Aimed primarily at high rollers, baccarat is a glamorous game with an old-world air of graciousness, and the patrons are usually the well-dressed, wealthy, older gamblers.
Aimed primarily at high rollers, baccarat is a glamorous game with an old-world air of graciousness, and the patrons are usually the well-dressed, wealthy, older gamblers. You play baccarat with special chips and higher stakes in a small, luxuriously appointed, roped-off area and is dealt by tuxedoed croupiers in an atmosphere that is subdued and exclusive.

Expanded gambling will be high on the agenda as Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Kansas legislators wrestle with continuing budget woes that state Budget Director Duane Goossen suggests is "a situation where over the long term, we're set up to spend more than we are taking in."

Gambling would seem the easy, logical answer. If Kansans want to spend their money betting on the turn of a card, the roll of the dice or the spin of the wheels in a slot machine, well, many of them are leaving the state for the glitzy casinos of Missouri and Oklahoma or staying home to gamble.

GOOGLE IS heading to be the privacy nightmare of the 21st century, it's been claimed.

Speaking to hacks at Associated Press, Chris Hoofnagle of the Electronic Privacy Information Center said that Google has too much personal information in a single basket and is headed to become the largest privacy risk on the world wide wibble web.

He said he is worried about Google’s potential to be a prime target for abuse by overzealous law enforcers and criminals.

Baccarat is one of the most popular games found at both the online casinos and the land based casinos. It is up there in terms of popularity with games such as roulette, slots, craps and more. Baccarat is a game that can be found at a good quality online casino and it features all the best aspects of casino gambling. You can always try it out by downloading free online casino software and playing in free mode. It shares some similarities with games like roulette and slots only because it is a game that relies on chance more so than skill.

For those that have always dreamed of breathing the air of the rich and famous comes the one and only "Celebrity Jar" containing the air of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The Jar was sold for $529.99 on eBay to notorious collector of pop culture merchandise GoldenPalace.com.
The Celebrity Jar is an ordinary wide mouth, quart-sized mason jar that the seller brought to the premiere of Mr. & Mrs. Smith in California. As megastars Pitt and Jolie strolled across the red carpet, the jar was opened to capture the air molecules expelled by the stars of the blockbuster movie.

Macau Galaxy Casino, which is being injected into Hong Kong-listed K Wah Construction Materials, has delayed a HK$1.5 billion to HK$2 billion initial stock sale of its VIP rooms until after the summer break, sources said.
The delay comes shortly after a spree of local stock sales that, with the exception of Bank of Communications, provided disappointed investors with limp returns. Galaxy still plans to sell shares in eight VIP rooms - special gambling dens where high-rolling clients shell out, on average, HK$2,300 in a single game of baccarat.

Nicole Kidman would love to have a witch's powers for a day -- especially when she's having a bad day.
''It's kind of nice to be able to . . . walk through and blow up the cappuccino machine and make a dog jump into your arms and make him speak in tongues,'' Kidman told reporters recently, according to AP Radio.
In the new film, Bewitched, an adaptation of the classic TV show, Kidman plays a blissfully naive (good) witch who wants to give up her supernatural powers for mundane, suburban, mortal life.

For travelers weary of taking a train, bus or ferry between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, a Chinese company is now offering slow cruises between the neighboring cities.

The Princess Rowena liner, which previously operated under other names between mainland Spain and its outlying islands, recently started sailing six nights a week between Shekou port and the China Ferry Terminal.

The liner sails out at 7:30pm from Shekou, glides past Lantau island and into international waters before returning to Victoria Harbor.

Summer TV doesn't have to mean re-runs. There are plenty of new shows hitting the air.

Imagine being abducted by another life form and returned with super powers.

That’s the set up to ”The 4400” and you can learn all about this show by logging onto www.usanetwork.com.

It has just started its second season and is slotted to run throughout the summer.

MGM Mirage said it has signed a definitive agreement to develop and manage a $170 million casino at the Aqueduct horse racing track in Queens, N.Y., and expects to open the casino by mid-2006.
MGM Mirage announced the deal more than two years ago, but several developments have hampered the project.
An appeals court in 2004 struck down a 2001 law allowing slot revenue to go to horse breeders and purses.