James Packer is putting more chips on the table in the fast-growing Chinese gaming mecca of Macau, moving to buy a AUD 255 million development site to build a third casino-hotel complex. Mr Packer's Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd and its Hong Kong partner Melco have leapt at an opportunity to buy a 6480sqm site in the traditional casino precinct on the Macau peninsula.
The formal presentation of the new EUBINGO Federation before the European Parliament took place last January 31. The Federation of European Bingo Associations-EUBINGO has two founding members: Spain and the United Kingdom, but as from now on all other interested countries are expected to join in.
The gambling subsidiary of Morgan Stanley has acquired 20 acres on the Boardwalk to develop what will be Atlantic City's 13th casino. The Wall Street firm confirmed it paid about $ 74 million for the land, which had been controlled by a group of developers and the Atlantic City Housing Authority.
The Regional Government of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands (Islas Baleares) has agreed to implement horse bets on the island of Minorca in the year 2007, that will work in much the same way as the Lototrot is now operating on the island of Mallorca.
A Scottish village has been chosen by one of the world's largest gaming companies as the site of a proposed £350m Las Vegas-style casino resort. Bowling in West Dunbartonshire, perched on the Firth of Clyde between Glasgow and Loch Lomond, has just three pubs, a post office, a tea-room, and not even a bookmaker.
Poker traditionally conjures up images of stoney-faced men sat solemnly sitting around tables, supping brandy in smoke-filled rooms. The reality, however, is somewhat different. Here Kate Nelson takes a look at the latest converts to this increasingly popular pastime - women...
The shadowy world of online gambling wants to go legit, and the world's virtual casino barons have come to Montreal to help make it happen. The sixth Global Interactive Gaming Summit and Expo that kicked off yesterday at Palais des congres is making self-regulation its theme. The goal: regulate this USD 12-billion (U.S.) market before politicians do.
The new Andalucía Gaming Regulations (Decree of 11/22/06) introduce significant changes, such as: the exclusive right for a one-only operating company per bar or cafeteria, 5- year permits per machine, freedom to install as many machines as one wishes, limitation in the number of machines entering Andalucía from other regions which do not enjoy this freedom and a limitation in the participation of operators from other regions where the number of operating machines is restricted.
Gamblers left behind USD 213.9 million at Louisiana’s state-licensed casinos in April, a big jump from the USD 189.4 million lost in April 2005, state police reported today. Continuing a trend of more gambling since hurricanes Katrina and Rita last year, the 12 operating riverboats won USD 151.2 million, up from USD 129 million in April 2005 — despite the fact that two more outlets were open a year ago.
A GBP 10m casino in Swindon would create 800 jobs and transform run-down areas of the town, according to the council's official bidding document. The town centre is the front-runner for any gambling complex, but council planners have also included Sussex Square, the Gorse Hill district centre, County Ground or the Abbey Stadium in Blunsdon as possibilities.
Casino owner Don Barden put plans on ice this week for a hotel, condominiums and other lakefront attractions after Mayor Rudy Clay criticized a deal brokered by Barden and former Mayor Scott King. "Everything is on hold," Barden said. "I'm not going to be investing tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, in a hostile environment."
The days of puffing while playing the slots at casinos across Ontario will come to an end June 1 with the implementation of Ontario's new smoking ban that requires all public and work places to be smoke free. The ban will include Casino Rama near Orillia and the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino near Port Perry — Ontario's only two casinos built on natives' land.
