Gambling News
Trump Daughter Talks Online Gambling With Bloomberg: Initiative is Complicated
This week it was announced that Ultimate Gaming would begin offering real money online gambling to New Jersey residents through a partnership with the Trump Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal retains online gambling rights to the Trump name but the Donald himself may want to jump directly into the US-legalized Web gambling fray.
2013 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Betting Odds Online
It’s that time of year and the 2013 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest betting odds are now available online at BetOnline here.
Duhamel, Hachem, Benyamine Still Going Strong at Players Championship
26 players remained in this year’s World Series of Poker Players Championship coming into Day 4. The event will pay out close to $2 million to the winner and more than a million dollars to runner up. The winner will also receive the coveted Chip Reese Trophy.
Don Nguyen led with chips coming into Wednesday while Mike Gorodinsky sat with the second largest stack.
Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Vancouver to Open Later This Year
(Las Vegas) - Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas is pleased to welcome Hard Rock Casino Vancouver to the Hard Rock Hotel and Hard Rock Casino (HRHH) family and looks forward to the unveiling later this year.
Reputable for its unrivaled offerings influenced by the love of music, the announcement of the Canadian property follows shortly after the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino was selected to be the brand new casino offered in Sioux City, set to open summer 2014.
Chinese Online Gambling Ring Taken Down, Bulger’s Machine Gun Imitation
Shanghai police took down a massive online gambling ring that brought in more than US$29.3 million, police confirmed Tuesday.
92 people were arrested in the Pudong New Area for their alleged role in the operation. 27 laptops were also confiscated.
Since March, three people, surnamed Tang, Zhang and Ding, were agents for a foreign gambling website, police said.
Doyle Brunson Busts Out of 2013 Poker Players Championship
It was a good run while it lasted by the Texas Dolly, Doyle Brunson, busted out of this year’s WSOP Poker Players Championship in 53rd place.
Both David Benyamine and 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event winner Jonathan Duhamel, continued to sit among the top 5 chip leaders heading into the overnight hours Tuesday.
Carbon Poker Looking Closely at Bitcoin
A rep for Carbon Poker, the flagship Internet poker room on the Merge Gaming Network, has confirmed that the company is looking very closely at offering the anonymous digital currency Bitcoin as a payment option.
Casino Heist at the Borgata: $200k in Rolexes Taken
The Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City was the target of a brazen “smash and grab” robbery Monday night.
Thieves got off with $200,000 in Rolex watches from a store within the casino. Three men were seen on surveillance video taking part in the crime. All are said to be African American men.
Borgata security called Atlantic City police around 8:45 last night.
Doyle Brunson Makes it to Day 3 of 2013 Poker Players Championship
The Texas Dolly, Doyle Brunson, is back and better than ever! He is one of 78 people to advance in the Poker Players Championship (2013), not to mention he was right up in the top 40.
Son Todd Brunson also made it to Day 3.
David Benyamine and Jonathan Duhamel enter the day as the top two chip leaders, respectively. Duhamel was the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event winner.
Bitcoin IPO Planned as Winklevoss Twins Plan to Sell at $20 Million Shares
(Reuters) - The Winklevoss twins, who famously alleged that Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their website idea, have revealed plans for an IPO that will give investors exposure to the value of digital currency Bitcoins.
Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, which is designed to operate like an exchange-traded fund, will initially sell $20 million worth of shares, with each share worth a fraction of a Bitcoin, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed on Monday.
Mark Pincus Steps Down as CEO of Zynga
NEW YORK (Associated Press) -- He's not heading out to pasture, but the CEO of "FarmVille" maker Zynga Inc. is stepping aside as the troubled online game company looks to revive itself and lift its stalled stock price.
Mark Pincus will be replaced on Monday, July 8, by Don Mattrick, who was most recently head of Microsoft's Xbox division. Zynga said Monday that Pincus, who founded Zynga Inc. and named it after his American bulldog in 2007, will stay on as chairman and chief product officer.
All Atlantic City Casinos Applied for Online Gambling Licenses by Deadline
The Newark Star Ledger on Monday reported that all Atlantic City-based casinos have made the deadline to apply for an online gambling license. That deadline came and went on Monday.
Bookies in the Waco, Temple, Bryan Area – Betting on the Aggies, Longhorns
Bookies are just crawling all over the Waco, Temple, Bryan area, and with good reason. This is College Football Heaven with the Aggies and Longhorns. Betting on both teams hits fever pitch by September with this particular region seeing a peak 100 on the search index for “College Football”.
Texas, like in most US states, bookmaking is illegal. It is a Class A misdemeanor and punishable by either fines or some jail time or a combination of both.
FBI Corruption Takes Center Stage at Whitey Bulger Trial
The Hartford Courant editorial staff has an interesting piece on its site Monday evening analyzing the relationship between Mobster James “Whitey” Bulger and the FBI and the sometimes blurry line between them.
There is no defending Bulger in the piece.
Man Steals $220k From Kindergarten to Support Gambling Habit
Periclis Telios, 41, of Bentleigh, Australia, has been charged with the unthinkable…
Stealing from a kindergarten.
