Since its opening last November, the French Lick Resort Casino has registered decreasing numbers of visitors. However, figures seem to be climbing up, as reflected by the more than 125,000 customers recorded in March by the southern Indiana gaming facility.

The French Lick received 156,263 visitors in its first month of operation while 120,000 players went to the casino in December and again in January. February numbers showed 100,584 visitors. Casino authorities said the drop was due to cold winter weather.

The cleaning people working in an old New Jersey casino were doing their job when they run into over 17,000 dollars in coins that had been waiting underneath the machines.

The Sands Casino of Atlantic City closed its doors last November in order to be transformed into a mega casino. While they were moving the machines around, those in charge of cleaning the place had the hope of finding some coin, although they didn’t expect to find 17,193.34 dollars.

Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will undergo a large-scale expansion and renovation, as announced by Morgans Hotel Group Co. and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, owners of the facility.

The expansion will include approximately 950 new guest rooms, a 60,000 square-foot meeting and convention room, an all-suite 15 story tower, and more than 35,000 square feet of casino space. Also, the Hard Rock’s award-winning pool will be expanded and several beverage outlets will be added.

A 16-year-old girl who was visiting a casino in the Chinese territory of Macau accompanied by her mother and grandmother, won $100,143.66 in a slot machine. The girl played $12, which her grandmother had given to her as a lunar New Year’s gift.

The casino, run by Las Vegas Sands, at first tried to avoid paying the prize arguing that since the girl was 16 she was underage and not supposed to be in the casino.

The Casino Advisory Panel in Glasgow is discussing the impact of a Las Vegas-style casino. The city is competing against other six locations in the UK. According to Councilor Steven Purcell a regional casino would be a major contribution to the regeneration of the area and more people could enjoy the local success.

The council predictions are that £26m will be spent on investments and that the casino will bring more than 600,000 visitors per year. Also it would generate 2,500 new jobs for local residents.

The new Casino del Mar is located outside the hotel Howard Johnson, to the south of the Ecuadorian city of Manta. The firm “Grupo C” will be in charge of the operation of the gaming room.

Jose Carrera, casino administrator, said that Manta is a city that projects to the future, so entertainment places are needed, mainly directed to an adult public. “We made a previous study of the market and, from there, we decided that it would be great to have a place in this city like the one we are about to open”, he explained.

Gamblers took home almost half a million dollars in two days in a slot machine that, apparently due to a programming error, multiplied the amount bet by 10. The hotel and casino Caesars Indiana lost 487,000 dollars before a gambler denounced the problem that the machine was having.

Last July 23rd, Kathryn Ford, from Louisville, Kentucky, realized that something was wrong when she and her husband sat to gamble in two slot machines known as “Extra Money”.

Scott Mauger, superintendent of Belleplain State Forest in Cape May County, has become very unpopular these days. The reason is simple: he had to tell hundreds of arriving campers that the campground might close due to the state government shutdown.

Not only Belleplain, but also Bass River State Forest and Parvin State Park may close. People traveling from distant states will be affected by this decision. The first effects for gamblers occurred after the suspension of state lottery and horse racing.

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.

According to Ms. Haynes, the damages caused by Hurricane Katrina did not influence the company’s decision to close the casino. She explained that an important decrease in the profits between 2004 and 2005 obliged the Isle of Capri Casino to fire 13 percent of the staff.

To the rhythm of mariachis, Mexican food and a decoration typical of this great nation, Mexicans and Dominicans joined together in a very special night at the casino’s restaurant: Lola.

The commercial manager of Cirsa for the Dominican Republic, Miguelina Garcia, explained that the Majestic Casino always celebrates the special holidays of the country and of other countries as well. She mentioned the carnival celebrated in February and the Brazilian night celebrated in April.