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Deal Me In: In unison, yell "Monkey Monkey"

Dear Mark: Why do they shout "Monkey Monkey" on a baccarat game? What do monkeys have to do with baccarat? Jon T. The first time that I ever dealt mini-baccarat, Jon, I had a couple Asian players on the game that kept yelling "Monkey, Monkey." I thought they were making fun of me being a newbie dealing the game, which I was OK with, because they at least knew that Tipping was not a suburb of Shanghai...read more

Vote on California online gambling bill delayed

State Sen. Roderick Wright, who chairs the Governmental Organization Committee in the California Senate, elected not to have his committee vote today on a bill that would create a licensing and regulatory structure for online gambling in California...read more

Monopolies have no place to hide

The World Cup has reached crunch time, with the knockout stages now well underway. The football on display has after a slow start picked up significantly, and now, the goals are flowing the controversy is raging and those blasted Vuvuzelas are still irritating the masses. Yet aside from enjoying what has been a feast of football, at Right2bet, we've been monitoring the tournament with our campaign hats firmly in place. It's been well documented how this summer's competition is going to be the biggest betting even of all time, and we therefore felt that it would be fitting to commission a report on the odds offered on every single game, by Europe's monopolies and private competitors. The reason we wanted to do this was that the opportunity to track and analyze the odds offered throughout such a major competition would we hope provide our campaign with something to shout about. Millions of Europeans are ripped off by the betting monopolies that their governments force them to use...read more

Top-10 things to watch for at the WSOP Main Event

10. The Hellmuth entranceBecause of its size, the World Series of Poker Main Event is a spectacle. But the spectacle of the world's biggest poker tournament becomes a circus when Phil Hellmuth make's his grand entrance. In 2007, Hellmuth entered the tournament dressed up as a NASCAR driver with 11 models in tow -- one for each bracelet...read more

Matt Matros wins bracelets, writes books, loves wife

Last year, eight days after his own wedding, Matt Matros was in Las Vegas trying to win a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, and his wife was back home in New York. What a honeymoon.To be fair, Matros's wife knew what she was getting into...read more

Gambling and the Law: Making poker legal as a public service

What do insurance, commodities trading and state lotteries all have in common? They were all originally outlawed as forms of gambling. The major fight today over whether poker should be legalized usually revolves around the question of whether it is predominantly skill or chance. But this unnecessarily gives up part of the political as well as legal battleground...read more

Atlantic City continues to struggle

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -- In the same breath in which the gaming industry received rare positive news from Wall Street, Atlantic City was given yet another beat-down. And so continues the Boardwalk's years of discontent. Last week, Moody's Investors Service revised its Industry Sector Outlook for gaming to "stable" from its previous view of "negative." But in an interview, Moody's Senior Vice President Keith Foley said Atlantic City is far from healthy. Atlantic City ($3.9 billion) was second only to the Strip ($5.5 billion) in gaming-revenue production in 2009...read more

Can casinos earn more money than players put at risk?

Make believe you go to a casino with a $100 budget. You decide to risk it at your favorite slot machine. Although you can't know precisely, say the machine has a return rate of 92 percent. Here's what return rate means, in case you're unsure...read more

Deal Me In: Slot personnel will be your happy guide

Dear Mark: Maybe it's a frivolous question you have already answered, but which quarter slot machines typically offer the highest returns? Ron G.No problem here, Ron, about you being fussy over such details. For all I know Persnickety is your middle name.Where you will find quarter slot machines that have the highest payback is at casinos that advertise a guaranteed return of 98-99% return on "selected machines."Granted, Ron, "selected machines" can be few and far between on the casino floor, and these high payback slots are usually only found where the casino competition is fervent...read more

Kassela first double-bracelet winner of WSOP

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- It took 40 events, but the World Series of Poker finally crowned its first multiple individual event bracelet winner of the tournament.Frank Kassela of Memphis, Tenn., captured the $2,500 buy-in Seven-Card Razz event early Thursday morning at the Rio, topping a 365-player field and earning $214,085.Kassela won his first gold bracelet two weeks ago in the Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split championship.According to official records, Kassela now has two wins, three final table appearances, and six in the money finishes at the World Series of Poker, giving him career earnings of $764,144.With 17 events remaining in the World Series of Poker, Kassela has a chance to tie the record of three for most wins at a single tournament...read more