28 Aug 09 WSOP Final Table Betting Lines WSOP betting odds are now available
28 Aug 09 First Nations Want It All First Nations would like to keep 100% of casino profits
21 Aug 09 Johnny Chan Making An Appearance Johnny Chan plays the Macau Asian Poker Tour
11 Aug 09 Michael Phelps Receives Orient Invitation Michael Phelps receives all expenses paid invitation to play the Asian Poker Tour
06 Aug 09 Paypal Looking To The Future With the feeling that Senator Barney Frank is finding many supporters in his bid to legalise online gambling in the US, companies around the world are preparing for a repositioning into the US market.
05 Aug 09 Quarter Two Profits Drop for Wynn Wynn Resorts Limited has announced that it has seen a second quarter drop in it’s casino operations.
05 Aug 09 World Poker Tour Enterprises The World Poker Tour Enterprises have just announced that it will be selling almost all of its assets to Gamynia Limited for just over $9 million dollars
05 Aug 09 Trump Regains Control Donald Trump has outbid bondholders for the company that he once held, Trump Entertainment Resorts and will now have a controlling stake of the company
28 Jul 09 Norman Chad and Lon McEachern return They are not the most famous poker players in the world, but many poker followers will know Norman Chad and Lon McEachern as the animated commentators and hosts of World Series of Poker (WSOP) episodes.
28 Jul 09 Making The Wong Move in Macau Two casino croupiers in Macau, Wong and Lei, have been arrested by local police.It is suspected that they stole gaming chips worth 600,000 Hong Kong Dollars worth $77,420 US Dollars from a casino in Macau.
27 Jul 09 Harrah’s Making The Move Online Many Las Vegas casinos have constantly debated over moving online in order to expand their gambling business beyond just the land based tables. The benefits include less staff, 24 hour gaming and no restriction of locality whatsoever.
26 Jul 09 Online Poker Databases On Tilt Sharkscope.com and its database is used by many online poker players to determine the quality of opposition they are playing against and also to track their own progress in tournament and sitngos that are played online at various poker sites. Other sites in this category include officialpokerrankings.com.
20 Jul 09 Goldman Sachs Predicts Legalized Online Gambling American Investment Bank Goldman Sachs has predicted that online gambling will eventually be legalized in the United States. In a message sent to investors last week, the bank reasons that a legal online poker and casino market would be worth up to $12 billion, a sum too big a benefit for US lawmakers to ignore.
14 Jul 09 Packer Has Plenty Of Ground To Make Up James Packer’s Macau casino joint venture has received a much to be desired earnings forecast from Credit Suisse gambling analyst in Hong Kong. Packer’s latest, the new City of Dreams casino, has posted disappointing results in the first four months of trading with analysts believing that ‘mass market’ gamblers are now spending 15 percent less in the Macau gambling industry.
14 Jul 09 Isle of Capri Chairman Dies Founder and chairman of Isle of Capri Casinos, Bernard Goldstein, died last Sunday. Bernard lost his fight against cancer in a hospital in Iowa and was 80 years old.
13 Jul 09 Bahamas Getting Tough On Gaming Laws Leading through from surveys done over several years, the Bahamians are gradually coming to the realization that there should be national control of the national lottery and all gambling outlets. To make the legitimate businesses, they, like the casinos, should pay tax. With the whole nation turning towards great acceptance of gambling, there now is consensus to regulate operations.
13 Jul 09 Let The People Decide The state of Ohio has decided that it will be up to its people to decide whether they will allow casino gambling expansion. Currently, the Senate and the House in Ohio have very different views on gambling expansion with the house in favour, and the senate not. Such a debacle has led to continual debate and disagreement over how the budget will be drafted for the next two years.
11 Jul 09 Rights To Be Protected Republican Barney Frank of Massachusetts made a speech at the main event of the World Series of Poker on Sunday claiming that he believed that Internet gambling was a right for all US citizens and had to be protected.
11 Jul 09 Sands Announces Further Layoffs Las Vegas Sands have continued to release announcements that gambling is on the slide due to the current economy by announcing a reduction in its Las Vegas work force, laying off another 194 people last week.
10 Jul 09 Catching Up With All In The Movie Whilst everybody is busy focusing on the World Series of Poker in Vegas, ;All In The Poker Movie’ premiered in June and was well received. The documentary directed by Douglas Tirola explores the poker explosion and features Chris Moneymaker heavily as one of they key contributors to what poker is today.
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