Crapped out: For casino customers, a rude awakening
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Denise Kelly and her boyfriend were drinking beer and playing the slot machines at Bally&#39;s Atlantic City. At 6 am Friday, their cocktail server quit _ in mid-shift.
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By Dan Voorhis, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 16--A casino in Wichita or elsewhere in Sedgwick County is a winner economically, but a loser once higher government spending and the cost of gambling addicts are factored in.
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At first, Justin Lampert thought the popping sounds he heard were coming from an electronic game at the Las Vegas casino where he had been eating a hot dog. When a crowd of panicked people stampeded past, he realized it was something more serious.
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A deal that would have saved Donald Trump&#39;s casino company is off. His casinos are running low on cash. And Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts is drowning in $1.
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TORONTO - People with gambling problems account for more than a third of the $4 billion spent each year by Ontario residents at casinos, racetracks and lottery kiosks, a new study suggests.
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Tycho:  I should have all the science lined up by the end of the week, ready to stuff into the piano black lozenge I've obtained to celebrate my return to personal computing.  Wish me luck; I've never before had the opportunity to fry four processors at once.       I know things.  Specifically, things that may be of interest to you.  For example, I know if playing Eye of Judgment online is an onerous as it might seem.  It is not!  I cannot express my relief.    Well, let's try.  In my last, vast expose, I broke down a card's unique language and expressed some misgivings about online play - ultimately just accepting it, because what they're trying to do is so weird that there's no prior art.  Essentially, you "register" your thirty card deck with the system itself, where it is stored and named for future use.  This process is extremely straightforward:  it is simply a matter of you laying your cards anywhere on the mat, a few at a time.  It will probably take two minutes if you really keep on it.  Then, you jump online, choose what nation you want to play for, and track down a partner.  At this point, the game will "draw" you your five card hand by showing you the card art onscreen.  You get one Mulligan (or redraw), but if you like your hand you move into the game proper.  We laid out our deck by element, face up, and this smoothed the turn to turn process considerably.      In the build we have, and I hope this is changed for release, it shows you these cards in a single file line without their name or text - just the art.  Once you got familiar with these images, slightly modified from their card format, it's pretty quick - but the names should be displayed on this screen.  You can use the controller to pull up the names, but let's be serious - at no point should the player be forced to interact with a mundane controller once the game is underway.     You should know that the game really wants a well-lit environment.  You don't need a flare gun or anything, but we didn't have what we needed before and certain squares would slow down the game flow with partial reads that would only resolve after several attempts and minute card adjustments.  I should state that here in the office, we removed all the overhead lights, installing a single track of illumination that we point at the ceiling, where lights used to be.  We tend to transform any place we live into a cave.  So, our scenario might be somewhat atypical.    Also, I know if playing Rock Band with all the instruments off of a USB hub is onerous.  You will be happy to know that it is not - we played said instruments spread out on an actual stage, and found it more than satifactory.  The reality is that the drum kit already needs its own wire, so it isn't as though the future had actually arrived anyway.  Plus, the mic isn't wireless either. This makes the contrived brouhaha over wired guitars a fairly transparent traffic ploy.    This is a matter quite apart from Microsoft's reticence to play ball with unique, third party hardware.  And when I say "play ball," I'm taking about the shakedown operation they've got going licensing their wireless technology, which either makes products for their system more expensive or (in the salient case of Rock Band) results in them bundling a wired controller for the same price as a wireless one on a competitor's system.  This is the last holiday they can get away with this sort of thing...  right?
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.
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Marriage royally flushed down the pan A Murmansk gambler lost his wife in a poker game when he ran out of cash and laid his other half on the table, Ananova reports.â¦
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Arshad Warsi has turned into an incorrigible gambler.
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Sacramento -- The Indian tribe that caused an uproar with its plans for a mammoth, 5,000-slot casino in the center of San Pablo has offered to scale back its ambitions and accept a deal for only half as many machines, tribal leaders advised the governor
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Take advantage of cards instead of it being the other way around.
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As I&#39;ve said before, I don&#39;t think Harrah&#39;s Entertainment (NYSE: HET) could have hoped for much better. Late last month, casino operator Harrah&#39;s and merger partner Caesars
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Dating, negotiating, fragging and making money.  Play and its consequences.
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The Motley Fool - I have vivd memories of a certain consulting engagement where I resided at a one-star motel (having put off making my reservations until the last minute). While the staff was excellent, the motel was a bit lacking in terms of ironing boards and conditioner -- nothing the nearby CVS couldn't solve.
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THE World Trade Organisations (WTO) has told the US to dump its ban on offshore Internet gambling. Currently the US does not allow its citizens to place bets in those nasty foreign online casinos and the tiny
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Regulation of online betting on the cards
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Last weekend, when the U.S. Congress  passed a bill making it illegal for banks and credit-card  companies to make payments to Internet gambling sites, a legion  of online gamblers were sent scrambling to find new ways to  place their bets.