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Featured Articles Archive - Page 573

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Articles by Howard Stutz

Gaming exec: Taiwan an untapped frontier

11 March 2008
TAIWAN -- Taiwan's presidential campaign has revived discussion about legalizing casinos on the island, which is good news for Larry Woolf and his Las Vegas-based Navegante casino management team. Woolf, a longtime Las Vegas gaming executive, spent the past three years piecing together a 27-acre beachfront parcel on Taiwan's island of Penghu for a potential hotel, casino and resort development...read more
 
Articles by Howard Stutz

January report: State gaming win dips

10 March 2008
NEVADA -- Wall Street was looking for a clear indication Friday into whether Nevada's casino industry is facing an economic slowdown in 2008. That picture is still a little cloudy. Statewide, gaming revenues in January fell almost 5 percent in a year-over-year comparison...read more
 
Articles by Vin  Narayanan
Articles by Vin Narayanan

Top-10 Hollywood gambling moments

10 March 2008
10. Swingers The beauty of this scene is that almost anyone who's been to Vegas can relate to it. Mikey (Jon Favreau) and Trent (Vince Vauhn) are desperately trying get comps and women by trying to gamble like experienced high rollers -- and they fail miserably...read more
 
Articles by Bradley  Vallerius
Articles by Bradley Vallerius

Canadian MP Wants I-gaming Legislation

7 March 2008
A member of Canada's Parliament, Hon. Roy Cullen, has drafted legislation to address a competition problem faced by one of his largest constituents in Etobicoke North. The constituent, Woodbine Racing, has complained for years about losing business to illegal Internet gambling...read more
 
Articles by Howard  Schwartz

Winning strategies for No-Limit Hold-Em; new Cookie book sold

6 March 2008
Russell Fox, co-author of two previously well-respected poker books, (Mastering No-Limit Hold'em and Why You Lose at Poker) -- both with Scott Harker -- has now teamed with Nick Christenson for Winning Strategies for No-Limit Hold'em (200 pages, paperbound, $24.95), focusing on some advanced concepts few books have yet covered in depth. Also, Roy Cooke and John Bond present How to Think Like a Poker Pro (281 pages, paperbound, $19.95), which is comprised of many of Cooke's columns published from 2000 to 2005...read more
 
Articles by Howard Stutz

Wall Street sees pluses in Cyberview-IGT deal

6 March 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- A potential $70 million buyout of European rival Cyberview Technology by International Game Technology could give the Reno-based company a further head start over other slot machine makers in the race to bring potentially lucrative server-based gaming technology to casinos, gaming analysts said Wednesday. The companies announced late Tuesday that executives are in preliminary discussions regarding a potential acquisition of London-based Cyberview by IGT...read more
 
Articles by Howard Stutz

Jerry's Nugget exec moves closer to regaining license

6 March 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- More than three decades after he lost his gaming license for taking part in a scam to cheat Caesars Palace, Jerry's Nugget Assistant General Manager Angelo Stamis on Wednesday moved one step closer to restoring his place in the casino industry. The Gaming Control Board voted 2-to-1 to give Stamis, 73, a license to operate gaming at Jerry's Nugget, a North Las Vegas casino that is now owned by his family members...read more
 
Articles by Bradley  Vallerius
Articles by Bradley Vallerius

PartyGaming Still Talking to US; Garber Stepping Down

5 March 2008
PartyGaming completed 2007, its tenth year of operations, with solid earnings but lower revenue growth than anticipated. The operational figures are contained in an annual report filed today -- along with an announcement of chief executive Mitch Garber's plans to resign and a revelation that the company continues to communicate with law enforcement officials in America. The company with the most to lose from the U.S...read more
 
Articles by Vin  Narayanan
Articles by Vin Narayanan

Draft UIGEA regulations under fire

5 March 2008
The U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve are still struggling to create and implement regulations to enforce the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act more than 16 months after the law's adoption. The UIGEA prohibits financial institutions from processing financial gambling to Internet gambling companies. But the regulations proposed by the Treasury Department and Fed last October have generated so much public comment that no regulations have been implemented yet. "This is an issue that there is so much interest in that we don't want to rush," Treasury Department spokeswoman Jennifer Zuccarelli told Bloomberg News regulatory columnist Cindy Skrzycki this week...read more
 
Articles by Gary  Trask
Articles by Gary Trask

Expert: Canada not likely to ban online gaming

5 March 2008
The Canadian government announced this week it was considering a move to restrict banks and credit card companies from conducting financial transactions with Internet gaming operators in the country, much like what the U.S. attempted to accomplish with the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) that was introduced in October, 2006...read more

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