Californian city to expand gambling options
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 16:03 by Carl Barnett
San José faces a massive budget shortfall. We’re talking millions and millions. The lawmakers have seen an opportunity, and they intend to add to the card clubs that are already in place with some more gambling options. This will bring in a total of...
DeLeo in charge
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 16:03 by Carl Barnett
You have got to admire Robert DeLeo. He is always in the media for one thing. And for a man who is steadfastly putting forward an ever more convincing argument for putting slots machines in at racecourses around his state this is no bad thing. Every ...
ESPN keep up the good PR
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 16:03 by Carl Barnett
There is a place for rankings, and when it comes to poker, there is definitely a place.
ESPN have just brought out their rankings table for poker players. There are no major surprises, but there is a lot of fun to be had if you follow poker.
This...
Italy sees sense
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 16:03 by Carl Barnett
Over in Italy, the lawmakers have got themselves into a bit of a muddle when it comes to whether or not online bingo is to be legalised. Like some great game of legal tennis, one court decreed that online bingo was not to be legalised or regulated in...
Kehls setting example
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 16:03 by Carl Barnett
The Kehl family are looking to make moves in the casino industry, and they have a rather interesting business model to push out too. Rather than take on a load of debt for their plans to develop a casino in Iowa, they have laid a lot of emphasis on c...
Macau to slow down
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 16:03 by Carl Barnett
Macau is often referred to as a possible major player in the decades to come with regards to casino development. However, the Chief Executive is expected to make an announcement soon that could mean a slowing down of the industry, at least for this y...
Morongo show the way
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 16:03 by Carl Barnett
While a conference on responsible gambling was in full swing in California, there were things happening not a million miles away that showed just how powerful the industry is shaping up to be.
The conference included input from academics and medica...
Native American casino model
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 16:03 by Carl Barnett
An Arizona city and an Indian tribe have clashed heavily over the tribe’s plans to build on unincorporated land. The land is near the fair city of Glendale, and the residents are not happy about the fact that the tribe want to build casino property o...
Obama to watch gambling show?
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
A new TV show that is to air in Canada will look at the world of online gambling. The show, called The Jackpot, will feature a magazine style, and focus on the fun and the glamour around online gambling. It will also take viewers through the context ...
Online Casino Regulation closer in the USA
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
There is a brand new body that has just been created in the United States. It’s called the Internet Gaming Study Committee and it looks like it may well add more impetus to the long fight by reputable online casino operators to get online gambling re...
Online casinos see positive response from customers
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
Penn National has just issued a press release that goes into detail over their ambitious plans for Ohio. Beulah Park holds a racecourse, among other things, and Penn National has just announced that they want to build a $400 million casino complex on...
Ordinary guy wins major tournament
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
Paul Vogel recently won a major poker tournament at Caesars Atlantic City. The total payout came to over $60,000. He did well, and what is even more amazing is that he plays poker for fun. Well, that’s his story. Anyone who wins a major tournament at...
Pham a happy bunny
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
Paul Pham is a poker player who has just won a major London event, scoring a $15,000 total payout. The Black Belt Poker event attracted 300 players, some of whom are more at home on the World Series of Poker circuit. Pham is an online poker player, a...
Sea change in Ontario
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
The Ontario lawmakers are currently talking a lot about the merits of online gambling, which is something that certainly would not have been the case five years ago.
The head of the Ontario lottery has been speaking openly about the viability of cr...
Super Bowl helps online casinos
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
The Super Bowl game has brought in a ton of extra revenue to casinos, both online casinos and their land based cousins. A game that any other nation finds a little bit difficult to understand, American Football draws together Americans like no other ...
Tropicana emerges from ashes
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
The major US casino company Tropicana entertainment has managed to emerge from bankruptcy after months of uncertainty. The company faced numerous financial problems and the recession caused them to suffer a significant drop in business and revenue. H...
