December 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

PokerStars buying an Atlantic City casino?

Atlantic City, New Jersey 2007

Atlantic City, New Jersey 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

PokerStars, the now notorious online gambling company, is in talks to buy a land-based casino in Atlantic City for a whopping $50 million, reports the Wall Street Journal. You may wonder what the point is of a company that settled a ridiculously scandalous lawsuit by the US Justice Department for over ten times that figure would be doing considering an investment in the USA.

Well, with New Jersey’s changing online gambling laws, owning an Atlantic City casino would allow PokerStars to operate legally as an online gambling provider in the US. Of course, though PokerStars admitted no wrongdoing in their notorious lawsuit, the fact remains that hundreds of players lost their money and they agreed to settle for $731 million with the Justice Department when accused of bank fraud, illegal gambling and money laundering – a curious thing to do when one is innocent.

Whether having a legal foothold in America will bring the disgraced company back to life is debatable, but the purchase of a land-based casino in Atlantic City is certainly good news for one of the weakest gambling centres in the world today. Sources say that the deal may still fall through, but if it comes through, it may mean a new era for PokerStars. Do you think they’ll regain the trust of the poker playing public?

 

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December 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Aspers Casino breaks record with 1 million visitors

Westfield London The Village

Westfield London The Village (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A casino in the UK has broken all previous records of attendance, seeing an astonishing one million guests through its doors in 2012. The casino in question is the Aspers Casino, which is located in the Westfield Shopping Centre, the biggest shopping centre in Europe. In a year that saw the Olympics bring challenging restrictions to casino patronage, Aspers’ new record is seen in an even better light.

With parking restrictions around the Olympics providing an extra challenge, it is suprising that Aspers could break the record in such a difficult time. The fact that they’ve got a mind-boggling hundred and fifty slots, seventy gaming tables and a poker area that seats three hundred people, Aspers has certainly built an alluring gaming experience, and the people certainly came and filled up those impressively large facilities.

London is hardly a sleepy town with nothing but a casino to offer, but with Aspers’ constantly striving to create an international-standard gaming experience brings both locals and tourists back to Aspers again and again, giving them an unbelievable night that smacks of a modern London. And with every fun night that individuals experience at Aspers, they contribute to breaking even more records in the future.

 

 

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November 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment

£88 FreePlay offer at 888 Casino

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In my quest to bring the newest and greatest casino bonuses to my readers, I’m excited to be telling you about this new offer. 888 has always had a reputation for good gameplay and great service. Now this bonus is bringing them to the leading edge of online casinos.

888 Casino is offering £88 freeplay for new players, without the new players needing to deposit to activate the offer.

There will be plenty of new players who are keen to try out a new online casino, but are unsure about depositing their own money when they don’t know the quality of the games or service. But the freeplay offer eliminates all doubt and lets you discover the casino on your own terms, on the house. £88 will take you a long way in online gambling, and an hour at the slots or craps table will definitely give you a feel for the place. And 888 has made it even better since you don’t need to deposit to activate this offer, so you can try 888 absolutely risk free. With plenty of accreditation, everyone from McAfee and eCOGRA trust in 888 to provide the best service and safest transactions. Now with £88 freeplay, you get to experience 888′s power first hand.

 

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November 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

888 Casino is offering £88 freeplay for new players

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In my quest to bring the newest and greatest casino bonuses to my readers, I’m excited to be telling you about this new offer. 888 has always had a reputation for good gameplay and great service. Now this bonus is bringing them to the leading edge of online casinos.

888 Casino is offering £88 freeplay for new players, without the new players needing to deposit to activate the offer.

There will be plenty of new players who are keen to try out a new online casino, but are unsure about depositing their own money when they don’t know the quality of the games or service. But the freeplay offer eliminates all doubt and lets you discover the casino on your own terms, on the house. £88 will take you a long way in online gambling, and an hour at the slots or craps table will definitely give you a feel for the place. And 888 has made it even better since you don’t need to deposit to activate this offer, so you can try 888 absolutely risk free. With plenty of accreditation, everyone from McAfee and eCOGRA trust in 888 to provide the best service and safest transactions. Now with £88 freeplay, you get to experience 888′s power first hand.

 

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November 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

How To Beat The Casino: Interview with a professional gambler

I found this fascinating interview with the renowned Martin Butterick, where he shares the tricks of the trade that enables him to be a professional gambler.

What do you think? Has professional gambling ever tempted you?

