Phil Ivey and the mysterious court case
You may have read recently about legendary poker player Phil Ivey and some legal dramas he's found himself embroiled in at the moment. Currently there is trouble in both London, at Crockfords casino, as well as one of the Atlantic City casinos - and possibly more elsewhere. Crockfords, the scene of the ... erm ... ...
Aspers Stratford alcohol licence suspended
Latest news update 6th October Evidently, after the story noted below, Aspers have had their licence suspension lifted pending some sort of licence hearing towards the end of October. They're by no means out of the woods though, and they'll surely be hoping for a quiet, peaceful time leading up to the next step. This ...
Lies, damn lies and SuperCasinos
If you were to casually read the UK papers, you could be forgiven for thinking that we are about to be invaded by dozens of gargantuan casinos, with one on every street corner and machine by the thousand. The fact is, there's been a lot of press hysteria and excitement over the UK casino world in the last few years, ...
GUKPT Goliath Poker tournament
What could be better than spending 12 hours on the green baize, pitting wits against the oth .... wait a minute, 12 hours ? Holy crap, that's a long time .... So the Goliath is a huge poker tournament run by Grosvenor Casinos at their Coventry G Casino, which is presumably the only one big enough to stuff in 60 ...
Casino recent history part 1
Later in the year we'll look at the ancient history of casinos in the UK, going back to before the 1968 Gaming Act, which really shaped how things developed in a big way - for a start it cut the number of UK casinos down from over 1,000 to just over 100. For now we wanted to take a look at what happened in the years ...
