Bit from Nevada -- MGM Mirage has enlisted the services of Cox Communications' Hospitality Network Division to deliver in-room high-speed Internet access and digital video-on-demand services to hotel guests at 13 of its casinos. The high-tech services will be installed in 19,000 rooms in Nevada and 1,780 more in Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi as well as in a newly proposed casino in Detroit. There is currently no word on whether Internet gaming services will be allowed in the rooms.
Research -- A research team at Yale School of Medicine claims to have observed unique patterns of brain activity in male pathological gamblers. The researchers used MRI technology to scan the brains of problem gamblers who were shown videotapes of gambling situations. They say that the neural patterns that emerged closely resemble those of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. According to principal study investigator Dr. Marc Potenza, "The finding of distinct patterns of neural responses to gambling-related stimuli that are unique from those to other internal emotional states has direct clinical implications and provides a basis for future experimentation in the prevention and treatment of pathological gambling."
New Stuff --
AngelCiti has announced that it will launch a multiplayer poker system at sharkpoker.com.