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Red Hawk Casino is kicking the New Year off with big winning

2016-01-05 12:03:09 (читать в оригинале)

Two lucky players won progressive jackpots on slots and table games over the New Year's weekend.

Linda, an Elite Rewards Club member from Galt, Calif., was visiting Red Hawk with her son to celebrate the New Year. They were having a great time playing some of their favorite slots. Linda said she had been on a lucky streak all day and wanted to try out the new Triple Blazin' 7s ™ Quick Hit Platinum slot machine. After playing for less than 20 minutes the video symbols revealed the top progressive payout of $210,059. It took Linda a moment to realize she'd won, and she was in shock to see she'd hit a six-figure jackpot.

The winning continued throughout the holiday weekend with a Fortune Pai Gow Poker progressive jackpot. A Platinum Rewards Club member from Elk Grove, who wished to remain anonymous, was at Red Hawk enjoying some of her favorite table games. As Red Hawk Casino offers a $1 Pai Gow Progressive side bet, the lowest in Northern California, she decided to try her luck. Our lucky winner placed the small side bet and was dealt a seven card straight flush that resulted in a $91,503 progressive jackpot.

"Red Hawk continues to provide guests with a large variety of table games and slots, along with first-class customer service, proving once again why we are voted Sacramento's 'Best Casino'," says Bryan deLugo, general manager.

Red Hawk Casino has been awarding more jackpots, to more winners, more often. Visit www.redhawkcasino.com to see all of the recent winners or download the all-new myRedHawk™ mobile app. Red Hawk Casino is conveniently located on Highway 50 at Red Hawk Parkway. Call 888-573-3495 for more information.

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Best casino in Las Vegas

2016-01-04 21:28:27 (читать в оригинале)

Astonishing buildings, mind-blowing views, lively crowds of people, fancy cars and thousands of shiny casinos, non-stop fun and excitement that can take your breath away. There is only one place in the world where you can see the Eiffel tower, the Colosseum, Taj Mahal and a desert at the same place; the only destination where you can go and see a bit of the whole world; the only place that can make you rich in the blink of an eye – Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps.

Las Vegas is a dream destination for many people in the world and it’s also a dream come true for many others, who have experienced the unforgettable and indescribable feeling of being there and becoming part of what Vegas really is. There is a huge number of casinos, where enthusiasts from all over the globe go to, wishing to get a lucky number and become rich, and others who go there simply to feel the spirit of this unique place.

There are so many amazing casinos which can catch your attention and make you want to get in and gamble, that it’s hard to choose which ones among all you should go to. Therefore, in this article we want to share our experience with you and make a list of the top ten casinos in Las Vegas that you simply must visit.

The Stratosphere Casino

The Stratosphere in Las Vegas is a casino, hotel and tower, all of which are combined to form an incredible set of buildings that you can see the whole city from. With its over three hundred and fifty metres, the tower is considered the largest free-standing one in the United States and the second one in the Western Hemisphere. The casino-hotel is a separate building which is the tallest structure in Las Vegas. It is situated on Las Vegas Boulevard, north from Las Vegas Strip. In 1990, an American entrepreneur and casino-owner, Bob Stupak, came up with the idea of building a giant ape that would serve to carry customers up and down the columns of the tower.

The original conception was to create the tallest free-standing building in the whole world by then with a hight of 553 metres. However, the plan was not accepted by the Federal Aviation Administration due to potential safety risks that might occur because of the nearby McCarran International Airport. In 1993, while the tower was still under construction, it caught fire. This led to necessary repairs that took some time and delayed a lot the whole process of building the tower.

In 1996, the construction was finally completed and put in use. There are two observation decks on the top of the tower, four speed rides and a restaurant. The 7 400-square-metre casino offers entertainment, such as slot machines, 50 different table games, over 1 500 video poker and slot machines, a sports book and a poker room.

Binion’s

Binion’s Gambling Hall & Hotel, formerly known as Binion’s Horseshoe, is one of the best casinos in Las Vegas. It is located on the Fremont Street Experience and is owned by TLC Casino Enterprises. Its name comes from its former owner, Benny Binion, whose family founded the casino-hotel in 1951. At first, the casino was in an old riverboat style, with velvet wallpaper and low ceilings. It was the very first carpeted casino and also the first one to offer comps to its customers.

The whole family was involved in the process of the casino’s proper functioning until Benny Binion was put in prison and sold his share of the casino to his fellow-gambler, Joe Brown. When Brown took over the whole casino, he installed a display on the floor, which became very famous for its price of one million. It was later recreated and it has been the casino’s attraction ever since. Visiting Binion’s is considered one of the must-do things when going to Las Vegas for the fact that it’s a classic casino where you can still sense the spirit of the old times. Binion’s is also the place where the World Series of Poker was born and held.

