When online casinos dish out bonus money, there are "playthrough requirements" that must be met before the money is yours. After all, if casinos just dished out bonus money and let people immediately withdraw it, they probably wouldn't be in business for too long. A playthrough requirement i...
Live casinos are plenty of fun. I mean, who wouldn't want to play casino games from the comfort of their own homes with a real, human dealer? Technology has made great strides when it comes to online casinos, and "live casinos" are one of the great innovations for the industry over the past 1...
Some of the biggest stars in the world - including the likes of Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon - love to gamble. Some have achieved a decent amount of success while gambling - Ben Affleck has won a major poker tournament, Matt Damon has played in the World Series of Poker and Tobe...
Casinos, especially casinos in places like Las Vegas and Macau, will spend many millions of dollars per year "comping" players. "Comping" is when you give your players "perks" in order to play in your casino. This can include free hotel rooms, free food and even free use of the casino's priv...
On January 20th, 2013, a Finnish man won a life-changing amount of money on PAF.com. PAF.com is a regional online casino that is run and owned by the regional government. The site had a progressive slots jackpot that had worked its way up to a staggering €17,861,800. - The unname...
Viktor Blom is a Swedish poker player, but not in the traditional sense. He made his name (and his money) via online poker under the name Isildur1. Rising to fame in 2009, Blom took part in all 10 of the largest pots in online poker history. He then joined Team PokeStars and his identity was finally...
The Rat Pack was one of the most famous groups of entertainers of all time. They set their performance zone in Las Vegas in the 60s, each with their own followers and type of performances. The original group consisted of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. ...
The Norwegian Escape is a cruise ship in the service of the Norwegian Cruise Line (unsurprisingly). It is a Breakaway Plus-class cruise ship that was launched in August of 2015, before finally entering service in October of that same year. A giant in the ocean, the Escape regularly takes passengers ...
If you follow the Slots community on Twitch.tv, you have likely watched some of the biggest streamers play with hundreds of thousands of dollars in their accounts. Are they just really rich? Is it their own money that they are gambling with? If it isn't their own money, how do the sponsorship...
Northern France might not be the location you first think of when it comes to an entertainment section. However, there is one location that might draw your attention. That is the Casino Barriere Deauville. This casino is located in the Normandy region of the country, specifically in Deauville. T...
ROSHTEIN, aka Ismael Swartz, is the most popular Twitch.tv streamer in the "Slots" category. Roshtein has nearly 500,000 followers, and his streams will almost always top out at more than 10,000 simultaneous viewers. In fact, the couple of times that I have watched his stream, his numbers hav...
Phillip Dennis Ivey Jr. is regarded by many in the world of poker as perhaps the best all-around player in the world. Having been inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2017, he has won 10 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and a World Poker Tour. The California-born man started his poker jo...
It's Friday night at your local casino. It's busy. You walk to the slot machine section of the casino and sit down at an unoccupied machine. A few seconds later, you are getting yelled at by a lady for "sitting at her machine". You look over and realize that she is playing five slot mach...
Phillip Jerome Hellmuth Jr. is one of those poker players who has had a pretty darn good career so far, but hasn't exactly revolutionized the game. The thing is, he hasn't had to. Being 21st on the all-time money list, he seems to have done just fine for himself. Hellmuth had a troublesome adole...
One of the more interesting resort casinos that one looking for entertainment can visit is the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut. This location is owned and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation on their reservation. The Mashantucket Pequot Tribe gained legal control of ...
