Brendan Kelly, a 33-year-old man from Louisville, Kentucky, has challenged himself to walk from his hometown to Las Vegas to play a hand of blackjack. The trip will take three months and he will walk 1800 miles.

The Trump Plaza in Atlantic City gives credits for a gas card to its clients as an extra incentive for them to continue visiting the city, despite gas prices. Many other casinos are concerned that they may start losing clients if prices keep on climbing. The truth is that, at least for the moment, their business hasn’t been affected.

While televised poker tournaments generate thousands of dollars, Blackjack remains shy and hidden. Poker professionals and tournament organizers want to change that with the Ultimate Blackjack Tour, a televised blackjack tournament.

The owner of a Cyber Café in the Asian nation of Brunei has been declared guilty of illegal gambling charges. The authorities of Kuala Bealit City received a denunciation; the accuser assured that in the Chen Kim Veng’s Cyber Café illegal gambling was taking place.

Based on this information, the police raided the cyber café and found that the Cyber café was offering, beside the usual stuff, casino games such as Blackjack and Roulette. Latter investigations showed that the owner charged an extra $5 fee to let clients play the casino games.

Although being successful in a blackjack tournament requires skill and “card sense”, these have nothing to do with playing the game at a high level. The importance is focused in your chips management and sizing your bets properly, as it is a competitive game. This shows a similarity with poker tournaments.

Poker tournaments are already televised due to their growing popularity, while Blackjack takes place in a smaller scale. But, considering the parallelism between the two card games, it is highly probable that, not in a faraway future, Blackjack tournaments end up on TV too.

Card Player Magazine hosted, last week, the first poker awards ceremony, along with Bodog as the producer. The host of the gala were Bodog’s CEO, Calvin Ayre, one of the more notorious executives of the gambling industry, and Brad Garret, the comedian from “Everybody Loves Raymond”.

Some of the awarded were: Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Chip Reese and Daniel Negreanu.

Negreanu, who was the last year’s “Player of the Year”, went home with the “People's Choice Award

UK gamblers would rather gamble on the Internet than go to the pub to have a pint, a new survey reveals.

Thirty eight per cent of online gamblers would give up TV to play poker or blackjack online while 19 per cent of them said that they would give up a drink in the pub.

Nine per cent of casino and online blackjack or poker players said that they would like to quit their jobs to play online professionally.

An interveiw to Anthony Cabot, an Internet gaming attorney, published on In Business Las Vegas.

In debates about the labyrinthine laws governing Internet gambling, attorney Anthony Cabot is never far from the discussion. Cabot, a partner with Lewis and Roca's government relations and administrative law practice group, is one of the country's foremost experts on Internet gambling law. Cabot, a founding member of the International Masters of Gaming Law Association and co-editor-in-chief of the Gaming Law Review

There is no doubt: Blackjack.com is, on the one hand, a very functional and well-organized portal, and on the other hand, a fancy site with delicate design and subtle style. It has exactly what blackjack players are looking for: sobriety, organization and quality.

Blackjack.com not only has a wide variety of games, but also a special selection of strategies, a considerable amount of bonus and an efficient online support service. Due to these attributes, Blackjack.com has become a leader in the online blackjack world. However, this situation seems to be changing.

In 1995 we saw the emergence of internet casino gambling, which includes playing games of chance such as poker, blackjack, and roulette as well as betting on sports events.

By the year 2000, nearly 300 companies around the world operated almost 2,000 internet gambling websites. And in 2005, worldwide online gambling revenue is expected to be over $US10 billion for such operators while a total of $US 200 billion is expected to have been wagered.