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Three year jail sentence for bent baccarat
Online Indian lottery operator Playwin is to build a 20,000 sq ft,
A Chinese woman involved in an AU$750,000 scam at
Rs 3,400-crore offshore casino which will be the biggest casino
the mini-baccarat table in Jupiters Casino’s high rollers’
Playwin to
operation in the state. The plan is to target Indian players who go
room on the Gold Coast has been sentenced to three
build Goa’s
to casinos in Nepal, Macau and Thailand as well as tourists who
years in jail. Wei Shan Liu and her co-accused Songtao
Zhao stole an extra card to deliberately lose while Liu and
biggest yet
come to India. Playwin director & CEO Amar Sinha said: “Every
state government should understand the fact that casinos will
the others would bet large amounts, up to $40,000, immensely contribute to the exchequer and the funds can be
against his hand. utilised for social as well as infrastructure projects.”
MGM Grand Macau
roars into business
Located on a prime
adding that MGM Grand Grand Macau is not going to
site on the Macau
Macau aims at high-end cus- be ‘just another beautiful
tomers and offer high-rolling property’, it will be a destina-
peninsula, MGM gaming experiences. tion of fun and excitement, a
Grand Macau is the
Ho said she was confident place where life and art are
latest stylish icon to
in the future of the casino celebrated.”
industry in the territory whose MGM Mirage will be
grace the Macau
gaming revenues of $US7.2bn delighted to have finally at
gaming industry. But
overtook the famous Las least sat down to dine on a
Vegas Strip last year. cake, where gaming revenues
how is it going to get
“MGM Mirage is the leader of $7.3bn last year overtook
its lion’s share of the
of the high-end market. We the famous Las Vegas Strip.
action and is there
feel that it’s easy for us to do But with so many competi-
the same here. We will con- tors already open, will the
enough to go round? tinue to work hard and reach slice of the action prove as
this goal,” she said. big as MGM is hoping?
lionsshare It has opened with 385 Terry Lanni, chairman and Lanni said he was not
CHINA table games, 890 slot CEO of MGM Mirage, added: worried that Macau was
machines and 16 private “We have long anticipated nearing casino saturation
The world’s second biggest gaming salons. this moment. It marks the point. “They have had that
casino operator MGM The hotel resort, standing beginning of a new era, both growth for a long period of
Mirage hit the world’s 35 storey’s and 154 meters for our company and for the time and I don’t see it fading
biggest casino destination in high and featuring 600 hotel Macau gaming market. We’ve any time soon,” he explained.
terms of GGR running on rooms including villas and been eager to demonstrate “I suspect that the market-
December 18 with the long suites, has a mission to the combined capabilities of place will sufficiently grow
awaited opening of the MGM develop and deliver an our partnership and this strik- to meet the demands of the
Grand Macau. enticing blend of entertain- ing resort is testament to ever-growing casino popula- derived from the customers Despite having only just
The opening of the ment in Macau. what we can achieve tion. I’ve been in this busi- from the coastal provinces opened, the project has
US$1.25bn resort casino, a Managing director of together. We are confident ness for 31 years and there of Guangdong, Guangxi, already secured funding for
50-50 joint venture between MGM Grand Macau, Pansy our efforts brought satisfac- isn’t a year has gone by that Fujian and Zhejiang its second-phase expansion.
MGM Mirage and Pansy Ho, Ho, said that the new hotel tion to our many guests who people are saying: aren’t you Lanni also dismissed fears Pansy Ho said MGM Grand
the daughter of the southern resort would create a healthy celebrated with us tonight building one room too many about rising construction has submitted preliminary
Chinese enclave’s casino competition among the and will continue to do so for and or one casino too many costs. “I can tell you that the plans for an expansion on the
mogul Stanley Ho, means that neighbouring entertain- the many who visit Macau in in Las Vegas? So far we haven’t rising construction costs ... reclaimed land called the
the owners of all six of ment venues. the future. We look forward and I guess you really don’t we can find those in New Cotai Strip and was waiting
Macau’s gaming concessions She said the hotel resort to showcasing to the world know until you build that one Jersey and we can find that in for government approval.
are now finally in action, after would work at contributing what we have created.” room too many.” Mississippi. That’s something “Once we get the
the city ended Stanley Ho’s the best benefits for each of MGM Grand Macau presi- Around 85 per cent of that is not limited to this par- approval, we will decide how
40-year monopoly in 2001. the hotels and casinos nearby, dent Bob Moon said: “MGM gaming revenue in Macau is ticular marketplace,” he said. to go forward,” Ho said.
Auckland to
Peermont
Sedibeng Casino is
located at Thapama Hotel
while the Syringa Casino is
crackdown
rebrands
situated in the Syringa
and
Lodge.
on problem
“Thanks to the purchase
reopens
and subsequent refurbish-
ment of both casinos,
gambling
two Admiral
Peermont has been able to
casinos
give back to the communi-
ties in which the casinos
operate through job cre-
tightfit have to be excluded unless admirablerebrand ation and upliftment of the
NEW ZEALAND the casino considers that the SOUTH AFRICA surroundings,” he said.
person can continue to “Exciting new gaming
Auckland’s SkyCity Casino will gamble without harm. All loan The Peermont Group has machines, beautifully refur-
have to tighten controls on transactions by third parties bought and refurbished bished interiors and con-
potential problem gamblers in for financial gain at the casino two casinos, one in Fran- venient locations make
a move which the Problem will be banned. cistown and another in both casinos a perfect
Gambling Foundation says will SkyCity’s general manager Selebi-Phikwe. entertainment venue,”
eat into the casino’s profits. corporate Alistair Ryan, The casinos opened for Page-Wood said. Peermont
Anyone gambling at least though, said the company did business on December 2, said the casinos’ new
five times a week and spend- not expect a major effect on 2007. The regional chief names were chosen for
ing more than $300 on pokie profits because fewer than operating officer of Peer- their relevance to the areas
machines per session, or visit- two per cent of Sky City’s cus- mont (Botswana), Bruce in which each is situated.
ing at least twice a week and tomers were problem gam- Page-Wood, said that The Sedibeng Casino
spending at least $500 a blers. both casinos have been has 50 slot machines while
session, will be counted as SkyCity, the country’s fifth- renamed after buying the Syringa has 30,
indicators of potential biggest listed company, them from Admiral increasing the total number
problem gambling. invited bids for the company Casinos last July. of slot machines operated
Loyalty card holders will in September after its net The Francistown casino by Peermont in Botswana
be able to request figures on profit dropped 18 per cent to has been renamed Sed- to 220. Both casinos are
how much they have lost at NZ$98m in the year to June, ibeng Casino, while the one cashless providing signifi-
the casino. Anyone identified but failed to find a buyer in Selebi-Phikwe has been cant benefits to both
as a problem gambler will before its annual meeting. renamed Syringa Casino. casino and guest.
12 January 2008 worldnews
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