US government needs to think about tax potential
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 at 14:03 by Carl Barnett
An Argentinean player has just become the Team Poker Stars Pro player to win a major Latin American event, the Punta Del Este. The Punta Del Este is everything we want in the world of poker, and having the event take place in Uruguay, with a good few...
Delaware to vote
Posted on 19 Mar 2010 at 09:03 by Carl Barnett
Delaware could well be holding a vote pretty soon as regards the expansion of gambling. The state has three racetracks that run gambling options, and the lawmakers in the state are pretty certain that there could be a vote just before Easter.
House ...
Everyone needs to share
Posted on 19 Mar 2010 at 09:03 by Carl Barnett
Barney Frank is trying his best to get a bill through that will help to regulate online gambling. However, he has had strife every step of the way from religious groups and other groups too. This has come in the form of protests, some quite vitriolic...
Gambling on Facebook
Posted on 19 Mar 2010 at 09:03 by Carl Barnett
Many people use online social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. They are becoming more popular every week, with Twitter recently registering the billionth tweet on their site.
The Advertising Standards Authority in the UK is making plans t...
Go east, young man
Posted on 19 Mar 2010 at 09:03 by Carl Barnett
In China, there are very few places where it is legal to gamble. China has cracked down on a number of aspects of gambling in recent times, which means that a gambler in the area would jump at the chance to play blackjack, or Omaha Poker. But where t...
Honeymoon already over?
Posted on 19 Mar 2010 at 09:03 by Carl Barnett
Another great success story from the United States, with the Tropicana casino group coming out of bankruptcy with their plans for the future much more than a dream. Billionaire mogul Carl Icahn has, with the help of fellow investors, turned around th...
Isildur1 loses big
Posted on 19 Mar 2010 at 09:03 by Carl Barnett
Isildur1, the Swede who no one seems to know very well, has just lost close to $2 million in an online disaster that saw him face off against some major players. But the pedigree of the players he faced seems to pale into something like insignificanc...
DeLeo speaks clearly
Posted on 17 Mar 2010 at 14:03 by Carl Barnett
Robert DeLeo has caused a few shockwaves with his plans for gambling in recent days. The Speaker has stated that he recommends two casino resorts in Boston, and that this would be good for the state of Massachusetts.
However, lawmakers and politicia...
Online, there is always capacity
Posted on 10 Mar 2010 at 14:03 by Carl Barnett
Waterimage had plans to turn an old nightclub in Leeds into a cabaret style casino complex, with dancing girls and roulette tables that would light up the night. But the dream dies, because the judges in the area felt that there was enough for gambl...
Poker Olympics?
Posted on 11 Mar 2010 at 08:03 by Carl Barnett
There is a long and glorious Olympic tradition, with the Games making nations sentimental and proud. How fitting that poker, one of the most exciting and fastest growing sports around today, should become potentially the next big thing at the Olympic...
Florida State online Casino Super Affiliate?
Posted on 11 Mar 2010 at 08:03 by Carl Barnett
State representative Joseph Abruzzo is trying to get a bill passed through in Florida that would allow Florida State to have legalised online gambling in special hubs that work through affiliate sites. If this sounds a little complicated, that's beca...
Wynn to get what he wants?
Posted on 11 Mar 2010 at 08:03 by Carl Barnett
Steve Wynn is pretty much a man who gets what he wants. But he might not be so lucky in Pennsylvania. The casino mogul visited the state a few days ago to look over the Foxwoods casino. The state gaming board have granted him a little more time to g...
Tatts offer even more options for gamblers
Posted on 11 Mar 2010 at 08:03 by Carl Barnett
The Tatts Group could soon be giving New South Wales the opportunity to buy scratch cards and Lotto tickets when they shop for their greens and their cereals. The government over there are going to relinquish the license for running lotteries to Tatt...
Reality poker?
