The philanthropic side of the international gaming industry will be very much in evidence next month with ICE London’s organisers, Clarion Gaming, set to support three distinct charities working within the wider gambling space by asking all attendees and visitors…
Washington, DC (January 25, 2010) -The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, today commended the generosity of poker players in contributing to support relief efforts in Haiti. „Like the rest of the world, the poker community is eager to do anything it can to aid Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake. I applaud PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Cake Poker for providing poker players across the globe an easy way to make a contribution,“ said former Senator Alfonse D’Amato, chairman of the PPA.
Party Gaming to make a donation to Care International charity at the International Gaming awards ceremony. Royal Caribbean International donating 2 more cruise experiences in support of charity. Calvin Ayre will also match amount of money raised by International Gaming Awards and present cheque to our charities at the Awards ceremony.
Donald Trump is seeking to distance himself from Trump Entertainment Resorts, the casino company he founded, after it filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in four years. The television star and property mogul continues to own a stake of about 28 per cent in the debt-laden group but resigned from the board last week following a dispute with the company’s bondholders.
Atlantic City, New Jersey (AP) – Donald Trump fired himself Friday from the casino company that bears his name. Spurned by bond holders who rejected his effort to buy Trump Entertainment Resorts, the real estate mogul and his daughter Ivanka are resigning from its board of directors. He called the troubled casino company he once controlled „worthless to me now.“
Atlantic City, New Jersey (AP) — Never one for understatement, Donald Trump offers a bleak view of current events: „The economy is horrendous, the worst since 1929.“ The free-market capitalist strands of his DNA hate the idea, but he said Friday that he saw the need for Congress to bail out the financial system. Meanwhile, his Trump Entertainment Resorts gambling company is orchestrating what it hopes will be a rescue of its own in Atlantic City…
The Venetian Macau Limited (VML) yesterday donated some 2.5 million patacas raised by its staff members to the Chinese Liaison Office in Macau to aid the Sichuan quake relief. The fund-raising initiative of staff members came after chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp, Sheldon Adelson, donated five million patacas to support the quake victims on May 14.
Two-thirds of gambling companies have failed to contribute anything to a fund for supporting problem gamblers, the BBC has learned. Only 1,000 of 3,200 licensed gambling firms have donated money, says the Responsibility in Gambling Trust. The trust has reached its target of GBP 3.6m in voluntary donations – but says many firms have not given anything. The culture secretary has previously said the government may introduce a compulsory levy.
US tycoon Donald Trump aims to invest in Chile. He is interested in finding land in the Eastern part of the capital city in order to install its Trump Tower, and now he has added the possibility to own one of the casinos that are being built in the South of the country. This version was confirmed by Marcos Kaplún, director of Kayco Internacional Group, who works together with the millionaire sons in order to make possible Trump’s arrival to the markets of Chile, Peru and Uruguay.
City Council is expected to vote soon on a resolution to reopen the city’s negotiations with Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., the latest attempt to decrease a USD 34 million tax appeal settlement the mayor labels as a bad deal. Newly sworn-in City Councilman Steven Moore, who was not yet on council in November when the settlement was approved, said that he is sponsoring the measure to ensure that taxpayer money is not misspent.
Star City made a one-off AUD 100,000 donation to the NSW Labor Party in the lead-up to the 2007 election – only months before it was due to begin negotiations with the State Government over its monopoly casino licence. The Daily Telegraph uncovered the payment in the party’s latest 2007 election funding declarations submitted to the NSW Electoral Commission.
Gordon Brown left himself open to charges of hypocrisy after it emerged that Labour accepted a donation from an online gambling firm days before he killed off plans for a super casino. Labour received a GBP 100,000 donation from Bet365 Ltd on June 28 – the day after Mr Brown became Prime Minister. The company, founded by Labour donor Peter Coates, also gave a donation of GBP 50,000 in April when Tony Blair was still Prime Minister.