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Pacquiao To Get His Own Macau Slot Machine
Manny Pacquiao has been successful in boxing, politics, and as an entertainer. He has a huge following worldwide, especially in the Philippines and throughout Asia. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Pacquiao will soon be the subject of his own slot machine,...
Macau Hackers Apprehended After High-Stakes Theft
A high-stakes Macau gambler is none too happy, after a local casino’s cyber VIP room accounts were hacked, with 3 million Hong Kong dollars ($387,000 U.S.) of his online funds being pilfered by the perpetrators. Macau Judicial Police have now arrested two...
Max “altiFC” Altergott Takes Down Super High Roller Event in Monaco
22-year-old online player Max "altiFC" Altergott thrilled audiences with his talent for high-stakes poker recently by winning the €100,000 Buy-in Super High Roller event at the PokerStars and Monte Carlo Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final. First Time Live Hard to believe...
Australian Gambling Industry Calls for Live Betting Odds Ban
It’s not often that a gambling operator will come out against promoting their own services. But that’s exactly what’s happening right now in Australia, where gambling industry officials are looking to bow to public pressure and remove live betting odds from being...
Atlantic City’s Revel Moves Forward Post-Bankrupcty
If you were going to plan the worst year possible for a brand new casino, it would probably look something like what has happened to the Revel Casino in the past 12 months. The Atlantic City casino opened in April 2012, and...
Powerball Jackpot Winner Could Be the Girl – or Boy- Next Door
For some reason, lottery and jackpot winners are never from, say, Beverly Hills, or Manhattan. Nope, they're always from some hokey little town that no one outside of its environs has ever heard of. So no one should have been surprised when...
Toronto Casino Plan Nixed by City Council
Canada’s biggest city won’t be getting a new casino any time soon. The Toronto City Council has voted against a plan to build a new casino in the city, dashing the hopes of many major U.S. casino operators who were hoping to...
WSOP Europe Schedule to Include New High Roller Event
The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) began as a sideshow to the main WSOP in Las Vegas, but has grown over the years to become a big event in its own right. Today, WSOP officials announced the latest addition of the...
You Can Always Go Downtown Las Vegas
An old Petula Clark song from the 1960s extolled the virtues of going downtown, where you could "just listen to the music of the traffic in the city/Linger on the sidewalk, where the neon signs are pretty." She probably wasn't singing about...
Judge Rules Against PokerStars in Atlantic Club Dispute
We’ve all taken bad beats at the poker table – but few will ever be nearly as big as the one suffered by PokerStars recently. PokerStars’ parent company, the Rational Group, is out $11 million after a deal gone bad with the...