- Ronnie O’Sullivan has signed a new deal with Casino-on-Net| Leave a Comment
O’Sullivan signed up for 18 months with Casino-on-Net 888 and has re-launched his association with the online gambling company that was first established in 2006. He has been in fine form of late, having been crowned Saga Insurance Masters champion with his exciting brand of snooker. O’Sullivan will now wear a 888.com patch on his [...]
- Sky Ute Casino resort construction has begun| Leave a Comment
Construction has begun on the new Sky Ute Casino resort, whose plans call for up to 150 hotel rooms and 700 slot machines. The Southern Ute Tribe began working on the resort last month on a 60-acre parcel between Colorado Highway 172 and County Road 517. Casino general manager Matt Olin expected the new resort [...]
- Anna Nicole Smith found dead at casino hotel| Leave a Comment
The former Playboy model, Anna Nicole Smith, who married an octogenarian billionaire after they met in a strip club, died yesterday at a hotel in Florida. Smith, 39, collapsed at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel, where she had been staying since Monday. She was taken to a hospital near Palm Beach. It was not [...]
- Indianapolis Colts won Superbowl XLI after beating the Chicago Bears 29-17 at Dolphin Stadium| Leave a Comment
The Indianapolis Colts won Superbowl XLI after beating the Chicago Bears 29-17 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami on Sunday. The Colts, who dominated throughout, recovered from conceding a touchdown straight from the kick-off to take a 16-14 half-time lead which they would not relinquish. Bears` Devin Hester got the match off to an explosive start [...]
- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger install 22,500 new slot machines| Leave a Comment
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bet that the state could balance its budget next year with revenue from bigger Indian casinos is unrealistic, a report released Friday by the state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst said.Schwarzenegger’s proposal to let tribes install some 22,500 new slot machines and then collect more than $500 million in new fees and taxes from [...]
- Asian gambling stocks set records| Leave a Comment
Asian gambling stocks, industry laggards last year, are setting records as investors bet on new casino projects in Macao and Singapore. Shares of Malaysia’s Genting, the builder of Singapore’s second casino, and Australia’s Aristocrat Leisure, the world’s second-largest slot-machine maker, are each up more than 40 percent in the past 12 months.Even after their gains, [...]
- Poker Player Bets His Wife – Loses Her| Leave a Comment
Andrei Karpov from Murmansk, Russia has lost his wife Tatiana after he bet her on a game of poker. The bet was placed after he ran out of money while playing against Sergey Brodov. Karpov lost and Brodov turned up later to claim his winnings. When Tatiana learned that her husband had bet her on [...]
- Russia casinos will be restricted to four designated zones| Leave a Comment
Real estate prices in two of the four zones designated for legal gambling, set to come into existence in mid-2009, have seen a spectacular rise since the beginning of the year. Under a new anti-gambling law, which received President Vladimir Putin’s official approval Dec. 31, gambling in Russia will be restricted to four zones from [...]
- Tom Sartori is a singer, songwriter, and a poker player| Leave a Comment
Tom Sartori and his band performed for a crowd of students in the Edgerten Theater. Sartori’s band has shared the stage with artists including Jessica Simpson and Gavin DeGraw. Band members include Timi Grimaldi on drums, “Fish” on Bass Guitar, Kenny Witman on the Saxophone, and Tom Sartori the lead singer and guitarist. Sartori recently [...]
- Malaysian police crack down on illegal gambling| Leave a Comment
Malaysian authorities are working to wipe out gambling dens that offer illegal video game and slot machines, a top police official said Wednesday, underscoring efforts to boost public confidence in the police. Christopher Wan, the federal criminal investigations police director, has personally led high-profile raids on unlicensed gambling outlets in recent weeks, cracking down on [...]
- Sealand could become home to a gambling firm?!| Leave a Comment
SEALAND could become home to a gambling firm trying to escape American hard-line laws on internet betting, it was revealed today. The US is so anti internet gambling that last summer the British boss of a major web gambling company was arrested at an airport shortly after arriving in the country, while other executives from [...]
- Indian casinos gambling fueling growth in this nation’s| Leave a Comment
Back in the early 1960s, no states ran lotteries, only one – Nevada – allowed casinos and Indian tribes had yet to discover bingo or glitzy casino halls. Today, 42 states operate lotteries, 37 have commercial, Indian or racetrack casinos and only two – Utah and Hawaii – don’t allow any form of gambling. The [...]
- Poker scam bilks casinos of $500K| Leave a Comment
Two men and a woman cheated the casinos in Britain out of nearly half a million dollars in a high-tech poker scam using hidden miniature cameras and earpieces, police said Monday. Detectives said they thought at least six casinos in the London area were targeted over a period of several months by the sting, which [...]
- Guyana Government plans to legalise casino gambling for Cricket World Cup 2007 and beyond| Leave a Comment
The Guyana Government plans to legalise casino gambling for Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 and beyond, has led to a number of Christian groups in that country closing ranks against any such move. The government does not seem prepared to back down on its plans but the church groups have been strident in their calls [...]