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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...

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 clips of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” supplied to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Campos reviewed the events of the shooting, recounting how he was alerted to check on a door that was ajar. He said he was on the stairwell going from the 31st to the 32nd floor and came upon a door that was blocked and wouldn’t open. So he rerouted through a hallway and called security dispatch to get an engineer to check on the blocked door. Campos said he then heard drilling sounds and believed the slamming of the heavy door he passed through to get to...

Indian tribes seek federal bailout money for casinos A native-American tribe struggling to keep its Foxwoods Resort Casino in the red is now turning to the U.S. government for a helping hand. The Associated Press reports that the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation has already received more than $4.5 million in grants from the Department of Health and Human Services and from the Interior Department in the last five years. But now members are facing tough times with its casino — which used to be a billion-dollar empire — and are looking at the government for more grants, AP says. Critics...

Okay, I admit it. I'm ADDICTED to the Cleopatra slot machine. My wife even more than I am. To find out why, check out this VIDEO of a Cleopatra slot machine in action with its incredibly alluring sound effects...especially the "BOING" sounds of the bonus Sphinxes. Normally the Cleopatra machines benefit those with INCREDIBLE will power since they will give FREQUENT payouts because they know most people will continue playing until they LOSE. However, over the past few years we are over $400 ahead. A word of warning here. There are more than one type of Cleopatra slot machine. They...

A San Diego mother is suing Chuck E. Cheese, the favorite pizza chain of kids across the nation, accusing the restaurant of illegal gambling. Denise Keller, mother of two daughters, says Chuck E. Cheese has replaced its traditional games of skee-ball and whack-a-mole with machines that resemble slot machines, Capitol Weekly reported. The lawsuit says that “many games found at Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurants are illegal gambling devices that require little or no skill and are predominantly games of chance, much like a roulette wheel,” according to the paper. Keller’s attorney, Eric Benink, said the games have flashing lights and...

An advertisement on the radio yesterday and today caught my attention. The ad scarcastically says "Thank You" to Texas for sending many of its gaming dollars to Louisiana for horse racing, casinos, etc. and for causing "thousands" of good-paying jobs to go to Louisiana along with support for "schools". I wonder when the media is going to investigate lies like this instead of fawning over Obama. Research shows gambling to clearly be detrimental to society and especially to the poor of society. Go look at the areas where casinos are rife in Louisiana and research the societal ills that come...

Southern California gamblers can try their luck this weekend on shiny new slot machines just days after voters approved four Indian gambling expansion plans. Workers have been busy installing some of the 17,000 slot machines allowed in new deals approved by voters Tuesday for four tribes. The new deals, known as amended compacts, allow the tribes to expand in exchange for sharing their slot-machine revenue with the state. The first payments, expected to be more than $40 million, are due to the state at the end of the fiscal year June 30, according to the governor's office's lowest estimates. That...

Scientists Invent Robots That Lie, Real Bender Closer Than Ever Holy crap! The Age of The Machines is nigh: a bunch of scientists in Switzerland have created learning robots that can lie to each other. Okay, so they don't swill beer or put bends in girders—they just communicate to each other with benign flashing lights, thank goodness, instead of using lasers to destroy humans: The team at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Federal Institute of Technology created the little experimental learning devices to work in groups and hunt for "food" targets nearby while avoiding "poison." Imagine their surprise...

Philadelphia Park opened southeastern Pennsylvania's first slot-machine parlor and the second statewide yesterday, attracting gamblers who said they were happy for a local alternative to the casinos in Atlantic City. Hundreds of people poured in when the doors opened shortly after 11:30 a.m. and began stuffing bills into the machines, and the ca sino enjoyed a brisk business in its first hours of operation. Ines Beiez, 47, a North Philadelphia woman who was one of the first to sit down at a machine, said Philadelphia Park would become her gambling destination of choice. Although she was a frequent patron of...

LOS ANGELES A deal signed Tuesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would allow two of California's richest Indian tribes to vastly expand the number of slot machines in their casinos in return for paying billions of dollars to the state. The agreement amends existing gaming compacts with the Temecula-based Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians in San Bernardino County. "These compacts are a great deal for the state, the tribe and the local communities," Schwarzenegger said in a statement. The deal must also be approved by the Legislature. The announcement came just a day...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (April 19) - For 84-year-old Josephine Crawford, the golden years just got a lot more golden. After a night playing the slot machines, the retired waitress widow was about to call it quits Tuesday when she hit a $10 million jackpot - the biggest in the history of casino gambling in Atlantic City. Crawford, who gambles here twice a week and has been going to the casinos since the first one opened in 1978, had never won more than $1,000 before she came into the big money at the nickel slots at Harrah's Atlantic City. The widow...

