The days of Detroit being known as motor city with rappers and thugs (and both) aspiring to be the next Eminem may be replaced with something else — gambling in style.

Detroit is the next casino destination. A decade ago this may have been difficult to believe, but now the thought of Madonna performing a homecoming gig at the MGM Grand Detroit isn’t too far off. Yes kids, Madonna was from Detroit.

And as it is, Michigan’s identity is getting a revamp. For years, four major casinos operate in Detroit — MGM, Motor City casino, Greektown and Windsor Casino across the Detroit River in Ontario.

MGM is probably the most major of them all, with its Grand Celebrity Room frequented by famous folks the likes of Rasheed Wallace playing high stakes Baccarat.Many Detroit wage earners have also traded their welding equipment to cards and chips taking jobs in the casinos. Bye-bye to oil and grease, baby.

And that’s all about to get better as a new player is about to take a huge bite off the Michigan gambling market. Four Winds Casino Resort, a new…

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We’re all getting cranky with this UIGEA, and I know that in countries where online casino gambling is banned, the sentiments are the same.

But like Michael Crichton said, “Life will always find a way.” Now I know he meant it to describe how gigantic dinosaurs can spring back to life, which we don’t want to happen, but it can be applied to other stuff as well. Like online gambling.

They may invent every crazy ways of sending online gaming to extinction, but they won’t necessarily cut off its head. Players and industry players will only find better ways to keep Internet casinos alive. So to say it loudly, we keep getting smarter while the enemies keep getting dumber.

For example, have you heard of “proxy betting“? Somewhere in the northern tip of the Philippines, Internet gaming companies allow players from all over the world to bet on their favorite games, like black jack and baccarat, via proxies. How? With Web Casinos.

Games and tournaments are video streamed online where players can watch from where they are. At the same time, their “proxies” do the betting for them based on their instructions using a VOIP (voice over Internet protocol).

Make no mistake, web gambling is still banned in the Philippines as well as…

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Yep, just shut the fuck up.

As another war heats up right there on the poker table, Phil Gordon still looks like he’s ready to hump a new gay lover. No seriously… Phil Gordon is gay and he’ll still be gay no matter how many WSOP bracelets this fag wins.

Now, in a rather serious note, the 2007 World Series of Poker is finally here. Yep, it’s that time of the year when the top poker players of the world get up from their asses, put on a shirt, and pretend to be a ‘’professional'’ athlete.

Of course, what these guys do when they’re not gambling with a deck of cards is still in question. (Although we all know Phil Gordon likes to hump little boys…)

So, how do you win big poker tournaments like this? What do you have to do to win that WSOP bracelet and slap it on your wrists pretending it’s as valuable as, say… a Super Bowl championship ring?

Well, you can keep your mouth shut. That always works.

Keeping your mouth shut in a poker table always works. Of course, you DO NOT WANT to berate the dealer and call him names like ‘’retard'’ or ‘’when God had to poo, He came up with you.'’ If you get a bad hand, it’s not the dealer’s fault. (Hopefully anyway…) Leave the dealer alone or…

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I only found out recently that it actually has a name. That rock, paper, and scissors game we play usually to decide who will end up doin’ the lame household chores is called Roshambo.

It’s the alternative for the coin toss.

It’s not rocket science. The rule is rock beats scrissor and scissor beats paper. But paper beats rock.

Roshambo has been a famous subject among geekazoids for years now, In fact there’s Roshambo Programming Competition, a tournament between computer programs that play Rock-Paper-Scissors.

So if it’s this popular, then bringing it into the online gambling world isn’t too far-fetched. And yes, it isn’t.

Ultimate Bet poker site has included Roshambo in its long list of online casino games. You can play Roshambo tournaments for real money, or for fun.

Anyway here’s how it goes for some with poor memory, like forgetful Paris Hilton, maybe:

Rock

Beats – Scissors

Loses to – Paper

Reasoning: Drop a rock on a pair of scissors, the scissors will break. A piece of paper, on the other hand, has rock covered.

