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Top 10 reasons we love Wynn Las Vegas

Wynn Las Vegas turns 15 on 28 April. It will be a quiet birthday for the majestic bronze building at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has shut down casinos in Nevada until at least May.Nonetheless, there is still plenty to celebrate about Wynn Las Vegas...read more

Casino City’s Friday Five: Keeping your funds edition

Despite little to no sports to wager on, people can’t forget about their online accounts or their funds could be taken away from them, as Jennifer Borden from Borden Consulting Group explains.Before we get into that issue, this week had some other big news...read more

Top 10 tips for improving your poker game during the COVID-19 outbreak

Some poker players are used to sitting at home in front of their computers for multiple days. For those people, the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent lock-down is not causing them too much of a struggle, while others are freaking out not knowing what to do with their time.The good news is that poker teaches us to react only to the situation that we can control, and this is one of those situations.We are forced to sit at home, so we can’t change that, but we can use this situation to become better players and even have some fun on the way...read more

Casino City’s Friday Five: Donating to the cause edition

As we approach the middle of April, we are continuing to see more casinos extend their temporary closures until the end of the month. With gambling at land-based casinos out of the question for the time being, there are plenty of reasons to play online games and we will get into some of poker pro Tadas Peckaitis’ motives shortly...read more

Top 10 reasons to choose online poker

I have played both live and online and have to say that these have many differences and both pros and cons at the same time. Since I been playing online for the last 10 years, I am happy to share my top 10 reasons for choosing this option.Of course, with the current COVID-19 pandemic, options for a live game are extremely limited with most casinos and poker rooms closed, and many people turning to online poker.Even still, live poker surely has plenty of benefits if its own, but if you are considering which option is better for you, let me share with you my thoughts about the advantages of online poker.In online poker rooms you will be able to play almost any game that you like...read more

Casino City’s Friday Five: Closure extension edition

It remains a great time of uncertainty for the casino/gaming industry. Land-based casinos are pushing back dates for their re-openings. Sports are in the same boat, not knowing when their seasons will resume or, in some cases, begin. However, the NFL Draft is still planning on happening in May with a new feel to it...read more

Spain calls for iGaming advertising restrictions amid COVID-19 pandemic

Government officials ordered online gambling operators in Spain this week to restrict marketing and advertising efforts during the country’s COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in an effort to “protect problem gamblers.”In a Royal Decree-Law dated 31 March from Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego that was approved by the Spanish Government, operators in the market were told that commercial communications that “implicitly or explicitly, refer to the exceptional situation resulting from the disease COVID-19 or which call for the consumption of gambling activities in this context, are prohibited.”Also banned, according to the decree, are any promotional activities, “aimed at attracting new clients or loyalty of existing clients that collect economic amounts, bonuses, bonuses, discounts, gifts from bets or games, odds multipliers or prizes or any other similar mechanism.”A “serious breach” of the decree will be punished with fines “from hundred thousand to a million Euros.”A government official added that the decision was made "in a context of confinement that makes it even more necessary to protect problem gamblers."Over the past 48 hours, operators have aggressively contacted affiliates, asking that they remove all Spanish market references bonuses, logos and promotions and stop sending mailings or messages.The number of coronavirus cases in Spain reached 110,238 on Thursday, according to the country’s Health Ministry, with a death toll of 10,003...read more

Top 10 NFL Draft prop bets

Things are going to look a lot different for this year’s NFL Draft. The big weekend was set to take place in Las Vegas and attract more than 700,000 visitors, but due to COVID-19, those plans have been canceled.The draft will proceed as scheduled 23-25 April and the NFL is exploring innovative options for how the process will be conducted and will provide that information as it becomes available.NFL draft player selection process to proceed April 23-25 without public events in Las Vegas.https://t.co/AO4UiUQPD3 pic.twitter.com/57OmomkAGc— NFL Draft (@NFLDraft) March 16, 2020 Even though the process is going to be quite different this year, what’s at stake for NFL teams remains the same...read more

Breaking down the COVID-19 impact on live poker

2003 WSOP Main Event champ Chris Moneymaker said he does not expect additional precautions at the poker table once the current pandemic is over. Up until about two weeks ago, the thought of sitting around a table, elbow-to-elbow with nine strangers, handling the same playing cards and chips seemed like a perfectly normal and entertaining way to spend an evening to this avid poker player.Today, the simple act of playing a live game of poker would not only be frowned upon or deemed repulsive, but it would be near impossible due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has shut down casinos and poker rooms all over the world.As concerns about the coronavirus outbreak get more serious with each passing day, we still fully expect that someday our lives will eventually begin to get back to normal — whether it’s Easter Sunday (12 April) as U.S...read more

Online casino traffic surges during COVID-19 pandemic

Some online casinos are upgrading their promotions to catch attention of players. (photo by Wikimedia Commons)We are in unprecedented times with COVID-19, as 100% of the commercial casinos in the U.S. are now closed, according to the American Gaming Association, with many others all over the world doing the same...read more