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 […]
Gambling site for low-budget punters
Thailand: An online casino has caught on with Thai teens on shoestring budgets.The website - www.holiday-palace.com - sounds like the name of a popular casino in the Cambodian border town of Poipet, across from Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district.
A member of the site from Chiang Mai said that the virtual casino offered three kinds of games […]
A Poker Maverick Hits the Jackpot
As Ms Verberne steps off the plane and into the sweltering heat of the Mojave Desert mid-way through next month, she will carry with her the hopes and prayers of about 50 other Tamarindo Poker players.
And in some cases an equal amount of envy and regret liberally sprinkled with the gnashing of teeth and the […]
Costa Rica: Casinos to Face Tough New Government Regulations
The government has issued a series of new guidelines designed to curtail the operation of casinos in the country.
Four executive decrees, signed by President Oscar Arias, actively seek to discourage casinos, particularly in hotels, and are the result of 12 months work by a committee made up of representatives from the Ministries of Health, Justice […]
Caribbean region: Antigua-based casino backs space flight attempt
Antigua-based casino GoldenPalace.com has sponsored a Canadian group of rocketeers, hoping that the da Vinci Project’s Wild Fire rocket can capture the Ansari X US$10 million prize for the first private space flight in competition with the Paul Allen-backed SpaceShipOne team’s X Prize.
According to Tax-News, leader of the da Vinci Project - and its designated […]
Casinos legalised
PAPUA New Guinea has legalised casinos and other online forms of gambling in the country.
The last session of Parliament yesterday voted 61-0 in favour of the Gaming Control Bill Act 2007, introduced by Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare.
The Prime Minister said the new Act aims to make further provisions with the specific objective of bringing […]