An American has won nearly three million dollars playing a slot machine accepting the pennies, it was learned Friday from the manufacturer’s armed bandit, who said that this is a world record.

Shigeko Ide Stein, a California businesswoman, 61, played Wednesday night in a casino in Laughlin, in the southwest of the state. Its implementation had reached 150 credits ($ 1.50) when the counter of the machine panicked, amounting to 2,995,071 dollars.

“I had a good feeling,” said Ms. Stein, who travels three times a week in the facility. According to Allison Alexander, IGT company that manufactured the device, the previous record of earnings for this type of machine was 2.06 million.

Didot Bottin holding company, which owns assets in leisure (casinos. ..), the distillery and equipment for cinemas in particular (seats), has completed the first half 2005 sales of 36.15 million Euros were down 3.35% compared to the first six months of 2004.

After a first quarter 2005 grew by 12% from Q1 2004, the group had a more difficult second quarter, down 18% yoy to 17.9 million euros.

In a few months, players will buckle at the poolside or in restaurants in Nevada casinos on PDAs connected to a LAN.

$ 19 billion. That is what should bring the 2009 game on mobile devices, phones and PDAs, according to research firm Juniper Research English. The large hotel-casinos in Las Vegas and the State of Nevada are preparing. In short time, customers can burn from a handheld that will establish them.

“People come to play in casinos, but also to enjoy other activities such as pool and restaurants. But the casinos do not make money when their customers are at the pool. With our PDA, they will be able to increase their income, ‘”said Joe Asher, director of Cantor G & W (Nevada) LP, a company which is currently developing a gaming solution on PDA under the control of Nevada Gaming Control Board.

A law to regulate the “mobile game”

Last June, the Governor of the State of Nevada signed a law allowing casinos to a certain size (at least 100 slot machines and at least another game of chance) to lend to their customers allowing them to PDA play video poker, slot machines, among others, in all public areas of casinos. The hotel rooms will remain off limits to protect minors who might be taking the game too

Pending the issuance of decrees by the State of Nevada, Joe Asher remains vague on technical details. “We’re doing tests with iPaq, but we could also use different models of PDA or Tablet PC depending on the location of the casino – as models that are resistant to water for the pool or machines smaller and more discrete for restaurants. ”

As for the connection, it could be a Wi-Fi or other type of private network limited to the perimeter of the casino. It remains within the law since the PDA will not be connected to the Internet, online gaming is prohibited in the United States.

“In a few years, I think all casinos offer the PDA to their customers, advance Joe Asher. Before the next step: In the future we can imagine that players will download software on their own PDA to play within the confines of a casino. But the law does not allow for the moment. “

Mineola, New York, Aug. 18 / PRNewswire / – Kenilworth Systems Corporation (OTC: KENS) … Andrew Hirko, vice president, said that “the Russian Patent Office has approved the patent application of Kenilworth to play along with table games like Casino Roulette, Baccarat, Dice and others, transmitted from A casino at terminals located in remote locations such as hotels, resorts, homes and public gathering places. >> This application corresponds to U.S. patent Kenilworth, which was granted in 2003 by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Applications related to U.S. patent granted were also registered in other countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Continental Europe has 115 million satellite subscribers compared to 11 million in England, 23 million U.S. and 80 million in Asia. In addition, with the rapid growth of digital cable subscribers, the potential market for Roulabette (TM) could reach 300 million homes and businesses across the industrialized world.

Roulabette (TM) is a combination of digital satellite and digital cable, casino games simultaneously and control systems for interactive television that will compete with the internet virtual games.

Kenilworth technology uses a microprocessor embedded in TV set-top box that is used by viewers to receive satellite transmissions and digital cable. The microprocessor manages the paris. Deposits and winnings are paid by Lottery Systems which share the net revenue gain.

The WTO gives eleven months to allow Americans to online casinos based on the archipelago of the Antilles.

