The Isle of Capri Casino in Grand Bahama will close a year from now, as announced by the company’s corporate office in Biloxi, Mississippi. “The purpose of terminating operations is to allow the company to focus on its core properties in the United States”, said Jill Haynes, director of Corporate Communication.

Despite being a new building, just 12 or 13 years old, the Grand’s Island View Hotel & Casino was recently demolished. Its architecture and design were nothing special, they represented Biloxi’s casino past, before Katrina destroyed most of the area.

It is still unknown whether this law will have the votes required in the Senate. A representatives committee in United States has approved a law project, which prohibits online gambling, an industry estimated in $12 thousand million dollars.

Alexey Savatyugin, responsible for the department of the Ministry of Finances, suggested deleting all available posts for gambling sites in Russia from the gambling project. If this proposal is supported by the parliament, the law on gambling business regulation might be postponed indefinitely.

A casino established in Oklahoma and its manager agreed to pay fines for up to $2.5 million for violations of the federal precautions destined to fight financial crime.

However, the government authorities informed that, in spite of the Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma and Edward E. Street, the man that guides the daily operations of the game’s precinct, agreed to the imposed sanction, neither denied or admitted the committed accusations.

The Online Casino Goldenpalace.com has hit a lucky strike as the second one managed to break the security at the Winter Olympics, where he wore a GoldenPalace.com logo across his chest.

The first striker had ran out from the crowd while the bronze medal contest was taking place last Friday.

The Grand Olympics Sweet Adelines Chorus is presenting its annual fundraising event and enlisting the talent of five other local musical acts Nov. 5.

Barbershop Rocks is a 90-minute concert honoring traditional and barbershop rock with participating bands Hot Apple Pie, Rainshadow Blend, Synergy, the Strait Men Barbershop Chorus, the Grand Olympics Chorus and Guy Horton as Elvis. It will be a nice jam-packed musical event, said show chairwoman Judy Larson, who will perform in the Sweet Adelines and Hot Apple Pie choruses as well as organizing the event...

The music composer of the James Bond movies, David Arnold has said Daniel Craig is the right choice to play the new 007 and is going to surpsrise audiences with his performance in next Bond film ‘Casino Royale’.

Arnold, who has written the soundtracks to the last three Bond films, says he is very excited to be working with Craig, who is the first blonde to play the spy agent...

Far from the legendary kitsch of the world's gambling capital of Las Vegas, with its countless slot machines, roulette wheels and blackjack tables, a serene Indian reservation in eastern Canada has turned online betting into big business.

The Kahnawake reservation near Montreal is home to 20 of the 100 most frequented online casinos, according to a recent study by brokerage firm Desjardins Securities, making the indigenous group host to the largest number of popular gambling websites in the world, beating rival Britain.

We are in the middle of Responsible Gaming Education Week, the brainchild of two gambling groups to show gambling as a fun, responsible activity and to highlight and thwart potential gambling problems.

The American Gaming Association and the National Center for Responsible Gaming are selling rubber bracelets -- the new millennium's bumper sticker and fashion statement wrapped into one; these are orange -- in order to push and finance their cause: to gamble responsibly.