For a lot of neophyte gamblers, the only reason to hit the casino is for the free drinks you get at the table. While this is a nice perk, you may want to keep your drinking to a relative minimum - not only will you stay sharper, you'll also keep out of trouble.
Having a drink at the casino while playing poker isn't anything to write home about. Over New Year's Eve, it wouldn't even be unusual to have quite a few drinks as part of the night's festivities. But one man at the Star City Casino in Sydney, Australia may have gone a bit far by having an incredible 42 drinks served to him at the poker table over a 17-hour period, resulting in severe consequences for several casino employees.
Sounds like this year's World Poker Tour World Poker Finals, which happened Tuesday, had a nice little bit of drama going on - sorry we missed it. Not only was there a record number of draw-outs (over 200), young up-and-coming Jeff Forrest took the whole shebang for over half a million bucks. This also kicked up some dust over the Card Player of the Year race - check out the full story at CardPlayer.com.
When it was all said and done a young poker talent stood atop the field of 242 players as a WPT champion that won a title in his very first WPT event. Jeff Forrest, a 22-year-old rising poker talent beat Dave Inselberg heads up after the two outlasted an impressive final-table lineup that included Keven Stammen, Mohsin Charania, Nikolai Yakovenko, and Thomas Marchese.
Can you imagine being in a casino, ready to hit a hot streak on a slot machine or video poker game, and suddenly having the power go out? Gamblers at the Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas faced that very problem last week when the power went down and stayed down for two hours.
My first thought that someone must've done it on purpose to go all Ocean's 11 on the place, and then I remembered - the Golden Nugget probably doesn't have all that much anyone wants to steal.
...it happened this afternoon at Golden Nugget, where the power went out for almost two hours because of an underground cable being severed. Oddly enough, it only affected Golden Nugget and not any other business on Fremont St.
During the outage, all gambling ceased and was shut down, while most people were told to leave the casino.
Randy Couture Charity Poker Tournament: October 30
Mixed martial artist Randy Couture will be holding "Operation All In," a charity poker tournament to benefit American GIs, on October 30 at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas. Sounds like a great event for a great cause (helping wounded soldiers get back on their feet, so to speak), and you can expect to see some celebrities there too.
The winner of the "Operation All In" charity poker tournament will take home $10,000 in cash and top finishers will win valuable sponsored product prizes.
The buy-in for "Operation All In" is $225 with $100 multi re-buys. Tournament participants will also receive free entry to the first annual Randy Couture Halloween bash starting at 8 p.m. inside Gold Diggers nightclub overlooking the Fremont Street Experience. For those not wishing to participate in the poker tournament, general admission tickets to the Halloween bash will be available for $25 at the door.
Check the press release for more information and a list of celebrities.
Lion Mauls Trainer at MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas - Trainer Lives
Looks like the guy made it, but wow! Dramatic footage of a Lion attack was caught on video tape by a couple honey-mooning in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas, NV. The big cat at The Lion Habitat at MGM Grand, mauls the trainer in what appears as if it was unprovoked.
The trainer only sustained minor injuries and required stitches in his leg. The footage was first shown by Today, but is now on YouTube.
Just not sure at this point if we're going to see a casino bill pass this July in Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick said Thursday that legislators should approve a casino bill that he can support or one that can withstand a veto, but he emphasized he wasn't threatening a veto. How about trying to get this thing done and get some jobs for Mass citizens?
"As they work through their differences, they also know they're going to have to either get something to me that I can support or they're going to have to send something to me with a veto-proof margin," the governor said.
"Now, we're not at the point of threatening a veto because they're not at the point of agreement," he added.
Well - almost in secret. It seems to get the final bill done, they've locked out the naysayers and are wrapping stuff up behind closed doors.
A legislative conference committee was working behind closed doors last night to make a deal that would allow casino gambling in Massachusetts.
One member of the conference committee, Senate President Pro Tempore Stanley Rosenberg, D-Amherst, said keeping the talks private would be the best way to produce a compromise.
