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Congratulations are in order for Anastasio K. of AR who while playing a very special combination of slot machines including Ronin and Reel Blood slots managed to score a nice heap of cash totaling $19,735 – making him or top casino winner!

While Anastasio was mapping out his next play here at Bodog Casino, we had a second player hit the big time, Nhung H. from LA who while playing American Roulette won a grand total of $18,476!

Other big casino winners included:

Jeff M. of AR walked away with $12,957 playing Caribbean Stud Poker.
Lucky Karl H. while playing Aztec’s Treasure won a total of $8,725.
Angialea G. of CO played and won $7,998 playing Derby Dollars slots.
Kim T. of TX walked away with $7,858 while playing Blackjack.
Linda W. of CT went under the sea and won $5,900 playing Mermaid Queen.
Ivy B. of CA was a happy camper as she played 3Card and won $5,115.
Michael R. of FL won $4,914.00 playing Caesar’s Empire slots.

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After a three year delay, there was little surprise in the commission’s recommendations that it’s time for South Africa to regulate, license and tax online casino blackjack and other internet casino games in South Africa and that prohibition simply has not worked.

According to casino gambling news, there was little surprise that the commission told the committee MP’s on trade and industry that every form of online gambling in South Africa (as well as poker) should be regulated, taxed and licensed.

“The big elephant in the room is the online casino in South Africa and we must sharpen our spears. Any one of us can log on at night and place hundreds of bets. I know I do,” explained Mr. Louw, a warrior chief and gambling commissioner.

Chief Louw explained that Australia and USA forbade online gambling and there are more Australian and American online gamblers today than ever before. For him, who has never learned to read or write, such behavior shows clearly that prohibition of online gambling doesn’t work.

American Harvard educated politicians still fail to comprehend this logic.

The commission recommends Italy to become the model for online gambling regulation in South Africa. At first a small number of online gambling licenses will be offered along with advertising rights.

Banks will become the enforcers of the new South African gambling laws by withholding transactions from online gambling establishments in South Africa who do not possess a valid gambling license.

DA MPs Tim Harris and Jacques Smalle this week called for regulations to be finalised. “Such regulation should establish a licensing regime, allow online registration, allow servers to be located anywhere and also govern poker and betting exchanges.”

The lawful gambling industry generated R15.9bn, or R18.1bn including the national lottery in 2009. This netted taxes of R1.5bn, or R1.92bn if VAT was included, making gambling tax the second-most important source of income.

Pop singer Beyonce may have dropped a bomb yesterday on last night’s 2011 VMA’s and well, we’ve got a big announcement too but it doesn’t involve any baby news, but instead a very long list of awesome weekend casino winners.

Our top winner of the weekend was Ivy B. of CA who won $22,155 while playing Tri Card Poker, a favorite card game here at Bodog Casino. Check out our full list of casino winners below.

Other big Bodog Casino winners from yesterday included:

Lawrence B. of CA won $18,761 playing Joker Poker.
Elstan S. of GA won $11,600 playing online Baccarat.
Kim I. of CA was playing Lions Lair when she won $11,471.
Larry W. of TX got paid out $8,157 by the Aztec’s Treasure slot machine.
Travis M. of FL got lucky on Lions Lair when he won $7,905.
Jennifer Y. of CA got a payout of $7,569 while playing Let ‘Em Ride.
Darla F. of AL won $7,400 while playing Dirty Martini slots.
Janet R. of TX won $7,302 playing Crystal Waters slot machine.

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It looks like Darren N. of WY took a little trip to the wild side after he ventured out to exotic lands to find $44,790 after playing Aztec’s Treasure online slot machine here at Bodog Casino, making him our top winner for the day!

While Darren was busy unlocking ancient mysteries, Geragory B. of AZ was busy challenging one of history’s most alluring women and walked away with $17,265 playing Cleopatra’s Gold slots.

