In early 2007 the first “charity” bingo hall popped up in Argo, located between the city limits of Jasper and Sumiton. It was the most recent attempt to establish electronic gambling in Walker County after many before it had failed miserably. It soon became apparent to everyone that not only was there no bingo involved, just cheap Las Vegas-like electronic slot machines, not much if anything was going to charity or to the improvement of our community, for that matter. 

Since the first bingo hall’s opening, many more have followed in the past 2 years and now there is more than 10 of these establishments in Argo alone, with a few popping up in Sumiton earlier this year. At this rate you can soon officially call our community “Bingo Nation”. 

Many groups of people have protested the developments and the growth of electronic gambling in Walker County over the years. One group of people even held signs for several weeks at the city limit signs of Jasper and Sumiton saying such things as “5 miles to Hell”. Christian activist groups have actively battled the local government on the legality of electronic gambling in Walker since mid-2007. 

The topic started to get hot earlier this year when the entire state held a vote to govern the bingo halls not only in Walker County but across the entire state, heavily taxing the ones that were indeed deemed legal while if the bill passed hundreds of the establishments would have been forced to shut down. In May the bill was voted on and did not pass. 

But let’s be honest here, if proceeds were indeed going to charity, would anyone be so quick to pass judgment or protest? In that case they can look up to link alternatif Sbobet for better understanding of the method to generate the money from online games; that may be helpful in their charity concerns .Probably not, proceeds would be going to a good cause. But we have yet to see any evidence that any money has been going anywhere but to the bingo halls’ greedy owners. And probably a little on the side to the Mayor of Argo, of course. 

Some throw the fact that these bingo halls are bringing more jobs into the county. While that statement is true, it’s only a couple of hundred jobs if that maximum and does the paychecks of those couple of hundred people amount to the number of dollars that our towns and this county as a whole is losing in potential revenue for our legitimate businesses like our restaurants, department and grocery stores, car lots, etc. due to these low class scumballs hooking our county’s residents on the thrill of gambling and bleeding their wallets and pocketbooks dry? 

At one point Walker County has to say enough is enough and get rid of these places. They are doing us no good. Only giving us a bad name, a tacky look, and an abysmal local economy. 

Ever play poker with a guy who always seems to know what cards you’re holding? Marked cards have long been a staple of poker and most other card games where money is on the line. This test to determine if you have been holding marked cards only works when you are playing against a lower rank poker cheat. The marked cards that the really big guys use are those of equally high quality and won’t usually be detected in this way. Here’s how you can try a simple little test to find the marked cards. Start by taking the deck and placing it in your palm so that design side is facing up and the suits are facing down. Now start riffling the deck from bottom to top. Riffle the cards a few times and while you do so, observe all of the area on the back of the cards that are facing you.

This may remind you of one of those animated flip-books where there is a slightly different image on each page and the motion creates a little hand-held cartoon. Same principle is being applied in this test for marked cards. The riffling of the deck is used to provide your eye with an opportunity to sense motion that shouldn’t be there. The design on the back of each card in a deck should be uniform, give or take an obvious flaw on one or two cards. By riffling the deck, the cards become animated and you will be able to sense if there any part of the design that is off. Should the riffling reveal any differentiation in the design, there’s a good chance the cards are marked and you should suggest playing with a new deck just to be on the safe side.

Unfortunately, there are ways for card cheats to reduce the effectiveness of this test. One way that card cheats try to cheat the riffle test is to use White-Out in an attempt to conceal any flaws that could produce movement during the test. Painting a little of this correction fluid onto cards that have white borders can be very successful in placing an obstacle to the test. Other card cheats carry nail whitener for the same reason. This is actually the preferred technique of those who like to mark the deck once the game is already in progress. A nail whitening pencil is very accessible and can be whipped out and used any time there is a break in play and people aren’t paying attention. The upside for you is that this technique gives itself away by reducing the glare on the cards. If you suddenly notice that the cards aren’t reflecting light the way they used to, somebody at the table probably has a nail pencil.

