The Cordish Company today opened a temporary casino on the grounds of Indiana Downs, about 20 miles southeast of Indianapolis, Ind. Cordish also is part of a group, with the Hard Rock franchise, bidding to operate a state-owned casino at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., that would be the nation’s fourth Hard Rock resort casino. In Indiana, competing Hoosier Park, about 25 miles northeast of Indianapolis opened its casino on the grounds last Monday.

Nach bereits 3 sehr erfolgreichen Cash-Turnieren im Casino Flamingo stand am vergangenen Wochenende (6.6.-8.6.) unser bisher größtes Turnier auf dem Programm. Das 20.000 € garantiert – Turnier. Bereits im Vorfeld meldeten sich über 100 Spieler für dieses Mega-Event an. Als um 18 Uhr die Tore geöffnet wurden, betraten 141 Turnierspieler das Casino um sich anzumelden.

Penn National Gaming has extended the deadline for the completion of its USD 6.1 billion sale to Fortress Investment Group and Centerbridge Partners to Oct. 13. The leveraged buyout, announced a year ago, has been delayed because it will not receive necessary approvals from some regulators by the original June 15 deadline, the casino company, based in Wyomissing, Pa., said Friday in a statement.

Ledyard, Connecticut (Reuters) - Most of the past 400 years have been miserable for the Mashantucket Pequot. Almost annihilated by English settlers and the smallpox, the survivors were enslaved and scattered. Reduced to just a few dozen members by the 1970s, they grew lettuce and tapped maple syrup, living in poverty in trailers on a scrap of Connecticut woods. Gambling has changed all that.

Riverside Casino & Golf Resort attracts about 10,000 local visits every week, but officials say Johnson County’s tourism market still appears strong. Occupancy rates for local hotels continue to rise nearly two years after the casino opened, according to Josh Schamberger, president of the Iowa City-Coralville Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. “People are still continuing to come at a 4-5 percent increase per year,” he said.

Boracay - The Archdiocese of Kalibo is actively rallying the faithful here to hold a protest against the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s (Pagcor) plan to establish a casino in this island. Bishop Jose Lazo threatened to lead rallies anew to stop the casino, which is reportedly under construction inside the posh Fairways and Bluewaters Resort at the northern end of this 1,000-hectare island.

Der Final Table des Events #4 5.000 USD Mixed Holdem bei der World Series of Poker 2008 war definitiv einer der schwersten und beeindruckendsten Final Table der gesamten WSOP Geschichte. Am Mittwoch wurde WSOP Geschichte geschrieben als Erik Lindgren seinen Gegenspieler Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo im Heads-Up besiegte und sein erstes Bracelet gewann.

Der Club der Swiss Jackpot Gewinner vergrössert sich auf vierzehn. Zum insgesamt vierzehnten Mal wurde der Swiss Jackpot im Grand Casino Basel geknackt. 5 Wunderlampen machten am Freitag einen Herrn um 450’656.- Franken reicher.

Macau's casino industry, which surpassed the Las Vegas Strip in gaming revenue in 2006, should lure more mass-market tourists instead of relying on high rollers from China, analysts and industry officials said. The former Portuguese colony, the only place in China where casinos are legal, is in a "perilous situation" because companies are chasing "growth that cannot be sustained," Norman MacKillop, the Macau head of gaming industry investigator Spectrum OSO Asia, said in an interview.

Hong Kong (Reuters) - Malaysian casino operator Genting Bhd's bonds have performed poorly and are at risk of being downgraded, analysts say, as soaring costs and delays at its multi-billion dollar Singapore casino threaten its fortunes. Genting has reassured investors that building costs are under control but analysts are also worried the cash-rich company could acquire new companies and enlarge gaming stakes in the United States and Britain, further straining its finances.

Springfield - Lawmakers can force casinos to fork over some of the cash gamblers bet on roulette, craps and cards to the declining Illinois horse racing industry, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday. For the past two years, the state’s four richest casinos, including the two in Joliet, have had to send 3 percent of their revenue to a special state fund to help horse tracks and racers.

Patrick Devlin, a lawyer and employee of the Michigan Gaming Control Board, has sued Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox in an effort to force him to require the state’s 19 tribal casinos to obtain liquor licenses. Devlin, who until Monday monitored tribal casinos for the gaming control board, has pressed state officials, including the attorney general’s office, for at least four years to address his concerns that the state should be regulating liquor sales in the casinos.