Countdown started. The United States eleven months, and not fifteen as they wished, to bring their legislation into line on games and online paris. And allow legally to U.S. bettors flaming dollars on the Internet in virtual casinos located abroad, especially in tax havens where all the big firms paris placed balls. The World Trade Organization (WTO) issued its decision Friday. If, as of April 3, 2006, Washington has not lifted some restrictions on gambling and Paris on the Net, Antigua and Barbuda, a small island (442 km2) of the Caribbean, populated by 68,000 inhabitants, is entitled to request financial victimization. Umpteenth episode of a conflict began two years ago …

Competition. It all began in March 2003. Antigua, which has been trying for five years to find a compromise with the United States, filed a complaint against them before the WTO. The tax haven denounces several laws, federal (on horse races) and state (Louisiana, Utah, Massachusetts, or South Dakota) otherwise … the famous GATS, the General Agreement on Trade in Services. Signed in 1995, during the creation of the WTO, it aims to compete on services between countries. However, St. John’s, Antigua’s capital, not only longer table on tourism and, on the advice of the World Bank, is trying to diversify. Via online casinos, where nearly 3,000 people work. On November 10, 2004, a ruling of first instance ruled in Antigua. Reason: Some protective measures, be they motivated, as guarantees Washington, for protection “against organized crime and money laundering, constitute barriers. Reprehensible, according to the creed of free trade the WTO. The United States does not décolèrent.

April 2005. In an appeal decision, the WTO nuance his position. The policeman of world trade is well recognized that the United States has demonstrated that enforcement was “necessary to protect public morals or maintain public order.” But the country must change its laws on some issues, including horse racing.

Thunderbolts. The business of online paris applauds. Until then, fearing the wrath of the Department of Justice U.S. search engines like Google, Yahoo did not accept ads for paris online firms based in Antigua. Corporate credit cards like Visa or MasterCard transactions were closed on the online game. Banks like Bank of America or Citibank stood away from any business with Antigua. Said, who was not even an ambassador in Geneva, the WTO headquarters, was quick to replay a remake of David against Goliath. “An important victory for the smallest member of the WTO which has defeated the United States,” in April welcomed Mark Mendel, the lawyer for the Caribbean island.

The economy of Antigua is only 0.007% of the U.S. economy. And the decision of the WTO is not really likely to ruin the American giant. But the online gaming industry promises to flourish. Estimated at 10 billion this year, it will weigh dozens of 2010. And the island, the Commonwealth has received support from the United Kingdom. A British government report in 2003 singled out the U.S. position, noting that “despite the apparent illegality of cross-border paris the United States have more punters online than anywhere else in the world.”

Proponents point out that one of Antigua Puritanism may explain the barrage of Washington. “For what I know, any American has a casino within two hours from home,” said Mark Mendel, casinos located in certain areas (Las Vegas, Reno, Atlantic City) but also in Indian enclaves or on boats. The WTO decision announced heated debate in the United States. “The Internet paris magnify the destructive side of the game by returning the casinos in your homes,” has won and Spencer Bachus, a Republican congressman from Alabama.

We knew that the walls of the Noga Hilton were auctioned by the court in Grasse on July 27 last for $ 121.5 million. But the buyer was then unnamed. It has been known: it is the Luxembourg investment company Oriante, belonging to Jean Rouch, a friend of Nessim Gaon, who was the owner of the building complex of the Noga Hilton hotel where the same name, Princes casino, a shopping mall, a theater and parking.

Yet if uncertainty has been lifted by the purchase at a price considered high (it is actually the purchase of a leasehold without the operating company), problems remain. While the group was keen to reassure Oriante hotel Noga Hilton in declaring that the acquisition would not alter the medium term the hotel holds a commercial lease and its employees (more than two hundred employees). But they still do not understand the directions and do not see what these financial maneuvers will be successful. On the other hand, a conflict is to settle with the merchants of the shopping complex, and the problem of land (7.000m2 on the Croisette in the former Palais des Festivals in Cannes on the site which was built the Noga Hilton are owned by the city) should be discussed with the municipality. Case so stay tuned …

Night blaze at the casino in Monte Carlo

Tokens such as license plates

Red carpet before the green carpet. Under the gold Casino de Monte Carlo, overwhelmed by the majesty Belle Epoque of the gaming delightfully rococo throne between Hotel and Café de Paris, I flame a little. My nephew would say “I am the fart.” It would just. My night at the casino, I do not live Groucho. Smugpot but especially when, formally, the cashier handed me a few dozen chips, end to end, make five thousand.

