Welcome to CRWE Newswire News Update, I’m Christina Collins — Big-time gamblers, primarily from Asia, are flocking to Las Vegas to play baccarat and providing a big lift to the overall bottom line of the city’s casinos — Baccarat has easily surpassed blackjack in terms of casino revenue in Las Vegas and now represents nearly 60 percent of the MGM Grand’s table games revenue over the past year, making it especially popular this week with tens of thousands of tourists from Asia in town to celebrate the Chinese New Year, throwing down wagers of 0000 to 0000 a hand — Baccarat has been the most lucrative table game since 2009, and has been increasing its share since then, according to an analysis of gambling revenues ### Conservation staff in New Zealand have put down 33 stranded whales after several attempts to refloat them failed —The pilot whales shot Thursday were the last of 99 that stranded themselves Monday on Farewell Spit on the South Island — Department of Conservation area manager John Mason says staff and hundreds of volunteers had tried all week to get the whales refloated — He says they thought they were successful Wednesday when they got the whales into deep water, but were saddened Thursday to find that they had swum back ashore — He says the condition of the whales had significantly deteriorated— As well as the 33 whales that were shot, 36 had died naturally since Monday and 17 were successfully refloated, thirteen remain unaccounted for …
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