January 2008

Eyes Down For Deadly Bingo

Editor / 29 January 2008 / Leave a comment

BINGO caller Jack Brooks is not dead....Read more »

Man Wins Casino Jackpot At The Shops

Editor / 28 January 2008 / Leave a comment

HAPPY rowing for New York limo driver Sammy Zabib....Read more »

Monte Carlo Or Burn

Editor / 28 January 2008 / Leave a comment

LAS Vegas blows up casinos in big show of fireworks and noise. But what when one burns down? To the Monte Carlo casino......Read more »

Counting On Casinos In Asia

Editor / 25 January 2008 / Leave a comment

WE'LL start with what you know: The Philippine Amusement And Gaming Corporation (PAGCor) states that any Internet casino must not be within 200 metres of a school and church....Read more »

How To Smoke in A Casino

Editor / 24 January 2008 / Leave a comment

SMOKING in banned in casinos. But over in a casino in Nice, France, they know what to do. Anyone got a spare shower cubicle?...Read more »

Places Named Like Casinos

Editor / 24 January 2008 / Leave a comment

HAVE you been to the Luxor? No, not the Luxor Las Vegas, NV - the Luxor Auto Sales & Body North Hollywood, CA?...Read more »

Roulette Is The Devil's Wheel

Editor / 23 January 2008 / 1 Comments

There are 36 numbers on a Roulette wheel plus the zero and double zero. (Althouh not in Betfair's Zero Lounge.) And did you know one other thing?...Read more »

Casino Animals

Editor / 23 January 2008 / Leave a comment

WHAT can stop you from building that casino: The Casino Anorak spots a Correction on the pages of the Boston Globe:...Read more »

The Finnish Of Poker

Editor / 22 January 2008 / Leave a comment

IN Finland, no-one can hear you scream. And if things go one way, no-one can play casino online, either....Read more »

The World's Roomiest Casino

Editor / 22 January 2008 / Leave a comment

THEY build casinos in the middle of nowhere. You need a room. And which casino hotel has the most rooms?...Read more »

Macau Casinos Rake It In

Editor / 22 January 2008 / Leave a comment

MACAU casinos are winning....Read more »

The Casino Paradox

Editor / 22 January 2008 / 1 Comments

SOME chatter on the Casino Forum. The talks is reminiscent of the Greg Rudseski Paradox: British when he wins; Canadian when he loses. This is the Casino Paradox: Skill when you win; fix when you lose....Read more »

Macau Casino Hits Hong Kong Racing

Editor / 21 January 2008 / Leave a comment

RACING in Hong Kong or gaming in Macau? Over the newswires the Casino Anorak learns that Macau Mecca is seducing at least $2.4 billion a year in potential betting revenue - about 20 percent of last year's take - from...Read more »

Monday Video: Magic, Not A Lot

Editor / 21 January 2008 / Leave a comment

DAVID Blaine must be sweating:...Read more »

Macao To Overtake Nevada

Editor / 18 January 2008 / Leave a comment

MACAO is booming. As the NY Times reports, "gambling revenue from casinos in Macao leapt 46.6 percent last year to reach about 83 billion patacas ($10.4 billion)." Last year Macao surpassed Las Vegas as the biggest gambling venue; this year...Read more »

The Palazzo Of Excess

Editor / 18 January 2008 / Leave a comment

ANOTHER day. Another casino opening. All hail The Palazzo, Las Vegas. Come one, come all. Bring your wallet......Read more »

Credit Crunch Hits Casinos

Editor / 17 January 2008 / Leave a comment

Not all casino projects thrive....Read more »

Sheldon Andelson's Casino Loss

Editor / 17 January 2008 / Leave a comment

SHELDON Andelson, the casino magnate has made the news. He has lost more than $15bn....Read more »

The Top Five Casino Bosses in Film

Editor / 17 January 2008 / Leave a comment

CASINO bosses have a stereotypically bad image in the movies. Of course in real life casino owners are all good to their mums, honest to a fault and cleaner and softer than a Labrador's freshly wiped backside, but the impression...Read more »

Police Poker In San Francisco

Editor / 17 January 2008 / Leave a comment

A POKER game is busted by the police in San Francisco....Read more »

30 Days In A Toilet With Bellaggio Jay

Editor / 16 January 2008 / Leave a comment

JAY Kwik, aka 'Bellaggio Jay', has moved into the Bellagio, Las Vegas. He will live in his hotel bathroom for 30 days. Why? It's a bet....Read more »

The Black Hole Roulette Wheel

Editor / 16 January 2008 / Leave a comment

NOT strictly on topic. But have you seen the photons orbit black hole 'roulette wheel'?...Read more »

