At a meeting in December 2009, the Supervisory Boards of Casinos Austria AG and Casinos Austria International Holding approved the Group’s international expansion plans. The first step in this strategic realignment is the reorganization of responsibilities at Board level. The future positioning of Casinos Austria International Holding (CAI) requires a clear division of Board responsibilities. Accordingly, Josef Leutgeb stepped down from his role as Financial Director of Casinos Austria AG at the end of 2009 to focus primarily on the Group’s international business.

The 2010 International Gaming Expo is set to stage an even greater display of products and services to help casino operators enhance profitability following news that at least three of the industry’s notable product developers WMS Gaming, Bally Technologies and Konami Gaming have expanded their London Show presence. WMS is adding an extra 54 square metres (582sq.ft) to take its IGE showcase beyond the symbolic 500sqm (5,382sq.ft) mark Bally and Konami meanwhile…

Es scheint so, als würde alle paar Monate eine neue Poker Tour gestartet werden. Vor einigen Jahren, gab es nur den WSOP Circuit, die WPT und die PokerStars EPT. Während die Einführung von weiteren Poker-Touren, dazu führte, daß die Spieler mehr Möglichkeiten haben, um Live zu spielen, muss man sich die Frage stellen, was die Touren für das Spiel an sich tun? Helfen sie oder fügen sie dem Spiel eher Schaden zu und würden eine oder zwei richtig große Poker-Touren der Branche besser tun?

Die neu gegründete 100-prozentige Tochtergesellschaft der Austrian Gaming Industries GmbH (AGI) – Teil der Novomatic Group of Companies – AGI Argentina s.r.l. wird die Expansion der Novomatic-Gruppe in Südamerika weiter deutlich beschleunigen. Mit
 1. Juli 2009 tritt Laureano Bonorino die Verkaufsleitung für das neue Unternehmen an.

The Florida Senate voted last Friday to advance a bill that would go beyond Governor Charlie Crist’s compact with Seminole casinos, bringing expanded gambling to both racinos and tribal gaming venues. The new bill would continue allowing blackjack at the Seminole casinos, but would also raise poker limits, provide blackjack at existing racinos, and give the tribe roulette and craps.

The Deputy Vice-president of the Chamber of Representatives of Buenos Aires, Walter Martello, reported that governor Daniel Scioli “has the idea to expand the gaming offer in the province”. With regards to the poker tournament to be held in the city, the legislator from the party Coalición Cívica said that the Lottery and Casinos Institute of the Province…

Boston – Casino opponents rallied on Beacon Hill on Wednesday, a day after the House speaker said expanded gambling would be debated this legislative session. Casino Free Massachusetts, a coalition of casino foes, sent to all legislators copies of „fool’s gold,“ or materials that outlined studies that show the economic problems…

Tallahassee – If the Seminole Tribe of Florida follows through with plans to expand its casinos and resorts, it will siphon off USD 95 million in annual tourist and convention business from around the state and gain an even greater competitive advantage. Those were the conclusions of Amy Baker, the Florida Legislature’s chief economist, in a report presented to the House Committee on Seminole Indian Compact Review on Friday.

The operator of the Seminole Tribe’s Hard Rock hotels and casinos told a House committee Monday that the state can immediately use USD 288 million and will soon have another 45,000 jobs if the gambling agreement Gov. Charlie Crist signed with the tribe stays in place. James Allen, the Seminole Gaming CEO and chairman of Seminole Hard Rock International, told a House committee on Monday…

Tipp24 AG plans to restructure its business fields as of 1 January 2009. This will include pooling the majority of its activities in connection with brokering or offering lottery products with MyLotto24 Ltd. and its subsidiaries. MyLotto24 Ltd. has been operating in the UK since 2007.

With the US economy in the tank and foreign countries more open to big gambling resorts, MGM Mirage is damping up its expansion efforts with a new division focused on international gaming expansion. Lloyd Nathan, who joined the company in 2002 and most recently served as managing director of MGM Mirage International in Hong Kong, heads the new Global Gaming Division.

A CAD 50-million casino expansion for downtown Nanaimo is on hold until at least 2010. The Great Canadian Casino Company, which operates the Nanaimo casino, has shelved all its expansion plans for many of its 17 B.C. casinos, while the U.S.-based lending squeeze plays itself out on the world economic stage. „We are pushing most of our projects into 2010 so any work that was going to commence in 2009 has been moved into the next year…