Casino operator Crown Ltd has abandoned plans to invest in a casino project in the Philippines due to rising borrowing costs. Crown chief executive Rowen Craigie said on Wednesday that global credit crunch made it harder to develop projects needing significant capital. "The recent and ongoing events in world credit markets have made it very difficult for gaming operators to develop commercially viable casino entertainment projects...

The face of a visitor to Velden generally carries a big contented smile, provided the weather is appropriate and Wörthersee has comfortable temperatures for a swim, of course. In the week of 13 to 20 July, however, a darker expression dominated this Carinthian town, for at the CAPT Velden, the Casinos Austria Poker Tour, it was necessary to keep a pokerface.

With a total of 20 gambling venues currently operating in the country, Puerto Rican government collects around USD 300 million a year in casinos. Seven new casinos are planned to open before the end of the year. Recreational machines hosted in this type of centers are administrated under a monitoring system, it means, an online central server. They also count with a procedure to count the profitability of the machines.

Mitte dieses Jahres ist die Lage in Deutschland für die staatlich veranstalteten und lizensierten Lotterien desaströs: Jauchs SKL-Show wurde verboten, den Sendungen der Soziallotterien droht ebenfalls das Aus

Baghdad (RIA Novosti) - Iraq's investment committee is studying projects proposed by U.S. and Russian firms to turn Saddam Hussein's palace near the site of ancient Babylon into a tourist site with a casino, an Iraqi paper said. Government paper Al-Sabah quoted Saleh al-Muslimawi, governor of the Babil Province about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad, as saying that the projects also entailed the restoration of museums in Babylon.

The City of Wanneroo is pushing to be the base for Perth's second casino. The Mayor of Wanneroo, Jon Kelly, says the city of is facing a shortfall of up to 70,000 jobs within 25 years unless a major infrastructure project is launched in the area. He says a casino, built on the coast between Alkimos and Two Rocks, is one of the best options to bring foreign investment and tourism to the area.

With the release of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Cowlitz Reservation and Casino Project on May 30, Southwest Washington is one step closer to realizing a new economic engine in Clark County. The Cowlitz Tribe has agreed – as part of its proposal for its first reservation and casino and resort project – to make payments to local governments far in excess of any other tribe in Washington State.

Die Innerrhoder Standeskommission (Regierung) ist gegen Poker-Turniere ausserhalb von Casinos und schliesst sich der Beschwerde des Schweizer Casinoverbandes gegen die Verfügung der Eidg. Spielbankenkommission (ESBK) an. Die Öffnung des Spielmarkts bringe Risiken wie die Spielsucht mit sich, heisst es.

Bei einem guten Drink ein Poker-Spielchen – viele US-Amerikaner hätten nichts lieber als das. Die gesetzlichen Bestimmungen sind von Bundesstaat zu Bundesstaat aber unterschiedlich – eine generelle Regelung auf nationaler Ebene gibt es nicht. Der Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) hat in den USA die Betreiber von Internet Poker erschüttert. Offizielle Instanzen wie die „Poker Players Alliance" kämpfen auf nationaler und bundesweiter Ebene um eine Abänderung.

After the Austrian regional court of Linz's reference for preliminary ruling regarding the monopoly on casinos other proceedings regarding the licensing procedure for casinos have just recently been referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for preliminary ruling, this time from Greece (Case C-145/08 -- "Club Hotel Loutraki"). The reference for preliminary ruling by the Symvoulio tis Epikrateias involves the question whether Community procurement law...

Brantford, Ontario - Talks have broken off in efforts to end a 48-day strike by Ontario casino workers in Brantford, Sudbury and at Toronto's Woodbine Raceway. Negotiations have been held in Barrie for the past 10 days between the Canadian Auto Workers union and the Ontario Lottery Corporation. But a CAW source tells a Brantford radio station (CKPC) the talks broke off Friday morning.

After numerous decisions on sports betting the European Court of Justice may now deal with the admissibility of a casino monopoly. The Austrian County Court of Linz (Landesgericht Linz) recently referred several fundamental questions for preliminary ruling to the ECJ (Case no. C-64/08 - Engelmann). The ECJ's decision could well throw into disarray the current licensing system for casinos in Austria and could be of fundamental importance for other Member States as well. The County Court of Linz referred the following questions for preliminary ruling: