• Was it Gambling’s “Year of the Net”

Rod Smith of the Las Vegas Gaming Wire reports that, according to Vegas operators, “The biggest threat to gaming industry operations in 2002 came from the Internet reservation wholesalers,” who booked 30% of the rooms used by Vegas visitors. Familiarity with how to use the Internet has lured many hotel casino customers away onto online discount reservation sites. But as is well known to online gamblers, some of the biggest Vegas casino operators now offer online sites as well. For example, Park Place and Mandalay jointly own and operate LasVegas.com. And this site is “fighting back,” and against itself, as it were. LasVegas.com has reached agreements with seven hotels to offer, online, discounted stays in Vegas. [...]

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• Interactive Gambling: 2002 and Beyond

Without a doubt, 2002 was the toughest year yet for the interactive gambling; the industry continues to search for solutions to the most of the challenges it faced at the end of 2001, but resilience and a consumer demand for online gambling that won't be denied have kept the ship afloat. Through it all, I-gaming remains one of the few Internet industries with a lot of promise. Among other things, 2002 was the year MGM Mirage officially entered the business, interactive TV betting took the United Kingdom by storm, P2P betting made its presence known and Hong Kong banned offshore betting. [...]

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• Being Positive Can Improve Luck

It appears that people who tell you to "look on the bright side" are right - according to a psychologist who says it makes you luckier in life. Richard Wiseman has spent eight years investigating why some people appear to be consistently lucky or unlucky. He said it is not intelligence or psychic ability, but a person's approach to life that matters, and he has devised four principles of luck. One is to expect good fortune, which he says is often a self-fulfilling prophecy. Maximise your chances of something good happening by creating, noticing and acting on opportunities, listen to "gut feelings" and act on "hunches" about people or situations, cope with bad luck and turn it around by imaging how things could have been worse, or looking at what could be done about the problem. For the last year, Dr Wiseman, who runs a research unit at the University of Hertfordshire, has run a "Luck School" to see if he could teach unlucky people to be lucky using the four principles. It's being positive about everything you do, rather than looking for bad luck to come your way. He estimates he has been successful in around 80% of cases. Around 70 people have been through the school so far. The change in luck has continued after people finished the month-long course. Dr Wiseman, who has written a book outlining his principles, told BBC News Online: "Not everything is under control. But a lot more is about your way of thinking and behaving." [...]

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• Top Las Vegas Casinos Seek Internet Access

Las Vegas casinos are turning to the web to expand their gaming activities. Some of the biggest names in hot LV casinos are producing stellar websites to woo their customers online. Binion's Horseshoe has put together a website that baits foreign gamblers to their profitable site. Gamblers are being wooed by a "play-for-fun" ad campaign in order to acquire a customer base by obtaining e-mail addresses in which to use to further their future marketing activities. No American based gamblers will be allowed to bet pending a change in U.S. legal status of gambling online. For a number of years Binion has run a website that offered a live airing of its yearly World Series of Poker. Aside from MGM Mirage, many other LV casinos have not as of yet divulged web plans. Park Place and Venetian have made application for online activities. Their status is pending, Park Place on the Isle of Man, and Venetian in Alderney, a British Channel Island. [...]

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