Belfast, Northern Ireland            BBC.co.uk
Poker players to get seized cash
PSNI try to hold on to poker cash

The Cavendish Club in Belfast was raided by Police on the 29th January. A judge has subsequently ruled that some £23,000 seized should be returned to players. The club remains closed.

www.thecavendishclub.com
Belfast's Cavendish Club Raided by Police - Hendon Mob Forum

Las Vegas            Yahoo/Business Wire
Station Casinos Announces Record Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Results
www.stationcasinos.com
www.redrocklasvegas.com

Las Vegas            Yahoo/PRNewswire
Boyd Gaming Opens New Blue Chip Casino - New Enlarged Casino Caps $170 Million Expansion Program
www.boydgaming.com

Michigan City, Indiana            Yahoo/PRNewswire
Blue Chip Casino Hotel Launches New Vessel Built for the Ultimate Gaming Experience
www.bluechip-casino.com

Las Vegas            Yahoo/PRNewswire
Bally Gaming and Systems Announces ALPHA OS(TM) Platform Breakthrough

Michigan City, Indiana            WNDU.com
Blue Chip Casino christens new boat
www.bluechip-casino.com
www.boydgaming.com

Indian Gaming - Miami, Oklahoma            The Joplin Globe
Miami bets on casinos - Rapid growth,new gambling spur declining jobless rate
www.buffalorun.com

Armenia            A1plus.ar
Winning games and casinos are not profitable for the state budget

Gamingfloor's first ever link to a news story from Armenia !

Port Elizabeth, South Africa            News24.com
Top detective's home seized - Gambling in casinos with dye stained notes.

Ontario, Canada            Canoe/CP
Ontario's smoking ban could burn as much as $500M in gaming revenues: report
www.mychoice.ca

Czech Republic            Czech Business Weekly
Gambling shops bet on Olympics

There are 5 major betting agencies serving the Czech market - Tipsport, Fortuna, Chance, Sazka and Synot Tip.

Sydney & Melbourne            News.com.au & Melbourne Age
Casino to hold Packer minute silence
Casino to honour Packer with silent bet

A memorial service will be held for Kerry Packer at the Sydney Opera House on the 17th February. There will also be a voluntary 1 minute silence at the Crown and Burswood Casinos.

 

Additional headlines... Rich freeze their assets for chance to live again - www.alcor.org PartyGaming slides under shadow of new regulation Poker turns homes into minicasinos - Florida Ex-'Borgata Babes' sue former employer - Ker-Ching !

Blackpool            Blackpool Today
Gamblers flee blaze at casino - Grosvenor Casino in the Sandcastle complex.

Los Angeles            Yahoo/PRNewswire
WPT Enterprises, Inc. and the Travel Channel Reach Agreement on Professional Poker Tour(TM)
www.worldpokertour.com

Atlantic City            Yahoo/Market Wire
Round One at Borgata Winter Poker Open Is a Knockout

Tinian, CNMI            PIDC & Channel News Asia/AFP
Tinian agrees to casino land swop
Second casino planned for western Pacific island
www.tinian-dynasty.jp
www.tinian-dynasty.com.cn

Blackpool            The Independent & Guardian
Gaming academy to train future croupiers
College bets on casino degree
Blackpool and The Fylde College - Regional Gaming Academy

Yarmouth            EDP24.co.uk
Yarmouth to benefit from casino rethink

Scotland & Blackpool            The Scotsman
Blackpool 'singled out' for super-casino site
www.culture.gov.uk/cap/

Biloxi, Mississippi            Yahoo/PRNewswire
Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. Corporate Headquarters to Relocate to Creve Coeur, Missouri
www.islecorp.com
Creve Coeur Corporate Center

Toronto            Yahoo/PRNewswire
Fairmont Announces Agreement To Be Acquired By Kingdom Hotels And Colony Capital

Toronto            Bloomberg & MSNBC/FT.com
Colony Capital, Group May Acquire Fairmont Hotels, Person Says
Fairmont in advanced talks for $4bn sale
www.fairmont.com
www.colonyinc.com
 
 

Additional headlines... Gambling services firm E-Success files plan for initial stock offering Illegal gambling a drawing card - Long Island New York. Pokies ruined my life - Brisbane. L.V. Advisor: Question of the Day - Gamblers Book Club L.V.

Selected ADD URL's... www.igorka.ru - Comprehensive Russian gaming & trade information. www.contentgamblingPL.com - Consumer gambling information. Gayle Mitchell. www.casinocardroommanager.com - Exibited at ICE. Orders from U.K. Op's. www.unlimitedgroup.co.yu - ATEST-ing. Belgrade, Yugoslavia based testing lab.

