Monday, August 31, 2009

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Global Gaming Directory.com attracts 50,000 hits on first day

PartyCasino.com releases Resident Evil, The Naked Gun and Bejeweled slot games

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Disney to Acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, may boost Marvel themed slots

Gaming entrepreneurs, Daniel Tzvetkoff, Calvin Ayre, on the rebound

World Poker Tour - PartyGaming deal website spike continues, Australia's Crown, Star City interested

Palace Station founder Frank Fertitta Jr dies

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Hollywood slot games popularity maintained; Rambo, The Terminator, The Hulk, Tomb Raider

Cleopatra online slot game holds #1 position, Cleo 3 rumours, following Cleo mobile

Mobile gaming, mobile casino sector still growing

CAP Euro 2009 could get overbooked

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Monday, August 24, 2009

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PartyGaming To Buy World Poker Tour Assets

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Crown Casino to host World Poker Cup, PartyPoker, Noble Poker, Titan Poker satellites

Cleopatra online slot game keeps crown

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Calvin Ayre eyes South America, Bodog coffee plans

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California politicians need more time on online poker, gaming proposal

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MGM Mirage Ho family links questioned, Pansy Ho to lead project

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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Cleopatra: Still the world's most popular online slot game

Cleopatra is still the world's most popular online slot game, according to numerous news media and gaming media reports.

Australia's Media Man Australia and Casino News Media research leaves little doubt that Cleopatra is the world's most popular online slot.

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Other online slot games which may potentially take over from Cleopatra at some point include The Godfather, The Hulk, Mission: Impossible, Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider: Secret Of The Sword.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

REGION: Tribes at odds over legalizing Internet poker - North County Times

RIVERSIDE COUNTY TRIBE PROPOSES ALLIANCE WITH CARD CLUBS

A Riverside County tribe is pushing for a law that would allow gamblers in California to play poker over the Internet. But some San Diego County tribes oppose the move, saying it will be bad for their businesses.

The Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians, which owns Morongo Casino Resort and Spa in central Riverside County, is leading the effort, arguing that millions of gamblers already play online and that legalizing it would generate revenue for the cash-starved state.

A spokesman for the Morongo tribe said the proposal also would offer better consumer protections than the unregulated Web sites that exist offshore and largely out of reach of federal law.

Under the proposal, the Morongo tribe and others would run an Internet poker operation jointly with several Los Angeles-area card clubs. The state would get an as-yet-undetermined percentage of the winnings.

Patrick Dorinson, the spokesman for the Morongo tribe, declined to talk specifically about how much the state would get and other details of the proposal because it is still being developed.

"The state would get some revenue," Dorinson said. "But I don't want to give a percentage because there isn't a formal bill."

No lawmaker has signed on to sponsor the bill, Dorinson said.

The Viejas Band of Mission Indians, an influential tribe that owns a casino in eastern San Diego County, is one of several in the region that opposes the plan.
"This proposal represents an unprecedented expansion of gambling and could have serious negative consequences," Viejas spokesman Robert Scheid said. "There are serious constitutional, financial, legal, regulatory and other questions that need to be addressed carefully and deliberately before this scheme goes any further."

Opponents and supporters met last week with representatives for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said Camille Anderson, a spokeswoman for the governor.

She said Schwarzenegger has not taken a position on the matter.

Cheryl Schmit, director of the gambling watchdog group Stand Up for California, said the Legislature has no authority to enact such a law. She said it would have to be approved by voters in a statewide ballot similar to the one that legalized gambling on tribal lands in 2000.

"It's ugly," Schmit said, referring to the proposal. "It just seems like Morongo is willing to sacrifice the monopoly it has, so that they can be the operating entity of Internet gambling in the state to the detriment of all the other tribes."

In 2006, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which prohibited banks and credit card companies from transferring money for Internet gambling, in effect banning online gambling.

However, the law left open the door for states to allow Internet gambling within the state's boundaries, according to a Legislative Analyst opinion related to a bill last year.

Last year, Assembly Bill 2026, by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, D-Los Angeles, asked state gambling regulators to study what regulations would be necessary to legalize Internet poker games. The bill was gutted in late August and the subject of the legislation was changed to outdoor advertising.

David Quintana, the legislative director for the California Tribal Business Alliance, an industry group that represents several gambling tribes, said allowing Internet poker in the state would violate the promise tribes made to state voters to keep gambling within Indian reservations.

The alliance is made up of seven California gambling tribes, including the Pala Band of Mission Indians and the Pauma Band of Mission Indians in North County.

Pala Chairman Robert Smith signed a letter on behalf of the alliance urging lawmakers to oppose legalizing Internet poker in part because "other casino-style games will follow."

Quintana said he believes that a draft of the bill being circulated among Indian tribes would allow poker machines to be set up anywhere in the state.

"This opens up gambling anywhere," Quintana said. "There's no tie to Indian land, and that's not what we promised voters in the state of California."

Dorinson disagreed.

"It's important to note that this is not brick and mortar," he said. "This is not building new casinos." (Credit: North County Times)

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Friday, August 14, 2009

PartyCasino.com Releases New Games And More Hollywood Blockbuster Slots

The world's biggest and most popular online Casino, PartyCasino.com has released yet more games, with more Hollywood blockbuster slots on the way.

New games include Bejeweled, Gold Of The Gods, King Tiger, Legend of Zeus, Monster Money, Paradise Riches, Silver City and The Last King Of Egypt.

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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

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Macau casino mogul Ho in hospital - 4th August 2009

HONG KONG -- Casino mogul Stanley Ho, the father of Macau's fabled gambling industry, has been hospitalized in Hong Kong, local newspapers reported Tuesday.

The reports said the 87-year-old billionaire had been admitted to Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, but it was not immediately known what he was being treated for.

Pictures from Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper showed a stream of Ho's family members, including daughter Pansy and son Lawrence, visiting the hospital Monday. None of them commented on Ho's health.

Ming Pao Daily cited Angela Leong, one of the four women Ho calls his "wives," as saying last week that he needed treatment because of a rectal injury that he suffered two years ago following a procedure to relieve constipation.

Ho has faced fierce competition from American operators such as Wynn Resorts Ltd and Las Vegas Sands Corp, but his company, SJM Holdings, still leads with nearly 30 percent of the local gambling market.

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Monday, August 03, 2009

Brazil busts US casino prostitute ring - Agence France-Presse - 2nd August 2009

Nine Brazilians and three US citizens have been arrested on charges of sending at least 200 Brazilian prostitutes to Las Vegas casinos, Dominican Republic resorts and to France.

The 12 suspects were arrested on Friday as part of a six-month international operation dubbed "Harem," the head of the federal police in Sao Paulo state, Leandro Daiello Coimbra, said.

US and Dominican Republic law enforcement officials and Interpol were involved in the bust.

The nine Brazilians and one of the US citizens were arrested in Brazil, in raids in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba. The other two Americans were arrested in the United States.

The gang, based in Sao Paulo, recruited Brazilian women, many of whom already worked as prostitutes, for work abroad as luxury sex workers, officers said.

The activity generated about $US8 million ($9.7 million) a month.

Ten bank accounts suspected of receiving the funds from the women, who earned about $US40,000 ($48,500) a month, were frozen.

The 12 suspects risk up to eight years in prison for organising prostitution, deriving earnings from prostitution, human trafficking and belonging to a criminal enterprise.

Another three suspects were being sought in the Dominican Republic and in France. (Credit: Agence France-Presse)

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