Music Mogul Jay-Z Planning Charity Blackjack Tournament in Atlantic City

Jay-Z, the euphony mogul and casino possessor hopeful, is putting unitedly a friendly gamey of twenty-one for a few friends. Given the high-style bunch he runs with, none should have a job putting upwardly the $100,000 buy-in the gamey expects.

The tournament, Reform Alliance’s Casino Night and Gala Event, is being organised past Jay-Z’s brotherly love Reform Alliance, a group that works to “transform probation and word of honor laws.” Reported by the New York Post’s Sir Frederick Handley Page Six rumourmonger column, it will read localize at Atlantic City’s Ocean Casino & Resort on Sep 30.

All proceeds from the event testament go game to the charity. This includes the buy-in money and the $50,000 those who require to just now exhibit upward for the party and not dramatic play inwards the tourney feature to pay. It doesn’t include the $1-million jackpot, which Ocean Casino is reportedly natural covering for the winner.

Shaken, Not Stirred

The night testament make a James Bond Casino Royale theme, although it’s in question(p) the to the highest degree recent 007, Book of Daniel Craig, will live in attendance. He’s already admitted he can’t run poker, so he mightiness struggle with blackjack, as well.

However, thither will live plenty of other A-listers there. Page Six expects, at a minimum, Travis Scott, Megan Thee Stallion, Kim Kardashian, DJ Khaled, Tom Brady, Henry James Harden, and Emily Ratajkowski to demo up.

Kevin Lorenz Milton Hart testament spend a penny an show as well. The Jumanji worker has reportedly signed his public figure on the specked line of products to compere the festivities.

It’s possible that Henry M. Robert Kraft, Meek Mill and Michael Rubin will, at the rattling least, experience cameos. All ternion are on the Reform Alliance board, so they mightiness drop in.

Rubin, the founding father and CEO of Fanatics and the former owner of the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, has a tight human relationship with Jay-Z. In 2021, the 2 got unitedly for a wandering sports betting license inward New York. However, the New House of York State Gaming Commission denied the application.

The company will reportedly innkeeper upwardly to 300 guests between cosh players and observers. Jay-Z hopes to live able to pluck up at least $20 billion for Reform Alliance.

There’s no more final RSVP name yet, and anyone wanting to pay heed has to follow on an individual basis approved by the charity’s board. However, according to Page Six, enough people hold passed the test that there’s already $15 one thousand thousand inwards the pot.

Eyes On Broadway

In the past, New House of York sports bettors had no more option but to leak to nearby New Jersey (or at least habituate the George I President Washington Bridge) in purchase order to put a bet. However, with the legitimation of sports betting in New York more than a twelvemonth ago, the land has fleetly transformed into the nation’s sports play leader.

It’s still surpassed well-established gaming markets the likes of New island of Jersey and Pennsylvania. This has helped usher inwards a young cassino initiative in the state, aided by the death of a moratorium that began a decade earlier.

In a quislingism close the close-fitting of 2022, tangible estate steady SL Green, Caesars Entertainment and Jay-Z’s Roc Carry Amelia Moore Nation pooled their resources. They seized the mo to press to position a gambling casino inwards the pump of Times Square.

The outcome of this alliance, according to the group, would be an unparalleled, cutting-edge gambling casino at 1515 Broadway. The edifice is currently the nursing home to the theatrical production of The Lion King.

There’s no crystalise itinerary for the cassino – opponent has been strong, and few places are as politically divisive as New House of York City. In the meantime, Jay-Z and the others will get to focusing in the first place on their kindly endeavors.