Scissors

Beats – Paper

Loses to – Rock

Reasoning: With its sharp blades, a pair of scissors can destroy a piece of paper. But drop a…

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Please welcome Mr. Seth Edward O’Neal, the latest jackass to join our crew. His first assignment? Help ya’ll win at blackjack. Go easy on him mmmkay?

Blackjack is one of the most popular table games in every casino. And yes, with blackjack being as popular as it is today, there are already a number of books telling you what you should do to rule a blackjack table.

But as good as those guys are, blackjack is STILL a game of luck. That means, it won’t matter if you know every single tip in the book. It’s casino gambling, a game of chance, and I surely won’t be one of those people telling you that if you follow my stuff, you’ll be a blackjack champion in every Las Vegas Casino for sure.

I can’t do that. But I’ll certainly HELP you become one.

First thing you should do is set yourself a limited bankroll amount that you are prepared to part with in the session that you are playing. Even if you are doing well, discipline yourself not to keep on going, make sure you stop while you are ahead. Everybody knows that.

DO NOT reinvest your winnings back into the game. Not only will it confuse you how much you’ve already won but it will also leave you with nothing once you step out of that casino.

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When a Hong Kong teenager walked into a casino in the Chinese territory of Macau, chaperoned by her mother and grandmother, she can have had little idea of the riches that awaited her - nor of the legal storm that her winnings would generate.

Yes, this 16-year-old unknown girl won a $94,900 jackpot at a Macau casino, and her mother was allowed to keep the cash.

Macau’s gaming watchdog forced The Las Vegas Sands to pay the $94,900-winning teenager because of a loophole. Macau’s gaming laws ban anyone under 18 from entering a casino, but the laws do not specify a minimum age for gambling once inside.

The young girl, whose name has not been released, was given $12 by her grandmother as a Lunar New Year present to play on some slot machines. The teenager went to the Sands Casino with her mother and grandmother and put the entire amount in a machine. When she hit the jackpot, Sands staff refused to pay her out once they learned she was underage.

However, the territory’s gaming authority has ruled that the Las Vegas Sands must pay the teenager from Hong Kong her winnings. “We have decided that the money must be paid, not to the child, but to her mother,” Gambling Authority Director Manuel Joaquim das Neves told the South China Morning Post.

Although she will be paid, the girl’s mother has been banned from all Macau’s casinos as punishment for bringing a minor into a casino.

That’s okay, Mom can always come to Bodog’s Online Casino, as long as she leaves the kids at home!

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What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas right?

Well, what if the NBA All Star Game happens in Las Vegas, will it stay there? Can we see a professional NBA basketball team from Las Vegas after hosting it’s first NBA All Star weekend? Hmm… this year’s hosts sure hope so.

February 18 is the NBA All Star game, following NBA All Star Saturday that will feature the three-point shootout and the slam dunk contest just to name a few. Oh yeah, it’s shaping up to be one heckuva’ weekend all right.

An event as big as this, the city of Las Vegas definitely wants its own NBA Basketball team now. However, sending a team to Las Vegas would require NBA commissioner David Stern to change his stance on gambling. He was quite clear on the subject last year, ‘’We are not going to go there while they have betting on NBA games.'’

Uh oh… As far as I know, Las Vegas and betting is like milk and cookies, bread and butter, panties and… well, you get the idea.

‘’I guess all I’d say is that we’ve been having these discussions now for somewhere over 20 years,'’ NBA Commissioner David Stern said. ‘’But on the other hand, our owners are the ones that ultimately…'’

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LA socialite Paris Hilton should give us an idea why Californians seek to win the lottery.

The lottery, or Lotto, is so prevalent in the United States that all but eight states maintain a state and/or interstate lottery. In California, the lottery has become a gambling addiction problem — this, unveiled in the most comprehensive study ever done on gambling in the US.

