Four developers have proposed casinos in Sumner County, meeting a noon deadline Wednesday for proposals to be submitted to the county. Sumner County officials say Penn Sumner LLC and Marvel Gaming each have proposed building a minimum CAD 225 million casino near Wellington on the Kansas Turnpike. Two other developers -- Chisholm Creek Casino Resort and Sumner Gaming and Resorts LC -- have proposed casinos near Mulvane.

Die Umgestaltung des Congresshauses in den Jahren 1993 bis 1995 war eines der größten Bauvorhaben, das es in Baden seit langem gegeben hatte. Nach über zwei Jahren wurde schließlich das „neue“ Casino als eines der größten in Europa wieder eröffnet. Nun, 13 Jahre später wurde mit einem Kostenaufwand von rund 5 Mio. Euro ein optisch und technisch völlig neues Haus gestaltet.

In einem schwimmenden Casino können USA-Touristen jetzt in Miami ihr Glück versuchen. Das „Aquasino“ bietet auf drei Decks Platz für 600 Passagiere, teilt Miamis Tourismusvertretung mit. Angeboten werden neben „Einarmigen Banditen“ auch Poker, Roulette, Blackjack und andere Glücksspiele - allerdings erst in einem Abstand von mindestens drei Meilen zur Küste Floridas.

In what several observers state is another step forward to the legalisation of online gambling by American officials, the Nevada Gaming Control Board is soon to release a study it commissioned through the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) earlier this year into the pastime. According to reports in the Las Vegas Sun, the objective of the study is to quantify how many Nevadans gamble online and measure attitudes toward legal Internet gambling.

As the Tropicana fights to keep its casino license in Atlantic City and its parent negotiates with lenders on USD 2.3 billion in debt, the company's chief financial officer announced yesterday he was resigning to take a job in Ohio. John Jacob, who last week testified about Tropicana's finances in its licensing hearing before the N.J. Casino Control Commission, is the second CFO Tropicana Casinos and Resorts has lost this year.

Casino and bingo operator Rank has rejected an approach from US casino giant Harrah’s Entertainment, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reported. Without citing sources, the paper said Rank rebuffed the deal, which saw Harrah’s effectively offer to swap its own UK casinos for a 28 percent stake in the enlarged Rank. A spokesman for Rank declined to comment, Harrah’s could not be reached for comment.

Casinos in Taiwan may generate USD 3 billion in total annual revenue should the island legislate to legalize the industry, according to Las Vegas-based industry magnate Larry J. Woolf, who manages 13 casinos in North America. “I don’t think it’d be too much of a struggle to reach USD 1 billion" in revenue each should the government allow three casinos, Woolf, CEO of London-listed Amazing Holdings Plc., said in an interview in Taipei.

In US, a congressman has testified that regulating and taxing online gambling could generate up to USD 42 billion for Federal coffers over the next decade. The data is based on a detailed tax revenue analysis conducted by an independent accounting firm. The data, based on a detailed tax revenue analysis conducted by an independent accounting firm, was provided in testimony submitted to the House Committee on the Judiciary recently by Representative Jim McDermott.

The Senate approved this week a bill that authorizes the opening of an international tender process for the casino operation of Carrasco Hotel Casino. The debate was intense and the opposition remarked that it is a “historical contradition” from the left wing, which now boosts privatizations, something that was against their own ideas. Besides, legislator Jorge Gandini, from Partido Blanco, said he was afraid that this tender is “customized, as part of a series of irregularities in local casinos”.

The Malaysian owner of Britain’s biggest casino operator says it has lost almost GBP 130 million as a result of a rise in gaming duty and the smoking ban in England. Genting yesterday reported an 897.3 million ringgit (GBP 129 million) impairment loss against the value of the Stanley Casinos business it bought 14 months ago for GBP 639 million, or just over GBP 700 million, including debt. The company said: “The impairment is largely attributable to the increase in gaming duty rates [from] April 2007.”

Tourism Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch (Yisrael Beitenu) announced thia week that he intended to turn Eilat’s future casino venture to the city’s main tourist attraction. Aharonovitch, a retired commander in the police force, has been trying to push for the building of a legal casino in Israel for the past several months and is optimistic that the government will approve his initiative.

Valley View Casino officials announced this week they have formed a new business venture to develop and manage other casinos, putting it in the presence of larger, more established gambling companies. Tribal leaders with the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians, which owns Valley View Casino, said they wanted to take advantage of the management talent that has helped develop their casino and share the knowledge with other tribes.