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Play Your Cards Right

Play Your Cards Right was a famous British game show starring the great Bruce Forsyth. The game show was first brought to our screens in the 1980s and was an idea based on the American game show called Card Sharks. The game is a souped up version of the classic hi-lo game. Contestants have to [...]

Monopoly on a Roll

We can all conjure up memories of our childhood and for many of us they will involve sitting around the table playing board games with the family. Maybe this is why software developers have created a series of online slots and casino games based on our childhood memories. Another hook to drag our drooling mouths [...]

Baccarat – The History of Baccarat

There is a tale that an Italian gambler named Felix Falguirein first invented the game of Baccarat and it was first played with a deck of Tarot cards. Baccarat means zero in both French and Italian and is believed to have its origins in Italy, but was introduced into France during the reign of Charles [...]

Some Logic Here: A Case for Taxing Online Gambling Sites, Rather than Prosecuting Them

I’d like to thank Chris Flood, an attorney, for his editorial that I saw online on the Houston Chronicle. Whether you agree or disagree with the actions taken by the US Federal government April 15, Flood puts it all into perspective. So I will excerpt some of what he said. And thank him for the [...]

Poll Results: Let’s Have Sports Betting in Atlantic City

Well, why not? I mean, why not have sports books in Atlantic City? Though a public vote is still seven months away and the National Football League is in a deep labor freeze, a new poll finds that 53 percent of New Jersey voters support allowing legal sports betting at Atlantic City’s casinos

Super Bowl Game is the U.S.’s Biggest Betting Day of the Year

To the uninitiated, to those who read this and live in Japan, Australia, India…America’s Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event we have every year. And the biggest gambling day ever. People here bet on everything. Who wins. Point spreads. Who scores first. Even who wins the coin toss to start the game. It’s absurd.

Whatta Day in the U.S.A.! New Jersey Lawmakers Pass Law to License and Regulate Online Poker (Gambling)

Just a few hours ago I wrote about what was going on in New Jersey. Well, it happened. So here we are … at a momentous time. Mark down January 10, 2011, as an historic day for online poker. And online gambling. New Jersey became the first state to pass legislation to license and regulate [...]

How’s That Huge Gambling Bill Going in Illinois? Stalled in the Illinois House at the Moment

Someone called me the other day to ask, Hey…how is the gambling bill that would expand gambling in Illinois to include casinos in Danville and four other cities (including Chicago)…how is it going? Well, it’s on hold. But the legislation, which was approved by the Illinois Senate last month, is not dead

Effort to Legalize Online Gambling Moves Forward in California

The push to legalize online gambling — in the form of online poker, online casino, etc. — is continuing in multiple states around the U.S. The latest news is out of Southern California, where some tribes with large casinos are pushing for government legislation that would legalize online gambling. To be fair, other tribes in [...]

World Traveler’s Alert: Gambling is Now Legal in Sri Lanka. [But Really, They Had Casinos Anyway.]

Gotta capture that foreign dollar. This is one of the most awesome countries in the world, Sri Lanka. And anyone who has been there would agree with that. Well, now you can gamble there. Legally. Sri Lanka’s parliament passed a law Wednesday to legalize gambling, despite strong criticism from opposition lawmakers who charged it would [...]

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