Wagers in mobile casinos and poker games to pass $60 billion in 2018
A sixfold increase from the $10 billion wagered last year. Annual wagers via mobiles and tablets on casino-type gambling and poker games is predicted to hit $62 billion by 2018, reports Juniper research. The main cause of this is expected…
WSOP calendar for 2014 event
Full schedule http://www.wsop.com/2014/ The 45th annual World Series of Poker kicks off the day after Memorial Day, culminating with a November main event worth $10 million, organizers announced today. With 65 WSOP events on tap this year, players will fight…
Borgata chip counterfeiter is in running for dumbest criminal of 2014
Christian Lusardi who is accused of adding over two hundred $5,000 counterfeit tournament chips to a tournament at the Borgata Hotel in Atlantic City. By JENNIFER BOGDAN Staff Writer A North Carolina man who attempted to foil authorities by flushing…
Venetian, Palazzo casinos' websites down after apparent hacking
By HOWARD STUTZ LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL For a brief time Tuesday, websites operated by Las Vegas Sands Corp. looked like scenes out of the 1983 movie “WarGames.” Those logging on to Venetian.com, Palazzo.com, and LasVegasSands.com, were greeted with various messages,…
Planning for Classes in Vegas
Working on my travel schedule and reservations for work and play and was wondering if anyone know which hotel the June classes will be held at in Las Vegas? I had heard that it might be a Hampton Hotel and…
2014 WSOP main event Schedule announced
I could not paste it here, please go to their website to see the schedule. http://www.wsop.com/2014/2014-wsop-schedule.pdf Replies: No replies were posted for this topic.
Casino owners battle over online gambling
A debate over the future of internet gambling has created a rift among US casino industry titans, pitting advocates of expansion such as Jim Murran, chief executive of MGM Resorts, against billionaire opponents Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn. The split,…
Is this the beginning of the end of Caesars/Hurrah's?
Caesars Drops on Reports Lazard Will Advise on Refinancing Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — Caesars Entertainment Corp., the largest owner of casinos in the U.S., fell after reports that the company had hired Lazard Ltd. for advice on a debt restructuring….
Questions about Dice weighting
This past weekend, the Princess and I did a "spur of the moment" trip to AC on Saturday. We both had some good rolls …. but no big ones and no killer point-7’s. Basically, we treaded water …until 2AM Sunday…
Nevada is the gold standard for those who want to stash their cash
To drum up business, Nevada has a long history of welcoming what other states scoff at: prostitutes, gamblers, shotgun weddings and shell companies. The Silver State also opens its arms to a more obscure area of commerce: helping the wealthy…