- Pacific Poker World Poker Crown Tourney| Leave a Comment
Pacific Poker have announced the World Poker Crown tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $3 million, the largest guaranteed prize pool in online poker history -Â to be held Saturday -Â April 26th at 10:00 PPT. (Noteworthy is that the ultimate winner will receive a third of the giant $3 million prize pool- a hefty $1 [...]
- March Madness are an American tradition| Leave a Comment
The NCAA tournaments are an American tradition that sends millions of fans into a synchronized frenzy each year. It is this chaos that gives the tournament its March Madness nickname. March Madness is the concentrated hype of 65 teams vying for college basketball’s biggest prize. It’s the last-second -Â buzzer-beating baskets, the euphoria of winning to [...]
- Casino players drops after smoking ban| Leave a Comment
Colorado’s mountain casinos posted a 3.6 percent drop in revenue in January, the first month of the casino smoking ban. The drop isn’t nearly as drastic as some operators had expected. The industry estimated before the ban took effect that 30 to 50 percent of casino patrons smoke. Several casinos have poured millions of dollars [...]
- Michigan woman wins on progressive slot| Leave a Comment
A 79-year-old Michigan woman hit the jackpot at Cocopah Casino Saturday night. The woman, who casino officials say wishes to remain anonymous, won $163,335.30 on a “Wheel of Fortune” progressive slot machine, according to a news release from the casino. The woman was paid out $7,700 Saturday evening and given a complimentary one-night stay at [...]
- Airbus A380 airborne casino| Leave a Comment
A380 could be adopted as the platform for an airborne casino within five years – after it emerged that Airbus has begun preliminary talks with an undisclosed business looking to acquire one to use as a flying betting house. An Airbus source says a lot of interest is coming from casino operators in Macau -Â which [...]
- AsianLogic boost online poker| Leave a Comment
AsianLogic -Â the online and land-based gaming company, has entered into an agreement with Capital Events of Singapore to acquire and take over the running of the renowned Asian Poker Tour, Asia’s original and largest poker tour. Under the terms of the agreement, AsianLogic will manage the running of APT’s online and land-based tournaments and assume [...]
- American racing industry losing big money to offshore wagering| Leave a Comment
Even by the local standard, which is more or less 1960s vintage Nevada, the casino at the Hotel Morazon, though busy at midday, is tiny. Slot machines line the walls, surrounding an array of table games – craps -Â blackjack -Â roulette, some others not readily recognizable to the Norte Americano. The pulse of the capital city [...]
- Poker Reality Series on Fox Sports Net| Leave a Comment
UltimateBet announces its new poker reality series on Fox Sports Net. The 7-week series aims to discover whether Phil Hellmuth or Annie Duke is better at molding ordinary poker players into champions. The ultimate poker reality series follows 18 poker players on two teams led by world poker champions Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke as [...]
- National Basketball Association Into Lobbying| Leave a Comment
The NBA paid McGuirewoods Consulting $280,000 in the second half of – 2007 -Â passing a total of $330,000 to the lobbying firm for the year. The firm lobbied Congress on federal decency guidelines, according to a form filed online Monday by the Senate’s public records office. NBA also lobbied to preserve the ban on sports [...]
- Casinos lost $2.6 mil on Super Bowl betting| Leave a Comment
Nevada casinos can actually lose money For the second time since the state started reporting Super Bowl figures in 1992, Nevada sports books posted a net loss on their biggest single betting day of the year. Nevada casinos lost $2.6 million on Sundays Super Bowl matchup between the New England Patriots and the New York [...]
- 2008 World Series of Poker Qualified| Leave a Comment
Bodog Poker today kicked off its qualifiers for the 2008 World Series of Poker main event - and the site is likely going to award more than 120 seats into event before the tournament is held on July 3. Three main-event satellites, called Main Event Semifinals, are being held on a weekly basis starting tonight and leading [...]
- Youngest poker player ever to win a European Poker Tour event| Leave a Comment
Mike McDonald having just won $1.4 million in a poker tournament in Germany - making him the youngest poker player ever to win a European Poker Tour event. The young pro – who is still sporting braces and hasn’t finished his post-secondary schooling yet – has parlayed countless hours of playing poker online into two major payouts. [...]
- Giants Win The 2008 Super Bowl| Leave a Comment
The New York Giants win the 2008 Super Bowl as a huge underdog since Day One beating the undefeated New England Patriots in a game for the ages. The Giants winning meant they beat a team many consider to be the best to ever have played in the NFL. The Giants payout would have been [...]
- Betting On Super Bowl| Leave a Comment
The traditional Super Bowl Party is probably the least fussy, most unpretentious party you can host all year. So -Â there is no point in holding anything back! Go all out and serve everyone’s favorite high fat, finger-licking snack foods. After all -Â your television set is the focal point -Â not the food -Â Or is it? As [...]
- Super Bowl XLII in Phoenix – Arizona| Leave a Comment
Super Bowl XLII will take place on February 3, 2008 – Phoenix -Â Arizona. A new stadium has been built in Glendale, Arizona, just west of Phoenix. It is the new home of the Arizona Cardinals, and it is a state-of-the-art facility. It is the first stadium in North America to feature a retractable roof and [...]
- Super Bowl Gambling| Leave a Comment
The Super Bowl is growing to epic proportions. Predictions have over $100 million being wagered on the game in Las Vegas this year. The New England Patriots and the New York Giants are no strangers to the big stage of the Super Bowl. Both teams have been there and won several championships. However - did you know [...]
- 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics| Leave a Comment
The next Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, China -Â in 2008. The games will begin in China’s capital city on the 8th August. The Olympic Games have to be one of the highlights of the sports betting calendar, bringing together millions of viewers and fans of a good range of sports -Â including track and [...]
- Big Server Update a ixgames| Leave a Comment
Sorry for the Ixgames Network disappearing for a short time. It should be back to normal now and hopefully we won’t have to do that again for a long long time!! There seems to have been some mix ups with the database hosts. Its fixed now. Our awesome technical support people who work all their [...]
- Casino Disaster Avoided| Leave a Comment
Gamblers fled the casino floor as firefighters rushed up flights of stairs, but remarkably no one was seriously injured in a blaze that blackened the top floors of the 32-story Monte Carlo hotel-casino. The 3,000-room resort was at near capacity Friday when the fire broke out midmorning, sending guests and employees onto the Las Vegas [...]
- Casinos in Macau up 46 Percent| Leave a Comment
Macau -Â the only place in China where casino gambling is legal, overtook the Las Vegas Strip as the world’s top gambling center in 2006. That year -Â its 24 casinos rang up US$6.95 billion in gambling revenue, while the Strip made US$6.69 billion, regulators in the cities said. Casinos in Macau raked in more than US$10.3 [...]