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The long wait is over, RTG casino software are launching slots tournaments. The first casino to run a slots tournament is Rushmore Casino.
They will be running a free $10k slots tournament this weekend. The slot tournaments start on Friday and will end on Sunday May 23rd. They are currently registering slots players with 500 seats available and they will be given to the first players to sign up.
This is a huge promotion with no risk and $10k worth of prizes given out to players! There is absolutely no buy-in fee and it is a great chance to play slots tournaments on rtg casino software.
There will be more slot tournament announcements shortly but we suggest players register asap to play in the free promo because of the limited space. Slot Tournaments are becoming very popular with only 1 buy-in and players are then left to accumulate the most money in a set amount of time at a particular slot machine. It’s that easy!
Play now at Rushmore Casino and get a $888 Deposit Bonus for first time players.
We know this is a casino blog, but we just had to write something about the Apple iPad, which comes out on Saturday since every other blog is doing it.
On Wednesday, one man decided he was going to be first in line for the iPad and began waiting outside the Apple NYC store (he was also first in line for the iPhone). We then thought about what goes into being a line legend of apple products. So we made a flow chart for people aspiring to be #1.
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Perhaps due in part to the increasing popularity of online casinos and partly due to the lingering recession, New Jersey gaming revenues were down a substantial 13.2 percent in 2009.
According to figures released by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, the Atlantic City casinos brought in nearly $4 million in 2009, and while that figure looks good, officials say it shows a substantial drop in gaming revenues throughout the region.
“Casinos continued to suffer in 2009,” said Linda Kassekert, Casino Control Commission chairperson.
The commission reported that slot machine play dropped 13.1 percent in 2009 to $2.72 billion in revenues, while table games dropped 13.5 percent, to $1.22 billion in revenue.
Though revenues are down, Kassekert is optimistic about the potential Atlantic City has to draw in more revenue in the future.
“Atlantic City has a lot to offer visitors in addition to gambling,” she said. “When the economy improves and people have more money to spend on entertainment…”
In recent months, Atlantic City has hosted a number of events that have drawn a good deal of interest and, likely, money to the region. These included a stop by the World Series of Poker in December. The WSOP will return again in March.
Las Vegas likely got a boost this New Year’s Eve and over the weekend, thanks partly to the improving economy and partly due to the holiday falling on a Thursday instead of a Wednesday as it did last year.
According to the Casino City Times and Las Vegas Journal, occupancy of hotel rooms was expected to be up as much as 4 percent over last year, even with higher room rates.
Caesar’s Palace President Gary Selesner told Casino City Times that he believes the increase is due to the perception people have that the economy is improving.
As proof that people are more interested in spending some money this New Year’s, Selesner said, Caesar’s Palace was sold out for the New Year’s weekend, even thought the room rates are a bit higher than they were last year.
Selesner said that Harrah’s Entertainment – which owns Caesars and another seven hotels in Las Vegas – expected to have all rooms at the hotels sold out for the weekend.
Other strip hotels are reporting similar trends. The president of MGM Grand reported that nearly all the hotel’s rooms were booked and at rates slightly higher than last year. Planet Hollywood Resort is charging about 20 percent more for rooms than it did in 2008, said Bill Feather, PH’s Hotels & Resorts Worldwide president.
“We are seeing much more pressure for New Year’s Eve this year than we saw last year,” Feather said. “Knock on wood, everything’s great.”
