In China, the government has announced that it is to institute new laws to help prevent underage and compulsive gambling. Experts predict that these laws will see companies forced to use software that screens users to ensure that adults only are accessing gambling sites. This software could also be required to encourage players to stick to a maximum playing time of three hours per day by halving any points accrued after this length of time had passed.

After a week with police operatives in Ecuador, Tourism Minister, María Isabel Salvador, reassured that, according to the Tourism Law “slots should only work in five-star casino hotels, because they are an entertainment for tourists”. More than 1,500 illegal slots have been imported in an illegal way, and the Ecuadorian police seized them in the cities of Quito, Guayaquil, Esmeraldas and Loja, as part of the first phase in the control of the illegal use of games of chance.

Atlantic City, New Jersey (AP) -- The leaves are falling, and so are revenues at Atlantic City's 11 casinos, which continue to see their profitable slots customers flee to Pennsylvania and New York. The gambling halls took in USD 384.4 million in October, a 7.5 percent decline from the October 2006. Slots revenues were USD 270.3 million, a decrease of 12.6 percent over a year ago. It matched the worst month of the year so far for slots here, along with September, which was also down 12.6 percent.

Fredericton - New Brunswick is wagering that a casino will revive its faltering tourism industry, which has seen the number of visitors decline by 25 per cent over the past five years. The province issued a request for proposals Thursday for a single casino — New Brunswick's first — to be in operation by 2010. Finance Minister Victor Boudreau concedes a casino may not directly boost the number of tourists, but he believes it will have an effect.

Catfish Bend Casino received permission from state regulators today to shut down its struggling Fort Madison gambling boat, putting about 180 people out of work in southeast Iowa. The action by the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission doesn’t affect Catfish Bend’s new USD 50 million casino and hotel complex in Burlington, which will remain open seven days a week. “The boat just can’t compete at this point and it wasn’t generating enough revenue to survive,” said Gary Hoyer, chief executive of Great River Entertainment Inc., the parent of Catfish Bend.

Menschen denken gerne in runden Zahlen. Wahrscheinlich werden deshalb der millionste Besucher einer Website, das zehnjährige Abijubiläum oder der runde Geburtstag etwas exzessiver gefeiert als andere Daten. - In diesem Zusammenhang fällt mir eine Gruppe grölender Engländer ein, die ich vor ein paar Wochen in der Abfertigungshalle des Flughafens Stansted sah. Jeder trug ein knallrotes T-Shirt mit der Aufschrift „John’s 40th Birthday Mallorca October 2007“ und einige von ihnen waren schon so betrunken, dass sie den Weg zum Gate nur noch mit der tatkräftigen Unterstützung der restlichen Gruppe fanden. –

Internationale und heimische Spieler treffen sich regelmäßig in der Olympiaregion. Im Casino Seefeld stand diese Woche wieder das € 100 No Limit Hold’em Speed-Turnier auf dem Programm. Das Casino in den Alpen und der Olympiaregion Seefeld entwickelt sich mehr und mehr zur Pokerhochburg Tirols.

Atlantic City, New Jersey - The newest addition to Atlantic City's skyline will be a twin-tower mega-casino that appears as if it were sculpted by ocean waves. Revel Entertainment Group unveiled designs Wednesday for its USD 2 billion casino to be built on the Boardwalk next to the Showboat Hotel-Casino, and said the project will debut earlier than had been planned. Kevin DeSanctis, the company's chairman and CEO, said the project would be called simply "Revel" and would open in the second half of 2010.

Europas Top Pokerspieler zu Gast im Casino Seefeld. Bluffen, sehen und erhöhen wollen nationale und internationale Pokergrößen, wenn das Casino Seefeld zum wohl größten Pokerhighlight in der Region in das Casino Seefeld lädt.

Proposals for the creation of a casino came a step closer to reality this week after Solihull Council's overview and scrutiny management board decided to back them. The board will recommend full council does not resist the building of a Casino in Solihull should the government give the go-ahead. Uncertainty still surrounds the scheme, following the rejection of government recommendations in the House of Lords but supporters remain hopeful it will eventually be given the green light.

Tallahassee - The federal government told Gov. Charlie Crist that it will take steps to allow expanded gambling in Seminole Indian casinos if he doesn't reach an agreement with the tribe by Nov. 15. In a letter sent to Crist's office Monday, the U.S. Interior Department's assistant secretary of Indian Affairs told Crist that the tribe is at a disadvantage because Las Vegas style slots -- or Class III machines -- are allowed at some dog and horse tracks and jai alai frontons, but not in Indian casinos.

An independent audit has confirmed that there is no evidence of money being skimmed or misappropriated from Christchurch Casino’s gaming machines, Internal Affairs Minister, Rick Barker, said today. Evaluating the reliability of the casino’s DACOM system included checking the installation of the gaming machines, interface controllers, cashier’s station, network hubs and cabling, assessing operational procedures, checking system behaviour under a range of conditions, reviewing security and access privileges to the IT infrastructure and verifying software.