Free loan pledge! Whatever happens will return to my carriage pumpkin. If I were to win, I pay all at Monaco a humanitarian organization, and if I lose it all, the casino would recover his stake. The key is to participate. My tuxedo Special Festival of Cannes is therefore an extra. Just for the chic … In my patent leather shoes, though I swear a little. I was warned: the dress is no longer the gambler. Only at a private table, a quadratic in polo plays an blackjack tight blows token € 1 000. The flames can be lived in sportswear. Even here in Monaco.

Especially when you are Russian? Not necessarily. Even if my black-short sleeve jackeurs Slavic devil. One among many? Obviously. From the French roulette baccarat, it speaks mostly Russian. And tokens of 200 000 €, as big as plates glowing red, throw themselves on issues like buying a horse, cash, a loaf of bread. If you are a slave tonight, you clean the green carpet.

I wanted to be Rain Man

With my little thousands of euros, I’m a little flames from below. My bonanza indeed withering. Roulette turning me crazy. 21, I fled and blackjack is a bottomless pit.

Alain Bernard, the director of Casinos, tries to console me. “No one is immune from the law of series. Casino no less than the players. Last week one of our clients left with a gain of 1 million euros, more than 20 times its traditional area of ??play “but nothing helped.

Elbow to elbow with a lucky Milan that he, erecting buildings of chips on the carpet blackjack, I rant against genetics. I so wanted to be a Dustin Hoffman as Rain Man: A disk drive turbo street whose brain can store as we learn a rhyme every three hundred cards that the dealer out of his shoe. Fantasy? Not at all. In the U.S., the Griffin, a kind of FBI’s cheating, these counters track rails, the plug, stalking around the world, from Las Vegas to Atlanta, prohibits casino. But not here. Fair play Monaco without doubt, “counters genius” are not worried.

Cheating, in Monte Carlo, yet pays cash. In the fifties, the Casino spotters were ordered to turn back all the players of Casale Monferrato. Why the animosity against the high rollers of the forgotten corner of Piedmont? “Because this small village was home to a real school of cheaters, especially famous,” recalls Alain Bernard. From the small University of confuses pulled the curtain, but vigilance is still needed. Tar and feathers ready. And MF, with its token € 1 000 after a removable nylon invisible thread, learned to his cost. Immediately unmasked earlier this month, once arrested, tried once, he is already serving his three months in jail farm Monaco.

It’s two o’clock in the morning. A limousine me down to Sporting. Migration of the last chance. Place du Casino, is the ghost of Winston Churchill that seemed to hover in the gilt and coffered ceilings of the gaming history. Here, however, under the neon lights of the psychedelic Summer Casino, is expected to cross at any time James Bond, Sean Connery era against the Spectre. Brouhaha rattle of chips on the green baize of champagne that “clink-tchinent” and disco pulse from the sunken dancefloor Jimmy’z. It is rumored that Arabian prince is losing a fortune in a private room …

The chance that the leaking me smile Does this time? Two tokens. Everything on the 28th. The “no more bets” the dealer seems to resonate for me. The ball lands on 12 …. but yet so everything is going well. On the sly, I took off my bow tie. My head is spinning. Win or lose, the cocktail of adrenaline, glamor and all legends on green carpet that I gleaned from it, from thence is spellbinding. Or simply hallucinating. One last glass of champagne on the terrace. The full moon does not give me luck. It illuminates yet “Pelorus” which wets a few fathoms of Sporting. The ship personal Roman Abramovich who blazes a thousand spots seems to be the boss at Monaco picnic games. The man who, without blinking, is capable of 38 million euros cash on the green carpet of football to afford Michael Essien is in fact not a gambler. Bad pick for Alain Bernard? “You see: we never win every time! ”

When nothing goes, games are not always made

Yesterday morning, Gruissan, three gunmen were delivered as part of the recipe of the day. They burned a Golf Ricardelle. Then, the commando has disappeared aboard a BMW X5 abandoned in Beziers. There? they stole another car.

