A new, $75 million casino is in the works for Tunica, and Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects is the company that has been selected to design the brand new casino. The companies that chose Askew Nixon was Abston-McKay Ventures LLC and Lakes Entertainment Inc. The casino will be named the Sportsman Casino and Lodge. The design for the brand new casino is scheduled to be complete by the month of October, with construction on the new casino beginning towards the end of the 2010 year, and the casino could open to the public by the end of 2011. A representative from Askew Nixon had the following to say about the company’s biggest deal in a very long time:

Penn National Gaming has reported that it has experienced first quarter revenue of $592.3 million. In a press release from the company, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Penn National Gaming, Peter M. Carlino, had the following to say:

States across the country have been drafting legislation that would regulate and tax poker and gambling players on the Internet, with some of the states ratifying the new legislation and other states vetoing this legislation. One such state, that of Florida, has finally received new poker laws it had been anticipating for quite some time. The new poker laws have been passed by both the Florida Senate and the Florida House and poker players across the state are waiting in anticipation for the legislation to be signed by the governor and approved by the Department of Interior. The new laws would provide the state of Florida with uncapped poker.

There are millions of poker and blackjack players across the world today, but not all of them know how to act while playing table games. There are certain manners players should employ when playing table games no matter what the situation is or how badly they are losing. There are three ways a player can enter a game. The first way is if they sit down at the table prior to the game beginning. The second way is they interrupt the game and sit down because they innocently stumbled upon the game. The third way is they have been standing around counting the cards and decide to enter the game. If the latter of the two happen to you make sure that you ask the players if you can join the game.

Steve Gross, known in the online world of gaming as gboro780, has signed on with DoylesRoom. He now becomes the sixth member of the Brunson 10 with his signing. Doyle Brunson, the legendary poker player and namesake of the room, is handpicking his top ten group of rising poker stars. Gross has become a rising star in his own right over the past two years in the world of poker. He sits at the top of PocketFives.com Online Poker Rankings and also holds the leader board’s top Pro Poll and PLB scores. February of 2009 saw Gross defeat fellow Brunson 10 member Chris ‘moorman1′ Moorman by a narrow 0.39 points to take home the PocketFives.com Monthly PLB title. Gross is also considered a winner of the PocketFives.com Triple Crown as he has won three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites that are tracked for rankings within a week’s time.

The game of blackjack is a game of skill, requiring quick thinking and decision making on the part of every player involved in a match or tournament. Quick thinking can be useful to some players and very harmful to others based on how well they can deal with pressure and make a decision. One of those decisions is how to play a soft hand dealt to a player by the dealer. Soft hands are not welcome by all blackjack players because there are so many decisions to be made. Other blackjack players welcome a soft hand because they have played one in the past and know what it takes to play the soft hand successfully.

A former Boeing worker has taken his skills to the poker table, tried his luck, and his gamble has paid off like he never could have imagined. The worker, Adam Harrell, joined Boeing right out of the University of Illinois in 2006 to work on the task of developing software for the F-18 Super Hornet. Harrell was not a fan of being confined in a cubicle at Boeing so he decided to walk away from a promising career and try his luck in the world of poker. Harrell decided to start a full-time career as an online poker player and had this to say about leaving a job with security:

The World Series of Poker is set to begin not too long from now which means that poker players across the globe are trying their hardest to earn enough money to buy a seat in the world’s largest and most recognized poker tournament. There are 57 events scheduled for the 2010 World Series of Poker tournament, but many online poker players who are winning seats to the tourney are being forced to play in the Main Event. Well, to stand up against that ruling, DoylesRoom.com decided to award its poker players different prize packages for the World Series of Poker. Those prize packages include $12,500 and $2,500 prize packages with a VIP Vegas experience along with cash. Players can use that cash to buy into any World Series of Poker event of their choosing.

Everyone thinks that senior citizens are harmless, quiet, and law abiding. Well, it is time we think again, at least for one group of senior citizens. A group of senior citizens living in an Idaho Senior Center in Twin Falls were told by police recently that the $20 buy-in poker game they held every now and then was illegal and that they were breaking the law. It is a small group of residents, roughly 20, who take part in the regular game. Police told the residents that if they did not stop playing the game they would be subject to prosecution.

Blackjack players and poker players alike know what it takes to win at their respective games. Sometimes players need advantages over their opponents and will employ the skill of counting cards to win hands and tournaments. Counting cards in a game of blackjack is the ability to keep track of high cards over low cards in a deck that has yet to be dealt. The difficult thing with counting cards is that this is a system that does not allow the use of a pen or piece of paper to physically write down what the player is working on when counting. To count cards the player must have an excellent memory or else he or she will be up a river without a paddle.