James Bond V James Bond At The Lisboa

Editor / 16 January 2008 / Leave a comment

SAY goodbye, Mr Bond, to Stanley Ho's Sociedade de Jogos de Macau. The Lisboa hotel and casino is to be demolished....Read more »

The Casino White List: Tasmania

Editor / 16 January 2008 / Leave a comment

TASMANIA. Famous for..? Come on, come on. Tasmania is famous for......Read more »

Catch Michael Jackson In Las Vegas

Editor / 16 January 2008 / Leave a comment

NEWS that Michael Jackson was spotted in the Las Vegas branch of Madame Tussauds was of interest, not least of all to writers of lollypop-stick jokes....Read more »

Northern Rock And High Stakes Poker

Editor / 16 January 2008 / Leave a comment

THE Northern Rock bank is in dire straits....Read more »

How To Win At Roulette Machines

Editor / 15 January 2008 / Leave a comment

ON the popular "Roulette machines in bookies" thread, backtolay writes: "I have a system which I use every Saturday which pays for my Saturday punt on the horses." Want to know what it is?...Read more »

Poker Players Outlive Golfers

Editor / 15 January 2008 / Leave a comment

POKER is game for all ages. And the Poker Anorak learns of Pauline Marnoni, aged 103....Read more »

Gaming For Geeks

Editor / 15 January 2008 / Leave a comment

YOU are not a nerd. Sure you spend hours on the internet, but a nerd? Never! Do not get angered, just close your eyes and wonder what Spock would do in the same situation....Read more »

A Supple Wrist: Amusement Arcade Pinball

Editor / 15 January 2008 / Leave a comment

CASINOS are not amusement arcades, those seaside pits that smell of hot sugar and feature warnings against loitering....Read more »

Casino Workers Win It For Barack Obama

Editor / 14 January 2008 / 2 Comments

WILL Nevada's casino workers choose the next President of the USA? To the workers' cafeteria of the Mirage Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip....Read more »

The Slot Machine Orchestra

Editor / 14 January 2008 / Leave a comment

LADIES and gentlemen, the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra perform "Holiday Fantasy Concerto for Four Prepared Slot Machines, Orchestra, and Chorus on Leroy Anderson"......Read more »

Wayne Rooney And Rio Ferdinand Go Vegas

Editor / 14 January 2008 / Leave a comment

ORDER the meat and crank up the roasts, Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand are heading to Las Vegas....Read more »

Leeds Casino To Open

Editor / 11 January 2008 / 2 Comments

LEEDS. What happens in Leeds, stays in Leeds. This might be largely down to the fact that not everyone is interested in Leeds. In parts of Mayfair, you can go an entire week without hearing a Leeds accent....Read more »

Lottery Winners Details Grassed Up

Editor / 11 January 2008 / Leave a comment

TO a roundabout off an M4 slip road in Reading. A box lies on the tatty grass. Inside are the details of Prudential clients, including those of three lottery winners....Read more »

Scratchcard Winner Jailed

Editor / 11 January 2008 / Leave a comment

CAN having money being about a change in the rules? Leah Sumray won £1million on a scratchcard. Hurrah. And then things went wrong....Read more »

The Earls Court Exhibition Centre Casino Show

Editor / 10 January 2008 / Leave a comment

THERE will be no casino at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre. Says local resident Cathy Burnaby-Atkins in the London Evening Standard: "This is fantastic news. It is a real weight off my mind that it has finally been rejected once...Read more »

The Trailer Casino, Las Vegas

Editor / 10 January 2008 / Leave a comment

NOT all casinos in Las Vegas are non-lit flesh pits with sticky carpet. Not all of them are so fortunate....Read more »

Murder In Mind At The Casino

Editor / 09 January 2008 / Leave a comment

A KNOCK at the door at the Harrah's Rincon Casino and Resort, San Diego. A harder knock. Harder still. Then the SWAT team burst in....Read more »

Earn Money With Betfair

Editor / 09 January 2008 / Leave a comment

YOU can't pick your family - unless you're Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Dolly The Sheep or... Well, just take the point. But you can pick your gaming, sports and poker buddies. Betfair operates a referral schems where players can earn money...Read more »

Ladies And Gentlemen, The Entertaining Croupier

Editor / 08 January 2008 / Leave a comment

"THE gambler to be found regularly propping up the roulette table at 4am probably couldn't care less about the quality of the croupier's conversation." So says the Guardian. And it is wrong. At 4am, the lone punter may be hanging...Read more »