Other big Bodog Casino winners over the weekend included:

Jacob B of NC won $15,846 playing European Roulette.
Brent David M of IL won $9,763 playing Craps.
Victoria S. of CA threw her net in the Crystal Waters and went home with $13,780.
H Phill H. of CO went home with $7,900 playing Double Double Bonus.
Joseph J. of MN won $8,640 playing Single Deck Blackjack.
Julie S. of CA went home on a wild ride when she took $7,881 playing Let em’ Ride.
Bonnie F. of WI had her game face on she went home with $7514 playing Face the Ace 4-line.

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Throughout the month of September, Europe's leading online casino, Europa Casino, is offering a unique weekly tournament to all new players.

First time depositors will automatically be entered in Europa Casino's Rookie Race tournament where they will compete against other players for their share of the weekly €1,000 prize pot.

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In order to partake in the weekly tournament, new players have to make a minimum first deposit of €75 at which point they are entered in that week's Rookie Race. In total four Rookie Races are scheduled to take place. Each race runs for one week beginning on Thursday September 1. The final race is slightly shorter beginning on Thursday September 22 and concluding on Monday September 26, with the final prize being awarded on Tuesday September 27.

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We’ve made it, it’s finally Wednesday and we’ve got another awesome casino winner to announce. Today we’d like to congratulate Mike P. of VA who won a grand total of $13,634 playing one of his favorite card games, Blackjack!

While Mike P. was rocking it playing blackjack, so were so many of our other players who walked away with thousands in casino winnings. Check out our complete list of winners below:

Other casino winners include:

Allan Y. of MA won $8,490 while playing Witches And Wizards online slots.
Pete P. of IL went swimming in Crystal Waters and won $8,199.
Jeffrey G .of CA got paid out $6,015 by playing Bonus Deuces Wild.
Brent M. of IL showed he knows how to play Craps when he won $5,000.
Larry H. of NJ won $4,572 playing Loose Deuces video poker game.

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Gambling revenue in Macau rose 57% in August from a year earlier, government statistics showed Thursday, as high rollers from mainland China continued to fuel growth regardless of China's tightening measures.

Macau, the only place in China where casino gambling is legal, has seen gambling revenue soar since the end of 2009 as players continue to place bets despite Beijing's moves to tighten credit and local government policies aimed at slowing growth to a more sober pace.

Gambling revenue in the Chinese territory rose to 24.77 billion patacas ($3.09 billion) last month, up from 15.77 billion patacas a year earlier, according to data from Macau's Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau.

Macau overtook the Las Vegas Strip as the world's biggest gambling market in 2006 and is poised to rake in five times the Strip's gambling revenue this year.

In the January-August period, Macau's gambling revenue rose 47% from a year earlier, adding to a 58% surge in 2010.

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Who said it was wrong to Let ‘Em Ride? Top winner Brad N. of MI certainly doesn’t think so after he won a grand total of $32,085 playing the everpopular Let ‘Em Ride online card game here at Bodog Casino, earning him the top prize.

While Brad was using his top-notch poker skills to help him rule the roost, Carl F. of WA was busy cultivating his own Enchanted Garden and won $31,587, earning him the second place spot.

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Scott R. of OH proved that he is a true pro and won $27,435 playing Roulette Pro.
Matt E. of CA went home with $16,480 after winning big at the Blackjack tables.
Peter T. of TX went home with $7,900 playing Double Bonus.
Nicole S. of MN won $6,500 playing Rain Dance slots.

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OF all the improbable consequences of China’s headlong rush into beating capitalism at its own game, Macau is the weirdest.In common with nearby Hong Kong, the former Portuguese colony returned to Chinese ownership in 1999, but remains largely self-determining. As a result, gambling is legal. And not just legal: Macau is known as the Vegas of the East. Gaming revenues increased a whopping 58 per cent in 2010, to $23.5bn. That’s fully four times what the Las Vegas Strip takes in, and makes Macau easily the gambling centre of the world.