Yesterday morning at 6:45, while the first employee of the casino at Phoebus Gruissan arrived to take his post, he was immediately robbed by a man with a gun that emerged from a car in which two individuals were still the He ‘forced to ring to get open. Inside the facility, an official noting the perilous situation of his colleague, immediately ordered the opening, failing to properly safe.

A real commando

Moments later, two cleaning ladies accompanied by a parent arrived to take their service. Two other robbers got out of the car, probably a Golf. They then entered the establishment with these three people. Three robbers and five employees were now inside. We can talk commando. Indeed, each man was masked. In addition, they wore gloves.

More importantly, they had a weapon that falls under the category 17ère, the weapons of war. In fact, they threatened staff with a gun, a pistol, a submachine gun or something like that. In short, weapons before which there is no discussion. The hotel staff was forced to execute the orders of the commando. Once inside the casino, according to the director, the robbers took home the cash float from the previous day and the contents of slot machines.

The men could not attack the safe that has a system of opening restricted to particular carriers. The operation yesterday morning lasted only minutes.

The trio walked away with the Golf. In other words, these professionals have left no clues behind. They also stole personal belongings of employees.

The police were alerted. The soldiers from the brigade Gruissan and BR de Narbonne, soon joined by elements of the Research Section of Montpellier have begun their investigations into the casino in search of hypothetical elements.

BMW X5 stolen 15 days ago

The movies recorded by the cameras of the establishment will be examined very carefully. Meanwhile, other soldiers looking for the robbers.

Soon the Golf registered in the Jura – which had burned – was found in the area near the Clape Ricardelle. The robbers had then entered into a second car. This is a luxury 4 X 4, a BMW X5 stolen in foreign Haute Savoie here a fortnight. The trio was seen driving on the highway towards Beziers.

This suggests that the three men thought to return to their base in the BMW. But shortly before arriving at the first toll of Beziers, a tire of their car burst.

They exited the highway without changing the wheel. Did he do it? They have opted for another solution. Indeed, having stopped near a house, they forced a woman who came by car to abandon their vehicles before disappearing in the direction of Lyon, where they were spotted by a police patrol. It seems they have finally managed to go green.

The police know they are dealing with true professionals who were well prepared their coup. Finally, we must speak of the loss suffered by the casino GRUISSAN. The robbers would have won a sum of just over 50,000 euros, according to a first estimate of management.

(Reuters) – Groupe Partouche will report Wednesday on its performance in the first half of 2005.

In a research note dated Monday, says Fideuram Wargny expected that the casino group shows a deterioration in profitability.

The office of analysts is for a 9% drop in operating profit to 50 million euros, an operating margin decreased from 24.1 to 22.6.

The third quarter should result in an increase of 2.6% of gross gaming revenue (GGR), samples up 3.7% and sales rose slightly by 0.8%.

Fideuram Wargny maintains its recommendation to alleviate ‘the value for a target price of 14.5 euros, and wait for the precise terms of’ Operation Divonne, including Partouche bought the casino earlier this month, with the Didot-Bottin society.

The author of “important” turning occurred Sunday evening at the Casino d’Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes) was searched Monday by police in Nice, it was learned Wednesday.

The man, aged 40 to 50 years “, managed to penetrate Sunday, shortly after 18:00 in the vault of the casino Siesta and be put under the threat of a weapon, sum of money described as “important” by the PJ Nice investigating.

The police have pictures “poor quality” of the robber, who committed his crime with his face uncovered and was filmed by the institution.

The hypothesis of a complicity inside the casino that allowed access to the trunk was Monday proposed by investigators.