While it is true that this test for marked cards doesn’t come with a 100% guarantee and can be gotten around by a skilled practitioner, if you suspect the cards are marked it certainly won’t hurt to give it a try. The vast majority of marked cards used in poker games are marked by amateurs and can almost always be detected in this way.

To sum up, picking out marked cards from a stacked deck is no difficult task but just requires the person to be smart in paying back the opponent in the same coin by catching him off guard so that the card can be identified easily and poker is in the same mould.

Hollywood Casino is located at 1150 Casino Strip Resort Blvd. in Robinsonville, MS. Their telephone number is 662-357-7700. It is located across the street from Sam’s Town and right next to Resorts. It is also located just down the road from the Microtel Inns and Suites and it is also located close to the Riverbend Links. You can view the website for the Epic Buffet here (www.hollywoodcasinotunica.com/epicBuffet.aspx).

This review is based on the buffet that takes place on Friday and Saturday nights from 4:00pm until 1:00am. On these two nights the buffet includes Filet Mignon and the Seafood Feast. Because I am somewhat cheap I had never really eaten crab legs before coming to this buffet. I just could not stand to pay $25.00 for them at Red Lobster. The first time I went to the Epic Buffet I did not really plan on eating them but after a few bites I became hooked; after seeing casino online terpercaya games that people are playing in  a land based casino and the best part is they even offering the same winning prices. They are very good. I do not necessarily have to have buttem to dip them in but my wife soaks them in the butter. Also, I should note here that you can eat all the crab legs you want. If you want 5 pounds of crab legs you get 5 pounds of crab legs. Neither my wife nor I have ever had the filet mignon so unfortunately I cannot comment on that part of the buffet.

Other items on the buffet include Chinese and pizza. The Chinese might just be my favorite part. The pizza is also good but not earth-shattering. My wife enjoys the cream corn and green bean casserole. There is also a decent salad bar and once when we visited they had delicious Caesar salad but on return visits the Caesar salad was not available. The dessert bar includes a variety of cookies, pies, and cakes. There is also ice cream with a variety of toppings. The toppings include a variety of different candy bars. I personally enjoy eating the cheesecake.

As the name implies, Hollywood Casino is decorated with many items from Hollywood. There are exhibits from movies such as Titanic, Back to the Future, and Batman. Of all the casinos it probably has the coolest decor. The Epic Buffet does not have a lot of seating so be prepared to wait around 30 minutes or more depending on when you arrive on Friday or Saturday night. The first time we visited we waited around 30-45 minutes.

The total price of our meal was $53.38. The buffet is $21.99 per person and this includes a drink. The sweet tea is slightly above average. Regarding our ticket, the two buffets cost $43.98. Tax was $4.40 and we tipped $5.00 for a total of $53.38.

We have visited the buffets at Harrah’s (Paula Deen’s) and Horseshoe (Village Square). The Epic Buffet is far and away better than the Village Square at Horseshoe. I would give the Village Square 3 out of 5 stars and the Epic Buffet and Paula Deen’s are 4.5 out of 5 stars. Paula Deen’s has more casseroles and souther dishes than the Epic Buffet. The dessert bar may also be slightly better at Paula’s. Definitely visit the Epic Buffet if you ever get a chance. I do not think you will be disappointed.

Ohio looks to have casinos on the ballot for the third time in November of 2008. The first two times, the casinos were rejected by the voters, thanks to a strong anti-gambling push. This and many other reasons have so far contributed to keep people waiting for judi casino in the state and eagerly apprehending if it will ever come to the state. Have the times changed in Ohio for casinos? Maybe, and depending on who you ask, it will be a landslide vote one way or the other. Myohionow.com, a company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, has purchased property in southwest Ohio (Wilmington, Oh) to build a 1,500-room hotel, 220,000-square foot casino. Why will this ballot succeed in November? Why would it fail? Let’s explore both options.

For the ballot to succeed this November, Ohioans will have to decide they’re fed up with rising costs, losing jobs and bigger companies leaving for tax incentives out of the area, and out of the state. Indiana and Michigan have legalized casinos, and people in the Columbus, Cincinnati, Toledo and Cleveland areas leave regularly for these destinations. Bringing back these tourists and local people to spend their money in Wilmington will increase local tax revenues, statewide revenues (each of Ohio’s 88 counties get a share of the tax revenue, averaging over $1M per yr, per county, according to MyOhioNow.

