December 2007

New Year's Eve In Las Vegas

Editor / 31 December 2007 / Leave a comment

THE Palazzo, Las Vegas, is open. What is The Palazzo? Why, it's the newest mega-resort casino on the Las Vegas Strip....Read more »

Bingo Players Turn To Online Games

Editor / 31 December 2007 / Leave a comment

"BRITAIN'S bingo industry could be dead in just 12 months, killed off by the smoking ban," reports the Daily Star....Read more »

China's Lottery Rising

Editor / 28 December 2007 / 1 Comments

ALL change in China. And not all of it loose....Read more »

Casino Boobs On Busty Punter

Editor / 28 December 2007 / Leave a comment

"BUSTY English tourist Helen Simpson reckons the Christchurch Casino made a right boob by asking her to leave the premises after fellow punters found her breasts 'offensive'," says New Zealand organ Stuff....Read more »

Government's Totesport Moves To A Tax Haven

Editor / 27 December 2007 / Leave a comment

TOTESPORT Casino is the internet arm of the Tote, the bookmaker owned and operated by the Government. The Guardian reports that Totesport is relocating to the offshore tax haven of Alderney. This enables it to advertise freely in the UK...Read more »

Macao Booms

Editor / 27 December 2007 / Leave a comment

MACAO continues to boom....Read more »

Show Us Your Casino And Poker Pictures

Editor / 24 December 2007 / Leave a comment

TO the pages of the Wiltshire Times and Chippenham News. As ever....Read more »

How To Win At Roulette, Again

Editor / 24 December 2007 / 1 Comments

ON the Betfair forums, Amadeus Mozart continues to attract interst in his winning roulette system....Read more »

Blackjack Strategy And Casino

Editor / 21 December 2007 / Leave a comment

ON the Detroit Free Press, Mark Pilarski notes: "Blackjack strategy card OK in casino." Says Pilarksi: "One of the primary reasons for blackjack's immense popularity is that when played with skill, it offers the best odds of all casino games."...Read more »

Pamela Anderson Plays Her Cards Close To Her Chest

Editor / 21 December 2007 / Leave a comment

"DID an illusionist come between Pamela Anderson and her professional poker-playing hubby, Rick Salomon?" asks the New York Post. Anderson has been appearing on stage in New York as a pneumatic Debbie McGee to magician Hans Klok's Paul Daniels....Read more »

Niagara Fools: A Wet Weekend At The Casino

Editor / 21 December 2007 / Leave a comment

AN advert for a holiday to Niagara. For those of you not cold enough, wet enough or bored enough, this is the trip of your dreams. But this IS Niagara, you say. It rhymes with Viagra. It puts vim and...Read more »

Dilbert Mirrors Life In The Catfish Casino

Editor / 20 December 2007 / Leave a comment

DAVID Stewart has been fired from his job as an account manager at the Catfish Casino, Iowa....Read more »

Smoke Signals At The Casino

Editor / 20 December 2007 / Leave a comment

ON January 1, it will become illegal to smoke cigarettes in enclosed spaces in Edmonton, Canada. But there is an exception....Read more »

'Roulette Can Be Beaten'

Editor / 19 December 2007 / Leave a comment

"ROULETTE. CAN BE BEATEN WITH THE CORRECT STAKING SYSTEM."...Read more »

The MGM Grand Lands In Macau

Editor / 19 December 2007 / Leave a comment

THE MGM Grand Macau is opened. And the Chinese enclave takes a stop closer to world domination. This is Macau's 28th casino. Last year Macau raked in more gaming revenue than the Las Vegas Strip. Official statistics show that in...Read more »

The Monday Video: A Dice Staking Masterclass

Editor / 18 December 2007 / Leave a comment

The Monday video (on a Tuesday) - How To Dice Stack. Filed under "informative" and "unintentionally funny"....Read more »

