The property inaugurated last week by Harrah’s Entertainment at Council Bluffs, Iowa, has been categorized as the biggest Casino in the state, and offers a wide range of games of chance foe the Midwest area.
The inauguration party was an “invitation only” event and was hosted by the NASCAR host, Robby Gordon, who entered the party on his specially designed motorbike. The bike has roulette wheels instead of regular tires.
The Jew Community Center of Indianapolis, Indiana, has organized its sixth yearly “Casino Night & Silent Auction”.
There were Vegas style casino games such as Roulette, Blackjack and Poker.
The night was organized to collect money for the local synagogue, so it can build new buildings and carry out maintenance procedures.
Neil Roberts has 27 years old and was an English tourist in Las Vegas, committed suicide last week. He jumped from the roof of the “Stratosphere Tower”.
Short before jumping, he wrote an e-mail to his mother -back in England- telling her that he had won $1100 at the Roulette. He also told her that the weather was exquisite and that he had visited the Great Canon. Roberts said to his mother that he was planning to continue betting at the Roulette to cover for the trip expenses.
Since it first opened in 1997, the Blue Chip Casino & Hotel in Michigan City, Ind., has always occupied a position in Chicago's "gaming outer limits": close enough to be included among the nine casino destinations that comprise the market yet far enough away to make gamblers think twice before making the trip.
Fact is, once you reach the Chicago Skyway Toll Plaza, the Blue Chip is just 45 minutes away.
The Borgata Winter Poker Open saw 381 poker players fork up $10,000 to participate in the No-Limit Texas Hold 'em main event. The World Poker Tour (WPT) event in Atlantic City drew some of poker's biggest names, such as Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, Eric Seidel, David Williams, and Daniel Negreanu. After four days of play, however, there was only one player left standing, one of poker's hottest new faces, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi.
Sean Connery? Nope. Barry Nelson.
The American guy-next- door actor played "Jimmy" Bond opposite bad guy Peter Lorre in an excruciating adaptation of "Casino Royale" for a 1954 episode of TV's "Climax!"
You can find it as a DVD extra on MGM's edition of the 1967 "Casino Royale" spoof, but you've been warned.
If the latest rumours are to be believed, 007's producers are casting a Hollywood heavyweight as the next Bond girl. After feisty Halle Berry proved popular in the last Bond film, another Oscar winner is being lined up to add class to the franchise.
Charlize Theron - who won her Academy Award playing a lesbian serial killer in Monster - is set to star alongside new Bond Daniel Craig.
Gaming Partners International Corp. on Tuesday said it has secured a major contract with Galaxy Resorts to supply more than 600,000 RFID gaming chips to the new Rio and Grand Waldo casinos scheduled to open in Macau, China early next year.
Casinos increasingly are turning toward radio frequency identification technology to protect against patrons trying to cash in counterfeit gaming chips and to stop cheaters at blackjack, poker and other card tables.
As they lounged poolside reading under a 50-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Hotel & Casino here, the last thing Alice and Jerry Long wanted to do was gamble.
"You need to relax when you're eating and when you're at the pool," said Alice Long, 56, of Hickory, N.C. Her husband, Jerry, 60, was absorbed in a book. "Gambling is not relaxing," he said.
The start of slot machine gambling in Maine drew a crowd Friday with thousands of people betting pennies, quarters and dollars at the opening day of Hollywood Slots. Slot devotees and local residents curious about the new attraction formed a line around the Main Street building before the doors opened at 10 a.m. Once inside, people pulled slot handles, pushed flashing buttons or just checked out the parlor and its new form of gambling for the state.
"I want to go find the 2-cent machines," said Andrea Dickinson, dice earrings dangling from her ears.
