Another six counterfeit gaming chips have been discovered at Crown casino. The number of fake AUD 1000 chips found since the con was revealed last week by the Herald Sun has risen to 42. And another 1400 chips worth AUD 1.4 million remain unaccounted for - all of a AUD 1000 denomination.

Melbourne's Crown Casino has detected a fake chip scam that has put all casinos in Australia on alert. The scam involved fake AUD 1,000 chips and Crown officials say they have no idea how much money was lost in the scam. Yesterday, an employee at the casino detected the fake chips, which were remarkably similar to the real chips.

A bank is suing Crown casino to recoup AUD 3.5 million of stolen money gambled by one of its former loan officers. The Bendigo and Adelaide Bank claims Crown ignored the fact the pokies addict could not afford to put millions of dollars into the machines. Kate Leanne Jamieson, who is serving four years' jail for fraud, told her court trial she was courted by the casino as a VIP...

Crown Casino has won access to the financial records of chronic gambler Harry Kakavas, to put his declared AUD 36 million losses "in context". Mr Kakavas, a Gold Coast property developer, is suing Crown in the Supreme Court for the money he says he lost at the casino between June 2005 and August 2006, along with AUD 50 million in damages. He claims that Crown executives pursued a plan to lure him back to their tables despite knowing he had been the subject of various exclusion orders banning him from entering casinos.

James Packer's Crown Limited insists it is still committed to its promise to buy a suite of US casinos, but has warned that the earnings they will produce will be up to 30 per cent lower than previously anticipated. The Crown chief executive, Rowen Craigie, yesterday emphasised the company was working on finding a solution to save the deal from collapsing. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board cannot agree to the deal because Gretel Packer...

James Packer's massive punt on the US casino industry could be derailed by a probity investigation into the operations of Melbourne's Crown Casino. The embattled billionaire agreed to pay USD 1.75 billion (AUD 2.59 billion) for the Cannery Casinos chain in 2007 but still requires approval from a US gambling regulator for the deal to proceed. The Sun-Herald can reveal agents from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board will visit Melbourne next month...

Crown casino's gaming rooms, shops and restaurants were evacuated after the power failure left the entire precinct in darkness. An estimated 5000 chefs, shoppers, gamblers and those celebrating Chinese New Year were out on the street after a back-up generator failed. Casino spokesman Gary O'Neil said Crown would take a financial hit. "Friday is one of our busiest nights and we had to evacuate the whole premises," he said.

Crown Casino chief executive Rowen Craigie was allegedly part of a plan to target a chronic gambler who turned over AUD 1.4 billion in a 14-month gambling spree while banned from every casino in Australia. The explosive allegations are part of amended Supreme Court documents which also reveal that gambling addict Harry Kakavas, who is suing the casino for damages, wore a concealed hearing device that captured Crown's senior managers allegedly attempting to lure him back to the Southbank venue.

Casino operator Crown says its Australian casinos have been trading satisfactorily since the start of the 2008/09 financial year. Crown, which was spun off from James Packer's gaming and media group Publishing and Broadcasting (PBL) last year, today reported a annual normalised net profit of AUD 370.1 million. The reported net profit of AUD 3.56 billion, like the first half result, was inflated by one-off results of discontinued operations and net gains from the demerger of PBL...

A brazen thief who swiped a AUD 100,000 gaming chip from a highly secure area within Melbourne's Crown Casino appears to have beaten the house. Despite interviews with more than 50 casino staff and a review of hours of security footage, police can find no trace of the missing loot. Victoria Police believe the Crown Casino theft was the work of a single light-fingered crook - likely a staffer.