for Quebec Lottery

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Slot machine giant International Game Technology said Friday the company was awarded 56.7 percent of the replacement market for the Quebec Lottery. The agreement means Nevada-based IGT will provide 7,200 new video lottery terminals to be used by Loto-Quebec at its locations throughout the Canadian province. Loto-Quebec received government approval in 2009 to proceed with replacing its slot machinelike video lottery terminals in order to update an estimated 12,000 outdated gambling devices. IGT Chief Operating Officer Eric Tom called the Loto-Quebec contract a "valuable business." Janney Montgomery Scott gaming analyst Brian McGill told investors the IGT deal was for more games than he expected...read more

Hellmuth denied record 12th bracelet

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Phil Hellmuth fell just short of winning his 12th World Series of Poker gold bracelet early Sunday morning.Hellmuth, who owns a World Series of Poker best 11 career individual event championship gold bracelets, was runner-up to tournament veteran John Juanda in the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw Lowball World Championship at the Rio.Juanda, who earned his fifth career victory gold bracelet, collected $367,170 after beating a field of 126 players.A native of Medan, North Sumatra in Indonesia, Juanda moved to the United States in 1990 to attend Oklahoma State University where he earned his degree...read more

How does the “count” in blackjack affect the edge?

House edge in blackjack arises from the “double bust.” Players finish their hands before dealers. A player who busts therefore loses, even if the dealer subsequently does, too. When ranks of cards in the supply to be dealt are in their original proportions, drawing to all totals below 17 and standing at or above this level – except for hitting soft 17 – yields 28 percent chance of busting...read more

Deal Me In: '...And how about a smile, while you're at it?'

Dear Mark: I was playing blackjack and a pit boss came up to a dealer and told her to “clean up her game,” then walked away. She looked a little unnerved when told that, but proceeded to deal without comment on what was said to her. What happened here? Tina S.A call from upstairs, Tina, is most likely what happened.Out of self-preservation, as well as to protect the general public, casino operators have plenty of security procedures in place to preserve the integrity of their games...read more

Vegas gambling revenues dip slightly in April

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- More tourists came to Las Vegas in April, but gambling revenue reports fell during the month because of the way revenues are reported. The total visitor count for Las Vegas rose 4.8 percent from a year ago, to 3.35 million in April, while statewide gaming revenues fell less than 1 percent and Strip gaming revenues dipped 2.2 percent, figures released Thursday show. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority said tourism posted its 14th straight monthly increase. JP Morgan gaming analyst Joe Greff told investors in a research note that state gaming results were hurt by methods regulators use to count slot revenues...read more

Bally to provide gaming devices to Italian lottery

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Bally Technologies will provide more than 5,000 gaming devices and systems to Italy's video lottery program after announcing an additional agreement with Italian concessionaire Lottomatica Videolot Rete. Under the deal, Bally will provide the company with 800 slot machine-like devices. Las Vegas-based Bally has a large presence in the Italian market as a provider of gambling devices for the new video-lottery program being implemented in public venues...read more

Player participation up at WSOP

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Player participation in the first 11 events at the World Series of Poker is up 2.5 percent over last year.Through Monday, 10,624 players signed up to play in the tournament's initial events, up slightly from 10,358 players who competed in the same 11 events a year ago.One event, a no-limit hold'em heads-up challenge, increased the buy-in from $10,000 to $25,000 and drew 128 players, half of what the event drew in 2010...read more