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Why We Keep Playing the Lottery
Blind to the mathematical odds, we fall to the marketing gods.
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Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay
John Kane was on a hell of a winning streak. On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light on the top of the machine flashed, signaling a $4,300 jackpot.
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New slots mimic video gaming
LAS VEGAS — With the gambling industry eager to attract younger players, some slot-machine-makers are looking to challenge the generation raised on video games.
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A casino that has no house aims to change gambling
The first rule of gambling is this: The house always wins. Professional gamblers know this. Amateurs know this. Even Danny Ocean knows this.
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SANDS: The bigger the chess stakes, the bigger the mistakes
More money, more mistakes. By the American game’s (low) standards, the Millionaire Chess Open in Las Vegas this month offered a massive jackpot.
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FBI cut hotel Internet access, sent agents to “fix” it without warrants
When the FBI applied for warrants this summer to raid three $25,000-per-night villas at Caesar's Palace Hotel and Casino, it omitted some key investigatory details that eventually resulted in the arrest of eight individuals, including an alleged leader of a well-known Chinese crime syndicate, defense lawyers maintained in Las Vegas federal court documents late Tuesday.
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Macau's casinos crush Las Vegas with $270 minimum bets
Las Vegas has first class shopping, dining and nightlife. But for serious gamblers, Macau holds all the aces.
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Gamblers Want Part of Rising E-Sports
Last month, surrounded by around 45,000 fans in a Seoul stadium built for the World Cup, Samsung White put the final dagger into Star Horn Royal Club's dreams, claiming a championship live on ESPN 3.
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Legalize and Regulate Sports Betting
BETTING on professional sports is currently illegal in most of the United States outside of Nevada. I believe we need a different approach. For more than two decades, the National Basketball Association has opposed the expansion of legal sports betting, as have the other major professional sports leagues in the United States.
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Cuban backs Silver's take on sports betting
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban strongly agreed with NBA commissioner Adam Silver's opinion that sports betting should be legalized throughout the United States, predicting that it would happen within three to five years.
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I Watched a Casino Kill Itself: The Awful Last Nights of Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal
They’re still promising gamblers free rooms at the former crown jewel of Donald Trump’s casino empire. Talk about a sucker’s bet: They’re already shutting the towers there down.
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Pro leagues divided over legalizing Canada's $15.5B sports betting industry
If Canada legalizes betting on single sports events, it could claw billions of dollars from the shady world of organized crime. Cash would be pumped into health care, education and other social programs. Authorities would be better equipped to sleuth out incidents of match-fixing by athletes. Yet making the vice more readily available would also come with a social cost. It may well create new problem gamblers...
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Roswell man told $500k winning lottery ticket a 'misprint'
A New Mexico man thought he won big bucks on a lottery scratcher only to find out it was a misprint. In December, John Wines bought a scratch-off lottery ticket at the Shell gas station in Roswell. The winning numbers were 1 and 2. As John started scratching, he came across not 1,2,3 or 4 - but 5 winning numbers, totaling over $500,000.
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The King Of Online Gambling (Is 34)
Earlier this year David Baazov walked into the Manhattan offices of the Blackstone Group, the world’s biggest private equity firm, with an outrageous offer. At 33 Baazov was the little-known chief of Amaya, an obscure Montreal company with a loose handful of assets in the gambling industry. But he had big plans. With the backing of Blackstone’s credit division he wanted to stage the $4.9 billion purchase of PokerStars, the world’s biggest online poker company.
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Know when to fold 'em: computer aces Texas hold 'em poker
Almost always raise your opponent's first bet, which can provoke an immediate fold. In later rounds, if your opponent raises, re-raise if you're holding at least a pair of threes. Err on the side of playing a hand, not folding.
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Man who bought lottery tickets to break $100 bill wins $10M
A Massachusetts man who bought a pair of lottery tickets at a grocery shop to break a $100 bill for lunch has ended up winning $10 million. Lottery officials announced Thursday that Richard Noll and his wife claimed the prize at lottery headquarters in Braintree this week. He chose a one-time payment of $6.5 million after taxes. The Revere man says he needed to break a $100 bill to get lunch at a sandwich shop, so he bought two $20 “Platinum Millions”...
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$13.5M-winning lottery ticket bought 7 seconds late invalid, top court decides
A Quebec man who bought a winning lottery ticket seven seconds too late has lost his Supreme Court of Canada bid to appeal a decision that has denied him half of the $27-million prize. "I'm going to be very very honest with you … I'm very disappointed in this decision," said Joel Ifergan of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, from Montreal's West Island.
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Man wins $14 million in Las Vegas - and donates it ALL to charity
The generous gambler won the cash on a fruit machine after betting just $20.
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The Case for Buying a Powerball Ticket
Financially literate people like to complain that buying lottery tickets is among the silliest decisions a person could make. And it is true that the odds of winning anything substantial, let alone the estimated $500 million that could be given away if there is a winning ticket in the Powerball lottery Wednesday, are very much stacked against you. There is no doubt that people should not spend money on lottery tickets that they can’t afford to lose...
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Psychology Of Gambling [Infographic]
Over the decades, many doctors have spent a lot of time and money trying to figure out why people like to gamble. Over that time there have been some interesting insights as to why people like to gamble, whether it be on sports, lottery, or casino games.
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