
Siegfried Kauder, MP, condemns the Interstate Gambling Treaty of the states as dishonest and pharisaic – “Germany is not a banana republic!” This year’s opening of the IMA, the leading trade show of the German amusement machine industry, was characterised by courageous speeches and the unbroken determination to boldly and with full might oppose state arbitrariness against commercial AWP gaming. Paul Gauselmann, in his position as Chairman of the German Amusement and Vending Machine Industry Association (VDAI)
The dispute between CityCenter developers MGM Mirage and Dubai World could land the giant project on the Las Vegas Strip in bankruptcy court. An insider at MGM Mirage on Thursday night confirmed that the CityCenter joint venture has hired the law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, potentially for a bankruptcy filing if that becomes necessary. The source, who is familiar with negotiations that took place Thursday on the future of CityCenter, stressed that MGM Mirage itself did not hire the bankruptcy counsel.
Indianapolis – A casino wasn’t obligated to protect a problem gambler who lost USD 125,000 in a single night, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. Instead, the 2-1 ruling Friday said, Jenny Kephart failed to take advantage of programs that allow compulsive gamblers to have themselves banned from casinos. „While Kephart lost the money she wagered, it is an injury that she chose to risk incurring.
The Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court has directed the Goa government to freeze its directive to offshore casino operators to move outside the city limits and drop anchor in a nearby bay. The bench issued the directions Thursday after Hotel Leela Ventures Limited (HLVL), which operates Casino Rio, moved the court challenging a state cabinet decision taken Feb 26 to move the offshore casinos from Mandovi river to the Aguada bay some 3 km away.
SkyCity has been criticised by a senior judge after a drug ring used its VIP gaming lounge as part of its multi-million operation, but the casino company defended its systems for detecting illegal activities. Drug gang ringleader Ro Tong Zhou, 41, was jailed for 15 years in the High Court in Auckland yesterday on more than 30 methamphetamine drugs charges. He used SkyCity Casino’s VIP lounge to run the operation, which included the supply of more than NZD 3 million worth of P in two months.
Brussels/Strasbourg – The European Casino Association (ECA) welcomes the European Parliament’s adoption of the Resolution on the integrity of online gambling by the vast majority of the Members of the European Parliament (544 in favour, 36 against and 66 abstentions). The Resolution stresses the special nature of gambling services due to the social and public order aspects…
Washington, DC (February 19, 2009) –The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide (nearly 10,000 in South Carolina), today expressed cautious optimism with a ruling in the Mount Pleasant, S.C. poker case and applauded the Court’s findings that poker is a game of skill, not chance. Though disappointed with the Court’s initial conclusion that the defendants had committed a crime, PPA expects to prevail on further review.
Washington, DC (January 26, 2009) -The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide and more than 13,000 in Colorado, today commended the ruling in Colorado v. Kevin Raley, in which a jury found the organizer of a poker league not guilty of illegal gambling. The lawyers for the defense presented expert testimony by Professor Robert Hannum, Professor of Statistics at the University of Denver, that poker is a game of skill.
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