Moscow            Kommersant - 20th January
Better Hide the One-Armed Bandit - The Mayor's Office offers its own plan to fight gambling

Deputy Mayor of Moscow Iosif Ordzhonikidze's plan to remove thousands of slots from the streets of the city and to double slot taxes to 15,000 rubles per-month.

London            FT.com
High rollers trade their tuxedos for trainers and jeans

A look at declining dress standards in London's casinos.

Pennsylvania            Las Vegas Review-Journal - Howard Sturtz
Keystone aspirationsRoads to Pittsburgh cross through Las Vegas

Las Vegas            Las Vegas Sun - Hal Rothman
Wondering how much is too much to pay to see your name in neon lights across the Las Vegas skyline

Las Vegas            Las Vegas Sun - Jeff Simpson
On Michael Gaughan's straight talk about start-up glitches at his South Coast casino
www.southcoastcasino.com

Las Vegas            Las Vegas Business Press - Dave McKee
How long will old resorts last ?
Riviera Holdings stock sale befuddles analysts
Las Vegas needs to tread carefully - David G. Schwartz

Auckland, New Zealand            New Zealand Herald
Auckland's big gamble, 10 years on
www.skycity.co.nz

Tucson, Arizona            Tucson Citizen
Az's gaming tribes cough up $161.3M for state since Prop. 202

Nova Scotia, Canada            Canoe/CP
N.S. Gaming Corp. launches campaign to warn young adults about gambling
www.friends4friends.ns.ca

Atlantic City            Globe & Mail
Atlantic City's youth movement
www.atlanticcitynj.com

Blackpool            BBC Lancashire
College gambles on casino classes

Manchester            N.E. Manchester Advertiser - 27th January
Super-casino will reduce gambling problem - claim

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania            The Times Leader
Student accused of bank robbery enters gambling treatment program
 
 

Additional headlines... Dosvidania and good riddance - Moscow's Hotel Rossiya. L.V. Advisor: Question of the Day - Chinese New Year $8 Comemorative Chips. 14 arrested in Las Vegas street fight

Tunica, Mississippi            WSOP - Press release (PDF)
2006 World Series of Poker Circuit - Grand Casino-Resort – Tunica, Mississippi

Las Vegas            Yahoo/Business Wire
Progressive Gaming and Gaming Partners International Team up to Provide 13.56 MHz RFID Chip Technology
www.progressivegaming.net
www.gpigaming.com

 Wellington, New Zealand            Stuff.co.uk
No dice to casino in Wellington

Las Vegas            In Business Las Vegas - Liz Benston
Law does little to slow neighborhood casinos

Lisbon, Portugal            Euro Weekly News
New casino to open

The new Lisbon Casino is scheduled to open on the 19th April at the former Future pavilion in the Nations Park.

www.casino-estoril.pt
 
 

Additional headlines... Co-owner, 6 dealers plead guilty, fined on gambling charges - Maryland Six Arrested In Poker Game - Long Island Woman Loses $20,000 In Jamaican Lottery Scam

Liverpool & Southend            Labournet.net/GMB Union
Stanley Casinos and union rights

Carson City, Nevada            Las Vegas Review-Journal
Mobile gaming studied  - Officials writing rules for portable wagering devices 

Mexico & Poway, California            Yahoo/Business Wire
NAFTA Tribunal Rejects Thunderbird's Claims Against Mexico
www.thunderbirdresorts.com

London            UK-Wire.com
The Rank Group Plc - Ian Burke to succeed Mike Smith as Chief Executive
www.rank.com

London            Yahoo UK/Reuters & BBC.co.uk
PartyGaming signs record new players
Betting boom boosts Partygaming
www.partygaming.com

London            Part Gaming - Press release (PDF)
PartyGaming Plc - Fourth Quarter Key Performance Indicators

Liverpool & Nottingham            UK-Wire.com & The Scotsman/Reuters
STANLEY LEISURE PLC - Award of Nottingham licence
Stanley Leisure says opening Nottingham casino

Las Vegas            San Francisco Chronicle/AP
Developer Plans $4B Vegas Sports Resort
www.ultimatesportsresort.com
 

Southend & Bristol          GMB Union
GMB Concerned For Casino Staff At Stanley’s Group New Acquisitions In Bristol And Southend

Chester, West Virginia        Yahoo/Business Wire
MTR Gaming Group's Special Committee Rejects $9.50 Per Share Management-Led Acquisition Proposal
www.mtrgaming.com

