A poll carried out by TripAdvisor in United Kingdom revealed interesting information about British gaming preferences. With regards to casino destinations, Las Vegas turned out to be the favorite gambling hotspot. 53% of the voters claimed in favor of this location, situated amid the desert of Nevada. Reno, located on Lake Tahoe, northern Nevada, was second, but with just 4% of the vote. In the third place came Monte Carlo, obtaining 3.3% of the vote, and Atlantic City in New Jersey ended up fourth with only 3%.

While televised poker tournaments generate thousands of dollars, Blackjack remains shy and hidden. Poker professionals and tournament organizers want to change that with the Ultimate Blackjack Tour, a televised blackjack tournament.

Russ Hamilton, winner of the World Series of Poker in 1994, came up with the idea of the new program. He gathered several investors, mainly poker pros, who supplied millions of dollars to film the first 10 episodes at Casino Montelago at Lake Las Vegas.

50 people gathered at Lincoln Park, Enosburg, a few days ago for a candle lightning in memory of the missing teen Brianna Maitland.

Last weekend was the second anniversary of the sudden disappearance of the young girl.

Katie Manning, a high school friend of Maitland’s, says that it is extremely hard for the family and friends not to know her whereabouts.

The owner of a Cyber Café in the Asian nation of Brunei has been declared guilty of illegal gambling charges. The authorities of Kuala Bealit City received a denunciation; the accuser assured that in the Chen Kim Veng’s Cyber Café illegal gambling was taking place.

Based on this information, the police raided the cyber café and found that the Cyber café was offering, beside the usual stuff, casino games such as Blackjack and Roulette.

Although men continue to be the ones that place the higher bets, the number of women that go to the casinos is increasing rapidly, even in games like Blackjack and Roulette.

Poll results show that female players are becoming more and more common; at this point the scale is even, there is the same amount of male and female players. Games like Slots, Bingo and Video Poker are still the ladies’ favorites but everyday more women choose to play Blackjack.

If you think that the legal situation of Poker in the States is unclear, wait to see the current situation of Poker in UK after the changes they made.

Poker rooms owners are waiting the decision that would categorize Poker, because the question remains unanswered: Is Poker a game of chance or is a strategy game?

The players who wish to visit Illinois for a Blackjack, poker or other table game will have to show their driver's licenses before starting the game. A new plan designed by the Illinois Gaming Board establishes that the Illinois casino players must show their driver's licenses at the Casino entrance.

Implanting this method will allow Casino operators to easily recognize compulsive gamblers that are in the Casino "Ban List", it will also prevent minors from entering the Casino premises.

Grand Casino certainly knows how to get the attention of serious and even amateur blackjack players when it announced it was holding a $150,000 blackjack tournament this weekend (Feb.3-5) but with a big kicker…first place was set at a whopping $100,000.

This exceeds by far first place money offered in any Southeastern regional big money blackjack tournament as the standard is usually about $50,000 for a final table win.

There is no doubt: Blackjack.com is, on the one hand, a very functional and well-organized portal, and on the other hand, a fancy site with delicate design and subtle style. It has exactly what blackjack players are looking for: sobriety, organization and quality.

Blackjack.com not only has a wide variety of games, but also a special selection of strategies, a considerable amount of bonus and an efficient online support service. Due to these attributes, Blackjack.com has become a leader in the online blackjack world. However, this situation seems to be changing.

With celebrity marriages often shorter than Jessica Simpson's Daisy Dukes, the power of the prenuptial agreement cannot be denied.

Simpson and soon-to-be-ex-husband Nick Lachey didn't have a prenup so Simpson could have to part with half of the $30 million she earned last year.

Other recent breakups include Valerie Bertinelli and Eddie Van Halen and Christina Applegate and Jonathon Schaech.