It’s not hard to figure out why online casinos are popular with college students. In the States, it’s the only casino action someone under the age of land-based casinos can find. They can’t play in the local casinos because they’re too young. Online casinos have age limits of 18 years, so all you need is a credit card. And it’s not hard to get a credit card when you start university; there’s someone in the common areas shoving an application in your face every day.

When most of your friends are playing poker online, or you hear about a guy down the hall that won $5000 on the slots, it’s hard not to give it try. This group of players is an important target market for the casinos because players are young and can turn into lifelong customers. Lots of money is spent on advertising the casino lifestyle to this demographic group.

On Friday (Jan. 25) the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas was feeling the heat. A fire on the roof of the 32 story building forced guests and gamblers to flee.

It was around mid-morning when the fire took hold and spread across the rooftop façade, mostly made of a foam building material.

Five people were hospitalized, including four who reported difficulty breathing and one with an unspecified minor injury, said John Wilson the general manager of ambulance companies American Medical Response and Medic West.

“All of them were as a result of the evacuation,” said Wilson, “not because of the fire itself.”

Investigators are trying to determine whether the fire had simply burned the resort’s façade or penetrated rooms. The Monte Carlo guests were directed to several nearby hotels and the several hundred employees were being fed and housed at the MGM Grand Arena.

Huge crowds formed to watch the fire, and traffic on Strip was gridlocked as streets were blocked off around the hotel. At the nearby casinos patrons drank and watched the blaze on the T.V. The Associated Press reported that gamblers continued to playing on the Monte Carlo casino floor while the hotel was being evacuated.

Currently clean up of the fire is under way and it is still not clear when the 3,000-room casino-hotel will re-open for business.

Dan Kulin, the Clark County spokesman says fire officials are still waiting for the company to remover or secure the burned exterior façade to prevent debris from falling down.

The plans for the biggest casino resort to ever come to Atlantic City have taken another step forward. The MGM Mirage has reported that they have filed for a State environment permit for the $5B mega casino they intend to build in the city’s inlet section. It will go up next to the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, which MGM is partial owner of through a joint venture with Boyd Gaming Group.

The Resort will have 3,000 rooms and the city’s largest casino. It’s expected to have 5,000 slot machines, 200 table games and a huge poker room by the time it’s opened some time in 2012. There are also plans for a 1,500 seat theatre, a variety of restaurants, a contemporary spa, a 500,000 square foot retail space and convention center. The building will also be the tallest in the city and will dominate the skyline of the resort town.

According to the Nevada State Gaming Control Board, Nevada made $108M in profit from the game of baccarat in the month of October. That means there are a lot of people playing the game. So has baccarat taken the gambling world by storm? Not quite. Don’t expect to be seeing the World Series of Baccarat just yet. Just because the State had a good month on the baccarat tables doesn’t mean that everyone is playing.

This game is for the elite gamer, and will never be as mainstream as a game like poker or blackjack. Baccarat is the type of game that can periodically hit the house hard. The right kind of high roller can come into town and take huge amounts of money from the house, greatly changing normal profit margins. It’s still slots that drive casino revenues, and table games are nowhere near changing that yet.

Dice are the oldest gaming implements known to man!! It’s known that prehistoric man used dice much like ours, played dice games similar to our own and even cheated his opponents with loaded dice!

However, before dice became gaming pieces, these little numbered cubes were used as magical devices for divining the future. Astragalomancy is the practice of divination by the means of dice.

It’s guessed that primitive man probably used cubical knucklebones or the ankle bones of sheep for his gaming pieces. The Arabic word for knucklebone is in fact, the same for dice. Even today that’s probably why slang for dice is known as “bones”.

Archaeologists have shown that dice predate the written word, and can be found in almost every culture in the world, including the American Indian, Eskimo, and African. Excavations in Egypt have turned up stone dice dating from 2,000 BC that look remarkably similar to the modern thing.

These days modern man has improved both the manufacturing of dice and also the methods of loading them. Made from usually cellulose or plastic, there are basically 2 varieties, “casino” dice and “drugstore” dice.

Casinos dice are hand made, sawed from plastic rods, and are perfectly cubical to within one five thousandth of an inch. Each spot is drilled precisely 17 thousandths of an inch into the face, then it is filled with paint weighing exactly the same as the plastic removed from the hole. This keeps all sides of the dice balanced. Balanced is great but we’ve all heard of loaded dice. This is when some kind of weight is placed inside of the dice against one face so the opposite side will come up more often then one might expect.

Despite everything out there dice remain, quite simply, the best way of introducing chance to any game, no matter how complex. As the title of one of Mallarme’s most famous pomes, “A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance.”

The new Millionaire Casino is the first online casino that caters to high rollers. They have the highest betting limits online and offer the latest technology available. The software is from Vegas Technologies with a 98.1% payout percentage. They’ve got over 80 casino games to choose from, so any gaming taste can be downloaded for action faster than any other software online.

The casino will match any buy-in of $350 or less and there is 25% on Monday’s first buy-in, 50% on Wednesday and 100% on Friday, all limited to a ceiling of $250. You must wager 20 times the buy-in and bonus combined, before you qualify for the bonuses. Banking options are another area where this casino stands out. Because it appeals to high rollers, the banking process is the best online.

Millionaire Casino is the latest evolution of cyber-casinos to provide the gamer with the most realistic casino experience possible.

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2.   http://www.gambling-win.com/blog/  is an open form with archives as far back as May 2006.

3.   http://www.ocsa.us/ is a casino news blog with two years of archives.

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