Well we barely got through 09/09/09 unscathed and two days later we have to endure another date that brings back horrors from the past. A lot has changed since since the event of Sept 11, and then again when you look at it from another perspective, what has really changed??? There are still troups in [...]

I picked up a recent copy of an Economist magazine on the weekend and had a read through… the title was “Debt – The biggest bill in history” and it got me thinking… … just how much some of the big hotel and casino groups must have spent on The Strip in Vegas.  There must [...]

Not sold on RNG online Baccarat?  Try Live Dealer Baccarat Online casinos have, since their inception, gone to great lengths to assure players that their game outcomes are totally random and dictated by random number generators (RNG’s).  Microgaming started the third party audit trend when they engaged PriceWaterhouseCoopers to audit the historical return outcomes produced [...]

The quest for the reason behind the name “Chemin de Fer” has taken me far and wide… … and waisted a lot of my time, to be honest, but heh its been fun! I found a cool site that got me lost down an alley for hours, it explains everything!  But what everything said is [...]

Why is there a version of Baccarat called Chemin de Fer?  How should I know? The game was developed in France and Chemin de Fer means the railroad or steel road to be more specific.  But why railroad I dont know.  Wikipedia has a good explanantion of the history of baccarat. But it doesn’t say [...]

Saw the movie Duplicity the other night.  Worth watching Julia Roberts!  It sure had me duped!  Maybe I was focusing on Julia too much…  Ok so I know some will say it doesn’t take much to dupe you Tom… but this movie sure has its twists and turns… duplicity is a good name for all [...]

I wonder how the current economic conditions are affecting the gambling industry.  Are gambling businesses suffering as a result of people having less expendable income every month?  But then they say that the sin trade does well during a recession.  This is a case of a down turn in economy vs sin trade. When times [...]

So you wanted famous baccarat players – how about James Bond?  If you look at some of the older Bond movies or read Ian Fleming’s books, baccarat is actually Bond’s favorite casino game and not poker as portrayed in Casino Royale etc etc.. Another famous baccarat player is Tommy Renzoni, known as the “Father of [...]

The first recollection I have of gambling is card games in ‘cowboy’ movies or Westerns.  As a kid I never knew what card games they were playing but it had to be a serious game if you could lose your life or have to kill someone… … a smoke filled saloon, tough looking, unshaven… hard [...]

John Montagu the 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792) was an esteemed British politician. He became Secretary of State and First Lord of the Admiralty.  The Earl was an avid gambler, apparently he gambled for hours and did not like to leave the gambling table to eat.  When served meat, he asked his servants to bring two [...]