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Cumbria casino on the cards
A businessman in Barrow is hoping to transform a boat moored
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on the Town Quay into a casino. Already running a poker
championship in the town, Rick Lucas wants to turn the middle
deck of the Princess Selandia pleasure ship into a gaming floor
and has already enlisted the help of an established operator.
The boat’s lower deck hosts the Blue Lagoon nightclub, which
EUROPE WEST is only open at weekends and can accommodate more than
2,000 clubbers.
Les Ambassadeurs
to launch Red Room
Times are tough at the top end of the London market where one of the most exclusive
casino clubs is hoping to tap into new revenue streams and attract a new segment of
clientele: that of London’s glitteratzi. Phil Martin reports.
rolloutthered Morgan Clarke-Ward, interna- businesses in the world.’ historic building in the best
UNITED KINGDOM tional guest singers, and one The opening night of The location in London, and this
of the coolest DJs in the busi- Red Room will be a celebrity can only be good news for
Les Ambassadeurs, one of ness TK, who will all be part and VIP party supporting The the London economy.”
Mayfair’s most exclusive of The Red Room experience. Cinema and Television Benev- The venue, which was
venues, is to launch a new The £1m project is part of olent Fund. bought for £115m in 2006 by
Model and TV Presenter Tamara Ecclestone, the daughter of
Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, joins The Red Room girls
boutique nightclub called the a wider renovation of the Goodenough said: “When Indonesian tobacco billion-
at a photo call in Central London to announce a celebrity/VIP
Red Room where hostesses venue and is designed to it is unveiled on November aire Putera Sampoerna,
fundraising event in aid of The Cinema and Television
called the Red Room Girls bring greater stability to the 2nd, The Red Room will bring already boasts the capital’s Benevolent Fund.
will attend to guests. business’s balance sheets. back an entertainment venue only el fresco gaming room
The £1,000-per-year CEO Alan Goodenough, concept to the London casino for the smokers in its clien- Goodenough said that the affected the number of
private members’ club wants who oversees Les A, said the market. A key feature of the tele. It hopes that the Red high end of the London Middle Eastern players, who
to bring back an entertain- venue was hoping to earn new members club will be its Room will attract new gaming market is competing along with customers from
ment concept to the London ‘consistent income streams, stylised cocktail waitresses, members to the casino. with destinations such as Las the Far East account for about
casino market, not seen since from memberships and wearing the iconic Red Room It will certainly be well Vegas, Monte Carlo and 30 per cent of players in the
the Playboy Club on Park Lane running functions’ and uniform, designed by leading geared up to cater for celebri- Macau for high rollers and capital. The big hope is that
was closed down in 1981. The wanted to reinforce Les designer Wendy Olver. ties and has enlisted the serv- that the search for new with no domestic market to
club will feature live music Ambassadeurs’ position as “I am looking to create a ices of Barbara Hague, who players has never been so play in, Russian businessmen
on a nightly basis with ‘one of the most famous contemporary casino enter- trained the Playboy Club’s important or so competitive. may be more likely to play
acclaimed resident pianist, gaming and entertainment tainment offering within an Bunny girls of the 1960s. Falling oil prices have when in business in London.
Rank to open Coventry’s G Casino
gforce Casinos, said: “In recent managing the Coventry Coventry’s G Casino, Paul
UNITED KINGDOM years we have successfully operation since April, the G Davies, said: “We are proud
broadened the appeal of Casino is to be re- to have opened the G
The end of October will our business through the launched at the end of Casino at the Ricoh Arena
see Rank open its latest G development of the G October with a 1980s and the £1.6m investment
Casino having spent Casino brand, offering nostalgia night Back to the underlines our commitment
£1.6m renovating the customers a grown-up Future. Over 1,000 VIP to making this a big
property at Coventry’s leisure experience based guests have been invited success. We have been
Ricoh Arena which it on entertainment, gaming, for the occasion and large delighted with the welcome
bought off US operator fun and hospitality. I am games of Scalextric and that we have been given by
Isle of Capri in April. excited at the prospect of Connect 4 will be part of our customers and city
It will be the eighth G bringing G Casino to the entertainment. Tribute businesses and the official
Casino in Rank’s portfolio Coventry as part of the band So 80s will be playing re-launch is to let everyone
Barriere and Luminar
of 33 UK casinos. superb Ricoh Arena.” popular tracks from the know throughout the region
Phil Urban, managing Although Grosvenor times in the Lady G’s bar. that we have arrived at the
challenge
director of Grosvenor Casinos has been The general manager of Ricoh Arena.”
entertainment ruling
Grosvenor
thatsentertainment Magistrates rejected the
UNITED KINGDOM application last year on the
grounds that London Clubs
ban roulette
Waterimage Limited, a partner- International was already
ship between French hotel and meeting the demand at its Alea
casino group Lucien Barriere at Clarence Dock. Gala,
‘system’ after
and Luminar, the largest owner Grosvenor and London Clubs are
of nightclubs in the world, has all contesting the application.
not given up on their hope of Barrister Gerald Gouriet
£28,000 hit
turning the former Leeds night- QC, for Waterimage, is claim-
club Majestyk into a casino. ing, however, that whilst Alea
The group is appealing a had promised to provide
decision made last year by various entertainments his
magistrates to reject an appli- ‘stance is they didn’t.’
quidsin that he has spent years £28,000 I was taken to one Grosvenor’s director of cation for a gaming licence in “It’s a very important point
UNITED KINGDOM honing. side and told that I was security, John Butler, said in Leeds Crown Court. Waterim- and is central to the case,” he
The player said: “I’ve barred. I can’t believe it.” a letter: “You will be aware age wants to spend £14m trans- said. “Our response is that
Grosvenor Casino has never lost with my system Sambhi argued that if he that we are under no legal forming the venue into a Las they may be experienced at
banned a customer from and the casinos don’t like was cheating then it should obligation to give reasons Vegas-style cabaret and live operating casinos but they
every one of its venues after that.They don't want be a matter for the police fro excluding someone entertainment casino. have precious little experi-
he won £28,000 playing winners in their premises, but the casino said that was from our premises.” In what will be the last ence in offering late-night
roulette with his ‘no-lose’ just losers. I used to go into not the case. “The only con- Skeptics may believe that hearing of any kind under the entertainment.”
system at a venue in Birm- the casino every day and clusion,” he added, “is that I Balvinder is looking for pub- old Gaming Act of 1968, the He said that from the off
ingham. there was never a problem was banned because I was licity for a book he is pub- group claims that the casino Luminar had earlier decided it
Balvinder Sambhi took when I was losing thou- winning so much money. lishing on the secrets of his entertainment that it wants to wanted to ‘give their ageing
two months using what he sands of pounds. But after My system is not cheating. system, Sequential provide is not yet on offer in the customers a different sort of
claims is a secret system using my system to make It’s all about the maths.” Roulette: End Game. Yorkshire city. late-night experience.’
6 November 2009 • europewestnews
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