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Based on a Twitter conversation with @AgentMarco, I decided to look into what was happening with betting on video games. The result was this week’s Green Felt Journal: Could betting on video games be the last chance for gambling? In 2009, Woody Levin debuted BringIt.com, a website that let gamers open accounts and bet against […]
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Vegas SevenIn this week’s Green Felt Journal, I take a look at how a British invasion has changed Las Vegas nightlife: The two biggest demographics in Las Vegas these days seem to be nightclubbers and international visitors. As a bit of anecdotal evidence of the trend, the casinos in development that have stoked the imagination plan
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Vegas SevenI’ve got a little resort fee reverie in Vegas Seven this week: Resort fees—those mandatory per-night add-ons of between $3 and $25 that include charges for services guests may or may not use during their stay—migrated to Las Vegas in the early 2000s, but have recently gotten a second wind. Caesars Entertainment had for years
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Vegas SevenIn this week’s Green Felt Journal, I take a look at how the proposed Resorts World Las Vegas differs from the project it replaced: When Resorts World Las Vegas rises from the abandoned husk of Echelon on the north Strip, it will be very different from what Echelon would have been. And the differences tell
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Vegas SevenIn this week’s Green Felt Journal, I take a look at how the Strip’s original boutique hotel is keeping up with the competition: But the original boutique hotel-within-a-hotel on the Strip, the Four Seasons, is generating some buzz of its own with a two-phase renovation that’s just started its second half. Sharing the Mandalay Bay
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Vegas SevenIn this video, I talk about my plan to summarize the book in a few short videos and discuss the prologue and first chapter.
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book, Roll the Bones, videoIn this video, I talk about my plan to summarize the book in a few short videos and discuss the prologue and first chapter.
In this video, I talk about my plan to summarize the book in a… Read More »
book, Roll the Bones, videoIn this video, I talk about my plan to summarize the book in a few short videos and discuss the prologue and first chapter.
In this video, I talk about my plan to summarize the book in a… Read More »
book, Roll the Bones, videoIn this week’s Vegas Seven, I consider the bigger impact of the attention focused on problem gambling due to the case of Maureen O’Connor: The recent revelation that former San Diego Mayor Maureen O’Connor had reportedly embezzled more than $2 million from a charitable foundation to feed her gambling addiction has focused attention on pathological
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Vegas SevenQ & A with Newsworks New Jersey:
It’s always great to talk to people from my native New Jersey, particularly Jen A. Miller, who has written a great book about the Jersey Shore.
Go here to read the whole interview, where I put an Atlantic City spin on the book, which already has some great material about the seaside resort.
You can also read an excerpt from the book’s Atlantic City chapterl The Rise of Atlantic City.
I’ve definitely got Atlantic City covered in this new edition.
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author, Roll the BonesQ & A with Newsworks New Jersey:
It’s always great to talk to people from my native New Jersey, particularly Jen A. Miller, who has written a great book about the Jersey Shore.
Go here to read the whole interview, where I put an Atlantic City spin on the book, which already has some great material about the seaside resort.
You can also read an excerpt from the book’s Atlantic City chapterl The Rise of Atlantic City.
I’ve definitely got Atlantic City covered in this new edition.
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author, Roll the BonesQ & A with Newsworks New Jersey:
It’s always great to talk to people from my native New Jersey, particularly Jen A. Miller, who has written a great book about the Jersey Shore.
Go here to read the whole interview, where I put an Atlantic City spin on the book, which already has some great material about the seaside resort.
You can also read an excerpt from the book’s Atlantic City chapterl The Rise of Atlantic City.
I’ve definitely got Atlantic City covered in this new edition.
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author, Roll the BonesThis is one of the most emotionally-difficult pieces I’ve had to write for Vegas Seven–a look at the career and legacy of my friend and mentor Bill Eadington, who passed away last week: Within five years of his 1969 arrival at the University of Nevada, Reno as an assistant professor, Eadington had made the case
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Vegas SevenLots of people have heard of San Francisco mechanic Charles Fey’s Liberty Bell, which was the first auto-pay reel slot to gain popularity. He unveiled it in 1899.
Fewer people know that the first coin-operated slot machine, a device that flipped through five decks of cards, with winners paid off in kind (not in cash) for “winning” hands.
It was an early, analog video poker machine. And it was invented in 1891, 8 years before Fey’s Liberty Bell, in Brooklyn, New York.
That’s just one of the many fascinating things you’ll read about in Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling.
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fromthebook, Roll the BonesInterview about RTB at Betfair:
In this interview with Betfair’s Short-Stacked Shamus (whose great blog you can read here), I talk a little about where Roll the Bones came from, and current events in poker.
http://betting.betfair.com/poker/news/the-betfair-poker-interview-david-g-schwartz-080213-77.html
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interview, Roll the BonesTomorrow night (2/12), at 7 PM, I’m speaking to the Southern Nevada Casino Collectibles Club. I’ll be talking about gambling history and maybe sharing some things from Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling. I’ve known many of the collectors through the years, and I’m always energized by their passion for gambling history. But the best
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Roll the Bones, what's newThis week in Vegas Seven, I also consider the Mob Museum’s first year: But the Mob Museum—together with the 2012 openings of The Smith Center and the Neon Museum—signaled a new era for Las Vegas’ cultural institutions, and a commitment to Downtown. These institutions have deeper local roots, and it seems more likely that they’ll
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Vegas SevenIf you’ve been waiting to buy Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling (Casino Edition) in paperback from Amazon or Barnes and Noble, wait no longer: it’s now available from both booksellers, as well as Lulu.com, where you get a 20% discount: Amazon: Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling (Casino Edition) $26 (free shipping) Barnes and
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Roll the Bones, writingThis week in Vegas Seven, my “Seven Questions” interview with Tom Breitling is running: Tom Breitling’s career started humbly enough: In the early 1990s, he was a sportscaster and weatherman for a TV station … in Barstow. By decade’s end, Breitling had surfed the dot-com boom to a multimillion-dollar payout, which came in 2000 when
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Vegas Seven, writingThis week, I’ve got four pieces in Vegas Seven magazine. The first is the Green Felt Journal, where I take a look at whether nightclubs are reaching a saturation point: If there’s a proven moneymaker on the Las Vegas Strip today, it’s a top-flight nightclub. With tremendous margins on bottle service and measureless lines of
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