DrinkEatPlay and CozmoCard are hosting a gaming, dining and wine tasting event on Saturday, August 26th. The event will take place at Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hangar and it will feature more than 30 restaurants and over 50 wineries.

Attendants will be able to play blackjack, craps, roulette and poker with “play money”. All of their winnings will be exchanged for raffle tickets to participate in a drawing for prizes that include concert tickets, museum memberships, and a first-class weekend trip to Las Vegas.

“There's a simple explanation for why Congress gets itself all worked up over such inoffensive acts as gambling over the Internet: There's no current way to tax it, so it should be illegal”, as published by DelawareOnline.com

Las Vegas Sands, the American casino operator, announced this week its 3,600 million investment for building Marina Bay Sands, the first casino-resort in Singapore. The establishment will have 2,500 rooms, shopping centers, an auditorium, luxurious restaurants, theaters and a museum.

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.

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. Table games, like Blackjack, have shown the most dramatic increase of all

In today's final installment of my interview with "Mr. Aces," a veteran blackjack player who has mastered the art of playing the game for both fun and profit, he offers his thoughts on the importance of consistent play, opinions about variations of the game of Twenty-One and a fun approach to tipping good dealers.

Thrifty Gambler: How important are good players at your table, especially at "first base" (player position No. 1) and "third base"...

Gamblers Flock to Last 'World Series of Blackjack 2006' Tourney at Ute Mountain Casino. Ute Mountain Casino blackjack winner will compete in Las Vegas games.

The convention center at the Ute Mountain Casino, Hotel and Resort was filled with the nervous murmur of gamblers, stacks of red, green and blue chips, professional blackjack players and TV cameras Saturday. The convention center was the scene for the last of the casino’s three World Series of Blackjack 2006 satellite tournaments

There is no doubt: Blackjack.com is, on the one hand, a very functional and well-organized portal, and on the other hand, a fancy site with delicate design and subtle style. It has exactly what blackjack players are looking for: sobriety, organization and quality.

Blackjack.com not only has a wide variety of games, but also a special selection of strategies, a considerable amount of bonus and an efficient online support service. Due to these attributes, Blackjack.com has become a leader in the online blackjack world. However, this situation seems to be changing.

Frank and Dorothy Giglia of suburban Buffalo visit the Seneca Niagara Casino once or twice a month. They like to play the slots and they're happy to support American Indians instead of "some big national conglomerate," as Frank put it.

John Logan of Swissvale recently made his second trip to the Seneca tribe's other western New York casino, the Seneca Allegany in Salamanca. He and his wife, Louise, rode up for $33 each on a chartered bus with other Western Pennsylvanians.

An expert card player said he barred an Española Sikh from his seminar because he suspects he works for casinos that want to bar people who learn his method of winning at blackjack.

Guru Sant Singh Khalsa recently sued Richard Harvey and Richard Brown, doing business as Mystic Ridge Books or Mystic Ridge Production, alleging they breached his contract to attend Harvey's blackjack seminar. "Mr. Khalsa has invested thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of time becoming proficient