The Grand West Casino is part of Sun International Resorts and is truly a top notch destination for gamblers in search of luck and fun. Tables In exquisite grandeur, players can place their bets on the spin of the wheel or the turn of a card, showcase their skill and participate in tournaments. With a total of 76 gaming tables in GrandWest’s Smoking and Non-Smoking Casinos guests are invited to the most thrilling entertainment experience in South Africa’s Western Cape. With 76 gaming tables – including Blackjack, Rais’em Poker, Easy Poker, Stud Poker,  Blackjack Switch, Blackjack Perfect Pairs, Diamond Rush, […]

There is a Fundamental Theorem of Algebra and a Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. So it’s about time to introduce the Fundamental Theorem of Poker. Poker, like all card games, is a game of incomplete information, which distinguishes it from board games like chess, backgammon, and checkers, where you can always see what your opponent is doing. If everybody’s cards were showing at all times, there would always be a precise, mathematically correct play for each player. Any player who deviated from his correct play would be reducing his mathematical expectation and increasing the expectation of his opponents. Of course, if […]

The selling project of Constanta’s Casino, being on the daily schedule of the Local Council, has been postponed. The councelors agreed that a local survey should take place and let the people of Constanta to decide what would happen to the symbolical building at the Black Sea. The mayor Radu Mazare declared that a decision would come after the survey takes place in the next three weeks.

Teen patti (“three cards” in English), also called Flash, is a gambling card game that originated in India and became popular in South Asia. How to start the game The game starts with one of the players dealing the cards. The cards are usually dealt counter-clockwise. Before starting the game, usually an agreed number of card(s) is/are picked or dealt to decide the dealer for the opening hand. Each player may be required to put up an ante into the pot before picking/dealing the card(s). The winning player gets the pot. The relative rankings of the card(s) may also decide […]

We bring you the part 2 in our story about Las Vegas, aka Sin City. This time, about El Rancho, the first resort opened in town and Bugsy Siegel and his Flamingo. El Rancho When Thomas Hull opened the El Rancho Vegas on April 3, 1941, it was part of his “El Rancho” chain, including similar hotels in Sacramento, California, and Bakersfield, California. El Rancho Vegas was the first resort on what would become the Las Vegas Strip. It was designed by architect Wayne McAllister and offered horseback riding, a large swimming pool and top shows in the “Round-Up Room” […]

The methodological norms for OUG no. 77/2009 regarding the organization and operation of gambling (part 2) Art. 73^2 (1)   In order to achieve the technical control, monitorization and report for gambling as online betting, online bingo, online gaming, organized through the communication systems as internet and telephone, the commission will name institutions or state authorities licensed for this purpose, or will license economical operators as monitorization and report operators for the online gaming market, for a period of 5 years (2) if the monitorization and report operator will be an institution or state authority, the attributions and competencies will be […]

Australia is the only place in the world that allows online wagering on sport but prevents gamblers from using the internet to place bets during live games. But that may soon change as the government has agreed to review laws following intensive lobbying from the country’s major sports bodies. Slot machines — known locally as pokies — are by far Australia’s favorite game, with an estimated 75-80 percent of problem gamblers hooked on them, according to the country’s Productivity Commission. New South Wales, with 100,000 poker machines accounts for half of the nation’s total number of poker machines. According to […]

With multi-million dollar swings in the biggest games anywhere online, no single player has had more of an impact on the world of poker in recent times than Viktor ‘Isildur1′ Blom. By now, there is no one in poker who doesn’t know the legend of Isildur1. With a poker nickname ripped from “Lord of the Rings,” the wunderkind seemed to come out of nowhere to challenge and beat the biggest names in the game. Within days of his arrival on the scene, he had earned the respect of poker’s top players. The question that rang out in every room was, […]

The members of Team PokerStars Pro ruled the 42nd annual edition of World Series of Poker. Eugene Katchalov, Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Jason Mercier, Andre Akkari and Maxim Lykov won the most wanted WSOP bracelet. Through their Ukrainean, French, American, Brazilian and Russian representatives, the PokerStars team totalized a 2,38 million dollars winnings at this years’s championship, winning tournaments at Texas Hold’em, Omaha and Stud – basic styles of poker.