The additional, IMMEDIATE impact will be to local Wilmington residents. Recently, the package delivery service DHL, which has a regional hub in Wilmington, announced it will close that hub and subcontract it’s air freight to UPS. Over 6000 jobs will be lost in a town with just over 11,000 residents. This represents disaster for a town who would have over half of its residents unemployed at the exact same time. Another reason this ballot will succeed this year is because the economic conditions have changed.

Gone are the days of long commutes to work, gone are the days of families driving long distances for vacations. Many families are opting for “staycations”, staying closer to home for vacation. A resort such as this would provide shopping, entertainment, child-friendly activies and much more, all within a three hour drive from anywhere in Ohio, and less than two hours from big cities such as Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus.

Ohio recently started having Keno machines at race tracks, private clubs and public locations with a liquor license. Although the jury is still out, Forbes.com had a pretty interesting story on how Keno in Ohio is viewed from different points of view.

This ballot will fail for the following reasons: Anti-Gambling activists who use scare tactics and statisics to show how casinos promote crime, gambling addicts, blight on the area and more. However, one can take a look at Lawrenceburg, Indiana over the last eight years since the Argosy Corporation launched it’s riverboat casino after Indiana voters agreed that gambling should be legal. A town, which this author has visited for years before the casino, and the last eight years since the casino, has grown from a small, Indiana bordertown, to a city with new streets, new police vehicles, a new regional hospital, a developed riverfront and so much more. They have also been able to maintain that small town feel, while doubling their population.

Wilmington will be a brighter and nicer place to live with a casino in its midst, as well as BECAUSE of the casino. While that may appear to be an opinion, there are no areas in the United States that upon placing a casino, the place went down economically instead of going up. Myohionow.com notes that there has never been a casino to open in the Midwestern United States, and close. That says alot for the staying power and the economic power of a casino.

For some of the best Casinos I would look no further than Las Vegas, Nevada. A real living Oasis, a real Fantasy Island gambling game of bandarqq online; that is a widely known website providing the services in the segment of casinos with all the betting odds. Nestled in a valley out in the Mojave Dessert, Las Vegas offers Casinos with every theme to fit your imagination. You wont find better odds on gaming anywhere in the world. Play games like Video Poker, Poker, Race amp; Sports Book, Reel Spinning amp; Video Slots, Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Texas Hold’Em, Keno, and more. Not only are these establishments great places for gaming but they also accommodate just about any whim you have, from entertainment, food, shopping, and lodging. Make sure you join the casinos rewards program to earn rewards and qualify for benefits like complimentary or reduced room rates, free shows and dining, giveaways, tournaments, concerts, and more.

Aria, 3730 Las Vegas Blvd, Located at City Center

One of the newest additions to the Las Vegas Skyline, Aria is a AAA Five-Diamond Casino Resort. The 150,000 square foot casino is set up in a personal and intimate setting with a 24 table poker room. Join M Life Players Club to earn rewards while you play.

Cosmopolitan 3708 Las Vegas Blvd

Another new casino with a rather unique Book amp; Stage sports book lounge where at night live music is played on the stage above the Book amp; Stage bar. Cosmopolitan has 100,000 square feet of gaming including “Casino Cabanas” and over 1500 slots. Enjoy the view of Las Vegas Boulevard through Cosmopolitans glass walls. Join the Cosmopolitan rewards program “Identity”.

Mresort 12300 Las Vegas Blvd

One of the newest casinos to open, the M Resort, is located on South Las Vegas Boulevard at St. Rose Parkway. Over 92,000 sq. ft. of gaming, 1,847 slot and video poker machines, 64 table games, a poker room offering 14 tables, VIP Players Lounge and a High Limit Salon with outdoor terrace. Join the iMagine Rewards Club to earn rewards while you play.

Caesars Palace 3570 South Las Vegas Boulevard

This majestic Las Vegas hotel offers a 129,000 square foot casino. Bet from 1 cent to 500 hundred dollars on one of over thousands of slots. You can use one of the 65 private booths at the Race Book, and the Sports book offers 140 seats with a monitor at each table. Join the “Total Rewards” program to earn while you play.

