B.C. Solicitor General John Les says he's appalled that a Vancouver company is planning to teach children how to play Texas Hold'em at a poker workshop next month. Nevada North Entertainment is putting on the Kids Poker Tour for youngsters ranging in age from 10 to 18 at the end of June.
Alan Goodenough, the former chairman of London Clubs International (LCI), has become a director of Les Ambassadeurs, the London casino, after its sale by LCI to an Indonesian cigarette billionaire.
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) has revoked the license of the casino operations of the Legend International Resorts Ltd. (LIRL) inside the Subic Freeport yesterday for failure to settle its monetary obligations with the government regulatory agency.
Atlantic City - When high-paid CEOs cloistered in fancy executive suites claim that they know how ordinary workers really feel, somehow it often rings hollow. Rosalind Krause talked of her kinship with rank-and-file employees the other day while strolling through Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, Donald Trump's kitschy gambling fantasyland of white elephants, genies and minarets overlooking the Boardwalk.
The gloves came off this week in the battle to win the country's single super casino licence when bosses at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre claimed its bid "outgunned" Coventry's in every department.
Shareholders attending Pinnacle Entertainment's annual meeting Wednesday didn't have much to say about the company's proposed USD 2.58 billion buyout of Aztar Corp. But company Chairman Dan Lee did. Lee told shareholders that Aztar's advisers acted in a "sleazy" manner as the price for buying the Tropicana's parent corporation rose significantly in the weeks after Pinnacle agreed to buy Aztar for USD 38 a share, or USD 2.1 billion, on March 13.
Britain's largest casino firm wants to build a huge new gambling centre at Derry's Cross. Stanley Casinos plans to close its Union Street operation and move into new premises below the Travelodge hotel and above the row of bars. The firm has just submitted a full planning application to Plymouth City Council, which reveals it would create a split-level casino with a ground-floor street entrance to the right of the hotel's foyer.
Carson City, Nevada - Lawyers for regulators and a Las Vegas casino were grilled Tuesday by Nevada Supreme Court justices during a hearing on claims by an expert gambler that he should get more damages because he was illegally detained and roughed up by security guards. The questioning began after an attorney for James Grosjean urged the high court to double the USD 150,000 damage award that the Imperial Palace hotel-casino was ordered by a lower court to pay following the April 2000 incident.
Colorado ranked among the few states posting gains last year in both casino employment and gambling revenues, the American Gaming Association said Monday. The number of casino jobs in the state rose 4.2 percent to 8,029, due mainly to expansions at Black Hawk's two biggest gaming establishments. The total amount of money consumers spent at Colorado casinos jumped 4 percent to USD 755.5 million.
It was a glorious Monday afternoon with the sun shining, the sky a pale blue. It was the kind of warm day in May one might find an older, distinguished gentleman resting and reminiscing on a park bench. The birds would twitter, and the afternoon breeze would soften the heat.
As a gaming boss, Lawrence Ho Yau-lung invests billions in casino projects, but you won't find him feeding slot machines or piling up chips on blackjack tables. "I am not a gambler because I know the odds," he said. And he is perfectly candid on this matter with the gamblers at his casinos. "I tell the people who are gambling that they should do it for fun and avoid becoming addicted to it," he said, sitting comfortably in his Central office with two models of his Macau casino projects.
Berlin, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich, Cologne, Hanover, Hamburg where starting from 9 June the top football players in the world will compete for the World Cup in Germany, are the cities where the kicker robot ‘Star Kick’ and the traditional Kicker invite to an early kick-off. In the year of the football world championship ‘Star Kick’ of adp Gauselmann GmbH, the world champion of the kicker fans, will be touring Germany.
