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July 15, 2013
Casino City Times Weekly Newsletter
July 15, 2013 Latest From Our Strategy Experts | | John Grochowski explains what kind of skill is involved in slot machines that allow you to stop their reels from spinning. He also looks at one of the worst player hands in blackjack, the dreaded 16.
read more | | Featured StoryBy Vin Narayanan The World Series of Poker played down from 27 players to nine players Monday and veteran poker pro J.C. Tran is the chip leader with 38 million in chips.
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 | There were 27 players left in the WSOP Main Event on Sunday night, and the intensity of the tournament had ratcheted up.
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As the WSOP played down to 68 players Saturday, a range of emotions filled the Amazon Room -- and not all of it had to do with winning and losing.
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The chip stacks soared past the 2-million mark Friday as players in the WSOP Main Event began winning money.
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Thursday was a bad day to be a poker player named Phil. Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Galfond and Phil Collins all busted out of the WSOP Main Event just short of the money.
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The stars were falling by the wayside at the WSOP Main Event, but Doyle Brunson, 79, was still hanging on late into Thursday night.
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Erik Seidel and Ray Romano stole the show Tuesday at the World Series of Poker Main Event. And that's hard to do when Doyle Brunson is in contention.
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This year's World Series of Poker Main Event field is 6,352 players. That's the smallest Main Event since 2005. But the number of women entering the Main Event and playing at the Series is on the rise. Casino City's Vin Narayanan explores why.
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 | Two years after Caesars Entertainment Inc. perplexed Wall Street by acquiring social gaming operation Playtika, the casino giant has moved past rival Zynga Inc. to the top of the business model.
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The SEC does not intend to recommend any enforcement action as a result of its inquiry into allegations of an improper $135 million donation to the University of Macau in 2011 stemming from a dispute between Kazuo Okada and Steve Wynn.
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Total Atlantic City casino win was $240.2 million in June 2013 compared to $274.7 million last June.
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The news sent shares of Caesars Entertainment up almost 13 percent.
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Casino developers will spend some $22 billion on massive new resorts and gambling complexes in Macau over the next four years.
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There's an art to landing big contracts, especially if you're a smaller, local operator. What's more, today's construction frenzy can teach any small company a few lessons on how - or even whether - to land those big fish.
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The concept would separate 19 of the company's 29 casinos and racetracks, including the M Resort, into a real estate investment trust, or REIT.
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A bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown allows the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians to move forward with the planned $350 million project.
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Jerry Markling has been the enforcement division chief since July 2005 and spent more than 22 years with the control board.
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Frank Fahrenkopf, who turns 74 next month, is downshifting after nearly two decades as the face of casino gambling in Washington and one of the most prominent Nevadans in the nation’s capital.
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 | When you drop your car off at the dealership to have it serviced, you don't expect it to end up 12 miles away with an unconscious naked woman inside.
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Iron T. of Dallas, Texas won $1,141,958.19 on a Texas Tea Texas Tango Money Madness slot machine in Oklahoma over the holiday weekend.
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Did You Know?
Carlos Mortensen, the 2001 WSOP Main Event champion, was this year's Main Event final table bubble boy, finishing in 10th place. The last Main Event champion to return to the Main Event final table was 1995 champion Dan Harrington, who was fourth in 2004 and third in 2003. Scotty Nguyen was 11th in 2007.
Featured Game Cops N' Bandits offers fun theme, great bonus rounds
If you're looking for a good old fashioned good vs. evil slot game with fun bonus rounds, head to Paddy Power Casino and give Cops N' Bandits a spin. > More Cops N' Bandits DetailsCasino City fans wantedPlease join us on Facebook by becoming a Casino City fan! It’s a great way to meet fellow gamblers and learn more about what’s going on in gambling and at Casino City. In addition, we'll be developing and rolling out some neat Facebook applications in the coming months. > Become a fan Top-10 WSOP Main Event story lines - November Nine
- Friends and family
- Anton Morgenstren
- Jackie Glazier
- Burdens of the crown
- Players care about the Main Event
- International game
- Boisterous rails
- Steve Gee
- Hard work
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