Chicago - Hollywood Casino in west suburban Aurora was fined USD 800,000, and three of its managers' licenses were suspended Monday, a spokesman from the Illinois Gaming Board said. Hollywood Casino sent 146 problem gamblers, who voluntarily excluded themselves from Illinois casinos, fliers and promotional materials in a mass mailing earlier this year, Gene O’Shea, spokesman for the Illinois Gaming Board said Monday.

Atlantic City, New Jersey (AP) - February 20, 2008 -- For more than a year, the teenager lived the life of a high roller at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, buying tens of thousands of dollars worth of gambling chips, and earning more than USD 1,000 worth of free merchandise and services for the level of his Blackjack and poker play. But what the casino didn't know - and didn't ask about for more than a year - was that he was only 19, two years below the legal gambling age in Atlantic City.

Crown Casino was fined AUD 35,000 last month for conducting card games without a full deck and breaking the rules of other games conducted at the Southbank complex. The Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation fined the casino on four breaches of the Casino Control Act 1991. In a statement posted on the commission's website, it outlined the breaches and reasons for the fines, which dated to September, 2006. Games played at Crown that breached the rules included: three games of Texas Hold 'em Poker, a game of Blackjack, a game of Crown Pontoon, and a game of Pai Gow.

Paris (Reuters) - A French court handed the chairman of Groupe Partouche, one of France's leading casino operators, a suspended prison sentence and 40,000 euros (USD 52,860) fine on Thursday for breaking laws limiting online gaming. rosecutors had accused Patrick Partouche, who is reportedly seeking to sell his company, of complicity in lending his name to an online poker site based outside the country.