Has this ever happened to you? You spend hours, sometimes days memorizing the right playing strategy and correct odds for your favorite casino game and then your mind draws a blank when you're playing.

This scenario plays out day in and day out in casinos all across America. Novice players are especially prone to mental lapses due to the exciting and fast pace casino environment. It even happens at times to experienced players. So, if recalling facts is not your cup of tea, I've got help for you.

Doubling down on soft hands is always troublesome a playing situation. For example, how you would play ace-5 with the dealer showing a 4? How about ace-6 against a dealer's 5? My friend and fellow gambling writer Fred Renzey (author of Blackjack Bluebook) came up with 3 rules including a handy "Rule of Nine" to help you make the right play...

The betting and gaming business has been hard hit as a result of big wins by cyber crooks. Research indicates that by 2005 there will be 15 million online gamblers generating a turnover of $30 billion.

Recently we have witnessed damage that has been caused by extortionists and hacker rings flooding online betting sites with cyber crimes. Recognising this rapidly spiralling problem, a brand new conference has been launched addressing this and other issues associated with combating cyber crime within the betting and gaming industry...

Professional blackjack player and strategy creator Andrew Johnson also known as AJ just launched his winning blackjack course at his own website.

He will be teaching how he has been making a fortune literally robbing the casinos legally for years playing blackjack without the use of the now famous card counting strategies which the casinos combat by banning professional players.

Blackjack has long been considered one of the few games where you, the gambler, can achieve an edge over the casino. For some reason the casinos seem to think that after you have mastered the game of blackjack that you, the honest gambler, needs to be penalized.

CALGARY - Premier Ralph Klein says smoking bans are "useless," advancing the argument on Wednesday that people in provinces with restrictions aren´t healthier than those elsewhere.
Speaking to reporters in Calgary, Klein stood by his refusal last week to enact a provincewide ban on smoking in workplaces, including bars, casinos and bingo halls, saying Albertans choose where they work.

His name is Harvey Dubner and he invented the Point-count System - the system which led to scores of developmental projects, over 100 published blackjack books with the end not yet in sight, blackjack teams, concealed computers and shuffletracking.
Why isn´t Harvey Dubner recognized for his point-count system - a fantastic contribution to the world of blackjack? What is the impact of this early breakthrough on the current state of the art in blackjack card counting systems?

GSN's World Series of Blackjack is back for a second exciting season with 40 of the world's top blackjack players all vying for over half a million dollars and the title of the world's top blackjack player. It starts on the 21st of January and will be aired live.

Shot at the legendary Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, the invitation only tournament will have viewers on the edge of their seats until the final card is drawn.

A lucky blackjack player will have a chance to win $1 million in Resorts Atlantic City's $1 million Blackjack Challenge on New Year's Day.

Through Jan. 1, table-game players can earn entries to be selected as one of six people to compete for the big prize at 10:30 that night.

Customers can earn entries in the following ways: any blackjack at blackjack and Spanish 21; any winning proposition bet or field bet at craps; any winning tie bet at baccarat and mini baccarat; a flush or better at pai gow poker, Let-it-Ride or Caribbean stud; if the ball drops into any red number, zero or double zero at roulette; any pair plus winner at 3 Card Poker; or any bonus winner at Boston 5 stud poker.

Since her appearances on the Game Show Network's "World Series of Blackjack", Midland resident Regina Guzior has a few aces up her sleeve for 2005.

Finishing in fifth place, she came away as the series' top female player, which left an impression on the entertainment community.

The show's producers invited her back for "World Series of Blackjack 2" to broadcast early next year on Charter Communications Channel 65. It finished taping in November in Las Vegas...

The Des Moines Register, citing marketing director Tom Manning, reported that the Altoona casino will ask state regulators next month to approve a $60 million expansion. That's down from a $110 million plan outlined last summer.

The latest plan includes room for an additional 30 table games and 500 new slot machines. But a 200-room hotel and parking garage are not included.

LAS VEGAS -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Today Wynn Resorts, Limited (Nasdaq:WYNN) announced the pricing terms and extension of the previously announced cash tender offer (the "Offer") by Wynn Las Vegas, LLC. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC offered to purchase any and all of the $247,580,000 aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 12.0% Second Mortgage Notes due 2010 (CUSIP No. 983130 AA 3).