Your first sight, as you zip into the harbour like James Bond on the Turbojet ferry from Hong Kong, is of these fabulous palaces of neon. Some are home-grown, but since 2002, when the gaming industry was opened up to foreign investors, the big American corporations have moved in. You’ll find a Wynn, MGM and a Venetian that are just like their Vegas counterparts, only bigger.

It gives the Vegas veteran a weird sense of déja-vu: it’s the same, but slightly different. For a start, almost everyone here is Chinese, which changes the atmosphere at the tables. Vegas gamblers are a rowdy bunch: drunk on cheap booze, good times and the promise of dirty sex, they mostly gamble for fun. If they win, drinks all round! If they lose, hey, that’s Vegas, and at least we kicked some ass! But in Macau the gamers are serious and somber, as if they were putting in a hard day’s graft at the office. Perhaps they really believe all that stuff about lucky numbers, that if they place their bets diligently, they stand a good chance against the House.

And the Chinese authorities, clearly, are not entirely comfortable with Macau casinos siphoning off the profits from the mainland’s economic miracle. Beijing has urged Macau to diversify its revenue stream, and Macau officials plan to cap the number of gaming tables and limit the building of new casinos – the Sands group recently spent $100million on plans, only to have the application turned down.

As an officially accredited journalist I am billeted, presumably deliberately, in pretty much the only major hotels not to have a casino of their own.

The Grand Hyatt on Cotai island is an efficient and elegant new building, ideal for business travellers, and part of the City of Dreams complex which includes the Hard Rock casino and “The House of Dancing Water”, a breathtaking water-based acrobatics show which cost $250m to produce. The Mandarin Oriental on Taipa is an exquisitely tasteful affair, with wonderful views across the bay, and a superb restaurant.

But if the tourist is to be discouraged from coming for the Baccarat tables and pinging slot machines, what else has Macau to offer? It’s actually a funny old place, one for which those stock travel cliches of “East meets West” and “a place of contrasts” seem freshly minted. Most of the apartment blocks are ugly, higgledy-piggledly constructions with white walls discoloured by the sub-tropical climate and washing hung out on every balcony.

There are surprisingly few bars and nightclubs, and the English language, when used, is delightfully mangled: you can buy records from Happy Sound Music, or clothes from Wanko; the sign outside a foot spa, where little fish eat the dead skin from your feet, reads “Let the Doctor Fish nibbles away your death skin.”

And yet the Portuguese influence is also everywhere, from the Portuguese street names on blue and white tiles to wonderful examples of colonial architecture.

The Guia fort, which was built in 1637 and turned into a lighthouse in the 19th century – somewhat redundant now that its beams are eclipsed by the neon jungle below -- is worth visiting not least for the view: it stands on the highest point in Macau.

The Historic centre of Macau was designated a World Heritage Site in 2005, with 25 landmarks of which the most famous is St Paul’s cathedral, built in 1602. Sadly only the facade survives, but that’s splendid enough to be worth a visit. Other churches of note include St Lawrence’s, St Augustine’s and St Dominic’s. Most affecting, however, is the Protestant Cemetery, whose tombstones bear witness to some of the early visitors and sailors who died, painfully young and in agony, of malaria. It also contains the grave of Robert Morrison, the missionary who devoted his life to the region. He translated the dictionary and the Holy Scriptures into Chinese, but it is to be hoped that his efforts were better rewarded in heaven than on earth: during his lifetime, he managed to convert just one person.

Worth a little detour is Lord Stow’s Bakery on Coloan island, which bakes a locally celebrated variation on those Portuguese egg tarts, because it’s round the corner from a thoroughly delightful white-arched square, with a peaceful little church containing a Madonna and Child done in a typically Chinese style.

And for a boutique hotel, you can’t beat the Pousada de São Tiago. Converted from a 17th century fort, which you enter up a passageway hewn from the rock, it has 12 beautiful suites overlooking the Inner Harbour.

Another pleasing byproduct of Macau’s mixed heritage is the profusion of festivals. Chinese New Year is coming up, and the Macau Arts Festival takes place in April. And of course the winding city streets are given up to the Macau Grand Prix in November, which is commemorated year-round by a museum filled with famous cars.

