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New Jersey State Senator Introduces Online Poker Bill
While supporters of intrastate online poker in California are still trying to secure a legislator to sponsor their bill, a New Jersey state senator has introduced a bill in the Garden State that would grant licenses to Atlantic City casinos for online gambling.
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MOTO Unveils Multi-Touch Blackjack Table
MOTO Development Group today unveiled a video of the world’s first round multi-touch casino gaming table experience for the Global Gaming Expo 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prototype games running on the table are Blackjack and Texas Hold ‘Em.
Rather than embedding individual screens in a standard size blackjack table, MOTO’s multi-touch blackjack concept creates a seamless virtual table gaming experience that automates the betting process, physical cards, and card-shoes. Yet game players surround the table just like in standard (analog) blackjack tables, thus retaining the intrigue and entertaining social dynamics of human interaction in gaming.
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Poker: The Sport for Regular Guys Indifferent to Money
Maybe you caught Darvin Moon on ESPN last week. No, never heard of him? You’d probably like him if you’re the type that wants homespun, aw-shucks people to do well, whatever their pursuits — even gambling.
Moon’s journey to a $5.2 million second-place finish in the World Series of Poker made him a mythic American folk hero of sorts, with The Washington Post chronicling his every step as a card-playing Paul Bunyan.
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New Slot Games Based on Marvel Comics Characters
The new trend of creating casino games based on cinema and cartoon characters seems to be increasingly popular among slots enthusiasts. Following the success of “Gladiator,” which has proven to be one of the most profitable slots in Playtech’s games catalog, the software pioneer is set to release two new branded slots, “Iron Man” and “The Incredible Hulk.”
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Casino Denies Man $166 Million Jackpot
Florida gambler Bill Seebeck was sure he’d hit the jackpot — literally. He says the slot machine he was playing flashed a winning sum of more than $166 million. Seebeck told CBS affiliate WFTV, “I was screaming, I was like up and around screaming.”
But the casino says Seebeck’s good fortune was a mistake — a machine malfunction — and is refusing to pay.
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DoylesCasino Introduces New Software Platform
Just released is the brand new and improved DoylesCasino. The new casino platform has been redesigned and updated in many ways. Following in the footsteps of its poker counterpart, DoylesCasino has had a bit of trouble finding a software provider/network it felt comfortable with. Now on the Realtime Gaming platform, DoylesCasino now “offers players a faster, more realistic casino experience.”