Posted on 10 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
Since the advent of reality TV, which is fast becoming a kind of scourge of our times, it has been a lot easier to mess with the collective public consciousness as regards what looks right on our boxes and what looks very wrong.
TV is becoming even...
Poker loses a great show
Posted on 10 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
G4, the cable television station, has decided to withdraw the famous poker show ‘2 Months, $2 Million’ from the airwaves.
By all accounts it was doing quite well, and no one was too offended by it. In fact, a lot of poker fans thought it was the gr...
Philadelphia obviously the place to be
Posted on 10 Mar 2010 at 14:03 by Carl Barnett
Philadelphia has allowed table gaming to happen within the state boundaries, and people who run casinos and other such gambling concerns are already circling, ready to stake their claim. Sands has just announced that their casino is to get a brand n...
Pennsylvania tightens up
Posted on 10 Mar 2010 at 14:03 by Carl Barnett
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board have arranged for new regulations to be in place as regards the training of dealers in their land based casinos. Some of the new regulations are about as rigorous as you can get. For example, if you do not happe...
Online casinos can be played indoors, you know
Posted on 10 Mar 2010 at 13:03 by Carl Barnett
Atlantic City has always had a great connection to gambling and casinos in general.
Shame, then, that it has another major disaster to deal with as regards its revenue.
The recession kicked it in the teeth, and now it sits in the middle of an ava...
Czech Republic accepting gambling
Posted on 10 Mar 2010 at 13:03 by Carl Barnett
The Czech Republic is considering the use of gambling revenue to help pay for the sports plans in the country.
This is another example of a state realising the value behind gambling. Online gambling is one of the most popular pastimes on the Intern...
Iowa has online gambling plan
Posted on 10 Mar 2010 at 13:03 by Carl Barnett
Iowa is currently struggling under a mountain of debt, with the cost of servicing that debt getting worse, and the overall pile of misery stretching into the hundreds of millions of dollars. They have a plan though. Representatives are clamouring to...
Euro Millions!!
Posted on 05 Mar 2010 at 14:03 by Carl Barnett
A recent piece of news should make all online casino players very happy. Someone has just won big on an online casino based in Malta. However, he didn’t win big because he played big. Far from it.
The Greek player staked just €2.50 on his game. The ...
Only 23 and a millionaire from online poker
Posted on 05 Mar 2010 at 14:03 by Carl Barnett
The Brunson 10, a formidable online poker steam train that basically squashes any player in its path – and they don’t even have ten players yet – The team has just acquired Alex Kamberis as their latest player. He is good, young – he’s only 23 – and,...
Wyandotte tribe wants more
Posted on 05 Mar 2010 at 14:03 by Carl Barnett
The Wyandotte tribe already have a very successful casino complex in Kansas. The complex has 500 slot machines and counting, and they are doing very well.
However, they now want to move into Park City, Oklahoma, with one of the the biggest developme...
21 year old wins NAPT
Posted on 03 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
A 21 year old online poker player has won the NAPT tournament. This is amazing, truly amazing. With recent news that online poker reduces stress and now this nugget of information, it looks like online poker can’t do anything but get great press thes...
Pressure mounts with lobbyists in US
Posted on 03 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
There have been increased amounts of lobbying as regards online gambling and the legalisation issues that surround the industry.
There has been very strong interest from two St Louisiana Democrats in the House, and their actions form part of a multi...
Watch out Steve
Posted on 03 Mar 2010 at 15:03 by Carl Barnett
The Online Player of the Year contest continues to enthral and delight the world of online poker. There are millionaires being made every year in this game, and the top ten list shows that the top two are doing particularly well.
We know online poke...
Frank gets more friends
Posted on 03 Mar 2010 at 14:03 by Carl Barnett
More encouraging news for Barney Frank and his fifth to get the UIGEA overturned. Two congressmen, William Lacy clay and Russ Carnahan, have become co-sponsors of Frank’s bill, which basically wants to make the UIGEA be declared unconstitutional. T...
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