Casino revenues in November continued to slide for Atlantic City casinos, down 6% to continue a slump that goes back over 3 years for the 11 casinos in Atlantic City. Total revenue for November came in at $245 million, off 6% from what was taken in a year ago in November 2010. Only four of the 11 casinos reported a monthly increase versus last year, with Trump Plaza the biggest loser, off 32% as compared to 2010. Slot machine revenue (which is typically responsible for the bulk of revenues and profits for brick-and-mortar and online casinos alike) was down about [ Read More ]
2010 WSOP Main event champion Jonathan Duhamel was the victim of a recent robbery and home invasion near Montreal, with his WSOP bracelet stolen and injuries incurred that sent him briefly to the hospital. Two men forced their way into Duhamel’s home last week and tied him up and ransacked his house, roughing him up with blows to the face and head before making off with the gold bracelet given to all WSOP winners and an undisclosed amount of cash. Duhamel received only minor injuries and was quickly released from the hospital. Duhamel won $8.9 million for his win the [ Read More ]
Caesars Palace is set to open its new Octavius Tower extension in early January, which will add 668 new rooms to the popular Las Vegas hotel and casino. Caesars remains one of the top US casinos, and one of the few located on the Las Vegas Strip that has expanded in recent years. Casinos in Las Vegas continue to struggle with the oversupply of hotel rooms and gambling venues that opened or expanded during the last boom in the mid 2000s before the global recession struck the US and other countries around the world. While some mega casino projects managed [ Read More ]
Rumors continue to swirl that Facebook is in advanced talks with several potential partners about a deal to start offering real money poker games to Facebook users in the UK. Millions of Facebook users play casino and poker games on the site every week but the games are for play money online, without any real money gambled or at stake. That coud change in the very near future, with Facebook reportedly in talks with 888 and other potential partners to offer real money poker games to users in the UK. Any real money games from Facebook would be offered on [ Read More ]
Macau eclipsed the Las Vegas Strip back in 2006 as far as total gambling dollars taken in each year, with Singapore poised by the end of 2011 to surpass the 2010 haul of $5.8 billion the Strip took in. US casinos in Vegas might still the textbook definition of “casino” that most conjure up in their heads — huge mega resorts awash in neon and noisy slots — but more and more the shift of gambling power in the world is heading east to Macau and Singapore. Macau has experienced recod growth in 2011 and is projected for more of [ Read More ]
Blackjack is one of the most popular casino games. In fact, it ranks behind only slots in popularity. It is a game that can be profitable, but it also has a learning curve, though it is not as steep as with poker, craps and some other games. With that in mind, here are some tips for playing blackjack online. The most important tip is to study basic strategy and know the right decisions to make. If you don’t know, don’t just guess. If you play online, there is no time limit, since you are playing against a computer program. If [ Read More ]
A Texas-based website owner is fighting a MGM lawsuit that claims his excaliburpoker.com website infringes on copyrights and trademarks owned by MGM. MGM Resorts filed the lawsuit in early December against four individuals and two companies it says have been infringing on its trademarks, asking the court to turn the names over to MGM Resorts. The contested domains all used the word “poker” and the names of MGM Resorts’ US casinos such as Aria, Bellagio, Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay Bay and MGM. The timing of the lawsuit has led some to posit that MGM may soon enter the realm of online [ Read More ]
online casino players at Europa Casino get to enjoy an early Christmas with a new promotion that awards cash bonuses each day in December all the way up to January 1. Europa Casino is offering daily casino bonuses that players can claim by making a deposit and collecting up to €25 free every single day beginning December 1. Simply visit the dedicated promotion page on the Europa site and click a different Christmas present under the tree each day. Each time you select a present a different bonus code will be revealed to you, with each code giving players a special [ Read More ]
The Genting Group’s planned $4 billion casino project in Miami — which is designed to be the world’s largest casino — is already running into opposition that could see it shrink in order to gain necessary approvals. Genting announced its planned project six months ago, which would include a 5,200 room resort hotel as well as 800,000 square feet of casino space — more than four times larger than anything in Las Vegas. Miami is looking to add up to three resort style casinos in the area, which are projected to produce as much as $6 billion in gambling revenues each [ Read More ]
Phil Ivey has been missing from the tournament poker scene since early summer but ended his self-imposed hiatus at the recent Asia Pacific Poker Tour event held in Macau. Ivey made waves back in May when he announced that he was boycotting the 2011 World Series of Poker entirely over displeasure at the way that online poker site Full Tilt Poker (formerly a sponsor of Ivey) was handling its indictment and seizure of bank accounts by the US Department of Justice. Ivey filed a civil suit against Full Tilt alleging that its actions were harming his future earning potential but [ Read More ]
