R.D.Tuttle, Nepal’s Casino King, has been granted rightful ownership of the Nepal Recreation Center (NRC) by a competent Court in Hong Kong. The NRC is running eight casinos in Nepal’s five star hotels. Tuttle’s ex-employee, Rakesh Wadhwa-the Indian national was only three weeks back awarded the rights over the NRC by Nepal government’s Company of the Registrar office arbitrarily.
1.500 Gäste, 15.000 kalte und warme Häppchen, 15 attraktive Tagespreise, 150 MitarbeiterInnen und eine ausgelassene Stimmung zeichnete das Fest „15 Jahre Casino Innsbruck“, bei dem hochkarätige Persönlichkeiten aus Wirtschaft, Sport, Kultur und Politik sowie viele Stammgäste am 13. Dezember feierten, aus.
The Control Commission of the Superior Auditory of the Federation of the House of Legislators will ask the Court to discard the controversy promoted by the Department of Interior (Segob), which will prevent to audit in the same way in which casino licenses were granted. PRI and PRD legislators which take part on such legislative instance regretted that last week a constitutional controversy was held in order to avoid the Superior Auditory of the Federation to hold a Special Development Auditory.
Atlantic City - In a stunning development, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission today denied a license renewal for the troubled Tropicana Casino & Resort, saying that a trustee would operate the Boardwalk facility immediately until a buyer was found. It was only the second time a license renewal has been denied in the 29-year history of legalized gambling in Atlantic City. The Tropicana's attorney, Paul O'Gara, said the casino owner, Columbia-Sussex Corp., would appeal the decision, as soon as tomorrow morning, in state court.
More than a decade ago, over dinner at an exclusive Los Angeles restaurant, James Packer watched his late father and Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn haggle over how much Kerry Packer could wager on a single hand on his next visit to Sin City. Wynn won the argument, limiting Packer to USD 250,000 a hand because he knew the notorious hit-and-run whale could get on a streak, as he famously did at the MGM Grand one weekend in 1997, reportedly taking the casino for at least USD 20million playing baccarat.
Crown casino chiefs have been ordered to go to trial over claims they allowed a banned problem gambler to blow USD 30 million. Supreme Court Justice David Harper today ruled that the Southbank casino had a case to answer in its explosive dispute with millionaire Gold Coast property developer Harry Kakavas. Mr Kakavas, 40, alleges he lost USD 30 million playing baccarat in a 14-month gambling spree starting in June 2005.
Sydnes (Reuters) - Australian gaming group Crown Ltd has agreed to buy Las Vegas casino operator Cannery Casino Resorts (CCR) for USD 1.75 billion, adding to its stable of North American gaming operations. Crown, controlled by Australia's richest man James Packer, will buy all of CCR, a joint venture between gaming magnates Bill Paulos and Bill Wortman and private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management.
Pittsburgh - Don H. Barden could have scheduled the groundbreaking for his USD 450 million casino on his 64th birthday, Dec. 20, if he wanted. After all, he owns what is projected to be the most lucrative of Pennsylvania’s 14 slots casino licenses. But already irritated by a year’s worth of delays, Mr. Barden, the country’s only African-American owner of a national gambling company, decided against that.
Last week, Groupe Lucien Barriere officially opened its new establishment in Toulouse, the biggest casino in France. Located on Ile du Ramier, by the Garonne, this 14.300 m2 building spread over three levels, was designed by Jean-Michel Wilmotte, architect for Cardète & Huet, a firm in Toulouse. This casino replaced the temporary one which opened last year on the Cepiere racecourse.
Auckland's SkyCity Casino has been forced to tighten controls on potential problem gamblers in a move which the Problem Gambling Foundation says should cut the casino's profits. SkyCity, the country's fifth-biggest listed company, invited bids for the company in September after its net profit dropped 18 per cent to NZD 98 million in the year to June, but failed to find a buyer before its annual meeting last week.
The Chilean gambling regulator, the Casino Superintendence (SCJ), has formally approved the participation of South African operator Sun International in Chile’s new casino project, the hotel and resorts company said on Monday. Sun International would now acquire a 40 percent equity interest in local entity San Francisco Investment, which holds a 15-year casino license in Region Six, the premier casino opportunity in Chile.
International Leisure Development (ILD), a pool of companies which promote the games of chance park as well as Gran Scala theme parks, in Spain, compete with other firms that boost similar ideas, as well as Euro Vegas in Hungary. Euro Vegas is boosted by a group of US investors and will be located in Bezenye, a small Hungarian town located 80 kilometres from Vienna, 40 from Bratislava and 160 from Budapest.
