Cardroom Owner Worries About Tribal Casino Plan - 2004-01-27
George Teeny confesses he's worried. Who wouldn't be? His two La Center, Wash., cardrooms, the New Phoenix and the Last Frontier, are among the most lucrative in Washington state.

He may be out of business.

On Teeny's horizon is a full-service casino that the Cowlitz Tribe may develop on 151.8 acres at La Center Junction on Interstate 5.

Teeny and others fear that the lure of spinning roulette wheels and slot machines would steal a lethal amount of business from the cardrooms.
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Silence surrounds key Christchurch Casino meeting - 2004-01-27
Christchurch Casino's board is scheduled to meet today but all lips of its cornerstone shareholders were sealed ahead of what is anticipated to be a landmark meeting, The Press reported today.

Martyn Kennedy, a representative of British-based 41 per cent shareholder Aspinall, has flown to New Zealand for the board meeting.

Aspinall has been under fire from casino and Skyline Enterprises chairman Barry Thomas, who also controls 41 per cent of the business, for talking
to arch-rival Sky City Entertainment about a potential sale of its stake, worth an approximate $92 million.
Read the full story at New Zealand Herald