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May 08, 2007
One of the oldest game in the world is Craps. We want to offer to test this game. You will not regret about spent time. 'Craps' is a game that can be as simple or as complicated as you desire. Everything depends on the bets you're placing. At its core, craps is a table game played by several players, with one of the players (the one who rolls the dice) called the "shooter." It involves the shooter rolling the dice, and all of the players betting on the numbers that come up or don't come up. Players place bets before the shooter rolls the dice.
May 01, 2007
Washington was one of the first states in the USA to make online gambling illegal by its residents. They even went as far as making gambling on the Internet a Class C felony.
However, it seems that now some level-headed representatives in the local legislature are rethinking the issue, as a bill has passed both the state Senate and House which provides protection for the people.
House bill 1243 provides affirmative defense to unlawful internet gambling if the defendant committed the offense in his or her primary residence, as long as it is for personal enjoyment, and not to operate a website which derives income from transmitting or receiving gambling information. The previous bill was also amended to reflect the changes.
The affiliate side of the business is very unclear. The meaning of "gambling information" as defined by the bill reads:
"Gambling information" means any wager made in the course of and any information intended to be used for professional gambling. In the application of this definition, information as to wagers, betting odds and changes in betting odds shall be presumed to be intended for use in professional gambling. This section shall not apply to newspapers of general circulation or commercial radio and television stations licensed by the federal communications commission.
From the definition it is clear that sports betting portals which do not process wagers, but publish and/or update betting odds are considered illegal. However, casino gambling and casino games are not mentioned anywhere in the definition of "gambling information", which may prove to be a loophole for online casino oriented websites. Furthermore, the definition of "professional gambling" seems to be more land-base oriented, as the words "Internet" or "website" have not been mentioned. It seems then that interpretations could swing both ways, depending on the judge who would preside over case of this nature.
The House bill 1243, is currently referred to the Committee on Commerce & Labor, and still needs to be signed by the Governor of the State of Washington, before it takes effect.
 April 17, 2007
Japan would be a latecomer to a gambling boom across the region, which is looking to Las Vegas-style super casinos to entice more tourists, with two huge complexes springing up in Singapore to take on the Chinese enclave of Macau. Taiwan is considering lifting its ban on casinos while Thailand is also seen as likely to relax its gaming laws in the coming years.
"Nowadays casinos are not considered to be evil places, whereas they might have been considered so 20 years ago," said Aaron Fischer, an analyst who follows gaming at the investment bank CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. "Across Asia over the last few years you’ve been seeing legalisation of casinos including in Singapore and Macau," he noted, predicting that Japan would follow suit within the next few years.
Lawmakers from Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) are already drawing up proposals to allow a handful of huge Vegas-style casinos, which could open their doors within a few years.
Almost half of the lower house of parliament - including some opposition lawmakers - supports the general idea of legalising casinos, said Toru Mihara, adviser to the LDP’s casino study group. "If we can create legal structures within one or two years to come, maybe in 2012 casinos in Japan will start to operate," he told AFP in an interview.
The major US casino operators are already regular visitors to Japan, networking and lobbying behind the scenes to try to secure a lucrative contract in the world’s second-largest economy, Mihara said. "They are totally keen on this potential big market," he added.
But local entertainment companies are also expected to be involved as the government will be reluctant to hand over to foreign operators alone what some experts say is almost a licence to print money. So US giants such as Las Vegas Sands and Harrah’s Entertainment could team up with Japanese companies such as Sega Sammy, Konami or Aruze to build huge entertainment complexes including casinos, analysts said.
Although illegal backroom casinos exist in Japan, the only gambling officially open to the country’s population of 128 million is on horse, speedboat and bicycle racing and lotteries.
But anyone in doubt of Japan’s love of a flutter need look no further than the nation’s multi-billion dollar pachinko industry, which attracts some 17 million punters, from salarymen to pensioners and even young women. Pachinko, a Japanese version of pinball played in thousands of noisy parlours across the country, is not officially defined as gambling, because prizes have to be exchanged outside the premises for cash. "There are approximately 5.5 million pachinko and pachislot machines here in Japan. If you count this as similar to slot machines, we’re the biggest casino country in the world," said Mihara.
Add to that the growing number of wealthy Chinese who could jet in to Tokyo for a weekend, and the casinos would not likely be short of punters, he said. Only about 8.1 million tourists visited Japan in 2006, while Las Vegas attracted a record 38.9 million visitors and Macau 22 million.
Tokyo and the southern island region of Okinawa are seen as likely locations for the first casinos. So far the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, struggling in the polls, is taking a softly softly approach, apparently wary of a voter backlash ahead of elections for the upper house of parliament in July.
Although widely popular, the pachinko industry is dogged by criticism of gambling addiction as well as alleged links to organised crime and even Kim Jong-Il’s North Korea. Although casinos are expected to attract a different type of punter, Mihara said their legalisation could eventually kill off the popular pinball game if authorities subsequently decided to crack down on the murky world of pachinko.
April 15, 2007
We are glad to show our new game – one-handed bandit! The legendary one-handed bandit is an American invention which now brings about two-thirds of the total US casinos’ revenue. Initially being purely mechanical devices, slot machines are now controlled by microelectronics. For over a century, the slot reels count has increased from 3 to 5 and the symbol count has grown from 20 to several hundred. Slot machine can be defined as the ‘essence of luck’ as the only skills necessary to play are putting the money into the machine and pulling the lever to operate it. Also, you may want to collect your wins on occasion.
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