Archives for May 2008
Oasis Casino: gambling succeeds where peace fails
The drive from Jerusalem down to Jericho is not more than 25 minutes but it feels as if one is traveling to a totally different country.
The newly-opened Oasis Casino stands just opposite the Palestinian refugee camp of Aqabat Jaber. But on the map that details the route to the casino, the camp simply disappeared.
The first […]
Israel bans casino ads
An Israeli court ruled that advertisement of casinos in Israel is prohibited, even if the casinos are located outside Israel, Israel News Wire reported. The ruling came in response to a request to place an ad for an Egyptian casino in an Israeli airport, the report said.
Bettor Wins $1.3 Million; Net casino Won’t Pay
In the highest-stakes dispute of its kind in the short history of Internet gambling, an American bettor and a Costa Rica-based Internet casino are engaged in a running battle over $1.3 million that the player says he won fair and square and the house claims was amassed using a banned “robot” software program.
The big-money feud […]
Grand casino work starts
MACAO: MGM Grand Paradise Ltd, a joint venture between Macao casino-owner Pansy Ho and world gambling giant MGM Mirage, yesterday launched the construction of MGM Grand Macao, a grand casino resort.
The MGM Grand Macao, a 600-room, 28-floor hotel set to open in the later part of 2007, occupies a prime waterfront site in the SAR’s […]
Star’s kidney stone on sale
UNITED STATES: Going where no actor has gone before, “Star Trek” star William Shatner has sold a piece of his body for charity.
Shatner, famed for playing Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship USS Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series, sold his kidney stone to online casino GoldenPalace.Com for US$25,000. The money […]
Cyber Bookie Billionaire Faces Raid By Costa Rican Police
What are the odds? If anyone would know, it would surely be Calvin Ayre.
Yesterday morning, the news of Calvin Ayre, the lad from Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, who is today Canada’s newest billionaire and cover boy at Forbes, the U.S.- based magazine that keeps the world’s scorecard on the rich, made the print and online press in […]
Woman, 84, wins $10 mln on slot machine
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - For 84-year-old Josephine Crawford, the golden years just got a lot more golden. About to call it quits after a night playing slot machines, the Galloway Township widow hit a $10 million jackpot late Tuesday, the biggest in the history of casino gambling here.
The retired waitress knew when the nickel […]
T&T: Casino robbery suspect nabbed outside court
Police arrested the third suspect in the $100,000 Club Monte Carlo robbery, when he stepped out of San Fernando First Magistrate’s Court after appearing on a pending kidnapping charge.
Alert Mon Repos policemen held the 27-year-old suspect and handcuffed him outside the court in full view of relatives and members of the public.
“What robbery? What are […]
Moscow Casino Ban Forces Storm to Open in Costa Rica
Storm International, Russia’s largest casino company, will open gambling venues in Costa Rica and Armenia this year and may abandon its home market because of restrictions, Chief Executive Officer Michael Boettcher said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is forcing casinos out of Moscow and St. Petersburg to reduce gambling, exiling them to four regions outside the two […]
Sino-US gaming project to hire 5,000 in Macao
MGM Grand Paradise, a Macao-U.S. jointly invested gaming business, has vowed to hire some 5,000 employees, local media reported Thursday.
Macao Post Daily quoted sources from the enterprise as saying that the under-construction gaming resort is to start the hiring plan later this year.
MGM Grand Paradise was co-invested by MGM Mirage, an U.S. gaming giant, and […]