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Big Fight Sponsorships Suit Caesars In Tunica

With three casinos in Tunica Resorts, Caesars Entertainment has a big presence and it easily follows that sponsorship of big events, like the Roy Jones vs Glenn Johnson IBF light heavyweight world champion match, is a natural fit. While the fight is being held in Memphis at the new FedExForum and will be televised on HBO, it will have a profound impact on Tunica's casino community as well as gaming and boxing go hand in hand...read more

Three Card Poker

Is there any doubt as to which game is the most successful new table game of all time? Three Card Poker, now boasting approxmiately 1000 tables in the U.S. alone, is clearly the winner. Few people realize what it took for the game to go from 'Brit-Brag', as it was originally called by its inventor Derek Webb, to the point of being such a successful game. Derek spent several months fine tuning the details of the game with my father, Lenny Frome, before taking it on a 2-3 year road trip to casinos and gaming shows all over the country...read more

TV Innovations Give Poker Wide Appeal

Who would have ever thought that someone could take a mundane, visually neutral recreation like poker and repackage it into one of the hottest, most riveting spectator games to ever hit television? Steve Lipscomb, the creator and CEO of the World Poker Tour, had the brainstorm back in October of 2001 when he started a company devoted to televising a series of high stakes poker games held in casinos around the country. The enterprising Lipscomb sold his idea to the Travel Channel, which agreed to televise a 13-week series of episodes...read more

Celebrity Poker Showdown

Think it might be easy money sitting across the table from Ben Affleck, or Leonardo DiCaprio, or any of the celebs taking part in "Celebrity Poker Showdown," airing on Bravo? Think again. Phil Gordon, the two-time World Poker tour champion who serves as co-host and expert commentator on "Celebrity Poker Showdown," says he really likes Affleck's game and that DiCaprio has been playing often and working hard. "They're not championship-caliber players," Gordon told poker players assembled last week at Hollywood Casino in Aurora...read more

Supreme Court Tries To End Tribes' Sovereign Immunity

Tribal sovereign immunity is the doctrine that says that a tribe cannot be sued unless Congress acts or the tribe itself consents. The United States Supreme Court hates tribal sovereign immunity, and has told Congress and other courts to get rid of it...read more

A break on a mistake is only a stay of execution

Dear Mark, I may be overstepping my boundaries by commenting on the decision that you wrote about concerning setting a pai gow hand improperly; however, I think the pit boss was legally right but morally wrong with the decision to foul the hand...read more

Hey, Buddy! Wanna Buy Some Match Play Tokens? Cheap?

Casinos occasionally give solid citizens free match play tokens as table game rewards and incentives. In case you're unsure how they work, you can augment your wager with match play tokens up to the value of your cash bet on most even-money propositions...read more

Pick Your Texas Hold'em Hand: Big Slick or Pocket Deuces

Most of the poker players around have seen at least one episode of World Poker Tour or World Series of Poker on cable TV. One nice thing they both usually do is display that little window in the corner of your screen which tells you each opponents' respective chances of winning the pot with his particular hole cards. Sometimes two players will be "heads up" and one opponent will have "Big Slick" (Ace/King) while the other has a lower pocket pair...read more

Part Two: Taking Advantage of Non-Random "Random" Craps

In my last article I speculated that the success the Captain has had with the 5-Count in actual casino play might have something to do with the ability of the 5-Count to get us on "hot" shooters, defined as that percentage of crapshooting players who are altering the outcome of the game based on their style of throwing the dice...read more

Part Two: Taking Advantage of Non-Random "Random" Craps

In my last article I speculated that the success the Captain has had with the 5-Count in actual casino play might have something to do with the ability of the 5-Count to get us on "hot" shooters, defined as that percentage of crapshooting players who are altering the outcome of the game based on their style of throwing the dice...read more