Claims Crown casino allowed a banned problem gambler to blow AUD 30 million are headed for an explosive Supreme Court showdown. Lawyers for Crown and multi-millionaire Gold Coast property developer Harry Kakavas have been ordered to a two-day hearing starting on September 24. Mr Kakavas alleges casino chiefs lured him back to Crown, despite an earlier self-imposed life ban. He is suing Crown for AUD 30 million plus damages.
At midnight Saturday, the glazed glass doors of Saskatoon's Emerald Casino will slide shut on gamers for good, putting an end to patrons' routines, which sometimes stretch back decades. The Emerald is closing after the provincial government, which wanted just one casino in the Saskatoon area, struck a deal to compensate Prairieland Park with revenues from the new Dakota Dunes casino. The new CAD 61-million facility is set to open Aug. 10 on the Whitecap Dakota First Nation 30 kilometres south of Saskatoon.
Halifax (CP) - The Nova Scotia government proved it has a "conscience" by accepting recommendations from the province's ombudsman to deal with people who appear to be gambling addicts at casinos, a former problem gambler said Tuesday. Paul Burrell of Sydney, N.S., had complained to the ombudsman that he lost his life savings at the casino in his hometown because staff there failed to intervene, as required by provincial legislation.
It was a plot straight out of the Hollywood. A daring gang of gamblers attempted a sophisticated, high-stakes heist on a casino frequented by the stars. But this time the plotters were caught: police in New Jersey have just released details of how they smashed a plot to rip off gamblers playing in a GBP 1m poker tournament.
At the Moc Bai border gate in the southern province of Tay Ninh there are over ten groups of ‘brokers’ who bring Vietnamese gamblers to Cambodia’s casinos. Every weekend, 600-700 cross the border for gambling. At a very hot noon of Tay Ninh as a coach from HCM City’s Ben Thanh to Tay Ninh’s Moc Bai has just stopped, tens of young men surrounded the coach and delivered name cards of Cambodian casinos to passengers.
