Northern Kentucky hotelier William Yung III may be gambling on Gov. Steve Beshear and Covington to save his crumbling casino empire. Yung's Crestview Hills-based Columbia Sussex owns 83 hotels and about a dozen casinos in five states and the Cayman Islands. He wants to add another casino to the list, in Covington, where three weeks ago he purchased several parcels of prime real estate for USD 7 million.

Singapore-listed Genting International, a unit of Malaysian casino operator Genting Bhd, said it has secured USD 4.2 billion to build and run a casino in Singapore. Genting said on Monday the funding, comprising USD 4 billion in loans and USD 192.5 million in bankers' guarantee facility, is not expected to affect its earnings in the current financial year.

While in opposition in April last year, the Tories made a pre-election promised that they would hold a public vote on the subject and back what the people decide. However, Royston Smith, deputy leader of the Tory-led city council, recently said a casino could be built in Southampton even if an overwhelming majority of local people did not want one.

The Department of the Interior of Generalitat (regional government) granted the installation and operation of the fourth casino in Catalonia to Atzaria group, which gathers four Catalonian companies from the leisure business. This new gambling venue will be installed in Lloret del Mar, Barcelona. It is the first public tender performed in Catalonia (where there are already casinos in Barcelona, Peralada and Tarragona) to authorize the installation of a casino.

Calls were today made for the Government to show its hand amid claims Blackpool's long-awaited casino dream was dead and buried. Reports strongly suggest it is only days before Prime Minister Gordon Brown kills off plans the UK's first supercasino for good. It is rumoured letters sent to ministers in Scotland and Wales confirm the Government will press ahead with licences for 16 small casinos and scrap the supercasino.

The U.S. Interior Department may have put the final nail in the coffin for the Big Lagoon Rancheria's plans to build a major casino in Barstow, refocusing the rancheria on building a gaming facility at Big Lagoon. Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Carl Artman wrote in a Jan. 4 letter that the federal government would not take the 23-acre Barstow property into trust.

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Eine vom renommierten Wirtschaftsprüfungsinstitut Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) durchgeführte Studie hat ergeben, dass der US-Finanzminister allein in den nächsten zehn Jahren zwischen 8,7 und 17,6 Milliarden Dollar an Steuern für Online-Poker einnehmen könnte. Voraussetzung: Eine Lizenzierung, Regulierung und Versteuerung, die von PWC auf zwei verschiedenen Basis-Ansätzen berechnet wurde. Sportwetten sind in dem Zahlenwerk noch gar nicht nicht enthalten.

Zum ersten Mal kürt Casinos Austria in diesem Jahr zwei Poker-Europameister. Von 5. bis 12. Oktober 2008 findet im Grand Casino Baden die 19. Poker EM statt. Dieses Jahr wird also zeitgleich neben dem klassischen Seven Card Stud Turnier (Startgeld € 2.500,-) erstmals auch ein Poker EM Titel in Texas Hold’em ausgespielt (Startgeld € 4.000,-).

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The international union organizing casino dealers on the Strip is forming a new gaming division to better focus its efforts to unionize locally. The Transport Workers Union of America’s top officials announced the new Las Vegas-based division during a special meeting that drew nearly 130 local dealers. "We’re committed to getting the job done and we’re not going away," the division director, Joseph Carbon, said.

New Zealand casino operator SkyCity Entertainment is not the only one having problems finding a suitor who can secure finance. The US gambling giant Harrah's Entertainment is having similar problems with a private equity bid for its business. It is believed the same suitor - TPG and Apollo Management - was involved in both deals. The groups were running the ruler over SkyCity but baulked when it came to securing finance in December.