The former owner of the Ocean Resort Casino, that being Bruce Deifik, has sadly been killed in a car crash at the age of sixty-four, whilst driving home from watching a baseball game in Denver. Deifik who is best known as a property developer had purchased the defunct Revel Casino and spent a fortune revamping the shuttered casino and bringing…
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Spendthrift Bingo Player Worried About Benefit Payments
It is something that all bingo players dream of, that is visiting their local bingo club and winning a huge and supposedly life changing jackpot. That is something that Jean Jones was lucky enough to experience recently, and it was at her local bingo club, that being the Castle Bingo Club in Barnes Hill in the Midlands UK, that she…
Read MoreMicrogaming Adds Switch Studios Roulette to Their Platforms
In what does appear an attempt to lure one-time FOBT players to play at casino sites that utilize their gaming platforms, Microgaming has just announced that they are now adding a range of brand new and great looking table games to their gaming platforms. Unlike the rather lacklustre table games Microgaming have previously launched that were designed by their inhouse…
Read MorePunters Left Feeling Short-Changed after the Grand National
Tiger Roll achieved an amazing fete yesterday, that being winning the Grand National two years on the trot, and many bookies have been left to lick their wounds, for that horse was the 4/1 favourite to win that race and many punters had placed a bet on it. The Grand National is the one race in the UK that attracts…
Read MoreWalk In The Mill Grand National Odds: Can He Win?
Saturdays upcoming Aintree Grand National is set to be the 172nd race since it began back in 1839. This year the race is 4.25 miles and comprises of 30 fences which is shorter than normal. However, this does not make it any less exciting and here we focus on Walk In The Mill who we believe has a good shot…
Read MoreHigher Casino Entry Fees are Not Deterring Singapore Gamblers
In a rather bizarre, and it would certainly appear a not very successful attempt to deter what the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Social and Family Development in Singapore call impulsive and casual gambling, citizens of that island city-state must pay to enter casinos based there. Not only are locally born and bred citizens required to pay…
Read MoreTaxman Seizes Poker Players Tournament Winnings
Two things are of course guaranteed in life, and they are death and taxes, and when you owe the taxman any amount of cash you can bet your bottom dollar, they will chase you for those debts for ever and eternity! Well, that is something that one quite successful poker player has just found out to his cost, for having…
Read MoreUK Bookies Launch New Products to Combat FOBT Stake Reductions
It was always going to be the case that all UK bookmakers would launch a range of new betting products as a way of reducing the impact regarding the new maximum stake limit imposed on them by the UK Gambling Commission in relation to their FOBT’s. However, several bookmakers have been told they face some stiff penalties for launching some…
Read MoreContract Finally Awarded for City of Dreams Casino Resort in Cyprus
Yesterday, the contact for the construction of the new City of Dreams Mediterranean Casino Resort in Cyprus was finally awarded by the ICR (Integrated Casino Resort Cyprus), with Avax Terna JV a Greek based conglomerate having been chosen to construct the property. It will be all hands on deck so to speak moving forward, for the property is expected to…
Read More$43m High Roller Debt Chased by the Broadbeach Casino
When Dr Yew Choy Wong accepted an invitation from the Broadbeach Casino to stay at their casino resort, the men in charge of its parent company, that being the Star Entertainment Group must have had a smile on their face. For Wong is a renowned very high stakes gambler, and as such for any casino to have him stay at…
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