Kangwon Land, the operator of South Korean only casino open to local citizens, dropped by its daily trading limit in Seoul trading ahead of an announcement of the government’s plan to control gambling. Kangwon Land dropped 15 %, or USD 1,418 to USD 8,131, as of 10:26 a.m. local time, the most since September 2. The benchmark Kospi stock index declined 1.5 %. The government plans to limit total annual revenue of the gambling industry, including horse racing, lottery tickets and casinos, to 0.58 % of gross domestic product...

A group of workers of the 18 casinos closed by the Quito City Council demanded an audience with President Rafael Correa last week. The operation was performed Saturday 15th. Workers concentrated in the surroundings of the Ministry of the Coast. There, the employees of the firm Invermun SA protested for the closure of gambling venues and the loss of their jobs. According to the company, in the 18 casinos closed there are 2,000 people working, plus other 5,000 that have indirect jobs.

Tama - The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission announced Nov. 13 a decision to seek two additional studies on the feasibility of adding more casinos in the state. However, Tama Mayor Chris Bearden indicated he was not convinced more studies of the Iowa gambling industry were needed. Bearden was scheduled to take part in a conference call Tuesday concerning the commission stance.

The first contender to enter the ring in the battle for Yarmouth's large casino licence looks poised to win planning approval later this week for an architecturally striking scheme called The Edge, next to the outer harbour site. A decision on the GBP 35m casino and leisure complex being proposed by Pleasure Beach boss Albert Jones was deferred at last month's meeting of the borough council's development control committee...

MGM Mirage announced it is teaming up with an Asian development company to build a "Las Vegas-style" casino in Vietnam. Asian Coast Development Ltd. will own and finance the MGM Grand Ho Tram. MGM Mirage will give development assistance and operate the resort property when it’s completed. MGM Grand Ho Tram will anchor a USD 4.2 billion resort complex being built along the South China Sea beaches about 128 km from Ho Chi Minh City.

Taiwanese parliament is set to legalize gambling on a group of offshore islands as soon as year end, legislative sources said this week, as local officials eye permits for three resort casinos to shore up their economy. The passage of a bill authorizing gaming in the Penghu archipelago would bring Taiwan into competition with other East Asia gaming hotspots such as Macau and South Korea, and upcoming casinos in Singapore, even as the global credit crisis make it harder for developers to raise funds for new projects.

"Swiss Gaming Newsletter" hat in verschiedenen Casinos in der Schweiz und Frankreich praktisch flächendeckend festgestellt, dass die Einsatzhöhe an den Slotmaschines für den Umsatz nicht entscheidend ist. Vielmehr sind Einsatzlimiten von über einem Franken bzw. Euro im Automaten-Mix zur Seltenheit geworden.

Beim gestrigen Rookie-Turnier im Wiesbadener Casino sah man in der Anfangsphase erstaunlich viele Premiumhände: AA – KK – QQ waren an allen Tischen keine Seltenheit. Allerdings führten sie nicht immer zum gewünschten Erfolg. Den Final-Table erreichte mit Carmen Ushky auch eine Amazone. Diese war damit aber noch lange nicht zufrieden, sie wollte ganz nach oben und nach einem gewonnenen All-In schaffte sie es dann tatsächlich ins „Heads-Up“...

Macau (Reuters) - On Macau's dusty Cotai strip, the cranes at the Las Vegas Sands' construction site stand idle at dusk atop the half-finished husks of three massive towers, while weary batches of construction workers, laid-off en masse, stream out of the site's turnstiles, many for the last time. After a golden streak since 2002, which saw Macau transformed from a sleepy former Portuguese colonial backwater into a Las Vegas-style gambling paradise, Macau's luck may be running out.

Nicht einmal der Fussball-Klassiker Deutschland – England konnte die Pokerspieler am gestrigen Mittwoch davon abhalten, in die Spielbank Wiesbaden zu strömen und an ihrem geliebten Rookieturnier teilzunehmen. Die Wiesbadener Pokerarena war auch gestern mit 60 Teilnehmern wieder restlos ausverkauft. Andreas Köhler zeigte erneut eine starke Performance und gewann das Turnier gegen Spiros Marmaros...

Atlantic City - The construction tsunami that was meant to bring a classy luster to this place has slowed to a trickle thanks to the credit crisis. While a new USD 3.5 billion casino is starting to take shape next to Showboat on the Boardwalk, it is the only one of four huge projects moving forward. Both MGM Mirage and Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. have stated publicly that their USD 5 billion and USD 2 billion casinos...

Das gestrige Dienstagsturnier hatte ein an Spannung nicht zu überbietendes Ende. Fast eineinhalb Stunden kämpften die Herren Krauss und Sieckenius um die Rookie-Krone. Mehrere Male schien das Spiel besiegelt, doch der River verhalf einmal Gerhard Krauss und ein anderes Mal Lothar Sieckenius zu einem Split-Pot und es ging wieder munter weiter. Nach zähem Ringen musste sich schließlich Lothar Sieckenius geschlagen geben.