Macau         PRNewswire
In Time for Chinese New Year, Sands Macao Opens New 'Level of Fortune' Gaming Area

The 10,000 sq ft "Level of Fortune" will have 28 tables and 67 slot machines. The total number of tables and slots at Sands Macau increases to 438 and 921 respectively.

www.sandsmacau.com

Liverpool         icLiverpool/Liverpool Daily Post & The Times Online
Stanley stakes £30m on three new casinos
Liberal gambling boosts Stanley Leisure

New Zealand         New Zealand Herald
Smoking ban brings drop in gambling
 

Poker            PokerNews.com
WPT adds Mandalay Bay, subtracts PartyPoker and UltimateBet

Las Vegas            Las Vegas Sun - Liz Benston
Casinos open arms for Asians with open wallets - Chinese New Year

Las Vegas            Yahoo/PRNewswire
Ameristar Casinos Reports Fourth Consecutive Year of Growth in Earnings
www.ameristar.com

Liverpool, Southend & Bristol            UK-Wire.com
STANLEY LEISURE PLC - Agreement to acquire three casinos
www.westcliffcasino.co.uk
www.spielers.co.uk
www.trianglecasino.co.uk

Liverpool            UK-Wire.com
STANLEY LEISURE PLC Interim Results - 'Maximising Deregulation Opportunities'
www.stanleyleisure.com
 

Trenton, New Jersey          The Mercury News/AP
Trump sues writer, publisher for allegedly understating wealth
TrumpNation : The Art of Being The Donald - Amazon.com link

Las Vegas & Macau         Yahoo/PRNewswire
Bally Gaming and Systems Announces Galaxy Contract for MP Intelligent Tables; Bally TMS(TM) to Provide 257 Baccarat Units
www.ballysystems.com/sds/mindplay_products1.asp
www.galaxyresorts.com

Blackpool          Blackpool Today
Odds on for winning future in the casinos
Regional Gaming Academy
 

Indiana            N.W. Indiana Times
Blue Chip sets Jan. 31 opening for new vessel

Sydney            Yahoo/PRNewswire
Aristocrat Leisure Limited Announces Distribution Agreement With PokerTek to Place PokerPro(TM) Electronic Poker Table in Casinos Throughout the World
www.aristocratgaming.com
www.pokertek.com

Birmingham            icBirmingham
Cities unite to fight for 8 casino licences

London            GMB Union - Press release
GMB calls for lifetime ban for threatening behaviour towards staff

The Philippines            Philippine Daily Inquirer
DoT: Casinos to attract more Indian tourists

Hungary            Budapest Business Journal
Major casino tender announced

Macau            International Herald Tribune
In Macao, developers look to property as a sure bet

Connecticut            The Hartford Courant
Measuring Gambling's Impact

Emmetsburg, Iowa            Sioux City Journal
Thousands line up for casino jobs
www.wildroseresorts.com - Wild Rose Casino & Resort

Atlantic City            The Press of Atlantic City
A Firm Bet on Trump

Morgan Stanley's 20% investment in Trump Entertainment Resorts.

Mexico            Mexidata.info - 20th January
Mexican Congress to Question Gaming Officials

Las Vegas            Las Vegas Sun - Liz Benston
Ferris wheel puts a spin on New Frontier
www.frontierlv.com

Las Vegas            Las Vegas Sun - Jeff Simpson
On why, in Las Vegas, parking can be a not-so-sweet sorrow

South Australia            The Advertiser
Machines go but pokies still profit

Budapest            Interfax News Agency - 20th January
Hungary's Finance Ministry announces tender for concession to run casinos

The Hungarian Finance Ministry has announced a tender for a 20-year concession to operate up to five casinos. The region chosen is Gyor-Moson-Sopron which is located on Hungary's north-west borders with Austria & Slovakia.

www.biega.com/hungary.jpg
www.meh.hu
www.ellisgaming.com

Hong Kong & Macau            ET Net News
Ho pledges preferential deals for Shun Tak: report
www.shuntakgroup.com
www.melco.hk.cn

London            The Sunday Times
City’s richest man lines up £800m flotation
www.cmcmarkets.co.uk/eng/spreadbet/home.jsp

Mpumalanga            iAfrica.com/SAPA
Four hurt as armed gang rob casino

Miami & Washington            Miami Herald
How SunCruz scandal mushroomed

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania            Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Casino plan with Penguins is Isle of Capri's biggest bet
www.islecorp.com
www.pittsburghpenguins.com