That's right folks - things are still down in Vegas. COME ON PEOPLE - Gamble! Hehehe. Regulators say monthly casino winnings in Nevada decreased 5.7% in April, to a little more than $810 million, compared with the same month a year ago.The state Gaming Control Board reported Wednesday that state tax collections based on those winnings was just under $40 million, or 23.4% less than last year.
Poor People Spend 9 Percent Of Income On Lottery Tickets and Keno
Is this really a surprising number? When you have so little, you gamble a bit to think about getting rich, and well it leads to poor tracking of how much you spend right? Right.
The study neatly illuminates the sad positive feedback loop of lotteries. The games naturally appeal to poor people, which causes them to spend disproportionate amounts of their income on lotteries, which helps keep them poor, which keeps them buying tickets.
Hard Rock Considers Boutique Style Atlantic City Casino
With New Jersey saying it will downsize the requirements from 60,000 square feet for a casino to 20,000 feet and also the number of hotel rooms a casiono needs to have, Hard Rock International said it's considering building a casino hotel in Atlantic City with Och- Ziff Real Estate after a New Jersey lawmaker proposed allowing smaller developments at the seaside resort.
The first phase of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino would cost about $300 million, excluding land, and be located at the beachfront at the intersection of Albany Avenue and the Boardwalk, the company said today in a statement.
The City Beneath Las Vegas - Life in the Las Vegas Tunnels
We've covered this before, but Austin Hargrave has captured a ton of really amazing pictures of this dark and screwed up world. You'd think with all the money this wouldn't happen in Las Vegas - a city with enough temptations to make even one week in it tiring for mind, body, and soul. Despite that exhausting nature though, some crave to be there—even if forced to live underneath it all.
Online Gambling Under Renewed Scrutiny - Go Figure
Like this is a big surprise according to Information Week Congress has begun to grapple with the thorny issue of online gambling and Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has indicated he'll push new legislation that will legalize some forms of online gambling while regulating the practices at the same time.
At Frank's House Financial Services Committee hearing Thursday, supporters and opponents of Internet gaming alternately advocated for and condemned online gambling, which is said to add up to $16 billion a year with most of that figure coming from U.S. bettors.
Prof's Las Vegas News Blog - Las Vegas Gets Posted There
We thought we'd tip our hat to the Las Vegas Blog. We get their updates via email and the web each week - and they're awesome. Yep - if you want daily Vegas news - the Las Vegas Blog is for you. Recent stories include:
Garth Brooks out of retirement, in Las Vegas
Las Vegas Halloween Photos 2009 Hi-Rez Free
Cobra, Mustang auctioned in Las Vegas for over $300,000
Palazzo/Venetian takes flight with Southwest Airlines
Nightline just did a segment on the underground tunnels in Las Vegas that are home to thousands of homeless people. The segment is both amazing and horrifying. In a city with so much money - why are the homeless options to live underground in filth?
Millions of tourists walk up and down the Las Vegas strip every year, looking to have fun and make some money. But beneath the flashing lights, there is a much darker side of Las Vegas.
Underneath Sin City's most famous casinos is a secret world: a labyrinth of tunnels that run for miles under the Las Vegas Valley. Built to protect the desert city from flash floods, the tunnels have become home to hundreds of Las Vegas' homeless.
Nightline visited the underground world beneath the Las Vegas strip, with Matthew O'Brien, author of "Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas," as our guide.
Poker Player Downs 42 Drinks in 17 Hours
Sounds like this year's World Poker Tour World Poker Finals, which happened Tuesday, had a nice little bit of drama going on - sorry we missed it. Not only was there a record number of draw-outs (over 200), young up-and-coming Jeff Forrest took the whole shebang for over half a million bucks. This also kicked up some dust over the Card Player of the Year race - check out the full story at 
Can you imagine being in a casino, ready to hit a hot streak on a slot machine or video poker game, and suddenly having the power go out? Gamblers at the Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas faced that very problem last week when the power went down and stayed down for two hours.
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