Posts Tagged ‘Business’

Housie

Posted by Nicolae on October 3rd, 2008 under Bingo, Housie, games
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Housie is a gambling game played in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, where it is called Bingo. Players mark off numbers on a ticket as they are randomly called out, in order to achieve a winning combination.It is not to be confused with the similar American game Bingo, as the tickets [...]

Top Gambling News, August 16th, 2008

Posted by Nicolae on August 16th, 2008 under Blogs, Gambling Media, Gambling industry, Top Gambling News
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Americans Spending, Gambling, Saving
Medical News Today (press release), UK
The studies cover the buying habits and emotional well-being of spenders, the demographics of gamblers and who is at risk for trouble, the strategies people …
Rescue gambling deal by working with both pari-mutuels and Seminoles
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL
We could do nothing, and eventually the federal [...]

Bingo in US

Posted by Nicolae on June 23rd, 2008 under Bingo, Bingo Guide
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Bingo is a game of chance where randomly-selected numbers are drawn and players match those numbers to those appearing on 5×5 matrices which are printed or electronically represented and are known as “cards.” The first person to have a card where the drawn numbers form a specified pattern is the winner [...]

Gambling affiliate

Posted by Nicolae on May 19th, 2008 under Advertising, Business, Gambling industry
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A gambling affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity.
We well define the gambling corporative, a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. It can be a casino, poker room, bingo halls, lotteries, sports betting agency, as well as hotels, restaurants, [...]

US judge rejects online gambling

Posted by Nicolae on May 17th, 2008 under Legislation, Online Gambling, Poker, Politics, UIGEA, United States
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Lee Rousso, the Washington State Director of the Poker Players Alliance, filed a lawsuit on July 1, 2007, seeking to have UIGEA declared unconstitutional, considering that the new law discriminated against interstate businesses and, thus, violated the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. He said that UIGEA was supported [...]

Harrah’s Entertainment - new owners for Casino & Hotel Resort chain

Posted by Nicolae on December 28th, 2007 under Atlantic City, Business, Casinos, Gambling industry, Las Vegas, United States
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Harrah’s Casino & Hotel Resort chain, which also run the World Series of Poker, will have new owners, two private equity firms named Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group, shelling out a whopping $17.7 billion for the acquisition, being complete in early 2008.
“The WSOP will remain a key brand in the [...]