Palms 4321 Flamingo Rd

The Palms offers 80 gaming tables and more than 2,000 slot machines, The Race amp; Sports book offers 119 seats with individual monitors. Join The Palms rewards program “Club Palms” to earn rewards while you play.

Venetian 3355 Las Vegas Blvd

Join the Grazie loyalty program to earn while you play. The Venetian Poker Room is a premier 11,000 square feet poker room. With exclusive features such as: 39 poker tables, Where they provide you free poker lessons, and you can start your own game with your friends.

Luxor 3900 Las Vegas Blvd

A fabulous pyramid shaped Egyptian themed casino. Join M Life Players Club to earn rewards while you play. Over 1,500 exciting games in the 120,000 square foot casino, with 1500 slots, 87 table games, smoke free Race and Sports Book.

Mirage 3400 Las Vegas Blvd

Join M Life Players Club to earn rewards while you play. The high-limit lounge include three separate semi-private gaming areas. Poker room offers complimentary poker lessons and daily poker tournaments. Mirage has one of the largest Race and Sports book with over 10,000 square feet of gaming.

New York New York 3790 Las Vegas Blvd

Join M Life Players Club to earn rewards while you play. More than 84,000 sq.ft. and 80 gaming tables, 1,800 slots. A Race amp; Sports Book with 28 large TVS all amidst the sights and sounds of the ” Big Apple”.

Monte Carlo 3770 Las Vegas Blvd

Join M Life Players Club to earn rewards while you play. Play High Limit slots and table games in a high-style lounge located in a private room away from the main casino floor, or play on one of the 9 tables in the poker room.

Circus Circus 2880 Las Vegas Blvd.

Circus-Circus offers over 100,000 square feet of gaming with four casinos: Main Casino, West Casino, Skyrise Casino and Slots A Fun. Over 2,200 slots, 10 table poker room and a race and sports book with 32 large screen high definition televisions.

When I heard about Tenchu coming to the Xbox 360 and having online play, I will admit that I was excited. I have played numerous Tenchu titles from the original Sony Playstation to the Sony Playstation 2. When it first came out in 1998, it was innovative. You played the role of a ninja who was fighting corruption in feudal Japan by assassinating officials. Players would use stealth and a variety of weapons to overcome being spotted by guards and eventually reach the target. Fast forward to 2007 and we have the eight iteration of the Tenchu series called Tenchu Z exclusively for the XBOX 360.

Tenchu and Xbox 360 go hand in hand, thereby providing a double treat to its aficionados as the latest cheat codes would end up boggling the minds of players who won’t be able to tell it apart from the previous versions. The popularity of tenchu can be gauged from the fact that poker online has been rendered obsolete ever since the launch of the new version.

Tenchu Z is different from others in the series by allowing the player to create his own original ninja from a series of templates. By playing the game, players can acquire or purchase new items of clothing and accessories to wear. Also, players can purchase a variety of weapons/tools to aid them in their mission such as poisoned blowgun, shuriken, etc. Special skills can be purchased that give the player an added edge to defeating the enemy, such as new sword moves or the ability to conceal one’s self against a wall and become virtually invisible. There is also 4 player cooperative play and 4 player ranked matches where players compete to complete the mission. Unfortunately, these added attributes do not make the game shine at all.

The clothing and accessories are only visual eye candy and do not impact the game in any way. Basically you can run around in a bright shiny metal armor with a flag coming out of your back and no one will be the wiser. Purchasing skills is also useless as you can beat the game even on the hardest difficulty with no added skills. The online play is abysmal, as when it comes to cooperative play, other players will rush to steal your kills in order to get more points. In ranked games, whoever kills the target first or finishes the mission first wins, so everyone either runs to the way-point or kills the target as fast as they can instead of actually playing the mission out with stealth. Also, the winner only gets 20 points per ranked game and no bonus points for killing anyone else.

