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Thursday, 14th February

Las Vegas Yahoo/AP

Bally Technologies Falls After Report

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BYI

Beijing Yahoo/PRNewswire
PacificNet Octavian Secures More Than 3 Million Euro Gaming Machine Order from MaxBet - Leading Operator in Europe
www.octavianonline.com
www.maxbet.com.ua

Los Angeles Reuters
Las Vegas Sands not interested in UK casinos

Must read comments from Las Vegas Sands President and COO William Weidner at the Reuters Travel and Leisure Summit in Los Angeles.
"The home team won. The operators there in the UK worked the system very well, so they ended up with what they wanted, what I would consider to be sub-optimal, lousy little casinos that kept them in the game and kept us out,"

www.lasvegassands.com

Reuters Travel and Leisure Summit - Los Angeles
www.reuters.com/finance/summits

Sands says Vegas "recession resistant"
Las Vegas may not be immune to economy
Macau not up to speed yet: U.S. casinos
Macau gambling growth outstrips Vegas
MGM says Macau property on track

Victoria, Australia News.com.au
'Screw gamblers, bragged Tatts boss'
www.tattersalls.com.au

Michigan Washington Post
Casino Battle Rages in Congress - Interests Clash as Mich. Tribes Pursue Land off Reservations

California The Press-Enterprise
Gambling tribes promise to keep sharing profits with reservations that lack casinos
www.cniga.com

Matthews, North Carolina Yahoo/Business Wire
PokerTek Reports 2007 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results
PokerTek, Inc. Earnings Conference Call (Q4 2007)
www.pokertek.com
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=PTEK

Las Vegas Yahoo/PRNewswire
Harrah's Selects IGT for Enabling Display Technologies to Power Next Generation of Interactive CRM Capabilities

London Daily Mail
Casinos chase high-roller who left £11m trail of dud cheques

Las Vegas Yahoo/AP
Bally Technologies Swings to Profit
Bally Technologies Inc. Earnings Conference Call (Q2 2008)

Bookmaking news
Nottingham man blew 21st cash then robbed bookies - Coral, Nottingham
Betting shop theft charge - BetFred, Stoke
Bookies fined for fly-tipping - William Hill, Tooting

Gambler to sue William Hill for £2m - ITN News
Compulsive gambler sues betting chain 'for letting him lose £2million' - Daily Mail
Compulsive gambler sues bookmaker to recover losses - The Guardian

"In 2006, he placed £347,000 on America to win the Ryder Cup but lost. At the time, it was the biggest golf bet in history."

additional headlines
Tahoe casino trial underway - Lake Tahoe
Monte Carlo Fire Loss $100 Million
Superjumbo flying casino planned
Airbus says in talks on superjumbo casino
Casinos love cyber dealers
‘Statto’ the TV betting expert has been declared bankrupt

Wednesday, 13th February

Louisiana Iberianet.com

Casino robbed today - 12th February

Casino robbery arrests

www.cypressbayou.com

Las Vegas Yahoo/AP
Wynn Resorts Falls on Las Vegas Outlook
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=WYNN

Atlantic City Newswday/AP & Press of Atlantic City
Judge rules casino smoke caused dealer's cancer
Judge says secondhand smoke contributed to Claridge dealer’s lung cancer

Nevada Associated Press & News.com.au
Scientists: Lake Mead May Be Dry by 2012
Gambling Mecca 'set to run dry by 2021'
Lake Mead Could Be Dry by 2021
http://sio.ucsd.edu/ - Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
www.flickr.com/photos/life_in_the_pumpkin_shell/2260916445/
www.flickr.com/photos/14438730@N08/2261711564/

Church of England - General Synod
Clean up your 'human pollution' - The Times
Church tells Brown to ditch plans for super-casinos - Daily Mail
Synod calls on minister to scrap planned casinos
Archbishop of Canterbury slams casinos in Synod debate
www.cofe.anglican.org/about/gensynod

