Blackjack and baccarat are among the table card games now available at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
One of the hotel’s competitors, the Isle Casino in Pompano Beach, filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging the games and a compact with Gov. Charlie Crist allowing them are illegal.
The Pompano casino says the agreement between [...]

Microsoft, Yahoo and Google – the three largest Internet companies agreed on Wednesday to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations that they had accepted ads for illegal internet gambling.
The companies said they stopped taking the ads years ago. The settlement was announced by Catherine L. Hanaway, the United States attorney for [...]

The Las Vegas Sands corporation has opened the world’s largest casino in Macau Cotai Strip. The Venetian, a cool two billion euro investment, is a replica of the American gambling giant’s hotel in Las Vegas, with a floorspace equivalent to three football pitches.
Las Vegas Sands was the first foreign gambler allowed into China three [...]

New UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is reportedly about to dismiss plans to allow gaming companies to advertise on television and radio, according to reports from the UK’s Times newspaper.
The u-turn in policy was indicated by new culture secretary James Purnell in response to pressure from Church leaders and opposition groups warning that gambling advertising [...]

Just as Macau casinos are reporting double digit growth in net win – Nevada casinos report another decline.
The calendar rather than lucky gamblers was the big factor in a 2.1 percent decline in the January win for Nevada casinos, the state Gaming Control Board reported Friday.
The casinos won $1.12 billion in January, and the statewide [...]

By PETER SANDERS
WALL STREET JOURNAL
January 31, 2007; Page B1
On Sunday, a 28-year-old Hollywood assistant named Seth plans to enjoy the Super Bowl in the same way millions of other football fans will: He’ll bet on it.
How, exactly, will he wager that $100 burning a hole in his pocket? One thing he knows for sure is [...]

Macau’s casino gaming revenue rose by 22 per cent in 2006, taking $6.95 billion, surpassing the Las Vegas strip as the world’s biggest casino market.
Macau attracted 22 million [...]

Casino operator Las Vegas Sands has won support from the Chinese government for a resort development on Hengqin Islands, near the gambling enclave Macau.
The Zhuhai Municipal People’s Government has established a Project Coordination Committee specifically related to the company’s proposed development, which will ‘act as the government liaison empowered to work directly with the developer [...]