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Roxy Palace's Mega Moolah stuffs in the fun

Roxy Palace's Mega Moolah is a five-reel 25-line online slot that offers players four chances to hit one of its randomly generated progressive jackpot bonuses guaranteed to be more than $1 million. The more you wager, the better your chances of triggering the big one. Featuring animated animal characters and an easy to understand pay line, Mega Moolah is a fun filled slot that offers bonuses, scatter wins and wildcards...read more

Progressive Gaming again delays sale of games unit

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- For the third time in less than a month, Las Vegas-based Progressive Gaming International Corp. extended the timetable for completing the sale of its table games division to Shuffle Master. Wall Street, however, is getting antsy. Originally, the deal, in which Las Vegas-based Shuffle Master would buy Progressive Gaming's table games for a yet to be disclosed price, had been scheduled to close Aug...read more

Murren moves up in MGM Mirage lineup

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Twice in 1997, Jim Murren turned down overtures from then MGM Grand Corp. President Alex Yemenidjian to become the expanding casino operator's chief financial officer. But Yemenidjian was persistent. The company's board of directors wanted him to find a CFO and he targeted Murren, who built a 14-year career on Wall Street to become one of the financial community's rising stock analysts. The pair met one last time in December 1997 at Cipriani's, a popular New York City restaurant...read more

Isoke's NFL Teams and Situations; New fantasy book supersources

Logical Approach, aka Andy Iskoe, has always been a super resource for football bettors, and the arrival of his NFL Teams & Situations book (141 pages, 8x11 plastic spiralbound, $29.95) proves it again. Also, there's another new kid on the block at Gambler's Book Shop -- Fantasy Football, The Next Level by David Dorey (300 pages, paperbound, $15.99), which fans should read immediately as participants in league play are in their final stages of research. The NFL Teams & Situations resource has to be one of the most important angle analysis efforts of our generation...read more

Heard it on the river: In defense of dealers and bad beats in blackjack

The summer heat must be getting to players and during my recent forays in casinos I have witnessed several episodes of players gone wild. And dealers are the targeted recipients, much to my chagrin. Therefore I take up my cudgel on behalf of dealers everywhere in Mississippi, the friendliest bunch of guys and gals anywhere in the casino universe...read more

Bodog Casino's Cleopatra's Gold a fun spin

Bodog Casino's Cleopatra's Gold is a five-reel 20-line Egyptian themed online slot with a maximum payout of 40,000 times the amount bet per line. The fabled Egyptian queen Cleopatra icon serves as a substitute for symbols and a progressive jackpot win may occur at random at the end of any game and is added to a spin's total amount won. Scatter bonuses are possible when the pyramid icon appears...read more

The Reel Life

Jumping for Jackpotjoy Howie Mandel, Noel Edmonds and Linda de Mol -- eat your hearts out. Juliar G. is the true Deal or No Deal ace. She recently won an incredible £218,686 playing the game at Jackpotjoy. "I still can't believe that I have been blessed with such a humongous win!" Juliar G...read more

Highlights from CAC Montreal, 2007: I am a groupie

I am a CAC groupie. According to Marc Lesnik, that is. I have been to many online gaming conferences in my time and so far I have managed to hit all of Lesnik's shows, big or small. Unfortunately CAC Montreal was rather poorly attended, although we all knew this was going to happen due to location and timing...read more

Station land buy faces scrutiny

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Station Casinos has spent the past few years purchasing dozens of large and small land parcels surrounding the Wild Wild West on Tropicana Avenue west of Interstate 15, compiling a site exceeding 70 acres on which the casino operator plans to develop a massive gaming and entertainment complex. However, a 2-acre location on the northern end of the site, near the intersection of Harmon and Polaris avenues, caused Station Casino executives to spend some time Thursday morning in front of Nevada gaming regulators. Station Casinos entered an agreement to buy The Men's Club, a topless bar, which will be closed once the transaction is completed...read more

Casino MonteLago operators take step forward

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Operators of the Casino MonteLago in Lake Las Vegas, who have been running the only gaming establishment in the upscale community for the past three months on a temporary basis, took a step toward permanent control Thursday. The Gaming Control Board, which let two of the principals of Las Vegas PDS Gaming take over the casino in June to keep the property open, unanimously recommended the operators keep the location following a 15-minute hearing...read more