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British bingo tax cut: too little, too late?
Published:  08 February, 2010

British bingo operators have won some reprieve from planned tax increases, but venue closures are still feared. In April, the government had proposed to increase the gross profit tax from 15 percent to 22 percent – an unexpected move that led to a demonstration at the Houses of Parliament in London under the banner of the I’m Backing Bingo pressure group.

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Two more hotel towers for Vegas
Published:  08 February, 2010

Two Las Vegas casinos have opened new hotel towers despite what some see as an over-supply of rooms in the gaming capital.

Planet Hollywood Resort has 1201 rooms in its new PH Towers – about 200 of them marketed as timeshares for extended visits – while the HRH Tower at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino has 374 rooms, intended to offer a boutique option to older, premium customers.

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Casinos Austria gears up for international growth
Published:  08 February, 2010

Casinos Austria has reshuffled top management as it prepares to implement international expansion plans approved last month by the group’s board.

Josef Leutgeb, previously Financial Director, and Paul Herzfeld, currently Deputy Director General, are leaving their posts to focus on international development. Leutgeb has already stepped down from his finance role; Herzfeld will vacate his position in the middle of the year.

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Genting opens doors at Singapore resort
Published:  08 February, 2010

Genting is this month opening the first phase of its $4.4bn Resorts World Sentosa development in Singapore.

The complex debuts with 1350 rooms and ten restaurants across the Hard Rock Hotel, Hotel Michael and Crockfords Tower, as well as the Festive Hotel, which – unusually for a casino resort – is designed specifically for families with children.

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Gioia offers online Poker with real decks of cards
Published:  08 February, 2010

Online gamers can play Poker with real cards – kind of – after a deal between Gioia International and Red Planet Gaming.

The RealDealPoker.com Website, run on a Red Planet platform, will use Gioia’s new Cut N’ Shuffle dealing system when it launches in February.

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Pennsylvania table game law is bad news for Atlantic City
Published:  08 February, 2010

The arrival of table games in Pennsylvania’s casinos is likely to bring smiles to cash-strapped state authorities and woes to already beleaguered Atlantic City.

A law recently ratified by Governor Ed Rendell allowing casinos, currently slots-only, to offer table games too will help to balance Pennsylvania’s budget by adding to its annual casino tax revenue, currently just over $1bn.

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eCogra to investigate affiliates’ claims over Grand Privé payments
Published:  08 February, 2010

Online casino group Grand Privé has enlisted eCogra to investigate claims that it betrayed affiliates when it cancelled its affiliate-marketing programme in December 2008.

Internet forums have bubbled with resentment at Grand Privé apparently expressed by former affiliates, making claims such as “the casino group will continue to profit while tossing hundreds if not thousands of Webmasters into the cold”.

 

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