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By JODIE MOZDZER | Courant Staff Writer

August 4, 2008

UNCASVILLE - Tebucky S. Jones, a former safety for the New England Patriots and a Farmington resident, was arrested at Mohegan Sun early Friday after an altercation in the casino’s hotel lobby.

The fight started about 1 a.m. when Jones, 33, of 77 Ely Road, made inappropriate contact with a woman in the lobby, police said. The woman’s boyfriend, Nikolaos Papathanasiou, 24, of the Quaker Hill section of Waterford, had an argument with Jones over the contact, which escalated into a physical fight, according to the police report.

Police said Jones knocked over the female victim, who was not identified, and punched Papathanasiou in the face. A third man, Mark Chichester, 36, of New London, then punched Jones, according to police.

Jones, who is a New Britain native and played for the Patriots from 1998 to 2002, was charged with breach of peace, third-degree assault, and fourth-degree sexual assault and was released on $5,000 bail. He is due in court Aug. 21.

Chichester and Papathanasiou were each charged with breach of peace and released on $250 bail, with the same court date. Papathanasiou was treated for his injuries at William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich.

Jones played football for New Britain High School and then Syracuse University before being drafted by the Patriots in the first round of the 1998 NFL Draft. Jones played in 72 games with 36 starts for the Patriots.

Jones also played for the New Orleans Saints and the Miami Dolphins, returning to the Patriots in 2006. For the entire 2006 regular season and playoffs, Jones was on the injured list with a leg injury, according to a news release from the Patriots website. He was released from the team in 2007.

During his nine-year career, he recorded 420 career tackles (299 solo), 4.5 sacks, six interceptions for 73 yards, 41 passes defended, six forced fumbles, four fumble recoveries and 72 special teams tackles.

Jones also made headlines during 2006 and 2007 for trying to evict his mother, Maryann Jones, from the Plainville condominium he owns. Jones filed, and then withdrew, two legal complaints against Maryann Jones, accusing her of not paying the common charges for the condominium unit. In January 2007, Maryann Jones and Jones’ attorney signed an agreement that said Maryann Jones would leave the condominium by the end of February

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This might seem like a bit of an odd news headline for the online casino world. Especially since in recent years thanks to George W. Bush’s administration, politics and online casinos (at least in the U.S.) haven’t been getting along so well.

The current Republican administration brought into effect the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA) which prevents American players from gambling at several major online casinos.

Now however, the Poker Players’ Alliance, a non-profit organization that aims to fight the UIGEA and has over one million members, has chosen to put its faith and trust in the Barack Obama campaign.

Another surprising bit of information, which no doubt adds to his support from the online gaming world is that Obama is a skilled poker player. He began playing poker in highs school, often with his grandfather and school mates. In 2004, Obama took part in several low-stakes, for fun games of poker during the Illinois state legislature that was designed to break up the tedious and extremely long legislative sessions!

Former players would characterize his style of play as cautious and attentive and is said to have a good poker face. Of course, Obama does not play any poker on the campaign trail.

Obama also has the support of some pretty heavy hitters in the poker world including Doyle ‘Texas Dolly’ Brunson. Brunson is a 10-tine WSOP bracelet winner, who was a republican for 74 years before switching support. Also supporting Obama is Andy Bloch, another world renowned player and part of the MIT blackjack team. Bloch also revealed Obama had support from most other poker players as well.

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Don’t bet against money laundering robots. Botnets are fulfilling law enforcement fears that online casinos could prove fertile ground for money laundering, according to a recent, little-noticed report by risk compliance firm Fortent.

Some are engaging in variations of an old casino scam, in which preprogrammed-to-lose bots transfer dirty money - obtained through stolen credit cards, illicit drug sales or whatnot - to a chosen winner. Others flood a room and conspire to defraud a legitimate player by leveraging the mathematical advantage inherent in knowing more of the cards. Another scam involves spamming a known player in the hopes of stealing password and account information, and then bleeding the account dry through the fraudulent games described above.

Fulltiltpoker.com apparently got hit by a botnet attack recently and refunded money to the defrauded customers. A USA Today tally last month estimated that $2.5 mil to $3.5 mil per year are laundered this way.

