SINGAPORE - Some foreign workers are being sent to gamble at the Resorts World Sentosa casino on behalf of their employers.The Straits Times reported today that some employers hand their workers cash, notebooks and mobile phones and dispatch them to the casino. Dressed in company polo T-shirts and jeans, these ‘proxy gamblers’ try their hands at [...]
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Bosses send foreign workers to gamble
Monday, November 7th, 2011World Series of Poker 3 will play for $8.72M in Las Vegas
Monday, November 7th, 2011US – Three card professionals from Germany, the Czech Republic and Las Vegas will finish a marathon battle for $8.72 million after battling through a gauntlet on Sunday at the final table of the World Series of Poker main event. Washington Post.
Russia shuts down 4,000 illegal casinos
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011RUSSIA – As part of a crackdown on illegal casinos, Russian authorities have closed down about 4,000 illegal casinos and over 25,000 gambling parlours, RIA Novosti reported. Times of India.
Macau’s youth flock to gambling school
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011MACAU — In a big, garishly decorated room, dealers deftly lay out cards for baccarat while an eager crowd watches a roulette wheel spin. But the money changing hands is fake, while the punters are scribbling down notes on casino mathematics, because this isn’t a casino but a classroom. Thousands of students aged from 18 [...]
Bill would require casinos to mail financial statements to players
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011US - Would compulsive slots players quit throwing cash away in a casino if the casino mailed monthly statements showing how much they lost there? Bill Kearney, a former gambling addict, says common sense dictates that seeing the financial records in black and white would have an impact. The Philadelphian has spent years on a one-man [...]
Casino trumps anti-gambling laws by replacing humans with robots
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011US - New York’s first casino has opened to a frenzied crowd after successfully side-stepping gambling laws – by staffing its tables with robots. The Aqueduct racino – so called because it is connected with the race track in South Ozone Park, Queens – has done away with human dealers in favour of mechanical arms. Daily [...]
Florida battles over worlds largest casino
Sunday, October 30th, 2011US - The stakes are high in Miami where the world’s biggest casino – to eclipse the gaming floors of Las Vegas’ top six gambling dens combined – could soon be built. The battle lines are being drawn. On one side is the Florida Chamber of Commerce and the powerful Walt Disney Company, which strenuously advances [...]
New York’s first casino opens in Queens
Friday, October 28th, 2011US - The new Resorts World casino opening Friday, with its flashing multicolored ceiling lights, electronic baccarat tables presided over by robotic dealers and a fake twinkling night sky created from satellite images of the sky over 42nd Street, seeks to offer a Las Vegas interpretation of Times Square. But the casino’s main innovation is that [...]
Ban on clubs using cash to lure patrons
Monday, October 24th, 2011AUSTRALIA - Hundreds of NSW clubs will be banned from giving cash prizes in late-night raffles after the minister responsible for gaming said they might be illegal. The Minister for Tourism and Hospitality, George Souris, said he would legislate if necessary to stop clubs raffling cash after 10pm after the Herald revealed that St Johns Park [...]
Only five people banned from Queensland casinos in 2010
Monday, October 17th, 2011AUSTRALIA - There were almost nine million visits to Queensland casinos last year and hundreds of millions of dollars lost, but just five people were judged to have enough of a gambling problem to be banned by operators. Casinos can exclude problem gamblers but The Courier-Mail reveals it is almost never exercised.
