Movie star George Clooney has promised to give a quarter of the profits from his glitzy Las Vegas casino The Ramblas to charity.
"Ocean's Eleven" star George Clooney is teaming with Cindy Crawford's husband, Rande Gerber, and possibly Brad Pitt to build a $3 billion hotel-casino-condo resort called Las Ramblas they hope will restore some of the Old Vegas glamour of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack.
The Evening Times published that Former Celtic player Tony Cascarino is hoping to scoop a fortune at his new career - playing professional poker. And the big striker, a record signing for the Hoops back in the 1990s, is backing plans to build a super casino at Ibrox.Cascarino jetted off to the sun-kissed island of St Kitts with Scotland's only sponsored poker professional, Greenock's Tony Chessa.
The UK Casinos 2005 report provides 2004 year-end market data, with 2005 estimates and five-year forecasts. The report gives an instant overview of the UK casino market, and covers American roulette, blackjack, punto banco, electronic roulette, casino stud poker, three card poker and craps.Market value is based on the total amount of money exchanged for gaming chips in casinos. Market volume is based on the number of casinos.
In one of the highest legitimate bids in eBay history, a collection of Nevada casino chips and tokens - some from the felt tables of Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Frank Sinatra's Cal Neva and Harrah's Lake Tahoe - has received an opening offer of $1 million.
The gavel is slated to come down on the auction today at 3 p.m. Its owner, a private Denver businessman who assembled the collection over decades, anticipates a heated bidding war in the auction's closing moments.
Ladbrokes is set to unveil plans for a massive overseas expansion that will see it open betting shops outside Europe for the first time, The Scotsman has learnt.The bookies chain - part of the Hilton Group - is in talks with a string of international governments keen to follow the UK's lead on gambling regulation. The aim is to set up joint ventures with local companies in overseas markets, and open shops under the Ladbrokes brand name.
Dazzling lights, an Eiffel Tower of its own and the constant "ker-ching" of slot machines make Blackpool Britain's answer to Las Vegas.But unlike the booming extravagant resort in the Nevada desert, Blackpool is fading fast, and the seaside town is gambling on a Vegas-style super-casino makeover to save it.The brash northwest English resort was a magnet for Britons from 19th century Victorian times
Mariah Carey won $27,000 at a poker game in Las Vegas last Friday. Carey, 35, invited at producer Jermaine Dupri's birthday party at the opening of the Tao restaurant from Venetian Hotel, visited a nearby casino to play some poker.
The Diva, who won $27,000 after just three rounds of the game, confessed she's not a poker player, so the winning was not on account of her skills.
"I used to play poker with my sister. But I think my low-cut dress put some of the guys off."
Isle of Capri, the American gaming corporation hoping to open the UK's first supercasino in Coventry, enjoys a reputation for promoting what it calls the socially-responsible side of gambling.
Punters showing signs of losing more than they can easily afford on a regular basis are shown the door and advised to seek counselling, according to Allan Solomon, the group ' s executive vice-president.
Three people accused of using hidden cameras and ear-pieces to cheat in poker, have been arrested on suspicion of trying to defraud a casino.
Police said it was believed to be the first time suspects had been arrested in the UK for using equipment to cheat.
It was believed the three had been in at least six London casinos where they are alleged to have illegally netted more than £250,000.
A woman described as a typical "soccer mom" surrendered to the FBI in Las Vegas today to face charges she stole $3.1 million from a Las Vegas casino in 1993.Heather Catherine Tallchief worked as a maid at an Amsterdam hotel and raised her son while on the run.She was on the FBI's most wanted list, along with co-defendant Robert Solis, 60, a convicted bank robber and murderer, who remains at large.
