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There are plenty of live and online poker players that have a problem with playing blackjack, and they lose lots of money because of this habit.  Unlike Internet poker, blackjack is not a game that can be beat since the house holds an advantage no matter how well a person plays……that is, unless they know how to count cards. And counting cards is exactly what former blackjack pro Josh Axelrad specialized in as he took casinos for over $700,000 in his short, 5 year career.  Sometimes Axelrad would do so good that he’d earn $18,000 in around 10 minutes of …

The media has been filled with all the dirty little secrets that Mr Woods would have liked to have kept under wraps, and it seems that gambling is another to add to the growing list. The golf pro did have a somewhat clean cut image up until a few months ago, and it has since descended into a bit of a shambles for the PGA star. Tiger Woods really came into the spotlight with his record breaking win in the 1997 Masters Golf Tournament. He has been named Athlete of the Decade and has drawn the largest TV audiences in …

Not the Robin Hood of Nottingham, England. And not the Robin Hood of poker rakeback. But Robin Hood in Sin City! It’s not really the place that you would expect to find a real life Robin Hood, but an anonymous individual has changed lives with his generous donations in the past year or so. The Las Vegas Blackjack Player began a campaign to reward kindly families that had fallen on hard times. Going by the name of ‘Robin Hood 702’ (702 is the area code for Las Vegas) they set out to win money from wealthy casinos and then pass those …

Sign up and play at Devilfish.com and be one of six lucky winners to the live European Masters of Blackjack tournament which takes place this summer from July 28 to August 1, 2010. Each winner will receive a €3,000 package giving them entry to the €15,000 prize pool event at Devilfish.com. Two winners will be drawn in March, April and May ahead of the live play off in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria. Better still – each of the six winners is guaranteed to come home with something; sixth place will take €500, whilst first place will earn €6,000. There are two …

A case is currently being progressed through the US Supreme Court that could at first be looked upon as a case of a sore loser. The Supreme Court is looking into the claims from a woman that a casino actively encouraged her gambling problem in order to entice her to the casino. They said entrapment resulted in her losing $125,000 in one evening. The case has been brought to the court by Jenny Kephart who is a self confessed compulsive gambler. Ms Kephart and her attorney are claiming that the casino had prior knowledge of Ms Kephart’s condition and instead …