Supervisor John McKay wants to put the proposed Choctaw casino in Jackson County away as an issue. He plans to push for a vote on a casino resolution endorsing the November 6 vote. In the non-binding referendum, 60 percent of the voters cast ballots against the casino. Supervisors brought the resolution forward in their November 13 meeting. However, due to the absence of Supervisor Frank Leach, a final decision was delayed.

For five years, government regulators have been aware of misspending of gambling profits by Seminole tribal leaders in violation of federal law but have taken no enforcement action. Indian leaders elsewhere in the country have been cited for using tribal funds on such things as Super Bowl expenses and accepting free jackets worth USD 1,330.

International Leisure Development (ILD) aims to inaugurate mega-complex Gran Scala in October 2010 with a first phase of developments. According to sources of the project, figures indicate that, on that date, twelve casino hotels and twenty hotels will be operating. In a second phase, six to twelve months later, a second theme park should be built, called Aquántica and promoted by the same group of fifteen firms called Spyland.

Harrah’s Entertainment and Sumner Gaming and Resorts announced their proposal for a destination resort to be located in Sumner County, Kansas, which was submitted to the Sumner County Commission today for its consideration. Subject to certain customary conditions and receipt of corporate approvals, the proposal was also submitted earlier this month to the Kansas State Lottery for their review.

Gambling is prohibited in Islam. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim country, with nearly 90 percent of its 235 million people being followers of the Islamic faith. Other plans to build casinos in Indonesia have faltered due to vocal opposition from Islamic activists. It remains to be seen whether Bintan island’s local government will be able to push the plan through. "We are aware of the controversy," Bintan district’s deputy chief Mastur Taher said.

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.