This collision of cultures is fascinating, if something of a curate’s egg. If you want to gamble, Vegas is more fun. If you want Portuguese influences, Portugal itself is closer to home.

But if you’re in the Far East, don’t miss the opportunity to visit. And if you get those lucky numbers right, it could just pay for your trip.

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He came, he played Blackjack and he won bigtime! Congratulations to Peter A. from IL who won $28K playing Blackjack, making him our top weekend winner.

There were plenty more players who were destined for greatness this weekend including Darren N. from WY who battled pirates and found a nice little stash of gold walking away with a grand total of $16,535 playing Goldbeard slots. Congratulations to Darren, our second place winner and the rest of our lucky players listed below.

Our big Bodog Casino winners from the weekend included:

Sue K. from FL won $14,475 while playing Enchanted Gardens.
Jennifer A. from CA won $13,900 while playing Keno.
Kyle K. from IL won $12.900 while playing Blackjack.
Roger Q. from CA won $10,394 while playing Cleopatra’s Gold.
Joseph Y. from FL won $9,870 while playing Funky Monkey.
Carrie W. from MI won $8,120 while playing Blackjack.
Ryan M. from TX won $7,001 while playing Blackjack.
Kyung Y. from VA won $6,855 while playing Blackjack.

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The most-anticipated gaming destination in America's midwest may not even be open yet, but Clevelanders are already excited by the goings-on in the Higbee Building. No, it's got nothing with the hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on construction, equipment and designs. It's not even the chance that they might make some money at the tables. No, it's something that's even more important that has the residents of Northeast Ohio talking: jobs.

Today, the casino is posting job listings for 500 poker (and other game) dealers as well as supervisors. The dealer positions will pay between $35,000 and $40,000 annually with a full benefits package. Supervisors will earn $40,000 or more. According to reports, no casino experience is necessary — the Horseshoe will train you.

"This is fantastic news," LeRoy Brooks, a professor of finance at John Carroll University, said. "Before, it was just sort of hearsay and who knew. But this is the evidence that it wasn't just hoopla or overstatement. They're actually putting up the capital, the training costs."

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Baccarat was once known as a game reserved strictly for the elite part of society with tables being roped off with velvety ropes and hordes of men in top hats and coat tails swarming around this gentleman’s game. As of today, scratch the top hats and well, if you feel like an elitist then carry on but here at Bodog Casino it’s all about the winners which includes today’s top winner Kimberly G. of AK who won a grand total of $21,374 playing today’s spotlight game, online Baccarat.

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Gregory S. of ME also scored at playing casino Baccarat after winning a grand total of $21,374.
Craig F. of CA hit the Blackjack tables and won a total of 17,899.
Bryan B. of TX won $14,350 playing Double Double Bonus video poker.
Carl F. of WA won $10, 554 playing Enchanted Gardens slots.
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Yes, it can be that easy to win big at Bodog Casino, as Lester A. of OH clearly proved after playing online Blackjack and winning $24,164 – making him our top winner for today.

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Peter A. of IL also scored big playing Blackjack and won $19, 500.
Charles C. of MN went on a Vikings Voyage and won $16, 750.
Scott B. of PA won $15, 939 playing online Blackjack
Carl F. of WA found the secret stash in the Enchanted Garden and won $14, 448.
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Recent news that a lucky player has taken home a big win of 180,000 euros from Bet24 a Malta located online casino and sports book is good news for the lucky person. The interesting part of the story is that it was won using live casino action. The live sessions of 13 spins of the live roulette wheel in the first produced 100,000 euros within twenty minutes and then twenty nine spins later another 80,000 euros was realized by the player from the United Kingdom.

This is the biggest live action win at the Bet24 online casino. Kim Larsen the manager at the Bet24 casino commented, “Live Casino was launched in April of 2011 and we had, of course, seen winnings but never at this level up to this streak of luck.”
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