From Bill Rini: Some folks have been asking me to give my take on the most recent announcements to come out of the online gaming world. Okay, so here we go. Neteller: It’s been announced that Neteller has struck a deal to give people their money back. Woohoo! As Drizz recently commented, I’m the blogging [...]
We’re going to start a new feature on CasinoSmack called “What Did We Learn”. Most likely this will be a weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or once-a-decade feature where we’ll go over the week’s events and find out what was there to learn (or not learn). We’ll have links, photos, audio, videos and whatever else we get [...]
The World Trade Organization $3.4 billion dollar decision has been delayed. As you may know, Antigua and Barbuda are in the middle of a Unlawful Internet Gambling Act fiasco. They had filed that $3.4 billion claim as compensation against the United States for the policy against internet casino gaming. That WTO decision is now delayed [...]
Who’s Johnny Chan? He’s a professional poker player, born in Guangzhou (Canton), China in 1957 and now living in Las Vegas, Nevada. His name in Traditional Chinese is 陳強尼. Yeah, I’m international like that. He’s got 10 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, two WSOP championship titles (1987 and 1988) and founder of online casino [...]
If you wanted to take casino gaming training at the University at Buffalo, you’re out of luck. Just one day after the University and Gatlin Educational Services came to an agreement to host casino classes and training by the Johnny Chan Academy, the U. of B. has backed out. They have decided that the classes [...]
“THE SOURCE for poker at UMass and in the valley” is no longer the source. The University of Massachusetts sent a takedown notice to the owners of the web domain UMassPoker.com due to “inappropriate use” of the University of Massachusetts Minutemen name and logo. Apparently the college doesn’t like gambling being associated with them, go [...]
Atlantic City is getting the MGM Mirage. Plans have been announced to build a $5 billion dollar complex in 2012 which is currently nicknamed City Center East. This place is going to be HUGE. It’s going to have the biggest casino in the state, restaurants, spa, convention center, 1,500 seat theater and a 3,000 room [...]
Don’t worry, the IRS isn’t going to take 25% of your cash. But it almost happened. There was a proposed rule for approval in the Internal Revenue Service that was going to withhold 25% of all tournament winnings of more than $5000 bucks. Now it turns out, so says Wally Chalmers, who is the Vice [...]
The World Strip Poker Champion for 2007 has been chosen. John Young, a 32-year-old freelance writer from Slough, a town just west of London England, beat 200 other strip poker players and won the £10,000 prize. He then removed his remaining clothes and because of that, 10,000 pounds were donated to charity. How about we [...]
The 39th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) will be held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s going to be running from May 30 through July 17, 2008. They haven’t released the exact schedule of events for the WSOP but they’re working on it. “The team is still hard [...]
