US playing card producer Gemaco is preparing to open two factories in Macau, its first overseas manufacturing outpost.
Gemaco is a top supplier of playing cards and felt gaming table tops to the Sands Macau casino.
The Sands is the world's largest consumer of cards, thanks to the popularity of baccarat in the territory since cards have to be discarded after each hand because of Chinese players' habit of bending dealt cards to peek at the faces.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Harrah's Entertainment Inc. has suspended the operations of an online gambling site based in the United Kingdom after posting losses of $9.3 million last year.
The move marks the second time a major Las Vegas casino company has tried and failed to tap into the lucrative Internet gambling market.
The former site, called LuckyMe, was introduced in November 2003 for British bettors and was suspended in October 2004, the company disclosed Tuesday in its annual report to shareholders.
It's only four weeks before a group planning to bring a $107 million gambling facility and golf course to Riverside gets to roll the dice before state regulators.
They won't know until May if their proposal comes up snake eyes -- in craps, that's bad -- but March 22-23 will be an important show-and-tell for the proposed Riverside Casino and Golf Resort and nine other applicants hoping to be licensed.
The Ontario government, spurred on by competition from the Detroit casinos, announced plans for a $400 million expansion and renovation of Casino Windsor.
expansion -- $324 million in U.S. dollars at Monday's exchange rate -- includes a 400-room hotel tower, a 5,000-seat theater and 100,000 square feet of convention space. It is intended to snare more tourism and business conventions.
The project will take three years to complete.
Groundbreaking is expected this summer.
One Shelby County leader feels like rolling the dice and taking a gamble on the Tomb of Doom.
County Commissioner John Willingham says a giant casino at the Pyramid could generate 130-million dollars per year.
This morning, he's calling on your help to convince other Mid-South politicians.
Petitions have been printed and he hopes to collect 200-thousand signatures.
A proposed gambling resort about five miles south of Arkansas City would include a casino, hotel and golf course and expects to draw much of its business from southern Kansas.
The Pawnee Nation plans to build the resort on 800 acres adjoining the old Chilocco Indian School.
The casino site is south of the school's vacant buildings and the resort would be visible from U.S. 77, said Roger Foster, the tribe's development corporation manager.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced a bill on Monday to slow a California Indian tribe's bid to open a casino near San Francisco, a controversial plan backed by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Schwarzenegger last year approved a plan by the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians to build a 2,500 slot machine casino in San Pablo, California, across San Francisco Bay from San Francisco, in exchange for the tribe's agreeing to share its gambling revenue with the state's cash-strapped government.
Local firm may share in contract to operate state's slot machine system.
A Uniontown company is placing its bet on becoming part of the gaming industry in Pennsylvania.
The prize could be more than $35 million in revenues over the next four years and initial creation of 140 to 150 high-paying professional jobs.
NuRelm Inc., a Uniontown-based Internet-technology firm, is partnering with Swedish EssNet Interactive AB to win the contract to provide computer servers and software powering Pennsylvania's slot machines.
People who want to do more than just read about CEOs getting booted now can try and cash in on the next executive suite ejection.
Online site Betfair this month introduced wagering on the fates of CEOs of nine troubled companies. While this might have you reaching for your credit card with plans to bet on who will be the next to suffer the fate of someone like Franklin Raines of Fannie Mae, put your wallet away. The betting is only on CEOs of Canadian companies, and it's not open to U.S. gamblers.
A booming casino industry, a lack of attractive restaurant merger targets and $400 million in cash has Landry's Restaurants prowling the Las Vegas Strip in search of its next acquisition.
The company hasn't formally announced plans to get into gaming, but Landry's Chief Executive Officer Tilman Fertitta has made no secret of his interest.