SACRAMENTO – A year after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to give a group of American Indian tribes unlimited gaming, slot machines bearing the likeness of his most famous movie character have started to arrive in California. The curious sequence of events raised some eyebrows within the gambling industry, but the governor's aides say he is not getting any of the action from the Terminator slots. The machines, a bank of which were recently installed at the Viejas casino in east San Diego County, are the latest in a line that slot-giant International Game Technology has been developing for several years....

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The state House narrowly voted Friday to legalize slot machines in Maryland, bringing Gov. Robert Ehrlich one step closer to fulfilling one of his biggest campaign promises. The Senate previously adopted an Ehrlich-backed measure that calls for far more machines. If the two versions can be reconciled, the bill will go to governor, a Republican who for three years in a row has submitted legislation to legalize slots. The House bill passed with 71 votes, the minimum number required. "This is not my bill," the governor said, but added: "It's not over yet. We know that. We...

After losing three efforts to expand gambling in the past quarter century, supporters of a state constitutional amendment that could put slot machines at seven South Florida racetracks and frontons claimed victory on Thursday. Buoyed by the results of absentee and provisional ballots and the repair of a glitch in Broward County's counting machinery, Amendment 4 passed by a more than 93,000-vote margin. "This is a great day because education was a big winner today, $500 million a year to help our schools and to help our kids," said former state Education Commissioner Jim Horne, chief spokesman for the proponents....

Pennsylvania Governor OKs Gambling Bill By PATRICK WALTERS, Associated Press Writer BENSALEM, Pa. - Gov. Ed Rendell signed laws on Monday authorizing 61,000 slot machines in Pennsylvania — more than any other state except Nevada — and using most of the state's share to pay for a $1 billion cut in property taxes a year. Revenue from the slot machines, which would be located at 14 sites, including seven horse tracks, would be used to cut property taxes by an average 20 percent. Rendell, a Democrat who had made slots-for-tax-relief the centerpiece of his 2002 election campaign, signed the bills...

SACRAMENTO -- No one knows how much money is plunked into slot machines and passed across blackjack tables each year at California's 54 Indian casinos, but events last week provided a breathtaking clue. When representatives of five gaming tribes sat down with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and signed new compacts that could usher in an era of unlimited gambling at Indian casinos, they promised to pay a combined $100 million a year to secure a bond that would pump $1 billion into the state this year. How was that $100 million figure arrived at? It represents at least 10 percent of...

Ehrlich respects his elders, especially the good ol' boys Dan Rodricks Originally published Jan 22, 2004 IGUESS BOBBY Governor's next big announcement will be that he's bringing Joe Staszak (see note at the end of this column) back from the dead to serve as racino commissioner. I like what I've been seeing in the Ehrlich administration -- giving the old guys another round. It's like they're dispensing political Viagra on State Circle. Our governor is young, he's dynamic, he has virtually no sideburns, and he's very respectful of the elderly, particularly the been-there-done-that pols who were hot when Mandel...

Proposed gambling initiative wouldn't help state budget Cardrooms, racetracks could get slot machines SACRAMENTO – A proposed ballot measure that could expand casino gambling in California would generate at least $1 billion a year, but none of that would go to help close the state’s massive budget deficit, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office. The initiative targeted for the November ballot asks all of the state’s Indian casinos to give 25 percent of their gross winnings to the state. If any tribe refuses, a select group of horse racetracks and cardrooms would get to divide 30,000 slot machines. The...

<p>OWENSBORO, Ky. – Democrat Ben Chandler opened the door to gambling in Owensboro during a debate between gubernatorial candidates in the Ohio River city yesterday, but turned his back on a higher cigarette tax.</p> <p>Republican nominee Ernie Fletcher, who says he doesn't support expanded gambling but wouldn't oppose passage of it as governor, said Chandler is changing his tune from place to place. Fletcher said any gambling proposal must not hurt Owensboro.</p>