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Gaming Revenue: Super February for State Casinos

The last few days of Chinese New Year and a raucous Super Bowl weekend gave Nevada casinos their highest February gaming revenue total ever and the second straight month that resorts collectively won more than $1 billion from customers. February's statewide gaming revenue, released Monday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board, showed casinos reporting $1.03 billion in gaming win, a jump of 12.84 percent from the $909.5 million won in February 2005...read more

Rebecca's Recommendations - April 7, 2006

Welcome back! So I’m headed to Amsterdam tonight for an online gaming conference that will be taking place on Sunday and Monday. I cannot wait. The next 72 hours of my life will be filled with networking, exhibit hall attendance, and of course, drinking, dancing, partying, smoking and LOTS of hookers...read more

Rebecca's Recommendations - June 24, 2005

Welcome to Rebecca’s Recommendations! I have created this weekly newsletter to share with you my favorite sites, bonuses, and special online gaming events that are out there for players like yourself. Before checking out my 3 casino recommendations of the week, I would like to leave you with 2 thoughts: 1) Noble Poker will be sponsoring a Freeroll Poker Tournament for Casino City players only on Sunday, July 3rd, at 5pm EST...read more

Internet Gaming Bill Receives Resistance in House Subcommittee Hearing

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) brought legislation proposing restrictive measures on Internet gambling before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security on Wednesday afternoon. H.R...read more

House Subcommittee Debates Goodlatte Bil

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security today held a legislative hearing on Rep. Goodlatte's, R-Va., HR 4777, the "Internet Gambling Prohibition Act," which seeks to outlaw certain forms of online gambling in the United States by updating the Wire Act with language that clearly applies to new forms of communication technologies...read more

US Company Investigated for Duping Would-Be I-Gaming Affiliates

Authorities in Colorado and Arizona are investigating a company called Venture Concepts for allegedly selling Internet gambling sites to clients who were to operate them from their homes. Denver-based television network CBS4 ran an investigative report Monday night about Venture Concepts, featuring an interview with a woman from Phoenix who came in contact with the company when she replied to an advertisement for work-at-home opportunities. The woman, Mary Moreno, says the opportunity offered by the Denver-based company was to buy an Internet gambling site-complete with casino, poker room and sports book--which she could purchase for $999 and then operate from her home...read more

National Hemophilia Foundation's 2006 Game Night Proves Huge Success

One player at the National Hemophilia Foundation's (NHF) 2006 Game Night walked away with a seat in the 2006 World Series of Poker, but hemophilia and other blood and clotting disorders were the night's biggest winner, taking in an estimated total of $240,000 in cash and in-kind donations...read more

PPA Pushes for Poker Players' Rights During Events on Capitol Hill

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) hasn't gone all-in, but it has raised the stakes. The alliance, which boasts 20,000 paying members, was represented by its president, Michael Bolcerek, and three prominent professionals on Tuesday on Capitol Hill...read more

$2.25 Billion Bid is Third Buyout Proposal for Owner of Tropicana

An aging lady that couldn't get a date for more than a year now has a full dance card. Las Vegas-based Ameristar Casinos on Monday became the third gaming company submitting a proposal to acquire Aztar Corp., bidding $42 a share, or $2.25 billion, for the owner of the timeworn Tropicana. Ameristar, which doesn't own a casino in Las Vegas, offered $1 more per share than Las Vegas Hilton owner Colony Capital, which reportedly submitted a bid for Phoenix-based Aztar last week. On March 13, Pinnacle Entertainment entered an agreement with Aztar's board of directors to buy the five-casino company for $38 a share, or $2.1 billion...read more

WTO Deadline Comes and Goes with No US Compliance

The U.S. deadline to comply with a World Trade Organization ruling in a dispute brought by Antigua and Barbuda was today, and as expected, the United States is not complying. "This is too important of an issue for Antigua and for the sanctity of the multilateral trade system of the WTO to let pass...read more