Rota - The Rota Casino Gaming Commission, in a media release, says it has amended its rules and regulations to accommodate the slowdown in the global economic environment and the numerous challenges facing new developments on Rota. “We have worked tirelessly for the past month with a regional gaming expert to identify areas in our rules and regulations that were in conflict with the current gaming investor environment.

Non-remote casino licensees must follow any rules for the playing of approved casino games (or games being trialed), or other games of chance, as prescribed by the Commission in the document Rules for casino games in Great Britain. This document, originally published in August 2007, has now been revised to formally incorporate the three new casino games previously under trial...

Springfield - Lawmakers can force casinos to fork over some of the cash gamblers bet on roulette, craps and cards to the declining Illinois horse racing industry, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday. For the past two years, the state’s four richest casinos, including the two in Joliet, have had to send 3 percent of their revenue to a special state fund to help horse tracks and racers.

New laws have been passed in Costa Rica that will change the way that many of the casinos will be run and ultimately prevent new casinos being built in Costa Rica as casinos begin to limit their operations in line with these rules. Casinos that plan to be built from new since these law changes will have to measure up as at least a 3 star resort with 60 rooms that are all offered complete services. The casino floor space also must not accommodate any more than 15 % of the hotels total floor space and cannot be accessible directly from the street.

If you're entering this year's World Series of Poker and you plan on celebrating a winning hand by calling your friends from the table during an emphatic victory dance, the new additions to the WSOP rulebook may be on interest to you. Harrah's Entertainment has released the 2008 World Series of Poker rulebook with a few additions and modifications, most notably the one that will curtail excessive celebrations at the table.

A Karlsruhe, Germany-based court ruled that Bwin Interactive Entertainment is allowed to accept wagers from customers in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgarter Nachrichten reported, citing a spokesman for the Karlsruhe regional council. The administrative court ordered that a previous judgment forcing the company to stop accepting wagers from these customers should not be executed...

Las Vegas Sands Corporation announced on Thursday that the Macao Intermediate Court has removed an interim injunction that had suspended the company’s entitlement to operate a ferry service between Hong Kong and Macao. The CotaiJet was suspended in mid-December. The CotaiJet service had been operating for just over a week and was offering service between Hong Kong’s Macao Ferry Terminal at Shun Tak Centre and Macao’s newly opened Taipa Temporary Ferry Terminal when it was suspended in mid-December.

Frankfurt (Thomson Financial) - A Karlsruhe, Germany-based court ruled that Austrian sports betting company BWIN Interactive Entertainment AG is allowed to accept wagers from customers in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgarter Nachrichten reported, citing a spokesman for the Karlsruhe regional council. The administrative court ordered that a previous judgment forcing the company to stop accepting wagers from these customers should not be executed...

Banking lobbyists are warning the US Treasury that regulations proposed in the wake of last year's sweeping anti-gambling law will be impossible to comply with unless the Bush administration clarifies its conflicting views on online betting. The Financial Services Roundtable, which represents dozens of banks and other financial services firms, said it was "very concerned" that adoption of the rules could impose "significant" and costly compliance burdens on banks.

China is expected to issue its first national regulation on the supervision of the fast-growing lottery industry next year to stamp out fraud, which has been on the rise since the country launched its first lottery two decades ago. Legislators will draw on the experience of other countries and regions to work out the regulation. Legislators will also make explicit stipulations about each aspect of lotteries, such as the distribution...

A Harrison County judge has ruled a Biloxi woman did not win the USD 1 million jackpot she claimed at the IP Casino. The ruling this week by Circuit Judge Roger Clark overturned a Mississippi Gaming Commission decision that sided with Florida Eash in her dispute with the casino. The IP Casino argued Eash was owed only USD 8,000 - the top winning amount showed on the machine's sign. The casino said a technician for International Game Technology mistakenly programmed the slot machine to be a stand-alone progressive.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has admitted Blackpool faces a tough future, but seems to have finally ruled out a super-casino coming to the resort. Speaking in his monthly press conference, he said: "As far as two large super-casinos are concerned, I've said I feel there are better ways of regenerating those areas and that's what we're looking at at the moment. "Hazel Blears, the secretary of state for local government is co-ordinating the work about what we can actually do...