Julian Thew promised his wife he would pay off the mortgage by the time he was 40 and he did – with a game of poker. Julian Thew, 39, won £470,000 at a tournament in Austria – just two weeks before his birthday.
Julian, of Nottingham, quit as a draughtsman three years ago after his wife Amanda gave him a book on the game. She said: *I was worried but he’s proved me wrong.*
A fire damaged part of the state Casino Control Commission headquarters Sunday, but gambling in the city should not be affected, a spokesman said. No injuries were reported. The fire destroyed a building across the street that housed retail shops, said commission spokesman Daniel Heneghan. At the headquarters, six large windows were blown out, and…
Tiger Woods has admitted that he will be nervous about how the fans at the Masters will treat him in his first tournament since a sordid sex scandal changed the public perception of him forever: “It would be nice to hear a couple claps here and there,” he said. At Bodog, the online gaming industry’s…
The MGM Grand Detroit Casino will open its new job staffing center today that will be used for job interviews and training for 1,000 new employees for its new $750 million casino/hotel/entertainment center.The casino is slated to open near the end of the year. The staffing center is at 600 Woodbridge, at St. Antoine, just…
New Zealanders are gambling about $40 million a week on overseas websites – about 2 times what they spend on Lotto. A Racing Board survey has found that 5.7 per cent of New Zealanders, or 177,000 people, are gambling on websites, overseas lotteries and sports betting. They are spending $2.1 billion a year, or just…
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A pair of wild card contenders will collide at Comerica this weekend, as the Detroit Tigers look to squeeze past the shockingly competitive Baltimore Orioles to bump their wavering World Series futures. Although Detroit retains the possibility of taking the AL Central, it’s all or nothing for the O’s in the AL East. When Baltimore…