New York-New York

New York-New York is another great casino-hotel resort in Las Vegas that is worth seeing. It is located on Las Vegas Boulevard South and has a gaming space of over 7800 square metres. As its name implies, New York-New York is influenced a lot by the city of New York. The style of the building reminds of the old New York style and there are a few towers, which resemble the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building.

There are more important New York signs there, such as a lake in front of the casino, which is a representation of New York Harbour, a 45-metre-tall replica of the Statue Of Liberty and also replicas of several other New York buildings, such as the Whitney Museum Of American Art and the Soldier and Sailors Monument.

Within the resort, there are many restaurants, gambling areas, lounges and shops, named after different neighbourhoods in New York City. The building process of New York-New York was completed at the cost of 460 million dollars and the casino opened in 1997. It is mainly famous for its roller coaster, formerly known as Manhattan Express, which resembles traditional New York checker taxi. It goes through the whole property and allows visitors to take a trip and see the interior and exterior of the resort.

The Mirage

The Mirage is one of the most impressive casino-hotels on the Las Vegas Strip. It is connected by a tram to Treasure Island, which is another casino-hotel. There is a marquee in front of the Mirage casino, which is considered the biggest free-standing marquee in the whole world. The casino was designed by Joel Bergman and built by Steve Wynn. It opened in 1989 and was the first casino resort to be built with money from Wall Street junk bonds. By that time, the Mirage was the most expensive casino with a total cost of about 630 million dollars. The construction contains a lot of gold, including the windows, whose golden colour is a result of the gold dust that is used in the tinting process.

The casino-hotel is considered the father and founder of today’s conception of Las Vegas. There are several attractions in the resort, such as a secret garden and dolphin habitat, an artificial volcano, rainforest flora at the entrance, a poolside nude area and a huge 16×2,4-metre aquarium at the reception. Many important boxing events have taken place in the resort, such as the match between Felix Trinidad and Freddie Pendleton.

Caesars Palace

Caesars Palace is another amazing casino-hotel that is in the top ten casinos in Las Vegas. It is situated on the west side of the Las Vegas Strip and is owned by Caesars Entertainment Corporation. The casino has a total gaming space of about 15 500 square metres and offers a lot of facilities and entertainment. The building of Caesars Palace started in 1962, when a motel-owner, Jay Sarno, came up with a concept for an attractive resort in a Roman style.

The constructions process was completed in the summer of 1966 and the casino-hotel opened its doors for customers. The idea behind the casino was to create something that evokes the feeling of royalty with its Roman water fountains and landscapes.

The resort offers a wide range of fashionable stores and a huge sports book that is worth watching. Bringing a real Roman touch, there is a replica of the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. The construction serves as an entertainment venue, which can host over 4 200 people, who want to attend concerts of different famous performers, such as Celine Dion, Cher, Elton John, Luis Miguel, Sheryl Crow, Gloria Estefan, Bette Midler and others. In 2009, President Barack Obama performed in a one-night show in the Colosseum, called ‘A Good Fight’.

Treasure Island

Treasure Island Hotel & Casino, also referred to as ‘TI’, is a casino-hotel, situated on the Las Vegas Strip. It is connected by free tram to The Mirage casino and also by a pedestrian bridge to the Fashion Show Mall, which is a big shopping centre. The hotel is one of the best ones in Las Vegas and it has received a Four Diamond rating every year since 1999. The building of Treasure Island was completed in 1993 at the cost of 450 million dollars.

At first, the idea was to build an additional tower to The Mirage. However, this plan developed to designing a whole separate casino-hotel resort. The original plan was to build the casino in a pirate style with a marquee with skulls and crossbones and a stage for pirate battles every night. However, in 2003 the theme of the casino and hotel was changed to a more adult-friendly environment, with a hot tub, a night bar and a different exterior colour, which changed from orange to dark maroon.

Treasure Island hosts the ‘Mystere’ show of Cirque du Soleil, which is considered the best show in Las Vegas. The pirate ‘Buccaneer Bay’ show was replaced with ‘Sirens’ Cove’ and ‘The Sirens of TI’ in 2003. The show programmes included dancing, singing, half-naked pirates and many audio-visual effects, all of which were meant to attract adult audience. However, the show was stopped in 2013 due to construction.

Hard Rock

The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is another entertainment resort which is worth visiting. Owned and operated by Brookfield Asset Management and Warner Gaming, LLC, the 6,8-hectare property is situated on Paradise Road in Las Vegas. Its total gaming space is 2 800 square metres but gaming earns the resort only about thirty per cent of its income. Hard Rock is in contemporary chick style and it offers many facilities and ways to keep visitors entertained, such as a nightclub, cocktail lounges, many shops, six restaurants, a Tahiti-style beach, a poker room, a music venue and many more.

