2010 November 14 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Beau Rivage Resort & Casino is pleased to announce two recent promotion. Lam Trinh has been promoted to senior application support analyst in the Information Technology Department. Trinh’s career at Beau Rivage began in April 2005 as a member of the computer engineering team.

The Annual World Series of Poker Circuit Event at Harvey’s in South Lake Tahoe. W e haven’t attended one of these here in South Lake Tahoe before, but friends of ours from Texas, who we sold a house to some years back, is playing in it, and we thought it would be fun to catch some of the World Series of Poker circuit event yesterday.

BLACK HAWK, Colo. (AP) - Black Hawk and Central City are dissolving agreements that had ended years of battling over a share of gambling revenue.

UEFA president Michel Platini has warned that players who get involved in match-fixing are putting their careers on the line.

Playtech has released a new horse-racing themed video slot game available in download or instant play.  Frankie Dettori’s Magic Seven is inspired by the legendary Italian jockey Lanfranco ‘Frankie’ Dettori and his famous seven straight wins at Ascot racecourse. The 5-reel, 25-line slot gives players the opportunity to win a maximum 7,777 times their bet […]

The UK Press Association reports that online gambling operator, Sportingbet, is examining a merger with Swedish rival Unibet that would create a GBP 600 million group.  The story broke today in UK tabloid, The Sunday Times. The Sunday Times article reports that preliminary discussions have been held regarding the merge of the two entities, with […]

Phil Hellmuth is not only an 11-time World Series of Poker champion, he’s also one of the most accomplished authors in the poker world.

The following article is by Melissa A. Kaplan. It is no secret that Frank Scoblete is a treasure trove of gambling books that are instructive, original and fun.

He’s not going to give up here on the NAPT without a fight either, and just doubled up to about 35,000. Kassela’s 5 7 connected rather nicely with the 7 8 T flop, and although a solitary foe had a nine for an up-and-down straight draw, the K on the river decided it in Kassela’s favor.