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October 29, 2007

Casino City Times Weekly Newsletter
October 29, 2007

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arrowJohn Robison: Determining cycles on a slot machine

Determining cycles on a slot machine
Robison dispels the myth that slot machines possess the ability to have winning patterns and cautions that it is to the casino's advantage for the player to bet max coin all of the time.  read more
 

Featured Story

Bodog offering Spanish-language services

Bodog added a full-service Spanish-speaking customer service call center last week to serve its growing presence in Latin America. The popular casino also plans to have a fully-functioning Spanish-language gaming site in the near future.  read more		Bodog offering Spanish-language services
 

CASINO News

CASINO

Casino City launches directory of deposit and withdrawal methods

Casino City announced the addition of a directory of 142 online gambling payment methods to its Online.CasinoCity.com Web site.  read more

Unibet CEO to be extradited

Unibet CEO Petter Nylander, who was detained by Dutch authorities last week, will be extradited to France to face charges of violating gambling laws.  read more

Sky City halts casino sale

Sky City Entertainment Group said it has halted the possible sale of one of its casinos, pending the outcome of a takeover process.  read more

New Frontier set to be imploded

The New Frontier will be imploded at 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 13 if plans submitted to Clark County's Department of Development Services are approved.  read more

More Police tickets released

A number of seats have been released for The Police concert on Nov. 3 at Atlantic City's Historic Boardwalk Hall.  read more

Taj Mahal to host Bollywood event

The Bollywood Music & Fashion Awards will be held on Saturday, Nov. 17 in the Mark Etess Arena at Trump Taj Mahal.  read more

SLOTS News

SLOTS

The Reel Life

In this week's edition, Strike It Lucky is hit for a record jackpot while Helen H. made her wedding anniversary even more memorable by cashing in at Tycoon's Treasure.  read more

Playtech adds two new games

Playtech continues to expand its casino games package with the addition of two new games.  read more

POKER News

POKER

Government wants its slice of the action

The Internal Revenue Service announced last week that beginning March 4 it will require casinos and sponsors of poker tournaments to file paperwork when a player wins $5,000 or more.  read more

Players state case for lifting poker ban

Poker players made their presence felt in Washington D.C. last week as they lobbied to have poker exempted from the online gambling ban.  read more

UltimateBet player wins Swedish Open

Johan Storakers won the 2007 Swedish Open Poker Championship last week, securing a first-place prize of more than $185,000.  read more

World's best players at High Stakes Poker

A series of seven episodes of High Stakes Poker IV will begin running on Monday, Nov. 5 and this time the event will raise the maximum buy-in for the world's best poker players to $500,000.  read more

Simon Poker Charity Tournament set to reach €100,000

PokerStars.com's Simon Poker Day is closing in on the €100,000 mark in charity funds raised for the homeless.  read more

PlayersOnly.com runs Million Dollar Freeroll finals

The second of PlayersOnly.com's monthly Million Dollar Free Roll finals happens this weekend as players will try to qualify for the $75,000 prize by winning one of the qualifying free rolls or cash satellites scheduled for this week.  read more

Did You Know
Did You Know?
The term “casino” comes from the Italian word meaning “little house” and originally referred to a villa or pavilion that was built for pleasure and entertaining purposes.
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Pool Hall Junkies
Pool Hall Junkies
Poolhall Junkies follows a hustler (Mars Callahan) and his friends through the high-stakes underworld of his local pool hall. Starting with some decent pool and violence, the drama turns as the hustler tries to appease his girlfriend and convince his brother (Michael Rosenbaum) not to follow in his footsteps.

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