Dean Parrish Is On My Way To Wigan Casino

Editor / 08 January 2008 / Leave a comment

READING our copy of the Wigan Evening Post, the Casino Anorak learns of the "fascinating story of a Wigan Casino legend"....Read more »

Canada Votes On Casino

Editor / 08 January 2008 / Leave a comment

THE vexed question of casino sites takes the Casino Anorak to Canada. Residents of Brandon, a western Manitoba city, are expected to vote in March to decide whether they want a casino....Read more »

Canadian Univesity Creates A Virtual Vegas

Editor / 08 January 2008 / Leave a comment

RESEARCHERS at the University of Guelph have constructed a virtual Vegas." To the wastes of Ontario where researchers have created the sites, smells and feel of 17 Sin City casinos inside a giant sphere....Read more »

The Consumer Electronics Show Means Casino

Editor / 07 January 2008 / Leave a comment

LAS Vegas. Showgirls. Poker players, women with glasses tinted pink and mauve. Elvis. Bill Gates. And thousands of nerds....Read more »

German Ban On Online Gambling 'Unconstitutional'

Editor / 07 January 2008 / Leave a comment

CARSTEIN Frein, head of UK betting company MyLotto24.com, a subsidiary of German giant Tipp24, suggests Germany's ban on online gambling is unconstitutional under both German and European Union law....Read more »

National Lottery Gives More Spin Than Roulette

Editor / 07 January 2008 / Leave a comment

THE National press release suggests that you can increase your chances of winning. How? By buying more tickets? Perhaps. But also by living in Medway, the Ken locale that includes the towns Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham....Read more »

The Mullets Of The Casino Opera

Editor / 04 January 2008 / Leave a comment

IN readiness for the weekend, the Casino Anorak happens upon the Three Redkneck Tenors show at the Luxor. Las Vegas. Billy Bob, Billy Joe, and Billy Billee are the stars of the show. And they can sing....Read more »

Star Trek Slot Machines And Adaptive Gaming

Editor / 04 January 2008 / 1 Comments

THE world's leading gaming device manufacturers spend part of their time acquiring rights to existing brands. They will then turn these films, sports teams, celebrities and TV shows into games....Read more »

Brighton's i360 And Casino

Editor / 04 January 2008 / Leave a comment

BRIGHTON. London-on-Sea. With pebbles in your bikini. To this idyll we go and inside the pages of the Brighton Argus we are met with a question: "Do new developments bear scrutiny?"...Read more »

Betfair Wins Best Online Casino

Editor / 04 January 2008 / Leave a comment

IT is the awards season. And Betfair is dressed in a strappy cocktail dress with killer heels. Expectation is high. Online-gambling-insider.com is making ready to name the best poker sites on the internet. A hush....Read more »

Is That A Casino Cigar?

Editor / 04 January 2008 / Leave a comment

TO a Portuguese casino on the outskirts of Lisbon, where Antonio Nunes, president of the country's food standards agency, is smoking a cigar....Read more »

Priest Arrested In Casino Probe

Editor / 03 January 2008 / Leave a comment

FROM the US of A, news that one Father Joseph Sica has been arrested....Read more »

Casinos Safer Places Than Hospitals

Editor / 03 January 2008 / Leave a comment

TO the Daily News and news therein that: "If you have a heart attack, you've got a better chance of receiving quick lifesaving treatment in a casino than in a hospital, a new study says."...Read more »

When Is A Casino A Cigar Bar?

Editor / 03 January 2008 / Leave a comment

FROM the land that invited us to debate the meaning to "sexual relations", comes a definition of smoking. In Colorado's mountain casinos smoking is banned. In Colorado's mountain casinos, the players are smoking cigars....Read more »

Robbie Maddison Jumps Las Vegas (Video)

Editor / 02 January 2008 / Leave a comment

THE news Evel Knievel is Robbie Maddison, the daredevil has executed a 98-metre motorbike leap in Las Vegas....Read more »

Las Vegas Casino Billionaire Backs The Tories

Editor / 02 January 2008 / Leave a comment

"VEGAS casino billionaire bankrolls the Tories," announces the Times. "A Finnish billionaire who inherited a fortune from the arms trade and has extensive gambling interests in Las Vegas has emerged as one of David Cameron's major financial backers"...Read more »

Play Online Casino With Lowest House Edge

Editor / 02 January 2008 / Leave a comment

WHY do you play online casino? To win? Or for fun?...Read more »

Smoking Ban Makes Casinos Winners And Losers

Editor / 02 January 2008 / Leave a comment

THE smoking ban is doing for bingo what it might do for the penny and nickel slots players at Illinois' Casino Queen. On January 1, smoking was banned in this part of America. Illinois' indoor-smoking ban applies to its nine...Read more »