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After a long legal battle the Seminole Tribe will get to keep its casinos alive in Florida. “Legislators agreed to almost of the provisions sought by the anti-gambling House, including a plan to allow slot machines at the Seminole casinos outside of Miami-Dade and Broward and the exclusive right to banked card games at its Hard Rock complexes in Broward and Hillsborough counties. They aren’t the only winners in the case as the Hialeah race track will reopen under the new ruling with card rooms and slots machines.

In a new twist in TV poker, NBC has announced a new show called “Face the Ace”. Lucky contestants will be chosen to compete head to head against poker pros on the new game show. Each new contestant will be able to chose one of four doors. Behind each door is a different poker professional ready to take them on heads up in a game of Texas Hold’em. If they win against the pro they play a second pro for more money or walk away with what they have. Should they lose they get nothing. If a contestant wins against 3 of the poker pros they will win the $1 million dollar jackpot.

In the past there have been large software downloads associated with online casinos. You would surf to the casino website and then find your OS version and download the program. In toady’s world that is all changing. The newer gambling websites are using the latest technologies. FLASH technology is gaining ground and seems to be the one with the most promise. Flash is great at compressing 3-D graphics and can handle the rigours of real-time gaming. JAVA is another platform that does not require any downloads just like Flash. The advantage of Java is that it does not even need a plugin for your browser to work properly.
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If you own a Mac and love to gamble than you know how hard it can be to find poker or casino software that runs on your machine. While Mac continues to gain market share in the personal computer world they are still way behind in the grand scheme of things. The latest surveys show that Mac users only represent about 2% of all online gamblers. That is not good news if you are hoping that more online casinos will develop software to work on your machine. The good news is that casino software developers are talking a new approach to things and creating OS independent software that will run on any Internet enabled devices.
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Much has been made in the Mac vs PC debate. You only have to turn your TV on and watch the latest Mac ads to see the debate continue. If you are a online gambler there is one clear winner in the casino sweepstakes and that is Microsoft. As of this writing there is still no fully featured casino online that works with the Mac OS. When we contacted the most popular casinos online to see whether their current software supported Mac or if they had plans to do so in the future the answer was always the same. No. In fact most casinos don’t even tell you which OS they support since it is considered common knowledge that Mac is simply out of luck.

Some lucky gamblers will get to take home their share of $2 million dollar jackpots. Popular online casino “Golden Casino” has announced that their running jackpots total will cross the 2 million dollar mark sometime soon. That means a few lucky players will take home a huge loot and instantly change their lives forever. Not all games at Golden Casino are part of the massive jackpot but all gamblers playing Slots such as Red White and Win, Pay Dirt and Treasure Trail could see their fortunes change just like that.