Newark, New Jersey - Net income at Atlantic City's 11 casinos fell 34 percent in the second quarter, giving the industry its second consecutive quarterly drop, the state Casino Control Commission reported Friday. Net revenues fell 6.1 percent and gross operating profit dropped 19 percent in the April-June period for the seaside gambling halls, which have been hurt by competition from new slot parlors in New York and Pennsylvania.

The prospect of a second NSW casino has re-emerged after it was confirmed yesterday that a Hong Kong billionaire talked to the Premier before the election about setting one up. Stanley Ho, whose son Lawrence is involved in casino interests with James Packer in Macau, had a private discussion with Morris Iemma, the Premier's office confirmed yesterday. There is speculation that the possibility of a casino at Tweed Heads is being used by the Government in its negotiations with Tabcorp.

Six armed men held staff at a Newcastle casino at gunpoint and made off with ZAR 1,5-million in cash, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Monday. Superintendent Vincent Mdunge said the men entered the casino at around 11pm on Sunday night, held staff at gunpoint and demanded cash from the tills. They then ran away with an estimated ZAR 1,5-million in cash.

Las Vegas - Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has been in his home state of Massachusetts lobbying to legalize casino gambling there, but the casino company he controls has no interest in partnering with Indian tribes to do so, an executive said Thursday. "There's no reason for us to talk to the tribes, quite frankly," Las Vegas Sands Corp. president William Weidner said in a conference call with reporters Thursday.

Jerusalem - Sheldon Adelson has spent the past two decades collecting a string of casinos, but now the billionaire - considered by many to be the richest Jew in the world - is taking another kind of gamble. Two weeks ago, Adelson, CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., launched Yisrael Hayom, or Israel Today, a free daily newspaper that on its first day was already one of the largest-circulation papers in the country.

Von 17. bis 20. Oktober steht alles im Casino Seefeld im Zeichen des Baccaraspiels. Bereits zum neunten Mal wird auf Olympischem Boden, welchen Seefeld aufgrund der Austragungen der Olympischen Spiele in den Sechzigern und Siebzigern auch für sich beansprucht, die Baccara Weltmeisterschaft in Seefeld ausgetragen. Das "Spiel der Könige" hat im Casino Seefeld große Tradition und lockt alljährlich internationale Gäste auf das wunderschöne Hochplateau inmitten der imposanten Tiroler Bergwelt.

After Monterrey Council approved the integration of the Special Commission in charge of the approval of the casinos which will operate in the district, Mayor Adalberto Madero Quiroga said a public poll is being considered, in order to know if citizens accept this kind of business or not. Quiroga pointed that, after the confirmation of the Commission, the local council will have to analize and control if the new businesses comply with the requirements...

Garden Grove – About 500 Vietnamese Americans packed the Community Meeting Center on Tuesday evening, carrying banners protesting the proposed casino resort on Harbor Boulevard in the city-designated resort area. It was a standing-room-only crowd inside council chambers, and hundreds of others watched the meeting on television as they occupied other rooms at the center holding small signs and large banners that read "No casino in Garden Grove" and "Gambling destroys lives."

The casino industry in Trinidad and Tobago is bracing itself for next Monday’s Budget. Yesterday, President of the Association of Members’ Clubs (AMC) Brian Phillips, said that he was not optimistic about the upcoming presentation, but called on Government to stick by promises it made to the workers of the casino industry, if it does indeed go ahead with plans to shut the industry down.

Taiwan is considering placing a hefty bet on casinos, an official said on Wednesday, hoping a little bit of luck enjoyed by nearby Macau and Singapore will rub off on its tourism trade. Taiwan's plans come after Macau overtook the Las Vegas Strip in gaming revenue last year for first time and Singapore's inroads into the casino sector helped boost its property market.

Hong Kong: Edmund Ho, leader of the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau, has denied reports alleging he has financial interests in the businesses of the region's most powerful casino mogul. The South China Morning Post reported Monday that Ho has held a stake in the Macau casino empire controlled by tycoon Stanley Ho through a Hong Kong company for the past 15 years. The two Hos are not related. Documents filed to the Hong Kong registry of companies said Edmund Ho and his two brothers inherited from their late father a 3.3 percent stake...

Las Vegas (AP) -- Shareholders of Station Casinos Inc. approved a USD 5.4 billion takeover bid Monday from a private equity investor group that includes key members of the neighborhood casino operator's founding family. At a special meeting attended by more than 100 shareholders, chief executive Frank J. Fertitta III said the going-private transaction, for USD 90 a share, had been approved. There was no shareholder discussion, and the meeting was over in about 20 minutes.