British top model Naomi Campbell recently traveled to Kenya, a place that fascinated the model and for that reason she has decided to open a luxurious casino on the country’s coast. Her plans have not been well received by Kenyans and animal protection organizations, since the construction of such a building would be risky for the turtles that live there.

Campbell and her ex-boyfriend Flavio Briatore have already submitted a request to start the construction of the “Millionaire’s Hotel”. The casino and its six-star hotel, to be situated in the Maldini resort, would only accommodate rich guests and the nobility.

Midland’s first casino school is expected to open next month at North Warwickshire and Hinckley College’s Bermuda Park Innovation Center in Nuneaton. According to organizers, the gaming academy will represent important job opportunities for community members.

On October 3, the academy will hold an open day in order to present its courses and provide more information about its syllabus to potential students who want to become croupiers. Graham Hollowell, deputy executive director for Connexions Coventry, has been invited to the event.

Daniel Craig is the latest James Bond, he played the main character in the movie Casino Royale. And he is going to be in town during the current month in order to shoot his new filming project.

‘Defiance’, is the name of the movie, which will be directed by the director of Blood Diamond, and it will tell the story of Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis from the forests of Belarus. This film is based on true events, something that cannot be said about Casino Royale, concerning a community of escaped Jews who established a remarkably sophisticated society hidden among the trees while avoiding the German forces.

The marriages started at dawn on Saturday and continued until midnight in Las Vegas, the capital of gambling and express weddings, which on the 7th day of the 7th month of 2007 experienced a historic journey with over 3,000 promises of eternal love.

“It’s a historic day for Las Vegas”, David Foote, owner of a chapel in Las Vegas, said. “If you are one of those who waited in line on Friday to get the authorization to get married, then congratulations, because that meant four and a half hours of waiting”, he told the future husband and wife.

The investment vehicle of multimillionaire Kirk Kerkorian, called Tracinda Corp, has communicated to the SEC that they have abandoned their plans to acquire some of the main real state actives of the casino chain known as MGM Mirage.

The reason for that to happen lays in the announcement made by MGM that they have signed a letter of intention, with Kerzner Intl Ltd, to develop a new project in Las Vegas through a joint venture.

“The United States has always been a gambler country”, says Keith White, president of the National Council on Gaming Problems, an American organization created in 1972.

According to official numbers, 80 percent of American has played in a casino at least one time in their lives. Some estimates have reported that about 1 percent of the American population (approximately two million people) has a gambling related problem, specifically a compulsive addiction, a fraction that is slowly growing since the possibilities to play related to the proliferation of the gambling industry increase.

Full-time dealers at the Wynn Las Vegas Casino have voted 444-149 in favor of joining the Transportation Workers Union of America. The vote, which was supervised by the National Labor Relations Board, came only a few days after casino tycoon Steve Wynn said it was a big mistake to change the tips system.

Last September, the casino management implemented a new tip-sharing plan that allowed supervisors to share in dealers’ tips. According to the dealers, the new system resulted in a 15 to 20 percent cut in their tip income. Facing a general discontent, Wynn made a personal plea to dealers.

As it was done in Spain, Chinese Internet users that enjoy online gambling will have a points system that, in the case of minors, will limit the time they can spend in front of the computer. The reason is the fight against the Internet addiction that many young people suffer from. So, from next July 15th, the companies that offer this kind of games will have to register their users.

This way, over 31 million Chinese players of the Net, will be registered, and they will have to enter their name and identity number each time they want to play a game.

Trump Entertainment Resort Inc., whose chairman is Donald Trump, announced this week that it has hired Merrill Lynch, an investment firm, in order to start exploring its strategic alternatives. Such alternatives, they said, might include a potential sale.

The company owns the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort and Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, located on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., and Trump Marina Hotel Casino located in Atlantic City’s Marina District. Rumors about the sale of the casinos caused Trump shares to rise nearly 8 percent.

The U.S. government carried out a special operation before and during the Super Bowl to stop all online bets. The operation was part of a campaign leaded by federal prosecutors and agents in the FBI’s organized crime unit against Internet gambling.

The campaign toughened in the weeks previous to the Super Bowl, as Americans prepared to wager more than $5 billion on the game between the Chicago Bears and the Indianapolis Colts. Super Bowl Sunday is considered the biggest betting day of the year.