Harrison County - A new casino could open in western Harrison County if Blue Water Bay Resort and Casino gets the blessing of the Mississippi Gaming Commission on Thursday. The site on the east side of Bay St. Louis between Pass Christian and DeLisle was previously approved by the Gaming Commission. Now that onshore casinos are permitted within 800 feet of the mean high water line...

Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. said Monday that Hurricane Ike damaged its Lake Charles, La., casino. The storm created a record-high storm surge, which damaged some of the entrance and exit ramps at the L'Auberge du Lac Casino Resort. Pinnacle’s construction team is working with structural engineers and marine experts to inspect and repair the ramps so the company can reopen the casino as quickly as possible, Pinnacle said.

Glück gehört halt auch dazu. Am Final-Table komplettierte Herr Scheld mit einer 5 auf dem River seine Strasse. Und einige Spiele später kam der erlösende König ebenfalls erst auf dem River zum Paar. Dies waren die beiden entscheidenden Spiele beim Rookie-Turnier am gestrigen Sonntag, die den späteren Sieger überhaupt noch im Turnier hielten und mit denen er die Herren Specht und Spange auf die Plätze 4 und 3 verwies.

Atlantic City - In November 2006, the Sands Casino Hotel closed its doors to make way for incoming Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. At the time, Pinnacle Chairman Dan Lee said the developer would not rush into building its USD 1.5 billion to USD 2 billion megaresort, hoping to avoid the construction mistakes and cost overruns plaguing its casino in St. Louis. But few thought at the end of 2008 the company would still be taking its time.

Aruze, the Japanese maker of pinball, pachinko and other gambling machines, said it plans to open its first casino resort - in the Philippine capital of Manila - by early 2010. The company, which owns about 24 per cent of Wynn Resorts, was granted a provisional gaming licence last month by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (Pagcor), the government casino monopoly that wants to build a huge casino and entertainment complex.

The former operator of the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City intends to petition the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to retake control of the resort, Newsday reported this week. Tropicana Entertainment filed papers on September 5 in US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware informing the court of its intention to petition for control of the Tropicana on the grounds that William Yung III, a former officer of Tropicana Entertainment, stepped down from his position...

Jean-Jacques Gsell, chairman of the Strasbourg Tourist Office and deputy mayor (PS) in charge of tourism, does not rule out the possibility of setting up a casino in Bas-Rhin. He reckons that setting up a casino in European capital seems a completely logical thing to do. Moreover, contacts have been made, even if they are in their teething stages. In order to benefit from the provisions of the Chaban law dated 1988, the urban community of Strasbourg should contain a few thousand inhabitants more...

A senior Catholic Church official said the government should abandon its plan of setting up more casinos and other gambling pits to attract more foreigners and investors to the country. “I don’t know if they really thought about that proposal. People will not benefit [in any way] from that kind of plan,” Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz said in a report published in the CBCP News. CBCP is the influential Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.

Tourism Ministry ordered the National Commission of Casinos, Bingos and Slots, according to Official Gazette number 39,012, the suspension of casino and bingo licenses in the country. The new decree is more comprehensive that the one published in March 2008, specifically because it incorporated the requirements that casinos and bingos have to comply for the renovation of the operating license.

Herrn Benkler war frühzeitig klar, dass es für ihn beim gestrigen Donnerstagsturnier in der Wiesbadener Pokerarena kein „easy going“ geben würde. Seine 59 Gegenspieler im Ausverkauften Turnier waren nicht zu unterschätzen. Unter anderem musste er sich gegen Frau Meike Rensch und auch gegen so manchen erfahrenen Stammspieler durchsetzen. Bis zum Final-Table lief es zwar noch einigermaßen glatt...

Hamburg, 12. September 2008. Mit einem speziellen Poker-Portal im Internet reagiert die Spielbank Hamburg auf das wachsende Informationsbedürfnis der deutschen Poker-Community. Unter www.spielbank-hamburg-poker.de startet jetzt zur Deutschen Pokermeisterschaft 2008 ein Web-Angebot, das als einziges über das legale Glücksspiel Poker in Hamburg informiert. Die Qualifikationsrunden finden derzeit statt.

Tallinn City Government says that it plans not to extend lease contracts of casinos that are located in the Tallinn Old Town. Deputy Mayor of Tallinn Jaanus Mutli wrote in local newspaper Pealinn that according to the Old Town Development Plan 2008-2013, the number of casinos operating in the Old Town would fall since the City will not extend lease contracts for its premises that are being used by casino operators.