The graphics in the game are Sony Playstation 2 quality, with NPC models looking blocky and having no mouth movement whatsoever. The environments look OK, but definitely not next-gen. The animations for walking sometimes glitch and you watch NPCs glide across the terrain. The AI is horrendous, guards walk in rectangular patterns and will often see you killing their peers and will continue along their path instead of attacking. If you are spotted by a guard, but then disappear in the shadows, the guard will continue as if nothing ever happened.

This game reminds me of the original Playstation game, and not in a good way. It is 2007 and a game like this should even be allowed to leave the production area in this state of disarray. Unfortunately, much like many fans of the series, I was suckered into paying for it, (luckily only $30 on Ebay) and have since left it to collect dust.

When are game developers going to learn that rushed, shoddy workmanship is unacceptable?

The answer to that question is under our own noses.

We as consumers need to stop buying these crap games in order to reduce their revenue and show them that quality counts.

My advice to everyone is to rent these games before you buy, because I am lately seeing a trend of a lot of garbage games and very few gems.

These simple Poker Night pillow slip covers are the perfect way to transforms small space into a poker game room in a matter of minutes. Best of all when poker night is over, you can remove the slip covers and pack them away!

Living in a small space I am always trying to come up with great ways to decorate in new ways without using up all of my storage space. I came up with a simple no sew pillow slip cover project to help transform my small apartment into a poker night game room. These pillow covers can be made to size to cover your existing couch or bed pillows. Simply insert your pillow for some added Poker Night décor. I love these because once Poker Night is over I can take them off, fold them up, and not look at them until next week! If you want to play the best poker online, pkv games can be the best website for you to play this game. 

To make this easy Poker Night fabric craft project you will need:

• Felt (in poker table top green, red, black, and white)
• Scissors
• No Sew
• Fabric puff paint (optional)
• Fabric paint (optional)

To start your Poker Night pillow slipcovers you will need to decide which pillows you are going to use. I used my couch throw pillows. In my case I made green felt pillows with colorful playing card suit designs. Lay your green felt fabric on a flat large surface; a dining room table or kitchen counter works well. Trace out your pillow shape on the green poker table top inspired fabric. Leave at least 2 inches around the shape of your pillow. You will need two-piece of this. Leave one piece of fabric whole. Cut the other in half exactly. If your pillow is square this will be simple. If your pillow is rectangle, cut your 2nd piece of fabric in half horizontally equidistant from top to bottom.

Now, I like to decorate the front of my Poker Night pillow cover before I assemble it, but you can assemble it first and then decorate if you would like. Use your white felt to cut out your card shape. This is the basic white shape of all playing cards. Use a pencil or piece of stalk to outline the poker card shape, making about one to three for each pillow. Cut them out with scissors.

Now use black and red felt to cut out the hearts, diamonds, spade, and clubs for each card.

Cut them out.

Next, use fabric glue to attach your playing card cut outs to the pillow cover. You can then glue on the hearts, clubs, spade, and diamonds to the poker themed cards. If you have chosen to assemble your pillow before decorating make sure your fabric glue doesn’t leak through and glue your pillow cover together or you won’t be able to insert the pillow. Once you have attached your felt you can use puff paint to add small details. Make sure all of this dries before you assemble the slipcover.

To assemble the Poker Night pillow cover lay your front decorated panel face up. Outline the edge with no sew or fabric glue. Lay you back panels on top of the front panel. If you are using fabric glue, press the panels together and let this dry. If you are using No Sew then you are ready to iron the pillow together.

Turn your Poker Night slipcover inside out once it has dried or your No Sew has cooled off. You can easily insert you pillow through the center opening in the back. Enjoy your pillowslip cover for years to come.

Here are some tips you can use while making this Poker Night craft project:

Always wash your fabric before making anything out of it. This will allow your fabric to go ahead and shrink before your cut it out. While all fabric won’t shrink. Some will; so don’t risk it.

You can make this Poker Night slip cover out of any fabric you would like. If you use a fabric besides felt you will need to No Sew or fabric glue down the edges of the two back panels where the pillow slips in. Do this while your panels are unassembled. Fold them over with the rough edges towards what will the inside of the panes. Assemble as described before after this point.

Try cutting our your hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs with some inking sheers. It will create some beautify edges and really make your designs pop.