Category ‘Casino news’

RealDealPoker show in Amsterdam

RealDealPoker, the only online poker site to deal real cards, demonstrates the revolutionary system at the Casino Affiliate Convention in Amsterdam this week. People trust what they see and what they see at RealDealPoker is a mechanical dealing machine like the ones in Vegas dealing brand new decks of actual playing cards. Paul Gambrill, Affiliate [...]

Man dies after falling off escalator at A.C. casino

As reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer: “A man was fatally injured after falling from the escalator at the Pier Shops at Caesars, a mall connected to the Caesars Atlantic City casino.
“The accident happened about midnight Saturday, Atlantic City Police Sgt. Angelo Maimone said. The man was taken to the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic [...]

Lenders seek to move Fontainebleau case to liquidation

A group of secondary lenders for the bankrupt Fontainebleau Las Vegas filed a motion on Friday asking to do something the court itself has already indicated could happen: Move the case to liquidation.
The motion notes that the project has been in bankruptcy for three months and the developer has made no meaningful progress with [...]

Antigua Online Casinos in the Clear Despite Stanford

The tiny Caribbean island of Antigua & Barbuda has long been known as a haven for offshore online casinos seeking to do legitimate business. In fact, Antigua, along with the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, was the first legitimate licensor of online betting destinations, ranging from sportsbooks to online poker rooms, back when online gambling first started [...]

Taiwan group protests gambling growth

Taiwanese anti-gambling demonstrators protested outside the country’s Ministry of Education building in response to the department’s policy of subsidizing university courses that teach students on how to staff and run casinos. The group claims that the government is wasting the taxpayer’s money and leading people into dangerous gambling addictions. The protestors are also responding to [...]

bwin launches GTECH G2’s new mini-game

bwin will be amongst the first GTECH G2 licensees to offer the new Casino Dice mini-game developed by GTECH G2’s subsidiary, Dynamite Idea. Both the new Casino Dice and the popular Triple Chance Hi Lo are now offered in full, mini and mobile versions at bwin and will soon be available at other GTECH G2 [...]

APT to star as backdrop in Chinese poker film

AsianLogic, owners of the Asian Poker Tour, are delighted to announce a historic first for poker in Asia. The hotly anticipated Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival, taking place 12-23 August 2009 at the Galaxy Starworld, will be featured in a ground-breaking Chinese language poker movie. Many believe the film will have a similar impact on [...]

Wolpert, Tran and Mueller earn WSOP bracelets

Sometimes the best strategy in poker is the simplest one. And nowhere was that more true than at the World Series of Poker this week, where Leo Wolpert, J.C. Tran and Greg Mueller all won WSOP bracelets by keeping things simple.
Wolpert beat European Poker Tour co-founder John Duthie to win the $10,000 Head-up No-Limit [...]

“Tiger Luu” goes back-to-back at WSOP

The Winner
• The 2009 World Series of Poker $1,500 buy-in Omaha High-Low champion is Thang T. Luu, from Las Vegas, NV.
• Luu accomplished one of the most astonishing feats in many years at the WSOP. He successfully defended his title as the $1,500-buy-in Omaha High-Low champion after winning the same event last year. Furthermore, Luu [...]