Banking lobbyists are warning the US Treasury that regulations proposed in the wake of last years sweeping anti-gambling law will be impossible to com....
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2007-12-22
London Underground censors bookies bingo ads
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has run into trouble with its latest ad campaign. Officials at London Underground have banned the ad – which shows a man....
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2007-12-22
Bookies may part with SIS stake
Three of Britains biggest bookmakers are considering offering to sell around half of their controlling stake in Satellite Information Services to Brit....
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2007-12-21
Fortuna buys Croatian betting firm Favorit
Betting company Fortuna has expanded its activities to the Croatian odds betting market where it has gained number two company Favorit, weekly Euro wr....
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2007-12-21
LAS VEGAS GOLF IN THE ORIENT
With major changes in the plans for the Macau gaming industry comes the necessity to have an international standard golf course.The new government has....
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2007-12-21
Dion ends five-year run at Las Vegas casino
Celine Dion has called it a wrap at Caesars Palace, acknowledging in her final show that pregnancy and poor early reviews almost sank her titanic five....
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2007-12-21
Station Casinos have grand plans for Reno
It all started in 1976 when a bellhop-turned-dealer at the Tropicana had a dream to build a place where casino workers could go and unwind after their....
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2007-12-21
Gala Coral seeks to expand to China
Gala Coral, the private equity owned betting and gaming group, is seeking permission to open a bingo club in China as it steps up its international ex....
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2007-12-21
$1.5bn casino puts the heat on Packer in Macau
The new Las Vegas-style casino/hotel complex has been developed by US casino operator MGM Mirage and Pansy Ho, the daughter of Macau casino veteran St....
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2007-12-21
Plans for £35m casino go on show
Great Yarmouth was one of eight places in England and Wales to be granted permission by the government in 2007 to build a large casino. Pleasure and L....
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2007-12-21
Spain takes on Vegas with massive project
A desert area in Spain is about to take on "Sin City."A massive Las Vegas-style casino complex featuring bullfights and replicas of the Pentagon, the ....
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2007-12-21
Ama is Expected to Commence Operations in Crown Macau in Mid-December
On November 9, MPEL announced that one of its subsidiaries, Melco PBL Gaming (Macau) Limited (“MPBL Gaming”), had entered into a Gaming Promotion ....
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2007-12-06
Casino agency recommends renewing Tropicana license for only one year
New Jerseys casino enforcement agency recommended only a one-year license renewal Tuesday for Tropicana Casino and Resort, citing mass layoffs and a ....
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2007-12-06
Nevada union boss against casino tax hike
The state leader of the AFL-CIO in Nevada said Tuesday a proposal backed by the teachers union to raise taxes on casinos would make the state too depe....
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2007-12-06
Tourism minister gambles on Eilat casino
Casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson, who recently launched the worlds biggest gambling complex, may have given up on hopes of establishing a casino in Israe....
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2007-12-06
Italy’s largest betting firm set to enter Indian market
Armed with their latest acquisition of Nextra International, the promoters of London-based boutique investment bank-Euromax Capital, Mr Subodh Narian ....
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2007-12-06
Gaming Board moves to sell 10th casino license
The Illinois Gaming Board is taking preliminary steps to reissue the states long-dormant 10th casino license after a recent set of court rulings great....
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2007-12-06
Have-a-go hero tackles armed robber
A HAVE-A-GO hero tackled an armed robber as he fled a Worcester bookmakers.The masked man had threatened a female member of staff at Corals in Trinity....
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2007-12-06
British casino school opens
The UKs first fully-equipped specialist casino school has opened in Cardiff, Wales. The independent accredited training school, set up by Professional....
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2007-12-06
Spain to get Las Vegas style development
EUROPE is set to get its own version of Las Vegas in a desert region of eastern Spain where developers plan to build 32 hotel-casinos, two theme parks....
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2007-12-06
Yarmouth casino plans unveiled
Yarmouths Pleasure Beach boss Albert Jones is to lay down what he hopes will be a winning hand in the battle to bring gaming on a Las Vegas scale to t....
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2007-12-06
Macau casino mogul Ho bids record US$330,000 for giant white truffle at auction
A Macau casino mogul bid a record US$330,00 at auction Saturday for a giant white truffle dug up in Tuscany, organizers said.Billionaire Stanley Ho ma....
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2007-12-06
Ban on breakfast beers and betting
BREAKFAST drinking and pokie-playing will be banned across Queensland under sweeping changes to the states liquor laws.Premier Anna Bligh today announ....
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2007-12-06
Playwin puts its money on Goa casino
Goa will soon have a new addition to its list of attractions. And it could be no bigger than a casino spread over 20,000 sq ft, thanks to the Rs 3,400....
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2007-12-06
Tropicana Casinos license extended until next week
State casino regulators extended the Tropicana Casino and Resorts license until next week, when a final decision on whether it should be renewed can b....
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2007-12-05
Ahern approved secret casino deal
The former chairman of the National Lottery Company today directly links Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to the development of a casino project backed by dolla....
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2007-12-05
All bets may be off on gambling laws
It is a thriving, lucrative industry in many parts of the world, but in Ireland, casinos and clubs don’t know where their future lies and neither do....
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2007-12-05
Macau a sure bet to become the Las Vegas of China
Mainland China may not yet have a Broadway, but it has a Las Vegas: the former Portuguese colony of Macau.A special administrative region at the mouth....
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2007-12-05
$1million lottery winner may have to return winnings... because hes banned from gambling
Timothy Elliott has got to be the worlds unluckiest lottery winner. He thought he was set for life when he hit the million-dollar jackpot he entered i....
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2007-12-05
The first legal poker club in the UK is set to open its doors in Nottingham today.
Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino has slashed its slot machines from about 1,200 to 516 as part of a revamped business plan to boost revenue in 2008 aft....
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2007-12-05
CITY POKER CLUB NOW A UK FIRST
The first legal poker club in the UK is set to open its doors in Nottingham today.Dusk Till Dawn is on Lenton Lane Industrial Estate and will be the f....
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2007-12-05
Casino ship out for repairs
The Sterling Casino Lines gambling ship at Port Canaveral has been taken out of service for engine repairs, the company said Wednesday.Sterlings Ambas....
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2007-12-05
Casino City Press Releases Online Gaming Business Directory
NEWTON, Massachusetts Casino City Press has just releasedthe 2006 edition of the Online Gaming Business Directory. Casino City's OnlineGaming Business....
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2007-12-17
