The arrival of “live games”, their brand new service through which players will play with real dealers in real games, has been recently announced by KiwiCasino.com. A KiwiCasino spokesman said that online casinos were in need of the human element, so easily found in land based casinos but quite infrequent in virtual ones. This missing element is provided by live gaming.

Justin Bertram, Treasure Island Casino executive, is developing a program through which adjusting any game machine in a casino depends on nothing but a click of his computer mouse.

He may adjust from the denominations required to play, to payback percentages. The change will first hit slot machines, being the most popular in Las Vegas, and responsible for $7 billion dollars in gaining a year, twice as much as table games outcomes.

Blackjack Gold is a complete blackjack game for computers. Options allow you to change the players’ configuration, casino environment and cards and gambling options.

You can also choose your place at the table, set custom strategies and play different variations of the game such as Super Sevens.

Blackjack payouts are configurable and you can establish table minimums and maximums and card shuffling options.

“For our government, this week’s meeting is going to be a good opportunity for the USA to inform the WTO how it’s going to respond to the DSB advices,” said Errol Cort, Economy and Finance Minister for Antigua & Barbuda.

“Clearly this is a now and after situation. And by after I refer to the rule imposed by the arbitrator appointed by the WTO that, answering USA’s request for a “reasonable period of time”, granted a lapse of 11 months and 2 weeks starting on April 20th, 2005.

Next April 23rd Montecarlo’s population will have to decide whether they accept the opening of a casino or not. Six computers will be placed at a downtown school, where all voters from different neighborhoods will attend. The system will be similar to that of cash points, with both options available displayed: Yes or No.

There are 13,000 people allowed to vote already, but those who do not appear as registered may go to the Council and ask to be included.

The owner of a Cyber Café in the Asian nation of Brunei has been declared guilty of illegal gambling charges. The authorities of Kuala Bealit City received a denunciation; the accuser assured that in the Chen Kim Veng’s Cyber Café illegal gambling was taking place.

Based on this information, the police raided the cyber café and found that the Cyber café was offering, beside the usual stuff, casino games such as Blackjack and Roulette.

DEQ Systems Corp., which develops technological products for gambling games, has recently announced that its software –known as “Lucky Jacks & Queens”- has passed the test period and will be acquired by Circus Circus Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, in Nevada.

Due to this successful test, Circus Circus decided to buy the DEQ’s marginal bets systems for three of its Blackjack tables. DEQ executives explained that they had chosen the famous Circus Circus casino for making this test because it is placed in Las Vegas Strip and is visited by both local and foreign customers.

The increasing popularity of gambling affects more and more women every day. Whereas men continue to be the main high-rolling gamblers, women are to be found in casinos more frequently than they used to, specially playing games such as blackjack and roulette.

According to reports, female gamblers have increased so much that now there is an equal number of the men and women who gamble.

50 people gathered at Lincoln Park, Enosburg, a few days ago for a candle lightning in memory of the missing teen Brianna Maitland. Last weekend was the second anniversary of the sudden disappearance of the young girl.

Katie Manning, a high school friend of Maitland’s, says that it is extremely hard for the family and friends not to know her whereabouts.

Although being successful in a blackjack tournament requires skill and “card sense”, these have nothing to do with playing the game at a high level. The importance is focused in your chips management and sizing your bets properly, as it is a competitive game. This shows a similarity with poker tournaments.

Poker tournaments are already televised due to their growing popularity, while Blackjack takes place in a smaller scale. But, considering the parallelism between the two card games, it is highly probable that, not in a faraway future, Blackjack tournaments end up on TV too.