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BAD WEEK FOR STARNET. VERY BAD!
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Some great documents confirming that Starnet is in much bigger trouble than they want you to believe! We are convinced the company is finished, it?s only a matter of time.
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68 pages: the POLICE documents!
EXCLUSIVE!!
Gambling Magazine publishes the Police Search Warrant details used to raid Starnet's Vancouver offices where computers, digital storage disks and paper records were seized in a dawn raid.
Fifty officers from British Columbia's Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit are even now sifting through the material. "The inventory is massive"
Peter Thiessen of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police: "More is yet to come. This is just the tip of the iceberg." Charges and arrests - not 'if' but 'when'
Gambling Magazine has decided forthwith to put ALL Starnet-licensed casinos on the Black List AND on the Not Recommended list due to the major problems Starnet is having with its software. It is just too risky to continue using their software; Starnet might not be around in a few days, if the Police move in again to shut them down.
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"Not Recommended" Sites
To read about Starnet's problems, Readers need only refer to the section on Starnet's problems below, which has in-depth coverage and all the up-to-date news.
SPECIAL COVERAGE OF
STARNET'S HUGE PROBLEMS
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Announces Plans To Buy Las Vegas Casino
Last week, a dockside and riverboat casino operator announced that it plans to buy the Lady Luck hotel-casino from Lady Luck Gaming in Las Vegas. Along with the purchase of the hotel-casino in Las Vegas, the Lady Luck Gaming Corporation will get the right to use the Lady Luck trademark in all of its business and marketing deals.
The Lady Luck Gaming Corporation President said, "By making Lady Luck Las Vegas an actual part of the company, we can benefit from its established marketing base, further strengthen the Lady Luck brand and benefit from economies of scale." Now there will no confusion for consumers as to the Lady Luck name. [Read The Full Article...]
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A discussion on censorship in films, gambling, and rock concerts from an Indian perspective
We must learn from the Hindu activists in the United States.
Through sustained protests and angry e-mails they have forced Warner Brothers to delete a shloka from the Bhagavad Gita that was used as background music for an orgy sequence in Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut. The activists (who very effectively used the Internet to target their ire against the Hollywood studio) argued that the shloka in which Krishna talks of returning to this earth again and again in different guises to fight back evil was used in an inappropriate and vulgar manner in the film. [Read The Full Article...]
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And Conquered Las Vegas: Tiberian Sun
Exciting new real-time strategy game's mega success
The glittering casinos along the famous strip have made the desert town of Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world. But gambling is not the Nevada resort's only success story.
For the other, you leave the slots and showgirls and drive through suburbia to a sprawling, singlestorey brick building on a commercial estate.
This is the home of Westwood Studios, which hit the jackpot with its groundbreaking, real-time strategy game, Command & Conquer, five years ago. [Read The Full Article...]
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Davis asked to rewrite plan
Tribal leaders want California Gov. Gray Davis to rewrite his plan for expanded Indian gambling - with conditions. His initial response: No dice.
Talks began Tuesday and were to resume today as negotiators for Davis and the tribes sought a compromise.
Davis has offered a plan that could more than double the number of slot machines. But tribes would have to share 25 percent of their gross profits with other tribes, as well as allow union activity in the gambling halls. [Read The Full Article...]
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Now that the new Paris resort has opened on the Las Vegas strip, its next door neighbor has a grand opening goal of summer 2000.
In Las Vegas, what goes up, must come down, then back up! On April 27th, 1998, the original Aladdin Hotel and Casino came crashing down.
Instantly, work began on the new 1.3 billion dollar Aladdin. Just over a year later, the face of the new mega-resort began taking shape. Some of the future features include the Desert Passage ? a shopper?s paradise with 130 retailers plus 21 restaurants and a seven thousand seat theater. [Read The Full Article...]
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Slot machines stop on any possible set of stops with equal probability.
This was true of the old mechanical slot machines, before computers made their mark on the game. Based on a random number chosen by the machine, the reels will stop on a specific set of symbols. The machine will stop on non-paying combinations a disproportionately high number of times.
Slot machines are programmed to go through a cycle of payoffs. Although the cycle can span thousands of spins once it reaches the end the outcomes will repeat themselves in exactly the same order as the last cycle.
This is not true at all. Every trial is completely random and independent of all past trials. [Read The Full Article...]
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Gamblers in Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois and Louisiana can get numbers on their casinos' payout on blackjack games or nickel slot machines. They can find out whether the roulette wheel at one casino is better than another.
Citizens in all those states plus New Jersey and the province of Ontario can also determine how much money each casino took in from gamblers every month.
Not in Michigan. [Read The Full Article...]
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Lucky retirees win big
As Gerald and Margaret Cogdell made the three-hour drive to Bossier City, they talked about how they wished they could buy a little land.
Now they can buy a lot.
The retired couple from Argyle in Denton County hit a jackpot worth nearly $6.4 million Tuesday on the Wheel of Fortune machine at the Isle of Capri Casino & Hotel in Bossier City, La. [Read The Full Article...]
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Is Not Like Real Paris
Despite every effort to make the new Paris resort in Las Vegas look and feel just like Paris, many actual French people who live in the real Paris, France, feel that the resort is just an imitation of their great city and that Americans have funny ideas about what the real Paris is like.
The Paris resort has spent millions of dollars to try and exactly duplicate the famous French city. Every detail in the property tries hard to have a French feel to it, from the replica of the Eiffel Tower to a cobblestone street in the middle of the casino. [Read The Full Article...]
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Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Charismatic, who broke down near the finish of the Belmont Stakes, is getting ready for his career as a stud horse.
Lane's End Farm said Charismatic, who was co-bred by Lane's End owner William Farish and is owned by Bob and Beverly Lewis, arrived Monday.
Lane's End expects to begin hand-walking the colt this week. His stud career begins next year, and his stud fee will be $35,000 for a live foal. [Read The Full Article...]
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Sungold Gaming International Ltd. ("Sungold") has negotiated the North American and international internet rights, title and interest in the Horsepower Animated Racing Game. The Horsepower Game ("Horsepower") will be marketed to licensed operators by a subsidiary company 100% owned and controlled by Sungold.
Horsepower is an exciting animated horseracing game which is viewed on a video monitor. It is estimated that Players can win between $50-$1,000,000. from a $2 wager. [Read The Full Article...]
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"How big was that hole? Pretty darn big. We can drive a truck though that hole."
-- Rob Malda, of slashdot.org, a website designed for Internet enthusiasts, discussing the Hotmail hackers who forced the company to shut its e-mail facilities for several hours earlier this week.
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GREAT NEWS!
Two superb online magazines will be launched in September and they will provide a very extensive coverage of the industry:
CasinoMagazine.com & GamingMagazine.com
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