“We are definitely seeing activity by bot-herders in online casino games, which is something we hadn’t seen before,” Symantec security analyst Zulfikar Ramzan noted.

We’ve generally been skeptical of allegations that the online casino industry would make a good platform for widespread money laundering, primarily due to the ready-made trail left by the transactions. However, the use of botnets is more problematic, due to the fact that until recently botmasters had not been targeted by the FBI, and the actual computers involved belong to innocent third parties.

Money laundering can theoretically be accomplished through many types of transactions - for example, by selling phony merchandise on eBay and transferring the money without delivering anything at all. It’s therefore questionable just how much more susceptible cybercasinos are than other online businesses to money laundering. Risk compliance companies like Fortent or AccuitySolutions have products to push, after all. However, the fact that the US authorities have driven much of the online gambling and payment processing activity underground raises serious concerns about just how secure some of these sites are.

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Partnership Enables PacificNet Games to Rapidly Expand Gaming Product Lines via Partnership Agreement with Casino Management System Leader.

MACAU, China, Sept. 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — PacificNet, Inc. , a leading provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), mobile internet, e-commerce and gaming technology in China, announced today that its PacificNet Games ( http://www.PactGames.com ) subsidiary has signed a strategic alliance partnership agreement with leading casino management system provider Advansys ( http://www.advansys.si ).

Through this partnership, PacificNet Games will deploy Advansys products in multiple Asian markets, customize existing products to meet local gaming requirements and co-develop new casino management systems for Asian casinos. PactGames currently carries a wide range of gaming product lines, including EGT Series and CyberCash Series Slot machines, Virgin Series MultiPlayer Casino gaming machines, eTable Series Multiplayer casino gaming machines, and the Evona series casino roulette. This partnership with Advansys adds to this product line a world-class casino management system, giving PactGames a complete and strengthened product line. Other suppliers of casino management systems include IGT, Aristocrat, BallyTech, and Progressive Gaming.

The Advansys casino management system includes slot accounting, cage management, player tracking, slot marketing, and slot machine maintenance. This summer, Advansys launched SlotScanner(TM) Ticketing, which is used for the management of Ticket-In, Ticket-Sut (TITO) slot operations in place of traditional coins. SlotScanner(TM) Ticketing is an upgrade to SlotScanner(TM) Accounting & Cage and operates on all slot machines that support reading and printing of cash-out tickets. Ticketing is very popular with players that value the privacy of their play, simplicity of use and instant transfer of credits from one machine to another. SlotScanner(TM) Ticketing is a solution for operators who want to increase the efficiency and profitability of their slot floor by reducing or eliminating hopper fills and decreasing labor costs. Advansys has seen strong demand for all of its casino management products due to Asian operators facing growing competition, which is bringing an increased need for casino efficiency and a stronger push to gain player loyalty.

Tony Tong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PacificNet, said “We highly respect Advansys’ strength and knowledge in casino management systems. We are excited about the features, quality and income generation potential of Advansys’s gaming products. We think Advansys’s gaming products are complementary to PacificNet Games’ multi-player electronic gaming machine product lines and we believe that Advansys’ gaming products will further enhance PacificNet’s position to become a leading gaming technology provider in Asia. With our mature gaming product line, strong presence and installation base, this partnership with Advansys will greatly enhance PacificNet’s efforts to expand penetration of our products in Asia and the rest of the world.”

As of the end of 2006, Macau (a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China) has become the largest and fastest-growing gaming market in the world, and has surpassed the Las Vegas Strip in total revenues. According to statistics provided by Macau government, in 2006, Macau’s gaming revenues reached US$7 billion (MOP 56.2 billion patacas), surpassing the Las Vegas Strip gaming revenues of US$6.6 billion. Macau borders Zhuhai City of Guangdong Province of China, one of the country’s wealthiest and most developed regions and is an hour away from Hong Kong via ferry. In 2006, the number of tourists visiting Macau reached an all-time record of 22 million, an increase of 17 percent compared with 2005, of which 55%, or 12 million visitors, were from mainland China. By 2010, the number of tourists is expected to nearly double to almost 30 million visitors per year. Approximately one billion people live within a three-hour flight of Macau. With the disposable income of the average Chinese on the rise, Macau’s gaming and entertainment market is expected to grow for years to come. Macau is the only area in China where gambling is legal.

