Thanks to our correspondent, Simon Liddle, who wrote us: Police in Switzerland are hunting a gang of armed gunmen that held up a casino and made off with hundreds of thousands of francs in the early hours of Sunday morning. Reports say that the 10 gunmen smashed their way through Grand Casino Basel’s revolving door [...]
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Posted on March 30, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Stories, Strategy
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This happened on Sunday morning, Mar. 28. What I’m hearing from my contacts in Switzerland is that a group of masked bandits hit a casino in Basel, stealing a reported hundreds of thousands of Swiss francs. Police said about 10 men in black robbed the Grand Casino in Basel. They arrived in two Audi sedans [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Casino, Europe, news
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Well, OK, the Saints ain’t the Aints anymore. They the Super Bowl champs. But Louisiana has something else to crow about, folks. Revenues. Casino gambling is making a comeback and Louisiana is reaping the benefits. Louisiana’s state-licensed casinos reported winning 10 percent morein February from gamblers than in January. The 13 riverboat casinos, Harrah’s Entertainment [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Casino, news, Riverboat Gambling
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Another state in need of money is asking to expand the number of licensed casinos within its borders. Always happens. Legislators against gambling, but who need money to balance their budgets, turn to…what else? Gambling. That’s what is happening in Iowa. Iowa now has 17 state licensed casinos, but the governor, Chet Culver, is saying [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Casino, Culture, Games
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Remember when you were a kid and all those TV shows took place in Dodge City, which was kind of the edge of the western frontier, where crooks and the law met? Remember Matt Dillon and Chester and Miss Kitty. And the gambling. Miss Kitty ran a casino, you know? Now the state is running [...]
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Posted on March 4, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Casino, Culture, news, Stories
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