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I first heard about this story when I got a call from a Philly-area journalist looking for background. Since then, it’s really exploded. Apparently, a reader board atop a quarter Wheel of Fortune machine told a slots player that he’d won $102,000. Then, according to the patron, a casino rep told him it was all […]
When is a deli actually a casino? I’d say it’s when they get rid of the rotating pie refrigerator to make room for a craps table. According to the News-Review, many Oregon “delis” are actually thinly-disguised lottery casinos: Across Oregon, delis that seem to specialize in lottery more than lunch pose a dilemma. The businesses
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news about gamblingIf you thought ultra-luxe casino spas were confined to the Las Vegas Strip, you once might have been right. But two Atlantic City resorts are opening lavish spas in what may be the opening salvos of (dare I say it) Spa Wars. From the AC Press: For sheer magnificence, it may fall short of the
Technically, this story isn’t set ON the mountain at Wynn Las Vegas, but inside it. But it’s an allusion to a popular piece of classical music and just sounds better than “INSIDE THE ARTIFICIAL MOUNTAIN AT WYNN LAS VEGAS.” Ace KLAS-TV reporter Edward Lawrence somehow got inside the Mt. Wynn and, with the help of
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news about gamblingRussia’s casino industry has seen explosive growth in the past few years, but things are changing. From the Miami Herald: Garish or goofy or grim, Russia’s casinos and slot-machine halls are some of the most vivid testimony to communism’s collapse. But, under legislation approved Wednesday by Russia’s lower house of parliament, the $6 billion industry
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news about gamblingIt’s a bad day for Donald Trump and Penguins fans, but a good day for some others: the Pennsylvania Gaming Board has chosen the winners for the two-years slot license derby in that state. From the Inquirer: South Philadelphia and the Fishtown area to the north will play host to the city’s two slots casinos.
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news about gamblingIt’s a great day if you own a lot of Harrah’s stock–especially if you bought it back in 1998, when it was trading at around $20 a share. The company has reportedly accepted a buyout offer. This breaking news comes from the IHT: Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., the world’s largest casino company, has agreed to a
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news about gamblingThere was a good piece on the coming of slot casinos to Philadelphia in USA Today: Visitors come here to see just one bell — the Liberty Bell. Soon they’ll be looking for a row of them — on a slot machine. Pennsylvania’s 2-year-old state gaming board is to award licenses Wednesday for two slot
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news about gamblingThe Casino Windsor–which is about as perfect a name for a government-owned casino as I can imagine–will become Caesars Windsor in a little over a year. Read the details from the Free Press: Hello Caesars Windsor. The gambling palace announced today that it will change its name in early 2008, upping the ante in its
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news about gamblingDo you want to know the future? Well, thanks to the Spectrum Gaming Group, you can–kind of. Actually, these are trends that are happening right now but will be important to the gaming industry’s growth in 2007. So it’s not crystal ball gazing, but reasoned analysis. From Spectrum Gaming Group: Spectrum Gaming Group, a widely
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news about gamblingThe biggest news today might be the lack of news about the Harrah’s Entertainment LBO. From the LVRJ: A meeting that no one will confirm is taking place could determine the direction of the gaming industry’s largest casino operator. Almost 10 weeks after two private equity groups bid more than $15 billion to take Harrah’s
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atlantic city, life in vegas, news about gamblingI don’t have much time today–I’m off to Mandalay Bay for the LV Marathon expo–but this is newsworthy: Singapore awarded its second casino resort contract Friday to Genting International, whose proposal of a venture worth 5.2 billion Singapore dollars is intended to lure thousands of visitors with a Universal Studios theme park and a huge
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news about gamblingThis is a big story–the Seminole Tribe has bought Hard Rock (but not the Vegas casino). From the AP: The Seminole Tribe of Florida said Thursday it was buying the famed Hard Rock business, including its casinos, restaurants, hotels and huge collection of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia, in a groundbreaking $965 million deal with a
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news about gamblingSlot machines are wonderful things, if only for their power to transform formerly obscure sites into hotly-debated centers of finance. Seriously. Five years ago, if you had said that the goings-on at a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania racetrack were going to be front-page news anywhere, people would have said you were nuts. Well, thanks to the almighty
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news about gamblingI just love this headline: Tiny Antigua grabs the US by its illegal, online dice. The story is interesting, too: Has the time actually come for Congress to read its own legislation? In the wee hours before Congressmen could head off for their election year recess, they managed to churn out a mound of unread
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news about gamblingWill Goa become the Indian Las Vegas, the Macau of Hindustan, or the Atlantic City of Baharat? According to Clickwalla, that might be in the cards: Goa, India’s beach paradise, is set to become the country’s gambling capital after local politicians said the state would allow 10 more floating casinos to operate off its shores.
I don’t have much of a reason for putting this story up, except to prove perhaps that gambling can flourish anywhere. From The Raw Story: Police were searching for Senegal’s honorary consul after finding the consulate in Singapore was doubling as a gambling den packing up to 100 enthusiasts a night, officials said on Sunday.
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news about gamblingI’m not a big Stones fan, but I couldn’t resist the title. No, it’s not a typo: there really is such a thing as a baang, and baangs are big business in South Korea. From the Washington Post: When a South Korean police squad cracked down on illegal computer gambling, they did it by literally
All you people who get really worked up over gambling online, click over to the article and bang your chest at the denoument. It’s from Yahoo!News: It was getting late on Oct. 12, the night before a sweeping anti-Internet gambling bill would be signed into law. Paul McGuire was at his computer, enjoying one last
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news about gamblingThe Russian State Duma–their version of parliament–voted down a bill that would have created a new regulatory framework for Russian casinos. Existing regulation, it seems, is something of a slapdash affair. From RIA Novosti: The bill’s doom does not mean gamblers and casino proprietors have several more years to enjoy the absence of related legislation,
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