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Online gambling portal took the initiative on Washington project

Whilst many complain about US political ignorance when it comes to the multi-faceted online gambling phenomenon, few have taken proactive steps to address the apparently yawning gap in US political education on the pastime. Not so the information portal Casino Gambling Web which has just completed a commendable initiative to better inform Congressmen.

Staff from the portal traveled to Washington DC and successfully delivered 435 information packets to every US representative in Congress on Friday last week.

The packets contained the substantial petition to repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that the site has been sponsoring, together with 10 reasons why Internet gambling should be legalised, and a CD that contained all the testimony from the Financial Services Committee hearing on the regulation of Internet gambling.

Each packet was hand addressed to individual Congressmen and women and the project was titled ‘The IGREA Initiative’. The title refers to Congressman Barney Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act which seeks to legalise and regulate online gambling in the United States (see previous Online-Casinos.com/InfoPowa reports).

“We did our part,” commented a Casino Gambling Web staffer who helped deliver the 435 packets, “Now it’s up to the 15-25 million Americans we went there to fight for to start calling their Congress people and express their support for ‘The IGREA Initiative’.”

Congressman Frank and other US politicians who believe in regulation rather than prohibition have repeatedly stressed how important it is for politicians to hear the voices of voters they represent. They have urged American online players to email or phone their political representatives to ask that they reject UIGEA and support the Frank Bill.

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I have been playing in casinos since the day after I turned 21 (some 13 years ago - eek getting old here:) and since the first time I sat down at one of those ‘one armed bandits’ I have been superstitious about what machine I play. Well maybe superstitious isnt quite the right word, maybe I should say very selective. You see, I will look at a row of machines and I usually like one over the others. Call me crazy, but I always get a hunch on which one will pay the most. But since I’m not playing all of the machines in a particular row, I could be completely full of crap about all of this! The last few times I’ve been in a casino, my so-called hunches have paid off.

We stopped at Sam’s Town in Shreveport LA a few months ago on the way home from visiting some family and I saw this one machine that just seemed to be beckoning me to play (yes more complete hooey!). So I sit down, hubby beside me, stick a twenty in the machine and about 3 spins into playing I hit the a $500 payout. So, for you non-believers, I have partially proven that my superslotsense, not to be confused with spidey-sense, may actually be true. Now, I’m not even going to tell you about the woman sitting 3 machines down from me that hit $11,000 on her machine.

So, now fast forward to last week when I was at another casino, this one on the Carnival Funship Ecstacy, I walked around and around the whole place, only about 3,000 sq feet until I found the machine that was calling my name. Well, techically it kept saying ‘HotShot’ but ya know, I am and so I sit down. Now this machine is a penny machine - cool it’ll take days to wipe out $20 in credits. Not exactly, since the machine was a 20 liner, 5 reel, with a 10 coin per line max bet. All that means is that if you really want to win the big jackpot prize, you must spend $2 on each spin. So I stick a $20 in this machine and bang, first spin is the ‘hotshot’ game where you can win additional credits. Within about 15 minutes my original money had grown into well over $300 but as i often do, i just kept spinning and saying to myself, I’ll stop when I hit the next jackpot, or when i’m broke. Luckily the latter never came and I left the casino when it closed at 3am (we were getting ready to pull into port) with slightly more than $200.

I think next time i’ll get my lucky rabbits foot at home.

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ATLANTIC CITY - Donald Trump wrote to Mayor Bob Levy and City Council President William Marsh on Wednesday calling on the city to repeal a partial casino smoking ban that he claims is scaring away business.
In his two-page letter, Trump said gamblers are fleeing Atlantic City en masse for competing casinos in Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut that don’t have smoking restrictions.

