Port Canaveral - The gambling business at Port Canaveral is about to get larger and more competitive. After a sometimes-heated debate Wednesday, port commissioners voted unanimously to allow a third gambling vessel to operate out of the port. Las Vegas Casinos Lines LLC plans to start operating a 253-foot-long, 900-passenger vessel out of Brevard County's seaport in December or January.

Pinnacle Entertainment announced that the Louisiana Gaming Control Board has approved its plans for a hotel and gaming entertainment project on more than 222.5 hectares of land that the company owns or has under contract in Baton Rouge. The master-planned development requires various other approvals, including a local-option referendum in East Baton Rouge Parish, which the company will seek to put on the ballot in February 2008, and adherence to certain conditions imposed by the Louisiana Gaming Control Board.

Toronto - CAW Local 1090 members voted today in favour of a new collective agreement at the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino ending a strike that began September 7 at the Port Perry, Ontario gaming facility. The membership voted 58 per cent in favour of the agreement at a ratification meeting today. They return to work starting Wednesday, September 19th at 4pm. The new contract includes a minimum wage increase of USD 2.20 per hour over the life of the agreement.

Atlantic City, New Jersey - Seven and 11 are lucky numbers at any casino, but for smokers in Atlantic City, it soon will be seven the hard way. In order to comply with restrictions on smoking passed by Atlantic City officials earlier this year, 7 of the city's 11 casinos plan to go totally smoke-free on the gambling floor. They'll do it by creating smoking lounges where gambling will not be offered.

Two leading Spanish coin machine names are part of a four-company consortium, which has been granted the fourth casino licence in the Spanish region of Catalunya, Barcelona’s home state. GiGames, which is a major name in bingo games and AWPs, and MGA, which is involved in distribution and operation, are partners with two developers in the new venture.

Gordon Brown is likely to come under pressure this week to rule out any chance of a super-casino being built. A Government-commissioned British Gambling Prevalence Study is likely to show that almost a million gamblers have a severe addiction. This compares with the last study, commissioned by the Gaming Board in 1999, which found that about 300,000 gamblers had a "problem". The survey also found that 33 million adults, or 72 per cent of the population, gambled in some form.

Am Donnerstagabend den 13. September machte sich die ISA-CASINOS mit ihren Begleitern auf den Weg nach Asch in die Tschechei. Wir wollten es gemütlich angehen lassen Mit Raststopps usw. um dann morgens einchecken zu können. Zwischenstopps in verschieden Spielbanken um dort einen Besuch zu machen usw. Nachts um 11.00 Uhr erreichte uns die Nachricht eines Mitarbeiters der die Pressemeldungen der ISA-CASINOS betreut und online setzt.

Maui General Store announced that it will be working with the Hoi An Project to assist in financing and help with human resources for the new Hotel Casino Resort and Master Plan Community. The Hoi An Project has 3,237 hectares near the beautiful China Beach area with 12 miles of beachfront to develop. Maui will assist in bringing the right management teams together to build the Hotels / Casinos to create an infrastructure from the ground up.

More than GBP 5 million is to be ploughed into developing Bradford's first casino hotel. The company behind the prestigious Clermont Club casino in Mayfair, London, wants to create a gaming club in the basement of the historic Midland Hotel. Regulations now allow casinos and hotels to be integrated, and the move by Clermont Leisure will see Bradford become home to one of the first establishments of its type in the country.

Washington - Fed up seeing their residents dole out millions of dollars at out-of-state casinos and tracks, more than a dozen states this year worked on dramatically expanding gambling within their borders. States are playing their version of "keeping up with the Joneses" as they scramble for a bigger piece of the gambling pie. Kansas this year made the most dramatic move to compete with commercial gambling operations in neighboring Iowa, Missouri and Colorado by becoming the first state that will own and operate large-scale casino resorts.

The Goa government is seeking legal opinion to resolve the controversy surrounding the second off-shore casino in the river Sal. “We have sought legal opinion on the entire matter before proceeding further on the issue,” state Chief Secretary J P Singh said. Singh, who was supposed to give his verdict on the issue, after South Goa locals opposed the second off-shore casino, said he would require more time to decide.

Detectives were reviewing surveillance footage and Golden West Casino management was preparing a statement regarding a robbery in which men armed with assault rifles and handguns stormed the operation early Thursday morning and got away with an undisclosed amount of money. Witnesses reported that four men with some sort of clothing partially covering their faces entered the casino, 1001 S. Union Ave., at about 4 a.m., sheriff's Senior Deputy Vincent Martinez said.