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Suffolk OTB will break ground on a $210 million expansion of Jake’s 58 Casino Hotel ahead of its competitors vying for the coveted NYC casino licenses. “We’re not vying for one of the licenses, and as a matter of fact, I think that wherever those casinos are located, we are going to be able to compete very well,” Suffolk OTB CEO Phil Boyle told the Post. The expansion — the first since the casino opened in 2017 — is expected to increase annual revenue by as much as 42% and double terminals to 2,000 and increase parking from 600 spaces...

VIDEOAll night we kept going up and then down then up and then down. Here is a sample when we were $1 down. Normally when we lose our entire $20 we initially put into the slots we stop but it was February 10, Chinese New Year, so I "splurged" with an extra buck into the slots and... we were up again! The problem was that even though we hit a bunch of lucky spins they did not yield much. At the end of the evening we lost our $20 but, hey, we had fun with that whole Chinese New Year...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The COVID pandemic forced most U.S. casinos to close for months, causing payrolls, revenue and earnings to tumble. But the forced shutdowns and highly regulated recoveries also taught the industry useful lessons that will endure even after the pandemic is a distant memory, panelists at a major casino conference said Thursday. Speaking at the East Coast Gaming Congress, executives from several major regional gambling companies and one of the world’s largest said the changes they were forced to make because of the pandemic had some benefits.

Steve Cohen has finally laid his cards on the table. The billionaire Mets owner finally unveiled his long-awaited Queens casino plan Tuesday — revealing a sprawling $8 billion gaming center, hotel, and music venue near Citi Field that he has dubbed “Metropolitan Park” after the team’s full corporate name. The proposed entertainment playground, which will be operated with Cohen by Hard Rock International, also offers the community goodies such as 20 acres of green space and access to Flushing Bay. “It’s time the world’s greatest city got the sports and entertainment park it deserves,” said Cohen.

Detroit's casino workers are currently on strike after union contracts expired at all three of the city’s gambling facilities. Walkouts in Motor City began Tuesday at noon, carried out by some 3,700 casino workers across five unions. The Detroit Casino Council, the body that represents the procession, has been seeking better wages and benefits - a common theme in the US as of late as the cost of living continues to sky-rocket. Strikes, as a result, have been widespread - with nearly 34,000 autoworkers also striking in the city, and more than 160,000 Hollywood actors still seeking higher wages and...

VIDEOThe last time we went to the casino a couple of weeks ago, Lady Luck blessed my wife with net winnings of almost $400. This time it wasn't that much but at $230 net (after deducting our original $20 and the final $20 when we stopped cold turkey) it wasn't nothing to sneeze at. As I mentioned in this video that amount would pay (using GroupOn) for three the Brazilian Steakhouse dinners for both of us. The big secret of WINNING is to RESPECT Lady Luck by QUITTING when ahead. By doing this Lady Luck continually blesses my wife and,...

VIDEOIt's absolutely AMAZING how lucky my wife is at the casino. Many of you have seen my previous videos of just how lucky my wife is. We came out of the Caesar's casino in Pompano Beach (where the old harness track was) as winners FIVE TIMES in a row. However, a month ago on the sixth try there we LOST. That's the bad news. However the GOOD NEWS is that due to our money management we only lost $20. We took that as a sign that Lady Luck didn't want us to take too much of an advantage with my...

VIDEONot only did my wife WIN again at Piggy Penny slots on July 14 but we were entertained by the spectacle of a masked LOSER who had lost hundreds, possibly, over a thousand dollars on the same machine right near us. As you can see we stuck to our strategy of playing only the initial $20 and cashing out while ahead and to play that same $20 again until it was played out. Thus by respecting Lady Luck we are also rewarded by Lady Luck in stark contrast to the angry LOSER near us who melted down upon seeing my...

A trial for a Las Vegas police officer accused of stealing nearly $165,000 in a series of casino heists is set to begin Monday with prosecutors painting him as a gambling addict who grew increasingly desperate under a crush of debt. Prosecutors claim Caleb Rogers, 35, carried out three robberies over a span of four months while armed with a weapon issued by the police department. Rogers' attorney, Richard Pocker, said the government's evidence allegedly tying Rogers to two of the robberies is weak. He accused the FBI and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detectives of pressuring two people, including...

VIDEOMy wife loves the images of fat rich piggies on slot machines so, naturally, on July 3 she played the machines with that porcine image. Our strategy, as always, was to put $20 into the slots and to cash out whenever the winnings go over about $30. That way the most we can lose for the evening would be limited to the initial $20 in the machine. After cashing out we place another $20 in the machine and if we lose that then we are done for the day. However, if we win again we repeat the process of cashing...