The resort was planned and built by Peter Morton in 1995. It was expanded and renovated a few times through the years, as the last time was in 2010. In 2002, a famous rock musician, John Entwistle from ‘The Who’, died in one of the hotel rooms, which is no longer released for guests but only visited by fans, who want to pay tribute to Entwistle. Entertainment that the resort offers includes ‘Vanity’ club, ‘The Joint’, ‘Rehab’ and ‘Vinyl’. ‘The Joint’ is a rock club, where many popular musicians have performed, such as Guns N Roses, The Rolling Stones, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, Oasis and others.

‘Vanity’ is a nightclub which has two bars and sixty VIP booths. The attraction of the club is a cyclone chandelier above the dance floor which sprawls. ‘Rehab’ is an event, which is considered the original pool party of Las Vegas. It takes place every Sunday, turning Hard Rock into an open daytime pool party. Many famous DJs play music there, such as Tiesto, Fedde Le Grand and many more.

Mandalay Bay

Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino is situated on the Las Vegas Strip and is owned by MGM Resorts International. The casino has a total space of 12 500 square metres and it’s styled in a South-East Asian theme. The resort was opened in the winter of 1996 as a Hawaiian-styled ‘Project Paradise’ resort. However, two years later the resort was renovated and its name was changed to ‘Mandalay Bay’, although there isn’t an actual bay in the capital of Burma – Mandalay.

In 2003, a Convention centre was added to the resort, which was announced the fifth largest one in the United States with its 93 thousand square metres. It includes a few ballrooms with a size up to 9 000 metres. The resort has a big shopping mall, called ‘Mandalay Place’, 24 restaurants, bars and lounges, an event centre, a shark reef aquarium and a 4,5-hectare Mandalay beach, which includes a wave pool, a small waterfall, three heated pools, a Lazy River water ride and a swimming pool for children.

The Shark Reef is a salt-water aquarium, which contains one of the biggest tanks in North America. Show programmes which take place at the resort permanently are ‘Chicago’, ‘The Lion King’, ‘Mamma Mia!’ and ‘Michael Jackson: One’.

The Palms

The Palms Casino Resort is one of the most popular casinos is Las Vegas. It is located on Flamingo Road, near the Las Vegas Strip. The resort includes a 8 800-square metre casino, a Michelin-recognised restaurant, a recording studio and the Pearl concert theatre that can host up to 2 500 people. Made in a modern, neo-retro style, the resort is similar to Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, with which it competes. Developed by George Maloof in 2000, the resort project was completed in September 2001 and two months later opened its doors to a huge crowd of people.

The Palms has several nightclubs and lounges, some of which are situated in one of the three towers at the resort. The second tower is called ‘Fantasy Tower’ and includes a two-story suite which has a basketball court. Other suits in the tower are the King Pin suite, the Barbie suite and the G suite. The casino includes all of the classic and latest table games, stylish bars and plush lounges, where you can take a break from the lively gaming spirit.

Bellagio

Bellagio is the last on our list but not the least casino in Las Vegas that offers an incredible time. It is a luxurious casino located on the Las Vegas Strip. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International, the company that owns Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino. Bellagio is famous for its elegance and style that is inspired by the lake town of Bellagio in Italy. The casino opened in 1998 and has a total gaming space of 10 800 square metres.

Bellagio offers many facilities and is well-known for its professional poker room. Many poker experts play there, referring to the casino as ‘The Office’. The reason why they choose Bellagio is its high table limits. The casino also hosts many tournaments of the World Poker Tour. It offers a range of gaming slots, table games, a race and a sports book.

The resort includes many attractions, such as the Fountain of Bellagio, which is a huge fountain with choreographed water that is set to performs to light and sounds. Bellagio also contains several restaurants and bars, a conservatory, botanical gardens and a gallery of fine art, which offers exhibitions of works of fine art.

LINK http://www.casinonewsdaily.com/top-10-casinos-in-las-vegas

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Best Lottery Games of the World

2016-01-04 15:04:05 (читать в оригинале)

The lottery is a common game with numbers. Based on lucky guesses and winning odds, lotto games are a source of dreams and hopes all around the world. Any time one jackpots reaches a certain height, people rush in to buy lotto tickets online or offline, making plans of what they with do with the potentially won money. When trying to make up a top 10 of the best lotteries in the entire world, the first difficulty comes with choosing the criteria. Should it be about the prizes? Should it be about the winning odds? Well, we decided to go with the first option and here are the top 10 lottery games distributing huge prizes on a regular basis:

1. US Mega Millions

Obviously, the American lotteries will come right on top as their prizes are huge, especially when talking about the Mega Millions and Powerball – the US lotto two giants. Mega Millions’ name should sound familiar even if you are not a lotto fan as this game has just distributed the 2nd largest prizes in the lottery’s history – $648 million, won on two tickets. Moreover, the world record is written under the same name and it stands at an amazing $656 million height, being won on three tickets in March 2012.