An overwhelming 83% of California adults are gamblers at one point or another, according to the Office of Problem Gambling (OPG). Lottery is California’s most preferred form of gambling, reports the OPG study. Casinos are the gambling establishment of choice. Internet gaming and card rooms have seen the greatest personal gambling losses.

Lotteries comprise one of seven gambling categories used by the American Gaming Association. This gambling activity formally came to California in 1984, on November 6, by way of Proposition 37, or the California Lottery Act — which authorized the creation of the California State Lottery.

The California Lottery Act mandates that at least 84% of all Lotto money must return to the public in the form of prizes or school funding; and at least 34% of all lottery revenue must go to public education.

As California is a pari-mutuel state by law, lottery prize amounts are not fixed and depend upon how many Lotto tickets were sold and have won (with the exception of California’s Hot Spot games, which have fixed prizes).

On June 22, 2005, California became the 12th US state to join the multi-state lottery: Mega Millions. California lottery games include the Super Lotto, Super Lotto Plus, Daily 3, Daily Derby, Scratchers, Hot Spot, Fantasy 5, and Big Spin.

While recreational gambling exists, the OPG study found that…

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If you want to smell like a queen and own a pricey baccarat cystal in the process, all you need to shell out is $450.

You may or may not remember that last month, a perfume called Sillage de la Reine - “In the Wake of the Queen” - an amber essence of jasmine, orange blossom, tuberose, iris, cedar and sandalwood was released commercially. This was an attempt to recreate a fragrance used by Marie Antoinette.

The deluxe version at 8.5 ounces bottled in Baccarat crystal flasks costs $10,500. At that price, the perfumes were reportedly kept in a locked vault and was only available for purchase via the Internet.

And here’s the juice, only 10 of it were being sold.

Pure collectors item, indeed. After all not everyone can afford this kind of luxury fit for royalties. Meaning it’s not for the masses to consume.

Even historians agree that the perfume has captured the real thing. Elizabeth de Feydeau, historian and professor at the Versailles School of Perfumes, was seaid to have discovered the authentic formulas used by the former queen’s perfumer Jean-Louis Fargeon.

The discovery led to queenly fortune for her, I supposed.

But now, in an attempt to bring the royal smell to a greater public, the perfume maker Francis Kurkdjian decides to release a crystal phial containing just under an ounce of Sillage de la Reine, which is available for $450 in the Chateau de Versailles gift shop.

Maybe you can wear it around your neck and be your…

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Baccarat’s winning number is the lucky 9 but Asian casino gamblers are way crazier about number 8.

Chinese gambling superstitions, like lucky number 8 and unlucky number 4, hold a key to gaining Asian casino gamblers, the newest ‘it’ group of customers in Las Vegas, Macau, and Native American Indian casinos. Combine that with popular Asian casino gambling games, like baccarat, pai gow, and sic bo, and casinos just might have a winning formula to justify their Asian dragon pits and Chinatown buses.

Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino, the world’s second largest casino, is upping its draw to Asian players with a $740 million expansion opening in summer next year. It will add 12,000 sqft of casino gaming space with 46 Asian gaming tables, and a 4,000 sqft Hong Kong style food outlet.

A new 5,000 sqft bus lobby will boost current marketing in which 50 buses transport 45 customers each daily from the nearby Boston and New York Chinatowns. For $10 round-trip, a player gets a coupon package worth $35 including a free bet and meal.

Asian & Chinese Casino Games

“20% is driven by our Asian American patrons, and that is how we run the floor. That is the same percentage of table games we are putting out there that are geared toward the Asian player,” says VP Rocco Santoro of the 2,000-plus Asian Americans gambling daily at Indian casino Mohegan Sun. Baccarat is easily the casino game of choice for Asian highrollers, but how about those who’d rather wager less? Santoro has more than a few answers.

Baccarat & Mini Baccarat are a hit among Asian gamblers with a high bankroll. The object is to…

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