VIDEOAfter some really spooky events yesterday morning concerning the upload and posting of my J6 Pipe Bomber video, things shifted gear dramatically for the better for me that evening. In this video, you can see yet another example of my wife being blessed again by Lady Luck at the casino. As typically happens, she was down to almost nothing but then suddenly the winds of fortune suddenly reversed. This happens so frequently that it is eerie (but I'm not complaining).

In the aftermath, the Trump administration signed off on a bump-stock ban that went into effect in 2018. It’s been challenged in the courts. We never got a solid motive for Paddock’s rampage, only a lot of conjecture. Every avenue regarding this investigation wound up being a dead end. For years, we knew nothing about Paddock’s motivations for committing mass murder until now, but skepticism abounds as the new theory is that the casinos were mistreating him. After nearly a decade of investigating, Paddock committed the worst mass shooting by a single person in US history because he felt disrespected...

This clip is from 1979 Harry Reid vs Frank Rosenthal This clip of Rosenthal’s meltdown at a Gaming Commission meeting, then chaired by future senator Reid – taken from Ned Day and Robert Stoldal’s series “Mob on the Run” for KLAS TV – became the basis for a fictionalized scene in Casino (1996). Both Reid and Rosenthal survived subsequent car-bombing attempts. Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont, Marina, and Hacienda casinos in the 70s, was formally banned from Nevada casinos in ‘87.

VIDEOIt was January 29, 2023, the first morning at sea of our Celebrity Apex cruise to the Eastern Caribbean with the Steve Kane Radio Show group and I was digging in to my beloved smoked salmon in the Ocean View Café. Suddenly my wife's eyes widened dramatically and her mouth dropped open in astonishment as she looked past my shoulder. I turned to look and what I saw was easily the most BRILLIANT rainbow I have ever seen. Yes, I also saw a rainbow during our Celebrity Equinox cruise to the Southern Caribbean back in September but this latest rainbow...

1978 Frank ”Lefty” Rosenthal (Sam “Ace” Rothstein) Vs. Gaming Control Board. ACTUAL FOOTAGE real historical footage of the scene portrayed in the movie “Casino”.

When a gang of gambling cheats sussed out how to beat the house, they inadvertently highlighted a loophole from a shuffled deck. It took a magician-turned-mathematician to reveal how. Their company manufactured precision card-shuffling machines for casinos. Thousands of their mechanical shufflers were in operation in Las Vegas and around the world. The rental fees brought in millions of dollars each year, and the company was listed on the New Stock Exchange. However, the executives had recently discovered that one of their machines had been hacked by a gang of hustlers. The gang used a hidden video camera to record...

“You have to stop and realize how much it’s changed you,” - snip - Yet five years since the massacre at Route 91, little else has, when it comes to mass shootings in the U.S. The suspect, a 64-year-old white man who took his own life by the time authorities entered his room, was identified, yet no motive was ever determined. - snip - And the survivors, traumatized and struggling to heal — an estimated 22,000 people attended the festival’s third day — find it hard to agree upon anything. Even the official death toll is a point of fierce...

The No. 2 officer at the military command in charge of all U.S. nuclear war-fighting forces is suspected in a case involving counterfeit gambling chips at a western Iowa casino and has been suspended from his duties, officials said.Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina has not been arrested or charged, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation special agent David Dales said Saturday. The state investigation is ongoing.Giardina, deputy commander at U.S. Strategic Command, was suspended on Sept. 3 and is under investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a Strategic Command spokeswoman said.The highly unusual action against a high-ranking officer at Strategic...

Native American mascots are being phased out around the country at every level of sports, but four Connecticut school districts are still hanging onto theirs for dear life. And it's going to cost them. School districts for Derby, Killingly, Windsor, and Woodbury/Bethlehem are choosing to defy the state law which bars schools with Native American mascots from receiving tribal funding, Alex Putterman of CT Insider reported Wednesday.

U.S. stocks plunged Thursday, giving back nearly all the gains from the biggest single-day rally for the S&P 500 in two years, as Treasury yields jumped and investors peeled away from a Fed-induced rally and looked to the impact of the near-term rate hikes on growth prospects for the world's biggest economy. The Federal Reserve, as expected, boosted its benchmark Fed Funds rate by 50 basis points, to a range of 0.75% to 1%, while detailing the first official plans to reduce its $8.9 trillion balance sheet. Chairman Jerome Powell, however, added a dovish caveat to the decision, suggesting that...