Melbourne The Melbourne Age
Packer was in on addict lure: claim

Dublin Irish Examiner
Money laundering bill targets casinos

Las Vegas Yahoo/AP & Reuters
Macau Results Help Wynn Swing to Profit
Wynn Resorts posts 4th-quarter profit, shares fall
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=WYNN

Las Vegas Yahoo/Business Wire
Wynn Resorts, Limited Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Wynn Resorts, Limited Earnings Conference Call (Q4 2007)
www.wynnresorts.com
www.flickr.com/search/?q=wynn+macau
www.flickr.com/search/?q=wynn+las+vegas

Gaming Investments Forbes Video
Billionaire Casino Kings - Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn & Kirk Kirkorian.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Yahoo/AP
La. Casino Operator Mulls Boat Switch
www.belleofbatonrouge.com
www.ameliabellecasino.com

Malta & London The Times of Malta, The Guardian & Daily Telegraph
Suspicious betting patterns says UK Gambling Commission
Snooker faces match-fixing probe
'Irregular betting' investigated in snooker

additional headlines
Tax relief is near, Pa. says, as 7th casino opens
Bulgaria Govt Gives Green Light to Online Gambling
Gaming claims knock Labor off balance - Victoria, Australia.
Lottomatica unit, Medstroms up Boss Media bid price to 25 skr/shr from 19
El déficit de los Casinos es estructural - Uruguay
Winning throw as casino gets go ahead - Newham
'Siberian Coin' Gambling Zone to Be Developed in Altai Krai

Tuesday, 12th February

Carson City, Nevada Reuters

Nevada's December gambling revenue up 3.1%

http://gaming.nv.gov/documents/pdf/mrrdec07.pdf

Tinian, C.N.M.I. Saipan Tribune
Casino project scaled down

Pennsylvania The Patriot-News
No racing as casino kicks off
Slots Open at Penn National's Racetrack

The Hollywood Casino at Penn National opens at 10am Eastern this morning

www.hcpn.com

New York Yahoo/AP & Business Week
Empire Resorts to Move Monticello Gaming and Raceway
$700M Catskills gaming resort proposed
www.monticellogamingandraceway.com
www.empireresorts.com

Atlantic City Philadelphia Inquirer
N.J. casino revenues fell 10% in January
All 11 A.C. casinos post revenue drop

Quebec Ottawa Sun & CBC.ca
Quebec casino suicide data released
Gambling-suicide links revealed by Loto-Québec documents
Quebec casino
www.loto-quebec.com

Bournemouth Dorset Echo
Casino bid for rink site refused

London Bloomberg.com & UK-Wire.com
888 Sales Climb as More Players Bet on Casino Games
888 Holdings Plc - Q4 2007 Key Performance Indicators and Trading Update
www.888holdingsplc.com
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=888.L

Bookmaking news
Gambler jailed for holding up bookies - Norwich
Knife threat in bookmaker robbery - Middlesborough
Police name teenager fatally shot in bookies - Manchester

additional headlines
Top-10 casinos by number of employees
SkyCity Adelaide casino takes state government to court
Super Bowl Bookies Lose From Betting Line: Joe Saumarez-Smith

Monday, 11th February

Atlantic City Yahoo/AP

Atlantic City Casinos Down 10 Percent in January

"Five casinos reported double-digit declines, including two - the Tropicana Casino Resort and Trump Marina Hotel Casino - that each fell 21.1%."

www.nj.gov/casinos

Melbourne News.com.au
James Packer drawn into casino row
Gambler who lost $30m sues casino
The gambler - Melbourne Age 8th March 2007.

New York Yahoo/Business Wire
Empire Resorts and Concord Associates Conclude Agreement to Develop a $700 Million Entertainment and Gaming Complex in the Catskills
www.empireresorts.com
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NYNY
www.concordresort.com

New York & Paris Yahoo/PRNewswire
Scientific Games Awarded French Instant Ticket Contract
www.fdjeux.com

London Daily Telegraph
Judges rule that poker is a game of chance
S&N sues London poker bar owners over loan - January 16th.

The Court of Appeal has upheld the decision at London's Snaresbrook Crown Court in 2007 that found that Poker is a game of chance.

www.gutshot.com