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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Jennifer Tilly has big ass tits.

Now that THAT is out of the way, yeah, Jennifer Tilly is rooting for all the women at the 2007 World Series of Poker. The bride of Chucky (although Jen Tilly is not really a bride of a scary doll…) can’t seem to stop talking about women. Heck, we’re beginning to think she’s into this whole lesbian thing or something…

Jennifer Tilly, the Academy Award nominee, not to mention the 2005 World Series of Poker ladies’ champion, has a theatrical take on the subject of women in poker. And yeah, people listen to her. She is after all, a poker tournament champion.

‘’You know how you hardly ever see women serial killers?'’ Jennifer Tilly said. ‘’But when you do see one, she really stands out because of her viciousness.'’

‘’It’s kind of the same in poker. The women who are successful playing in tournaments against the men are so competitive, so intense, so strong, it’s kind of amazing how good some of the best female poker players are.'’

As the 2007 World Series of Poker at the Rio in Las Vegas, Nevada heats up, Jennifer Tilly will be a part of the 2007 version of the Queen of Hearts team together with a dozen female poker professionals, celebs and executives who will donate their winnings in any 2007 WSOP tournament to the…

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The 2007 WSOP tournament stretches for seven weeks while the MLB baseball season has 168 games.

Yep, as the 2007 World Series of Poker tournament heats up before our very eyes, can the full seven-week poker frenzy be compared to the ups and downs of a full 168-game MLB baseball season?

Sure. Only shorter. I guess. And if MLB baseball enables you to deal with the excitement and disappointments of an entire season running in an outdoor park, the 2007 WSOP season only lets you do that to a more confined space like sitting on a chair. The rest is more of the same.

‘’The World Series of Poker, over the course of 48 days, is not much different from a sports season that runs eight to 10 months,'’ Jeffrey Pollack, commissioner of the World Series, said shortly before the opening ceremony of the world’s biggest and richest poker tournament, yep, it’s the 2007 World Series of Poker in case you didn’t get that.

‘’We have a beginning, a middle marked by a sort of all-star event and an end that captures the world’s attention. But we do it all in a very compressed time period, and in essentially…'’

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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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A US gambling problem? Ask over 1 million pathological gamblers in California.

The Office of Problem Gambling (OPG) unleashed recently the most comprehensive prevalence study ever conducted on the United States gambling problem. The verdict: America is in big trouble.

Gambling in the US generated a revenue of $72.87 billion in 2003. Land-based casinos nationwide made $4.74 billion in state tax revenue in 2005. The OPG study on problem gambling was undertaken lengthily and meticulously — through a multi-lingual telephone survey between 2005 and 2006.

A critical inclusion amongst survey respondents were residents aged 18 and over of California, the most populous and one of the wealthiest states of the US. California gambling statistics collected provide a perturbing microcosmic picture of how gambling has taken hold of America.

A highlight of the OPG study, California has between 750,000 and 1.2 million adults considered to be pathological gamblers. Problem and pathological gambling are especially high among males, those with disabilities, and those who are unemployed.

The American Psychiatric Association defines pathological gambling as “an impulse control disorder that is a chronic and progressive mental illness”. Inaccurately referred to as compulsive gambling, it is problem gambling to the extent of a mental disorder, especially a psychiatric disorder, causing harm to the gambler and other people.

California has 296,500 to 490,000 adults classified as lifetime pathological gamblers, unveiled the OPG gambling study. There are 450,000 to 713,400 others with a considerable gambling problem although not enough to meet established criteria for pathological gambling.

Pathological gambling must meet at least…

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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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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a constituency of problem gamblers.

Welcome to California, home of Silicon Valley, silicone breast implants, wine makers, and now, gamblers with a big problem.

A recent major study on gambling in the United States reveals an overwhelming majority of Californians are gamblers — especially, pathological gamblers for life.

The Office of Problem Gambling (OPG) this week reported that 83% of adults in California have gambled at some point in their lives. It is a highlight of the most comprehensive study ever conducted thus far on the US gambling problem.

California is the most populous state of the US, with residents estimated at 37,172,015 as of 2006. The OPG study found that some 750,000 to 1.2 million California adults — residents aged 18 and up — are pathological or problem gamblers.

Between 296,500 and 490,000 California adults are classified as lifetime pathological gamblers, the OPG study discovered further. Between 450,000 and 713,400 adult Californians have significant gambling problems, but which do not meet the study’s criteria for pathological gambling.

California’s gambling problem is due in large part to people’s tendency to aspire for material wealth. This had taken root in as early as 1848, with the California Gold Rush. It triggered an economic boom that comfortably evolved to Hollywood and entertainment, tourism, aerospace, oil, computers and information technology. Since 1848, California has never really stopped feeling wealthy.

The OPG study, conducted between…

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Eclipsed but not Plutoed — it was the cry of Atlantic City casinos in the year they were forgotten.

2006 saw Macau battling Las Vegas as casino gambling mecca, unseating Atlantic City from what used to be its fight. Worse, the Las Vegas of New Jersey was not only overclouded but also beset with other restraints. No matter: Atlantic City casinos still managed to break their own record in gambling winnings.

It looked to be a bad year for AC altogether. From July 5 to 8, gambling came to a halt for the first time since 1978, when the city’s first casino ever opened its doors to gamblers.

It was the 2006 New Jersey State Government Shutdown, a mandate by Governor Jon Corzine due to a state budget impasse.

On November 11, Sands Hotel and Casino, the smallest Atlantic City casino, closed shop for good. Pinnacle Gaming purchased the Sands ocean front property, on 18 contiguous acres of which it intends to erect a fancier casino resort by 2011, to the tune of some $2 billion.

Amid setbacks such as above, the New Jersey casino gambling industry made a record $5.2 billion in winnings, minutely surpassing its 2005 winnings of $5 billion by 4% but, still, showing the world it continued to grow.

The ill-fated July period even ranked…

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My money’s safe with me until I get to the casino. By taking a free trip to Macau.

AirAsia is giving away 1 million free seats to flights around Asia — including free travel to Macau, hailed as the new Las Vegas and hottest casino gambling mecca today. All the better to have more moolah for this China region’s leading tourist attraction: Macau casinos.

1 million free seats from AirAsia! Click here to score your free trip to Macau and around Asia.

On the Cotai Strip, Macau’s answer to the Las Vegas Strip, casino resorts are a neat package of gaming spaces (slots, baccarat, blackjack, roulette, poker, etc.) plus fine dining, retail shopping, entertainment shows, and eyecandy like Sin City. There’s Wynn Macau, Sands Macau, MGM Grand Macau, as well as the Mandarin Oriental and Hyatt Regency Macau hotel casinos.

For local-flavored casino games — like sic bo, dai siu, and fan tan — I’ve got Casino Lisboa and the rest of the Stanley Ho clan’s casinos for hardcore gamblers, or those of Hong Kong’s Galaxy Entertainment, like the new StarWorld and Emperor Grand casino hotel co-owned by Asian superstar Jackie Chan.

You can beat me to the Macau free trip, but I’m not running out of options. AirAsia’s 1 million free seats are flying to a host of destinations: in Malaysia alone, free trips to places like…

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