Poker Queen Pamela Anderson Splits From Las Vegas Husband

Editor / 18 December 2007 / Leave a comment

SOME tabloid stories repeat every day - Madeleine McCann, Princess Diana, asylum seekers give you cancer - whereas others come round once a year - Christmas cancelled, Michael Barrymore's comeback, Pamela Anderson to divorce, and the equally efficient Pamela Anderson...Read more »

Betfair's Indian Sign Over Old Casinos

Editor / 17 December 2007 / Leave a comment

WHEN the US federal Indian Gaming Act was passed 20 years ago it was intended to enrich the lives of the country's native peoples. In place of beads, smallpox and small parts in made-for-TV movies, the tribes would receive currency....Read more »

Going To The Chapel In Atlantic City

Editor / 17 December 2007 / Leave a comment

TO Atlantic City. And news of plans to transform America's poor man's Las Vegas into the slighter less poor man's Las Vegas....Read more »

Las Vegas Endures Celine Dion

Editor / 17 December 2007 / Leave a comment

CELINE Dion. Thank you and goodnight! After 717 shows, Celine Dion bids a find adieu to the Caesar's Palace crowd....Read more »

Roulette System No. 4

Editor / 14 December 2007 / Leave a comment

ON the Casino Forums, jigz wonders: "Anyone tried this?" "First spin is 4, you cover 4 for the next round, 23 comes up, you now bet 4 and 23 etc."...Read more »

Nathan Burton's Casino Magic Tricks, For Girls

Editor / 14 December 2007 / Leave a comment

THE Third Rule of Magic states that there can be no more than one famous magician at any one time. For a long while Paul Daniels was the UK's number one magic act. Before him it was Tommy Copper. After...Read more »

How To Get Ahead in Casino By Don H. Barden

Editor / 13 December 2007 / Leave a comment

"FOR Casino Owner, Winning a License Was Not a Matter of Luck," reports the New York Times. So how did Don H. Barden secure the rights for his $450 million Majestic Star casino, founded on one of Pennsylvania's 14 slots...Read more »

Rank Smoke And Other Casino Horrors

Editor / 12 December 2007 / Leave a comment

"RANK loses as smoking ban bites," reports the Daily Mail. The company behind Mecca Bingo and Grosvenor Casinos is not doing so well. Why? Is it because punters would rather stay in and play online in the comfort of their...Read more »

Massacre By The Carousel Casino

Editor / 12 December 2007 / Leave a comment

GRIM news in the pages of the Cape Argus (Cape Town). Not too far from the Carousel Casino in Limpopo 11 robbers lay dead. A 12th is badly hurt....Read more »

Alleged Corruption in Macau's Casino Mecca

Editor / 12 December 2007 / Leave a comment

MACAU'S biggest ever corruption trial has ended....Read more »

Las Vegas Mob Museum

Editor / 11 December 2007 / Leave a comment

FEAST your eyes upon the headline: "FBI Backing Plan for Vegas Mob Museum." The Associated Press tells us that Las Vegas is building a museum to honour the likes of Bugsy, Lefty and Lansky. (Dopey (prison), Sneezey (addict) and Doc...Read more »

How To Steal Form a Cashless Slot Machine

Editor / 11 December 2007 / Leave a comment

THE Las Vegas Sun brings: "THIEVES INSIDE THE MACHINE - HOW HIGH-TECH CROOKS TURNED SLOTS INTO THEIR PERSONAL ATMs."...Read more »

How To Spot A Bad Blackjack Player

Editor / 10 December 2007 / 1 Comments

FRED Renzey asks Daily Herald readers how you can spot a decent blackjack player?...Read more »

Casino Crime: Caught On Camera?

