Land-Based Casinos Archive

Strike finally ends at four BC Canada Casinos in Okanagan area. After 19 excruciatingly long weeks, the strike at British Columbia’s Okanagan casinos is finally over. More than 700 employees will be able to return to work this week; confident that their wages and benefits will be worth the time and effort they spend...

Corporate greed puts end to freebies in Las Vegas casinos. If you’re a part of the so-called Millennial generation, you probably have no idea how cheap Vegas casinos once were. For the rest of you who are old enough to remember the days before the recession of the early 1990s, you may remember a...

The truth about Video Blackjack, strategy, and why these games are disappearing from casinos. In years past, almost every casino with a table games license – for the electronic or live dealer variety – offered a game called “video blackjack”. Imagine a typical video poker machine that deals electronic, single-player blackjack games, rather than...

Beware casinos that advertise “up to 98% return on slot machines”. Have you ever walked into a casino and seen a big banner or on-screen promotion that promotes incredible slot machine payouts? It might say something like “loosest slots in town”, or “up to 98% returns”. Does it make you want to play those...

Evolution launches another Dual Play Live Casino, featuring live dealer roulette from Palm Beach Casino in London. Evolution Gaming has been specializing in the live dealer casino business for more than a decade. The company’s more recent introduction of Dual Play casino games brings genuine land-based casino action direct to players via desktop, laptop,...

Top 10 worst gambling losses per capita by country. Here in Canada, most of us don’t see gambling as a problem. Then again, most of us don’t spend a large amount of money gambling—or at least, we don’t think we do. That’s because most of us don’t consider the lottery to be gambling. If...

Are too many reels and too many paylines just too much for relaxing online slots players to enjoy? People often complain that the carpets lining casino gaming floors are just too busy. So many blaring colors, not quite melding together. They are indeed hard to look at. This is intentional, though. It keeps the...

Online gambling fraud puts Paddy Power Betfair next in line for UKGC paddling with £2.2 million fine imposed. The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) continues its warpath this week, with Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) being the latest target. Following an investigation into criminal betting and failure to protect problem gamblers, the Irish company will...

What does it take for the UKGC to strip an online gambling license? We may never know… News reports from the UK Gambling Commission this morning were shocking, at least for this writer. Over the last many months, we’ve seen the UKGC raining fines down on internet gambling operators who violate the region’s strict...

Blackjack Deck Size Matters: Fewer decks means bigger payouts with basic strategy. To the less experienced, logically thinking player, it would seem that the number of decks used to play blackjack has no impact on the game or its house edge. With a standard 52-card deck, there are four of each card. Increase to...