With the smoking ban, higher taxes and Government U-turns, the odds look to be stacked against casino operators like Liverpool’s Genting Stanley. But its top man, Peter Brooks, says he is determined the business will defy those odds and hold on to its position as the UK’s leading casino operator. It’s a tough time to be in the casino business, an industry which is not always the most popular in the press or with some of the nation’s self-appointed moral guardians.