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Everybody loves it when something pays out, be it rakeback from your online poker game, or a slot machine. You love it even more when it’s a progressive. Imagine how happy you would be if your progressive slot machine jackpot was at $400k and it came in! For Tracy Shepard of Edgewood in Maryland USA, her Friday night flutter will be one that she remembers for the rest of her life when she spun the wheels on her slot machine and hit the jackpot! The Delaware casino was the Dover Downs Hotel and Casino in Delaware and this jackpot is chalking up …

While the argument between the gambler and the casino over who owes who money rages in the Supreme Court, it seems that there are other casinos that are facing issues with the self-exiled ban that gamblers are enforcing. In the Supreme Court Ms Klephart is accusing a casino of abusing her addiction to gambling to better their profit and as such feels she should not pay them the money she owes. Sounds far-fetched? Well there are some grounds in what Ms Klephart is saying. The self-exile option has been part of several programs arranged between casinos and gambling action groups. …

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 …

Macau has definitely been the darling of the gambling industry in the past few months and this has continued this week with Las Vegas Sands Corporation announcing that they will be going back to work on their new gambling resort build in the region as of January 2010. The company needs to raise over $3 billion dollars to fund the venture and $500 million is needed now to re-launch the build. Once the casino build is back underway, it is estimated it will provide around 12,000 jobs in the region. Sands has come through with a positive plan for the …

The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) has been breaking records of attendance all over the world this season. The tournaments are held worldwide and are a series of no limit Texas Hold’em games that are played at a variety of selected casinos around the globe. The event is a run up to the World Series of Poker (WSOP). The event first began in 2005 and has been steadily growing in popularity as the years pass.  This particular tournament may still be in its infancy age wise but it certainly seems to be a healthy bouncing baby! The big event …

America has been known for sometime now for its dislike of smoking and smokers. Today there has been an announcement that a second Vegas strip casino is being sued for second hand smoke. As a result, casinos now conform to US law and do not allow smoking as of the 1st of October. However, many gamblers find the idea of placing their bets and not being able to smoke is horrific! Not really surprising when you consider how much money people spend and how stretched their nerves get.  It is natural that a smoker would want to fall back on …

Ok, so online full tilt poker is a way of life, but there’s still something very sacred about a place of gambling, something you can’t quite explain about the grand halls of a casino. I don’t know about you but I love old buildings, they are fascinating, old buildings that have been left to rot, are both sad and beautiful. What we have done is searched high and low for the best images of old Casinos that we could find and here they are. Some of you might find these images upsetting. 1. This old casino is now a post …