Am vergangenen Wochenende spielten insgesamt 160 Teilnehmer im Eventbereich des Casino Baden-Baden um Preisgelder in Höhe von 65.200 Euro. Unter Ihnen viele bekannte Gesichter aus der nationalen und internationalen Pokerszene. Die Tagessieger erhielten jeweils mehr als 10.000 Euro Preisgeld.

A lack of big special events and fewer high-end gamblers figured in a 14 percent drop in the November win for Nevada casinos, to USD 981.1 million, compared with the same month a year earlier, regulators said last week. The state Gaming Control Board reported that the best evidence of fewer high-rollers was the baccarat win for the casinos in November - down nearly 61 percent.

Rio Mar Beach Resort & Spa, a Wyndham Grand Caribbean Resort, has reopened its 650,321 sqm casino after a USD 5 million expansion and remodeling project. The work at this Caribbean resort included an addition of 180 slot machines, 12 gaming tables, a bar with five 50-inch plasma television screens and new carpeting, chairs and tables.

Detroit -- The city's three state-licensed casinos took in USD 1.335 billion in 2007 as revenue growth slowed to 2.4 percent, Michigan regulators said today. Revenue had grown 6.1 percent the year before. Michigan's wagering tax brought in USD 160 million in 2007, the Michigan Gaming Control Board reported. The tax brought in USD 158 million on revenues of USD 1.303 billion in 2006.

Gestern, 14. Januar 2008, gewann ein Gast aus dem Kanton Aargau beim Automatenspiel-Klassiker „Super Cherry“ und konnte sich CHF 103'000.-- auszahlen lassen. Der Herr freute sich riesig über den Gewinn und will sich nun in Ruhe überlegen, wie er sein Geld investieren möchte.

Schweizer Urlaubsgast gewinnt das 13. Gehalt im Casino Seefeld. Dass jeder 13. des Monats ein Glückstag bei Casinos Austria ist, erlebte am Sonntag ein Gast des Casino Seefeld. Kurz nach 23.00 Uhr gewann ein Schweizer Urlaubsgast, der als Debütant zur Senioren Tennis EM nach Seefeld gekommen ist, das 13. Gehalt der Casinos Austria im Wert von Euro 1.300,-.

Mit fast 40.000 Teilnehmern – doppelt so viel wie in 2006 - endeten am 16. November 2007 die Online Qualifikationen der Studentenmeisterschaften. Unter den Top 30 ist - neben vier Frauen - auch Richard Vietze ein Finalist aus dem Vorjahr, der erneut sein Glück versucht.

London Clubs International have taken four years to turn a brand new four storey building in Clarence Dock into a ’new generation’ casino featuring two restaurants, three bars, a conference centre and 50-seat cinema. It is now recruiting 160 casino and hospitality staff to work in the 2,000 capacity building. Last week, the YEP was given a sneak preview of the Alea casino near the Royal Armouries.

While eight agreements with international operators have already been confirmed for Gran Scala complex, ILD company aims to conclude the rest of the agreements in London, between January 22-26, within ICE. International Leisure Development (ILD), promoter of the complex than includes a theme park, tourism and leisure, has concluded agreements with eight groups of the sector to be in charge of other hotel casino projects, according to sources of the pool of companies.

Sacramento – In June, on the day after the No. 2 man at the U.S. Department of the Interior was sentenced to prison for lying about his role in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne issued a new ethics policy for the agency. Kempthorne's guidelines vowed to make the troubled department “a model of an ethical workplace” with integrity as a “core value.”

First, ATMs elbowed aside bank tellers. Then, voice mail eliminated phone operators. Now, poker machines are muscling in on croupiers at Quebec's casinos. One of the world's most storied professions is becoming automated but it's creating a standoff between the dealers and the house. Quebec's 1,450 unionized croupiers said yesterday they will boycott a test next week of 25 automated poker tables at the Montreal Casino. The dry run will involve no-money games reserved for Loto-Québec staff.

Montevideo Council put to sale the documents for the tender process of Hotel Casino Carrasco for a 30-year period. Authorities aim to turn this place in a high-level touristic center, which competes with Hotel Conrad in Punta del Este. The director de Economic Development of Montevideo, Luis Polakof, remarked that, in the tender process, “the most valuable thing, besides taxes, is the architectural work.