Apparently Atlantic City poker players aren’t quite ready for poker to evolve. Trump Plaza has pulled its electronic poker tables, along with most of its East Tower casino. From the AC Press: They were fast, mistake-proof and didn’t need to be tipped. But they had no personality. So now they’re gone. Atlantic City’s experiment with […]
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atlantic city, news about gamblingScott Hilburn. The Argyle Sweater: A Cartoon Collection. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2009. 128 pages. This is another book I got through the Amazon Vine program, so it has nothing to do with gambling. I just thought it would be a fun read. This cartoon collection from Scott Hilburn is very much in the same
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book reviewsI’m going to be mostly out of the office on an extended project for the next week or so, so you probably won’t be seeing too many posts here. If you’re trying to get in touch with me, email is the best option, though even that’s going to be spotty for a while.
Gambling is down almost everywhere in the US, but it’s roaring ahead in Albania. From AFP: Albanians spent more than 100 million dollars on gambling last year, an increase of almost 70 percent on the year in one of Europes poorest countries, the tax office said Thursday. "During 2008, Albanians spent more than 100 million
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news about gamblingIn 1969, Florida-based fast-food chain Lum’s bought Caesars Palace. Lum’s was best known for their hot dogs and beer, but the company owned a slew of businesses, including the Abner’s family fast food chain (which didn’t serve beer), Dirr’s processed meats, and Eagle Army-Navy stores. One of the top items on Lum’s menu was the
Joshua Gans. Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2009. 240 pages. If there are two things that there is no shortage of opinions on, it’s parenting and economics. Yet books about both continue to be popular. So when one combines both topics, it’s of definite interest, at least to parents.
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book reviewsJoseph Helgerson. Crows & Cards. Boston: Houghlin Mifflin, 2009. 352 pages, with notes for further reading and a glossary. I don’t usually read or review books for the 8-12 crowd, but I don’t see many books in that market about ante-bellum riverboat gamblers. That being said, I really enjoyed Crows & Cards. In Zeb Crabtree,
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book reviewsIt’s all relative–these guys are still worth billions more than just about anyone who reads this. But their worth significantly less now than they were before, so they lost a great deal of wealth. From KLAS: Forbes Magazine is out with its annual ranking of the world’s billionaires, and the new list confirms the recession
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news about gamblingThe fifth episode of the UNLV Gaming Research podcast series is up, and it’s a great one: Jacob Avery, our February 2009 Research Fellow, talks about his sociological research into poker, which started in an Atlantic City card room and has taken him to UNLV Special Collections’ Reading Room. Avery, a graduate student in sociology
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gambling & culture, what's newI guess this is what’s going to become of the Cosmopolitan. from the LV Sun: Hilton Hotels Corp. of Beverly Hills, Calif., said Tuesday its creating an eclectic brand called Denizen Hotels and is working to bring that brand to Las Vegas and other major destinations. "Denizen Hotels, a lifestyle brand that will attract business
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haphazard world, life in vegasThe revenue numbers for January are out, and they are not good, if you are in the casino business or are supported by it. From Bloomberg: Casino gambling revenue dropped 15 percent on the Las Vegas Strip in January and tumbled 19 percent in Atlantic City last month as the U.S. recession curbed spending on
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news about gamblingThis morning I was lucky enough to get a few minutes to interview Dr. Bill Eadington, director of the University of Nevada Reno’s Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming. The Institute has two programs that I think will be of particular interest to a wide audience. The first is the Graduate Certificate
Utah is one of two states that has no legal gambling, but that might be changing–online at least. From the Salt Lake Tribune: Prominent poker players have teamed with big Las Vegas casinos to push for a law legalizing — and heavily regulating — online gambling. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff likes the idea, as
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news about gamblingAbout three years of Poker Player Newspaper are now online. There isn’t much indexing, but there are contents for some of the issues. It’s a great resource for poker history. Poker Player Newspaper :: Back Issues.
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gambling & cultureSheldon Adelson’s drive to find America’s most boring city notwithstanding, most people agree that Las Vegas’ tourist strategy might need a little tweak. Should the town emphasize value, or carefree fun? It’s a serious question. Here’s one approach that I don’t think we’ll be dusting off anytime soon: Las Vegas, home of weapons of mass
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life in vegas, news about gamblingI got some ideas about the possible future of the Strip’s hotel inventory by reading this Wired article on Netbooks, which are ultra-cheap, low-performance laptops that are good to connect to the Internet and not do much else: Netbooks have ended the performance wars. It used to be that when you went to an electronics
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