Regisseur Rolf S. Wolkenstein zeigt die Dokumentation am 21. Januar dem Publikum. ARTE strahlt „Von Haien und Fischen“ im Rahmen eines Themenabends am Sonntag, den 12. Februar 2012, ab 20.15 Uhr erstmals aus. Ihre Waffen sind Karten und Chips, ihre Rüstungen besteht aus starken Nerven und einer undurchschaubaren Mimik.

Der deutsche Pokerprofi Christophe Groß, in der nationalen und internationalen Pokerszene als „Crazy Sheep“ bekannt, wurde von den Leserinnen und Lesern des Fachportals Pokerolymp.com für die diesjährige Verleihung der Poker Olymp Awards in der Kategorie „Beste Poker-Video-Serie“ nominiert. Insgesamt werden Awards in neun Kategorien vergeben.

End of August 2010 Spielbank Berlin will be the hot spot for this year’s Shuffle Master Poker Challenge. Once a year, casino employees from all over Europe gather to play poker and crown their poker champion. This year’s Shuffle Master Poker Challenge will take place at Spielbank Berlin at Potsdamer Platz, Germany from August 30th to September 1st.

Ende August ist es wieder soweit: Die Shuffle Master Poker Challenge geht in ihre nächste Runde – Austragungsort und Mittelpunkt der Poker-Party-Welt diesmal: die Spielbank Berlin. Ein Mal pro Jahr treffen sich Casinoangestellte aus ganz Europa, um sich – statt Karten zu geben oder um die Gäste zu kümmern – selbst im Pokern zu messen und den Champion zu küren. Die Shuffle Master Poker Challenge findet dieses Jahr vom 30. August bis zum 1. September in der Spielbank Berlin am Potsdamer Platz statt

Indianapolis – A casino wasn’t obligated to protect a problem gambler who lost USD 125,000 in a single night, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. Instead, the 2-1 ruling Friday said, Jenny Kephart failed to take advantage of programs that allow compulsive gamblers to have themselves banned from casinos. „While Kephart lost the money she wagered, it is an injury that she chose to risk incurring.

Missourians by a decisive margin Tuesday repealed the state’s USD 500 loss limit on riverboat gamblers. “Losing was not an option,” said Troy Stremming, an Ameristar executive and leader of the Yes on A committee, which raised and spent more than USD 15 million to pass Proposition A. With votes from 96 percent of the state’s precincts counted, the issue was winning 56 percent to 44 percent.

Crown Casino chief executive Rowen Craigie was allegedly part of a plan to target a chronic gambler who turned over AUD 1.4 billion in a 14-month gambling spree while banned from every casino in Australia. The explosive allegations are part of amended Supreme Court documents which also reveal that gambling addict Harry Kakavas, who is suing the casino for damages, wore a concealed hearing device that captured Crown’s senior managers allegedly attempting to lure him back to the Southbank venue.

A compulsive gambler who lost around GBP 2 million in a disastrous five-month betting spree today appealed against a ruling that threw out his claim for compensation and damages from bookmaker William Hill. Graham Calvert, 28, a greyhound trainer from Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, had argued at the High Court in February that the company had failed in its “duty of care” towards him…

A billionaire gambler known as the ‚Fat Man‘ has won a bid to avoid paying a GBP 2 million debt to an exclusive casino. Businessman Fouad al-Zayat totted up the massive loss in just one night’s play at the roulette and blackjack tables at Aspinall’s in London. But the 66-year-old withheld payment after a row over a croupier. Last year the Syrian-born gambler – one of an estimated 180 high-rolling international gamblers known as ‚whales‘ – was told by a judge to pay up.

Missouri voters will decide in November whether to boost casino taxes and repeal the state’s unique USD 500 gambling loss limit. The moves could raise more than USD 100 million in new taxes for schools statewide. Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced that the casino measure was one of two initiatives that garnered enough petition signatures to appear on the November ballot.

Die ständig wachsende Gruppe von Menschen, welche sich für die Beendigung des Internetverbotes einsetzt, hat unerwartet zwei neue Mitglieder erhalten – die beiden Professorinnen Kathryn LaTour von der University of Nevada/Las Vegas und June Cotte von der University of Western Ontario/Kanada. Aber nicht aus dem Grund, weil die beiden Professorinnen, welche sich selbst als Nicht-Spielerinnen bezeichnen, Internet Glücksspiel durch ihre Person direkt unterstützen.

Macau’s casino industry, which surpassed the Las Vegas Strip in gaming revenue in 2006, should lure more mass-market tourists instead of relying on high rollers from China, analysts and industry officials said. The former Portuguese colony, the only place in China where casinos are legal, is in a „perilous situation“ because companies are chasing „growth that cannot be sustained,“ Norman MacKillop, the Macau head of gaming industry investigator Spectrum OSO Asia, said in an interview.