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Heard it on the River: Horseshoe Casino hosting $7 million blackjack lottery

It's not a tournament as such, more of a high dollar promotional lottery of sorts but the numbers are compelling. HORSESHOE, which has always been a leader in high dollar tournaments has launched the ULTIMATE $7 MILLION GIVEAWAY which turns out to be a blackjack lottery, if such a thing exists.Here is my take on making it understandable so anybody who has ever played any blackjack, or not, will want to get into this event with has a staggering payoff, Horseshoe style.On Feb...read more

MGM founder donates $200 million to UCLA

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- MGM Resorts International founder Kirk Kerkorian is transferring his $200 million charitable foundation to UCLA. Kerkorian, 93, is a Los Angeles-based financier who founded the Strip casino giant and still remains the company's largest stockholder...read more

Penn National continues to stay busy

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Penn National Gaming has proved itself to be a casino operator that doesn't like to wait.The regional gaming company began preliminary site work in January on a potential location in New Orleans for a $145 million casino, even though Louisiana won't award the gaming license until later this month.Wyomissing, Pa.-based Penn National has taken a similar attitude with M Resort.The company, which acquired the debt covering the nearly 2-year-old, 390-room hotel-casino last fall, has begun marketing M Resort to its customer database.In January, Penn National mailed more than 100,000 marketing and promotional pieces on M Resort to customers of the company, which owns more than a dozen casinos and racetrack casinos in the south, Midwest and Northeast.Many of Penn's casinos operate under the Hollywood Casino brand."We began sending offers to stay at the M to some of our highest value players," Penn National Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Peter Carlino said...read more

Top-10 gambling couples

It's Valentine's Day, the day on the calendar when we acknowledge the loves of our lives. And even though we spend most of our time writing about the gambling industry, we at Casino City enjoy a good love story as much as the next person. So to celebrate, we've devoted this week's top-10 list to our favorite gambling couples.10...read more

Top-10 gambling couples

It's Valentine's Day, the day on the calendar when we acknowledge the loves of our lives. And even though we spend most of our time writing about the gambling industry, we at Casino City enjoy a good love story as much as the next person. So to celebrate, we've devoted this week's top-10 list to our favorite gambling couples.10...read more

Top-10 gambling couples

It's Valentine's Day, the day on the calendar when we acknowledge the loves of our lives. And even though we spend most of our time writing about the gambling industry, we at Casino City enjoy a good love story as much as the next person. So to celebrate, we've devoted this week's top-10 list to our favorite gambling couples.10...read more

Top-10 gambling couples

It's Valentine's Day, the day on the calendar when we acknowledge the loves of our lives. And even though we spend most of our time writing about the gambling industry, we at Casino City enjoy a good love story as much as the next person. So to celebrate, we've devoted this week's top-10 list to our favorite gambling couples.10...read more

Top-10 gambling couples

It's Valentine's Day, the day on the calendar when we acknowledge the loves of our lives. And even though we spend most of our time writing about the gambling industry, we at Casino City enjoy a good love story as much as the next person. So to celebrate, we've devoted this week's top-10 list to our favorite gambling couples.10...read more

Top-10 gambling couples

It's Valentine's Day, the day on the calendar when we acknowledge the loves of our lives. And even though we spend most of our time writing about the gambling industry, we at Casino City enjoy a good love story as much as the next person. So to celebrate, we've devoted this week's top-10 list to our favorite gambling couples.10...read more

Top-10 gambling couples

It's Valentine's Day, the day on the calendar when we acknowledge the loves of our lives. And even though we spend most of our time writing about the gambling industry, we at Casino City enjoy a good love story as much as the next person. So to celebrate, we've devoted this week's top-10 list to our favorite gambling couples.10...read more

Top-10 gambling couples

It's Valentine's Day, the day on the calendar when we acknowledge the loves of our lives. And even though we spend most of our time writing about the gambling industry, we at Casino City enjoy a good love story as much as the next person. So to celebrate, we've devoted this week's top-10 list to our favorite gambling couples.10...read more

Top-10 gambling couples

It's Valentine's Day, the day on the calendar when we acknowledge the loves of our lives. And even though we spend most of our time writing about the gambling industry, we at Casino City enjoy a good love story as much as the next person. So to celebrate, we've devoted this week's top-10 list to our favorite gambling couples.10...read more

Folk hero Soi Nguyen to remain busy in 2010

MASHANTUCKET, Connecticut -- Every year at the World Series of Poker Main Event, one player emerges as the folk hero. Dennis Phillips was the 2008 folk hero. Darvin Moon earned that distinction in 2009. And in 2010 it was Soi Nguyen.The California-native was the elder statesman of the final table at the age of 37...read more

Success in Singapore leads operators to look towards Asia

SINGAPORE -- Singapore's two hotel-casinos -- including a $5.5 billion resort opened in April by Las Vegas Sands Corp. -- are being credited with a 20 percent increase in tourism to the island nation.Other Asian markets may now be looking to copy the Singapore model, especially after seeing the amount of gaming proceeds the government is reporting."Singapore can now be considered a stabilized casino gaming market," said independent gaming analyst Jonathan Galaviz...read more

Stanley Ho drama heats up in Macau

MACAU -- Today's episode of the "Hos and the Restless" finds sisters Daisy and Pansy defending themselves in a Hong Kong courtroom after being sued by their ailing 89-year-old billionaire father, Stanley, for trying to swipe the family business. Meanwhile, three of Stanley's four wives and the rest of his 17 children are tussling over their share of his estimated $3 billion in assets. The fight involves ownership of Stanley Ho's 31.7 percent stake in SJM, operators of a construction business, hotels, an airline and a large slice of the lucrative Macau casino market. Stanley Ho reportedly signed over his interests to his family on Jan...read more

There's more to play-or-fold and dealer qualification than meets the eye

In some casino table games, rounds are decided by comparing players' and dealers' hands. If the hands have equal probabilities, additional provisions are needed or edge would be zero and neither bosses nor bettors would have average – statistically-expected – wins or losses...read more