Editor / 10 December 2007 / Leave a comment

CRIMES of the challenged, Volume 4: The Casino Camera Thief......Read more »

Monday Video: Casino Adverts

Editor / 10 December 2007 / Leave a comment

BETFAIR is Number One for casino and secure enough to mention other casinos, and how they advertise. You'll enjoy this:...Read more »

Ricky Hatton And The Mob

Editor / 10 December 2007 / Leave a comment

WHILE the insomniacs and fight fans were watching Ricky 'Fatton' Hatton give it his best shots in Las Vegas, the Casino Anorak was in Atlantic City....Read more »

Casino Crooks Say Sorry First

Editor / 07 December 2007 / Leave a comment

TO the Monte Carlo Membership Club at Princess Margaret Street, San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago....Read more »

Soprano's Last Supper: Las Vegas Entertainment

Editor / 07 December 2007 / Leave a comment

WHOSE for a spot of interactive comedic-musical spoof dinner theatre based on the popular TV series? Who isn't?...Read more »

Las Vegas Winter: Ricky Hatton Goes For Mayweather's Mouth

Editor / 07 December 2007 / Leave a comment

BRIGHT lights. Big city. Ricky Hatton is in Las Vegas. Against American motor mouth Floyd Mayweather tomorrow night will the Mancunian deliver the punch-line? And no less importantly, will Hatton beat Uncle Roger Mayweather, who operates as the boxer's propagandist...Read more »

Evel Knievel: Those Injuries In Full

Editor / 07 December 2007 / Leave a comment

ACCORDING to the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records, Evel Knievel "suffered 431 bone fractures in one season, 1972....Read more »

Lucky Numbers At Roulette

Editor / 06 December 2007 / Leave a comment

ON the casino Forums, Deptford Lion want to know your "best Numbers, Roulette."...Read more »

Casino Money Management: Keep Track Of Profit And Loss

Editor / 06 December 2007 / Leave a comment

A QUESTION in the Detroit Free Press: "Do you have any blackjack money management tips on how to discipline myself on holding on to winnings? It seems all the money I win ends up back in the dealer's tray."...Read more »

Spandau Ballet Sell Property In Las Vegas

Editor / 06 December 2007 / Leave a comment

SPANDAU ballet. Remember them? Ask your dad....Read more »

The Five Worst Las Vegas Casino Names

Editor / 05 December 2007 / Leave a comment

HOW do you go about naming a casino? If you're Steve Wynn, billionaire casino tycoon, it's easy: Steve Wynne Casino....Read more »

Tourists Riot In Macau

Editor / 05 December 2007 / Leave a comment

NEWS from casino hotspot Macau where the tourists are revolting....Read more »

Hatton V Mayweather: Las Vegas Casino

Editor / 05 December 2007 / Leave a comment

IN Las Vegas, the great, the good and the bad are in town for Ricky Hatton's fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr....Read more »

Poker And Blackjack Make Blackjack eXtreme

Editor / 04 December 2007 / Leave a comment

AFTER X-treme Snooker , X-treme Ping-Pong and X-Treme macramé, the world is ready for X-treme Blackjack, or to put it another way, Blackjack eXtreme....Read more »

Casino Training In Wales: Professional Croupier Training

Editor / 04 December 2007 / 2 Comments

HAVING digested the news that Wales is the new Las Vegas (which means Vegas is the new Rhonda Valley), the Poker Anorak learns of other developments in the principality....Read more »

The System: Roulette Sniper

Editor / 04 December 2007 / 1 Comments

IN the Casino Forums, 'dealer wins' wonder about Roulette Sniper, the latest way to win-win-win (etc.) at roulette. Can you defy the odds? Do you think you can defy the odds? Are you on medication?...Read more »

What Child Actors Do Next: Grange Hill's Gonch

Editor / 03 December 2007 / Leave a comment

READERS of a certain vintage will recall the popular teatime telly show Grange Hill....Read more »

Evel Knievel In Las Vegas: Hail Caesars

Editor / 03 December 2007 / Leave a comment

THE Casino Anorak's man in the US of A recalls meeting Evel Knievel in Las Vegas, at the entrance to Caesars Palace....Read more »

Casino Boss Stanley Ho Buys Huge Fungus

Editor / 03 December 2007 / Leave a comment

The Casino Anorak keeps a close eye out for giant truffle stories. And today we bring news that a giant white truffle weighing 1.5kg (3.3lb) has been sold for $330,000 (£165,000) at an auction held simultaneously in Macau, London and...Read more »