Casino

North America is forging the way when it comes to online gaming, that’s for sure. And now the brainiacs at the University of Guelph in south-western Ontario are thought to have built a ’virtual casino.’ All in the name of researching what goes on in the mind of the seasoned gambler.

A 360-degree image of Las Vegas is projected inside a huge sphere in which subjects are placed - the aim being to feel internalised within a gambling hub. Loaded up with all the sights and sounds of the actual casinos which exist within Las Vegas, the participants experience the trance-like state that is so common when gamblers enter a casino.

Professor of Marketing and Consumer Studies at Guelph, Karen Finlay, …

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The concept of taking casinos off shore is by no means a novel one, so the fact that a new floating casino is to open in the summer won’t come as a shock.

The Horseshoe Casino Hammond with its 108,000 square feet gambling floor will float on the shores of Lake Michigan. It will also house a theatre and a restaurant. The difference with this mega-structure is that it will be the world’s biggest floating casino and will live a stone’s throw away from the second largest, Blue Chip 2.

The development will incorporate the Hammond Yacht Club and will take around $485 million (£245 million) to complete. That is of course unless it freezes into the lake like it did last …

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Conservative leader David Cameron has been rather vocal about his opposition to Britain’s first super-casino so it might come as a shock to know that he’s the first in line for a cash handout from Finnish casino tycoon Poju Zabludowicz.

Listed 24th in The Times Rich List Zabludowicz, is said to be worth around four billion dollars. But now he is one of the Conservative Party’s financial backers, and his company The Tamares Group, which owns The Plaza Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is reported to have donated approximately £70,000 to David Cameron’s leadership campaigns for the last three consecutive years.

A Conservative Party spokesperson said, “There is no secret about the fact that he is a ‘nondomicile’ but he …

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Soon land based casinos will display a smaller generation gap between punters. In view of acquiring the youth vote, younger gamblers will be enticed with slot machines that come complete with joysticks and video games.

Gary Rivalin of the "New York Times" wrote that, "Joysticks are just around the corner, slot makers say, and over the next several years, industry specialists expect casinos to start investing in network systems that allow for games that mix gambling with the head-to-head competition popular in online computer games like World of Warcraft and Halo."

Skill-based elements are being added to many of the slot machines in Vegas that will allow players to use hand-eye coordination in certain bonus rounds to try and up their winnings.

This …

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Let’s get to the nitty-gritty. We all want to know who’s winning what. Take a look at the casino winners.

Rocky S. of AL is a very happy chap. He made £6,245 playing blackjack.

David S. found Aztecs Treasure and made £5,314 on the online slot.

Alfred B. is in the Realm of Riches, he made £4,049.

David S. is really coining it in with a sweet £3,479 and £2,770 on the slot machines.

Todd M. is chillin’ in Red Sands. He having made £2,435.

Min C. is loving the Sevens and Stripes, she made £2,246 off the slot.

But seriously you know how it goes and if you want to grab yourself some nice readies then you know where to go! …

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Well although it’s not strictly online gaming but we still like to keep abreast of the land based casinos and nothing excites us more than celebrity involvement.

Actor Kevin Costner has been allowed to keep his casino Midnight Star in Deadwood, South Dakota. The state judge had issued an order appointing a trustee to liquidate the casino along with its sports bar and restaurant.

Judge Warren G Johnson had already ruled that Mr Costner could have pay close to £78,500 ($153,649) to his former partners Francis and Carla Caneva at the casino in order to become the sole owner of the Midnight Star.

The previous managers who had a 6.5% stake in the business were sacked by the ‘Robin Hood’ star in 2004. …

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What is the world coming to when the female form is slammed so drastically?! Let us introduce to you Helen Simpson, 33, who was put on the rack at a local casino for her extreme cleavage. The main offenders, the casino (and not her breasts) was a venue in Christchurch, New Zealand where Simpson was on holiday.

What started as a night of drinking and fun in September soon escalated into a humiliating and embarrassing experience which meant a female member of the casino staff asked the large breasted one to cover up.

Simpson added: "I was highly embarrassed – humiliated, absolutely humiliated. I feel like I’ve been discriminated against for having big breasts."

After letter of complaint to the casino followed in …

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Let ‘em Ride keeps proving that it’s the easiest ride of them all. (Image courtesy Columbia Pictures)

Recently Dean S.  hit a huge jackpot of $300,000 in the Bodog Casino while playing Let ‘em Ride in the Bodog online casino.

Bodog Beat had a chance to speak to Dean and ask him a few questions about his huge win.

Bodog Beat: How long have you been playing on Bodog?

Dean S: Not long. A month and a half, maybe two months.

BB: You won your big jackpot playing Let ‘em Ride. Do you play that game often or do you mix it up?

DS: Well, my father is Peruvian, and in Peru when you play poker, it’s just essentially Let ‘em …

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