“The negative impact of the city ordinance is even more than the mere loss of a large number of smoking patrons to Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut casinos and the perhaps permanent decline in Atlantic City gaming revenue,” Trump wrote. “It also requires that each casino operator expend millions of dollars to enclose its gaming floor smoking areas with structures which will significantly obstruct the customary flow of gaming patron activity and at the same time look absolutely terrible.”

Atlantic City’s partial ban, which took effect on April 15, limits smoking to no more than 25 percent of the gaming floor at the 11 casinos. Smoking is off-limits in the remaining 75 percent of the gaming space.

Marsh said Wednesday evening he had not yet seen Trump’s letter but noted that the 75-25 smoking compromise was supported by the Casino Association of New Jersey, the gaming industry trade group that includes the three Trump casinos.

“At this point, I think the 75-25 split is very favorable,” Marsh said. “That is something that the Casino Association supported along with the majority of the casinos. So at this point, I don’t know if Mr. Trump has additional information that we don’t have.”

Levy, who also said Wednesday evening he had not yet seen Trump’s letter, stated that it would first be up to City Council to repeal the partial smoking ban. Only then would he have to decide whether to use his mayoral veto power.

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LAS VEGAS, NV — 08/15/07 — The World Poker Store (PINKSHEETS: WPKS), a Nevada corporation with corporate offices in St. Paul, MN, hosted its fourth Texas Hold ‘em State Finals Tournament at Jackpot Junction Casino Hotel in Morton, MN, on Saturday, August 11th. With over 540 players in the state finals on Saturday and 27 teams (8 players per team) competing in the Team tournament Friday night, the World Poker Store’s Bar Poker League hosted close to 1,000 players and guests during the weekend of Poker. Players qualify for the state finals hosted at local casinos through the Bar Poker League’s progressive point system accumulating points over a 6-month period during play at local bars and restaurants. The casino partner awards the $10,000 WSOP Main Event Seat grand prize along with airfare to Las Vegas and accommodations for the World Series of Poker held annually in July. The Bar Poker League currently has 25,000 plus registered members and will continue to grow through expansion into other states in 2007. Mitch Minick from Lino Lakes Minnesota took top honors at this event and joins the ranks of past State Champions Barb Silberglitt of Mora, MN, Jamin Neppl of Eagan, MN, and Katie LeBeau of Mankato, MN, each of which competed in past WSOP Main Events and enjoyed other perks including hanging out with poker pros Phil Hellmuth, Marcel Luske, Hoyt Corkins, Johnny Chan, Patrik Antonius and Liz Lieu as part of their time spent at the WSOP with The World Poker Store. “Despite thunderstorms and bad weather, our players still made the state finals trip in great numbers and we were very pleased to see such a large turn out for our Team Poker event on Friday night as well,” said Chuck Chastain, CEO of the World Poker Store. “Team Poker tournaments have become a big part of The Bar Poker League this year and we look forward to future state finals competitions on the team level as well,” he added.
With successful operations in Minnesota, Florida, Wisconsin and coming soon to 23 other Bar Poker legal states in the union, The World Poker Store’s Bar Poker League continues to add new player members and open new venues for Free No-limit Texas hold ‘em. Currently running over 100 tournaments per week, The Bar Poker League offers a live, face to face, poker experience to all walks of life at bars and restaurants where legal around the country and hosts a community of members at www.thebarpokerleague.com. With a focus on “bringing poker to the masses” and supporting non-profit organizations, The World Poker Store also partners with local charities and corporate groups to host professional Texas Hold ‘em tournaments with the proceeds benefiting a variety of causes. Most notably, The Trent Tucker Celebrity Poker Tournament hosted annually in Minnesota at Canterbury Park with attendees from both the NBA and the Poker elite featuring Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth, Marcel Luske, Patrik Antonius and Hoyt Corkins to name a few, with all proceeds going to benefit The Trent Tucker Youth Program. The World Poker Store Inc. also currently operates 2 retail locations in Minnesota at Southdale Center, Rosedale Center. The World Poker Store is the only brick and mortar retail outlet of its kind entirely devoted to poker, offering everything from Texas Hold ‘em tables, Casino Quality Chips, DVDs, Books, Apparel and Tour Pro Collectibles. All products are also available online at www.theworldpokerstore.com.

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