Queensland Deputy Premier Jackie Trad said that the announcement of the winning bid for Brisbane casino will be made after the state’s next month’s budget on July 14.

Trad also said that the evaluation of the bids and probity checks on Queen’s Wharf were not yet finished.

“I don’t think it will be before budget,” Trad said in Brisbane on Sunday. “The Queen’s Wharf project continues apace. There has been no delays. But we need to do the appropriate checks. The project will be announced soon.”

Echo Entertainment and James Packer’s Crown have submitted their final proposals to build the multi-billion dollars Queen’s Wharf casino in Brisbane on May 21.

Tell me someone who has not heard of the word ‘content’ this week, and I’ll tell you someone who never blinked his eyes all his life. Ok, the latter maybe was too much (and totally a weird analogy) but content, as we all know, is everywhere! Everybody wants a piece of it, everybody wants to create the best for their brand!

I bet I am not the only who wakes up, looks at their mobile phone and starts browsing for whatever is out there. And for sure, I am not the only who’s fascinated with how people come up with the most captivating, thrilling and just straight dumbfounding information. But not all content is created the equal. Great content has the power to sweep you off your feet, give you just a sense of tranquility, inspire you or motivate you to get out of the house ready to face the day.

How do we make effective content? How do we make the compelling content, something unexpected, and something that is made to stick?

Content creation and development is such an exciting and important process for any business. If done right, it appears effortless. But it’s no small feat to produce great content, you can’t just produce anything and put it out there and expect great results. After years of creating content, including days and nights crying over it, I understand that it isn’t as effortless as it looks! However, there are a few easy tips that help me create great content.

Nevada casinos confiscate around $40k in counterfeit cash every week, according to a new US government study.

Last week saw the release of the Treasury Department’s national money laundering risk assessment, which is viewable here (the casino section starts on page 74), although be forewarned that it often reads like a hypochondriac’s database of things that could go wrong.

The phony cash claim comes via the Secret Service, who linked the counterfeiters with ‘minimal gaming,’ where gamblers make major cash deposits but cash out for a casino check or a wire transfer after minimal play.

The most commonly reported suspicious activity at Nevada casinos was structuring transactions so they fly under federal reporting limits, and most of this structuring happens at the sportsbooks.

PokerStars reconsiders its rules on third-party assistance software, following complaints from customers about a third party program.

The program was built by London-based player “skier_5”, which offers users game theory optimal decision, while allowing the player to remain in control.

As the program is not classed as a ‘bot’, PokerStars has so far deemed skier_5 as acceptable for use by players but customers have issued a series of complaints to the operator over the new program, alleging that it can help transform good players into world-class players.

The software was also judged by the general poker community to have crossed lines regarding automated play, and drew widespread protests, especially from TwoPlusTwo forums.

The world’s largest online poker network has won the Online Gaming Brand of the Year and Best Tablet App Awards at the EGR Operator Marketing and Innovation Awards 2015 in London, as well as securing their French license renewal.

PokerStars won two awards at the EGR Operator Marketing and Innovation Awards 2015, held at the Pavilion at the Tower of London on Tuesday.

Comedian Chris Ramsey hosted the glitzy ceremony, and the world’s largest online poker room walked away with the trophies in the Online Gaming Brand of the Year and Best Tablet of the Year categories.

PokerStars were nominated for six awards in total: Best Tablet App, Brand of the Year, Innovation in Mobile and Tablet, Innovation in Poker, Innovation of the Year and Poker Marketing Campaign. They won the Best Tablet App for their PokerStars Mobile product.

Vanessa Rousso is set to star in the Big Brother 17, alongside a pro wrestler, a dentist, a poker dealer and…Steve Silverman?

CBS has announced 14 of the suspected 16 members of the Big Brother 17 line up and two, possibly three, of our own are amongst the cast.

Former PokerStars Team Pro, Vanessa Rousso, has been selected to star alongside a personal trainer, a retail manager, a grad student, a retail associate, a server, a pro wrestler, a dentist, a digital media consultant, a college student, a marketing coordinator, an interior designer and a supermarket cashier in Big Brother 17.

Rousso fans will be able to see her like they have never seen her before as she attempts to survive in the Big Brother house longer than any of the other contestants. The camera will be on her 24/7 and you get the opportunity to follow via a live feed for a monthly CBS subscription. The new show premiers Wed 24 June, and Thu 25 June, with the Sunday action beginning on June 28.

Lee Davy talks about a cash game hand that made him realize that his life contains too much envy, and how that affects, not only his poker game, but also his life in a general sense. 

I played my first cash game session last night. It was a $1/3 No-Limit Hold’em game in the Rio. I only had $300 in my pocket, meaning only one opportunity to make a bit of money.

I don’t have a very good cash game mindset. I always sit down with the belief that I am going to lose. There are other thoughts that infiltrate my mind that affects my game. Only having $300 in my pocket is one, wanting to win for my backer is another, and a desperate urge to win completes the trio of terrible thoughts.

I played a total of four hands. I was in and out quicker than a teenage boy facing his first hymen. I was staring at a KK9 flop, in a single raised pot, and I was holding KQ. There was $15 in the pot pre flop. For some reason I thought I could get $600 in it by the river. My plan worked, but I didn’t leave with any money. My opponent held K9.

Lee Davy brings you up to speed with all the news from the 20th day of the 46th  Annual World Series of Poker including a second bracelet for Phil Galfond, and Hoyt Corkins taking the chip lead into the fourth day of action in the Monster Stack.

Phil Galfond has won Event #29: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship. It’s his second World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet victory. His first came seven years ago in a Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) event. He earned $224,383 for his win, a sum of money that he wins and loses in a single hand of online cash game action. But money is not the motivating factor here. It’s all about the gold.

I would like to say that Galfond did it the hard way, but with only 77 players entering the event, and fewer weak spots than a Terminator, it was always going to be tough. Most $10,000 Championship events are.

Of the final 14-players in this event, six were multiple bracelet winners. Nick Schulman was amongst that group, having won this very event on two different occasions. Erik Seidel was another two-time winner of this event. Galfond overcame a 3:1 heads-up chip deficit against Schulman thus preventing him from becoming the first player to win it thrice.

The ultimate fate of Germany’s online sports betting licensing regime may not come until September, but one of the country’s top political figures has already thrown in the towel.

Germany announced the 20 lucky recipients of its marathon online sports betting licensing derby last September, but court challenges by unsuccessful applicants have kept those licenses locked in the desk drawer of the Hesse Ministry of the Interior and Sport.

Last month, the Administrative Court of Wiesbaden ruled that the licensing process had been a procedural nightmare, lacked transparency and likely breached European Union rules on the freedom to provide services. The Administrative Court of Frankfurt echoed this ruling earlier this month.

On Monday, Peter Beuth (pictured), who heads the ministry that oversaw the licensing process, wrote an op-ed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in which he admitted that the process had been botched. Beuth said the debacle of the past three years demonstrated the need for an “urgent” overhaul of the federal Interstate Gambling Treaty, which he described as a “dead end” and incapable of achieving its objectives.