Casino City Times - Weekly Newsletter 2 December 2013

Casino City Times Weekly Newsletter

December 2, 2013

Latest From Our Strategy Experts

John Grochowski: Split those eights

Grochowski takes us back to a recent visit to the blackjack table and explains why splitting eights is the right play, even if it seems counterintuitive. read more

Al Krigman:
Why do high "counts" in blackjack help players and not dealers?
Frank Scoblete:
Is "electronic" craps worth it?
John Robison:
How much should I tip for a slot jackpot?

Al Krigman:
Why do high "counts" in blackjack help players and not dealers?
Frank Scoblete:
Is "electronic" craps worth it?
John Robison:
How much should I tip for a slot jackpot?

Featured Story

Ups and downs of New Jersey online gambling

By Dan Podheiser

Casino City's Dan Podheiser visited New Jersey over the Thanksgiving weekend, where he had the chance to test some of the Garden State's newly licensed and regulated online casinos. Dan provides a timeline of his experiences with the sites, including some registration and geo-location issues. read more

CASINO News

	Casino City Gang: Early New Jersey online gaming reviews edition Casino City's Vin Narayanan, Aaron Todd and Dan Podheiser discuss the real-money launch of online gaming in New Jersey, Thanksgiving Day prop bets and betting trends in the NFL. read more
Tropicana chief sees new retail space transforming south Strip The Tropicana's frontage will be transformed into a 275,000-square-foot, two-level, enclosed shopping mall with 165,000 square feet of new retail, a food-court and Strip-facing restaurants. read more
Baccarat, football betting shine in tepid gaming month Nevada gaming revenues dropped 2.58 percent in October, ending two straight monthly increases. Gaming revenues on the Las Vegas Strip declined 5.06 percent. read more
Western Hotel owners seek to maintain gambling rights The owner of the former Western Hotel on Fremont Street, wants to keep gambling land use rights as it ponders redevelopment. read more
Inside Gaming: No mixed signals, no more licenses The Macau government has changed direction in the past on several matters concerning the casino industry, but not on this issue. read more
McCarran October air passenger count up slightly Near-term flight schedules show the number of seats that airlines will bring into McCarran growing about 2 percent a month through February. read more
MGM workers set mark for largest Nevada food drive donation Employees of MGM Resorts International more than doubled the amount of food donated to Three Square Food Bank in the largest-ever employee-donated canned food drive in Nevada. read more
Referendum opposing Station Casino project qualifies for ballot Station Casinos will have to wait a year to find out if it can help a California Indian tribe build a $350 million casino complex 25 miles north of Fresno. read more
Cantor Gaming enters Chinese market with Cantor Club Cantor's latest gaming venture is a partnership with Global Entertainment Investment & Management Co. and the Tianjin Welfare Lottery club. read more
Wynn likens Web gambling ban to Prohibition Wynn Resorts chairman Steve Wynn said that online gambling can be outlawed, but "people are going to do it anyway." read more

SLOTS News

	Bally completes $1.3 billion purchase of SHFL Ramesh Srinivasan, president and chief executive officer of Bally Technologies, has put Bally in a stronger business position by acquiring SHFL, analysts say. read more
The Reel Life: Fun with taxes edition A Florida woman paid her $11,075.44 tax bill in $1 bills and 44 pennies. read more

POKER News

World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific expands

The World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific (WSOP APAC) is expected to take place on October 1-17, 2014, at Crown Melbourne and feature ten WSOP gold bracelet events. It will also be played every other year, rotating with the World Series of Poker Europe. read more

Did You Know?
On Nov. 22, 2011, Gov. Deval Patrick signed into law legislation authorizing the building of casinos in Massachusetts. More than two years later, no gaming licenses have been issued.

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Casino City Times Weekly Newsletter December 2, 2013

Latest From Our Strategy Experts

John Grochowski: Split those eights

Al Krigman:

Frank Scoblete:

John Robison:

Al Krigman:

Frank Scoblete:

John Robison:

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Casino City Times Weekly Newsletter
December 2, 2013