 

 

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November 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Atlantic City battered by Hurricane Sandy

The gambling industry is often guarded from natural disasters because of the handy fact that it’s mostly indoors (and, even better, much of it is online these days) but when something as huge as Hurricane Sandy hits, entire cities can be brought to a standstill.

Ball lands on zero

Ball lands on zero (Photo credits: Casino Mate Online Casino)

The hurricane managed to drown out the clatter of chips and chirping of slot machines, bringing Atlantic City to an eerie standstill. While revenues have suffered, Reuters reports that most major operators will be back up and running in a matter of days.

 

 

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October 23, 2012 By 1 Comment

Cool new app lets you beat the Blackjack table

There are plenty of books and even video series that promise to teach gamblers the age-old systems of counting cards. But now new technology is being utilized to teach the newest techniques. Check out this video on the new app. Blackjack Domination promises to take Blackjack from a gamble to a sure thing.

I’ll be trying it and hope to post a review soon – dear readers, have you found card counting success with this or a similar program? Tell me in the comments!

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October 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Maryland Casino funds anti-casino advertising

Plenty of people are against casinos – religious zealots, penny pinchers, people who hate fun – but of all people to fund anti-casino campaigns… a local casino is not the first suspect on the list.

Craps button on Off

Craps button on Off (Photo credits: Casino Mate Online Casino)

But that’s what’s happening in Maryland, USA. The state’s citizens have been bombarded with billboards, print ads and television spots that spout the evils of having a new casino built in Maryland. The culprit behind these ads, however, are Penn National Gambling, the large gambling company who’s already got roots in the Maryland gambling market and isn’t willing to make space for any competition.

The company has invested a whopping $25 million in advertising that demonizes efforts at building a new casino in Prince George’s County, Maryland, that would co-incidentally impede on the market of PNG’s casino in Charles Town, West Virginia.Is this simple business strategy or a casino chain so afraid of competition that they’d demonize their own product? Perhaps a little bit of both. Either way, you can’t deny the irony of the situation.

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September 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Americans too lazy to stand at Craps tables

I like to keep my finger on the pulse of international gambling news, and I’m not usually shocked in this fashion – I mean, yeah, now and then somebody lives under their house to escape bookies, and maybe a casino sues its patrons for winning money at the Baccarat table, but this is just… disappointing.

Let me preface by saying that Craps has always been the high-energy, fast-paced game that attracts crowds in every casino. Cheering crowds shuffling, the shooter leaning over the table and stretching to ensure the dice hit the back wall… it’s classic. But in what the Atlantic City press call “a new trend in the gambling industry”, the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel has put bar stools around the Craps table. Usually, a nondescript casino putting out seats for patrons isn’t exactly headline-making news, but this is symptomatic of a larger trend of sweatpants-and-flops comfort that makes me fear the days of tuxedos and high rollers are truly over. Seats. At the Craps table. Call me a pettyfogger or a purist, but it’s just not right. Next thing you know, there will be complimentary music headsets everywhere so you can avoid the horror of actually acknowledging there’s a human being next to you.

Call it a trend if you like, as long as I can stand I’ll be standing at the Craps table.

 

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September 4, 2012 By 1 Comment

Golden Nugget update: Gamblers win!

I recently blogged about the Golden Nugget in Atlantic city suing gamblers for winning over $1 million on an unshuffled deck. I even took to Quora to see what the masses had to say about this interesting case. Was the casino to blame for not making sure the cards were shuffled, or was it the gamblers who had to return the winnings because the game was ‘illegal’ since it was played with an unshuffled deck?

Well, Judge James Isman seems to be of the former opinion as he awarded the slighted gamblers their winnings and forced the Golden Nugget to cash in the $1 million in casino chips that the players had won. The judge concluded that the gamblers did not rig the game, nor did they do anything illegal in their winning or collecting chips. While the casino’s representatives were angered by the judgement, Golden Nugget’s owner Tilman Fertitta has insisted they will not appeal the ruling, and had a far more measured big-picture response:

‘Without question, the mini-baccarat game that took place on April 30, 2012, allowed $10 bettors to realize a gambler’s dream and enabled them to beat the house out of $1.5 million.’

‘Even though we can appeal the court’s ruling and take full advantage of the appellate process and legal system, and tie the matter up in litigation for a number of years, the Golden Nugget is a people business.

‘It is prepared to allow the gamblers — most of whom continue to gamble at Golden Nugget — to realize the gambler’s dream of beating the house.’

English: The Golden Nugget Las Vegas

The Golden Nugget lost its bet against gamblers  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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