CR63-p02&03-Euro2&3:SJC-Casino Review 22/12/07 21:57 Page 2
Pleasure Beach boss presents
£35m casino plan
Great Yarmouth’s Pleasure Beach boss Albert Jones is to present
plans for a £35m casino and leisure complex, creating circa 1,000
jobs. The casino project, to be called The Edge, would utilise
wasteland between the Pleasure Beach and the outer harbour site
and would include a 180-room hotel, as well as a 10-screen cinema,
a 22-lane bowling alley, and a combination of restaurants and bars.
The negativity of a decrease in slot machine revenues and a drop in
overall casino income for the Partouche Group has been eased by
a huge resurgence in table gaming. It is undoubtedly with this in
mind that the group is hoping to lead the French sector when it
comes to offering poker tournaments in its venues.
Partouche to put
it on the tables
tablegains
FRANCE
Groupe Partouche is launching
the Partouche Poker Tour,
which aims to unite 24,600
players in tournaments
throughout its estate of 41
casinos over a nine month
period, culminating in the
Grand Final, which will take
place from September 5 to 7
2008 at its prestigious Palm
Beach casino in Cannes.
The money the group
derived from table games in
2007 increased by a significant
23.8 per cent from 37m euros to
45.8m euros. This and the huge
surge in poker play has made
poker a massive focus for 2008.
Partouche has already The Palm Beach in Cannes Méditerranée in Nice, the
opened 41 poker rooms in
will host the final of
Casino d’Aix en Provence and
which Poker Hold’em tourna-
Partouche Poker Tour
at Forges les Eaux. These will be
ments have been held since multi-table tournaments with
August 2007. compete in the final. no buy-in, gathering a maximum
The group stated:“In the f ace These tournaments will be of 500 players, with entry fees
of such a growing craze as the single-table events hosting 10 of 1,075 euros.
French are showing for poker, players, with no buy-in, held The remaining 10 per cent
Partouche wanted to create an every Tuesday and Thursday, of players left in the competi-
event that would be up to the with an entry fee of 125 euros. tion will gain a prize pool of
level of the players’ passion for Two winners will be desig- 8,500 euros as well as direct
poker. With the Partouche nated every week with a prize access to the final tournament
Poker Tour, the biggest physical pool of 1,200 euros per winner of the Main Event in Cannes.
Texas Hold’em Poker no-limit for direct access to Super Satel- There will also be a comple-
tournament, a minimum prize lite. Every five weeks, the 10 mentary prize pool of 50,000
pool of 2m euros is being winners in each casino will euros by Super Satellite.
brought into play. This three- reach a different Super Satel- The final tournament in
stage tournament will be open lite tournament. Cannes will also be a multi-
to all and the final will be broad- Six of these Super Satellite table tournament, where the
casted on TF1.” tournaments are expected to re-buy function will be avail-
The winners of a series of take place from January to June able with entry fees of 8,500
satellite and Super Satellite 2008, at Saint-Amand les Eaux, euros and a minimum prize
tournaments, to be shown on Divonne-les-Bains, La Tour de pool of 2m euros, shared
Eurosport channels, will Salvagny, the Palais de la between the winners.
Spyland and Aquántica, The Gran Scala project will operate up to 1,250 slots.
which will occupy an area of has been backed by most of The 16 themes include
68 and 27 hectares respec- Spain’s mainstream political classic casino themes such
tively. Both, located in the parties except the United as ancient Egypt, Ancient
central ring of Gran Scala, Left, which has described it Greece, Rome, the Middle
they are promoted by the as ‘a barbarity’ because of Ages, the Renaissance and
same consortium which the negative environmental the French Revolution,
includes Travaux Geotech- consequences the complex although there are some
niques et Miniers and Loftus may have. more obscure titles such as
Multimedia, Ibis and Trans- No casino operators have the Century of Enlighten-
montagne. yet confirmed their interest ment up to the capture of
Spyland will be dedicated although sources suggest the Bastille in Paris. Each
to the espionage world and that 12 companies have of the casinos will include
Aquántica will offer water as lodged an interest. The a themed hotel and a
its main theme, and will show casinos will be set out in a museum focusing on relics
the history of the world huge circle around a central and topics of the period
related to water. figure of a clock. Each casino which it is representing.
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