2. US Powerball

What makes the second largest American lottery so special? Its strength? It’s dynamism? Its prizes? The answer is all of them. When US Powerball changed the rules of the game back in January 2012, this game got even better than it used to be: its initial jackpot was doubled, the guess range got smaller, and the Power Play became a fixed multiplier able to double the Powerball’s 2nd prize to $2 million. After a crazy year 2013, when Powerball has been making the headlines with regular 9 digit prizes on display and a record-breaking $590.5 million jackpot prize in May, this American’s lottery’s officials promise some more changes in January 2014.

3. EuroMillions

An undisputed leader of all European lotto games, EuroMillions is a multinational game that reunites lottery organizations from different countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and U.K.). EuroMillions offers top prizes that can go as high as €190 million – the record the European champ has reached so far. Occasionally, the multinational lotto game organizes special draws called EuroMillions Superdraw, when the jackpot jumps to €100 million irrespective of its amount for the previous draw.

4. EuroMillions UK

Based on the classical EuroMillions lottery game, the UK version adds even more excitement as its draws also include a raffle. The EuroMillions UK tickets contain a code that has to match the one of the respective draw in order to be a winner. Each winning code brings £1 million to the owner of the ticket it is printed on. EuroMillions UK special draws mean extracting a number of such codes, usually 100, thus making 100 millionaires in one single night.

5. Loteria de Navidad

A lottery draw that happens once a year, Loteria de Navidad is actually a raffle. The best thing about this game is that it offers a total fund prize of €2.24 billion. Maybe this could explain its popularity! Indeed, this Spanish lottery game is so popular that it was integrated in the country’s Christmas traditions so deeply that it is a custom to buy Loteria de Navidad tickets as Christmas present.

6. Eurojackpot

The youngest European lottery, Eurojackpot is gaining more and more popularity every day. In certain countries, Eurojackpot is even more popular than EuroMillions. Moreover, EuroJackpot has more participating countries as the leading European lottery: 14 countries are reunited in the young lotto game’s draw (Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden) and this is also where its tickets are sold in lotto kiosks.

7. Powerball Australia

A champion in its home country, Powerball Australia is an easy to play lottery game based on the very well-known US Powerball format. Its jackpots cannot be compared to the ones the American lottery distributes, but nor do its winning odds. Although its top prizes got as high as AU$80 million, the chances to take an Australia Powerball jackpot home are a lot bigger than when playing against 175 million odds in the American version of the game.

8. La Primitiva Spain

The Spanish lottery La Primitiva has been gaining momentum during this year 2013. Its weekly draws that take place on Thursdays and Saturdays have been important events during this game’s peak times, when its jackpot reached record levels like €24.92 million in 2005, €26 million in 2007, €32 million in 2013 and €66.6 million in August 2013.

9. Loteria National Monthly Raffles

Spanish people like the lotteries and the Spanish National Lottery is aware of that. This is why it offers plenty of interesting games and monthly raffles that make multi-millionaires and also contribute to specific causes like the Red Cross, the National Library, etc.

10. SuperEnalotto

The Italians could not miss the top 10. Not when they have such a popular game as SuperEnalotto. Its jackpot grows slowly for months until it reaches amazing levels. The latest mega SuperEnalotto jackpot was distributed this summer and it made a total of 57 jackpot winners.

LINK http://www.wonderslist.com/top-10-best-lottery-games-world/

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Powerball lottery jackpot surges to roughly $400M

2016-01-04 13:43:30 (читать в оригинале)

Time to buy a ticket and say a prayer — the Powerball bonanza for Wednesday’s drawing is worth roughly $400 million.

The eye-popping jackpot is fueled by heavy sales after nobody matched all five numbers plus the Powerball to claim

Time to buy a ticket and say a prayer — the Powerball bonanza for Wednesday’s drawing is worth roughly $400 million.

The eye-popping jackpot is fueled by heavy sales after nobody matched all five numbers plus the Powerball to claim Saturday’s $334 million grand prize.

Instead, three lucky winners each took home $1 million, and someone in Pennsylvania won $2 million.



The expected $400 million jackpot will be one of the biggest ever. There have only been 10 previous winning ticketholders who collected more than $300 million.

The largest Powerball jackpot ever was $590.5 million, won in Florida in May 2013. An 84-year-old woman from Florida bought the ticket after another customer let her go ahead in line.

As for Wednesday’s upcoming drawing, if no one matches all five numbers plus the Powerball, the jackpot will continue to grow.

The odds of winning the life-changing top prize on a $2 bet are about 1 in 300 million, according to lottery officials.


Link http://lottery.einnews.com/article/304539836/nsGfMxPtj4osV5B0