PayNoRake Begins Making Payouts After Ten Month Wait
Following a settlement agreement first reported on Gambling911.com last week, Chico Poker Network’s PayNoRake began making payouts to players who have been waiting in excess of ten months.
Sheldon Adelson Puts Pressure on Spain to Restrict Online Gambling
Sheldon Adelson has demanded that online gambling be restricted in Spain as part of a deal to build Europe’s largest casino in Madrid.
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Macau Gambling Revenues Up Despite China Woes
(Reuters) - Gambling revenue in Macau rose 21.1 percent in June year-on-year, buoyed by a steady flow of wealthy mainland gamblers eager to place their bets in the Chinese controlled casino hub.
June revenue stood at 28.3 billion patacas ($3.54 billion), according to government data released on Monday. Analysts had forecast June growth in the world's biggest gambling market, to be up 18-21 percent.
Man Convicted for Killing Parents Over Gambling Debts, Tried to Frame Twin
JERUSALEM, July 1 (Reuters) - An Israeli who stabbed his mother and father to death was convicted of murder on Monday partly because he searched online for tips including "how to kill your parents and get away with it".
GOP Bigwigs Adelson, Trump Won’t See Eye to Eye on Internet Gambling
With news breaking Monday morning that Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal will soon unveil its own real money online gambling site, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson can’t be too happy.
Ultimate Poker to Enter NJ Online Gambling Market Through Trump Taj Mahal Deal
(Las Vegas) - Ultimate Gaming, America’s first regulated online gaming operator, announced today that it has signed an online gaming operations agreement with Trump Taj Mahal Associates LLC. Under the terms of the agreement, Ultimate Gaming will supply a wide range of real money online casino games and poker, using its proprietary technology platform and the Ultimate Brands.
I Want to be a Bookie in the Houston Area
Houston, and Dallas in particular, have many bookies serving the local sports betting public. Like with all cities and towns in the US, Pay Per Head software plays an integral role in the success of a bookmaking business. The big focus is on Texas College Football betting. Gambling911.com will feature odds on each of these teams and the two NFL franchises based in Texas thoughout the College Football season.
Borgata Still Dominates in Atlantic City Despite Financial Woes
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey — (Reuters) - Ten years after it brought a hefty dose of Las Vegas glitz, glamour and luxury to Atlantic City, the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa still dominates the market: One of every five dollars gamblers lose in Atlantic City goes into the Borgata's coffers.
Its challenge over the next 10 years is to maintain that leadership position in the 12-casino market as ever-increasing competition in nearby states and the approach of Internet gambling have the potential to reshuffle things.
Adelson Gets the Finger for Bashing Online Gambling in US, Boatman WSOP Win
These are the top gambling news stories here at Gambling911.com Sunday June 30, 2013. Follow us on Twitter here.
Paddy Power Now Offering NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Betting Odds
The Irish online bookmaker Paddy Power has odds on where NSA leaker Edward Snowden will ultimately flee too.
Gaming Addiction Now Classified as a Mental Disorder: Children More Prone
If you like gaming the way we at Gambling911.com like it, chances are you have a mental disorder.
The latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has identified gaming addiction as a disorder. Doctors contend that withdrawal symptoms when one stops playing games can lead to crankiness, agitation and crying.
Anthony Gregg Wins 2013 One Drop High Roller, Antonio Esfandiari Makes $1.4m
Anthony Gregg, also known as “Tony”, is the big $4.8 million winner of the 2013 One Drop High Roller event, which featured a $111,111 buy-in. This is Gregg’s first WSOP bracelet.
The 26-year-old from Columbia, Maryland was the winner of last August' Parx Open Poker Classic WPT Event, taking home $416,127. He also finished 2nd at the PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo event last month.
In just a very short period of time Gregg has become one of the top money earners in poker with $8,732,557 in winnings to date on the live circuit.
Breaking: Antonio Esfandiari Takes Home Another Cool Million Dollars Plus at WSOP
Winner of last year’s One Drop $1 million buy-in, Antonio Esfandiari, had already taken in close to $2 million more in the first ever One Drop High Roller event heading into Saturday morning.
As of 6 am EDT, Esfandiari was sitting with the 4th largest number of chips out of four.
He was guaranteed to take home just shy of $2 million with the grand prize set at just under $5 million.
Lock Poker Payout Updates, Venetian Boycott Gaining Ground
These are the top gambling news stories here at Gambling911.com Friday June 28, 2013 (Afternoon EDT). Be sure to LIKE US on Facebook and have G911 as part of your news feed. Comments always welcome.
*Large Number of Lock Poker Payouts Received Friday – Gambling911.com can report that a large number of cash transfer payouts were received by customers of Lock Poker on Friday.
Antonio Esfandiari Still Going Strong at One Drop High Roller
You almost want to say “Hey, Antonio, let someone else win!”
Then again, a piece of us wants to see it happen again, and again, and again.
Antonio Esfandiari won last year’s big inaugural $1 million Big One for One Drop Event and the $18, 346,673 that came with it.
By Friday evening, with just 14 players left in the One Drop High Roller event, Esfandiari was still very much in the thick of things.
Any place 5th or higher pays at least $1 million with 1st place paying $4.8 million.
