Casino hotel growth slow but steady - 2004-02-21 Two months after it opened, the $16 million Little Creek Casino Hotel is roughly half full on average.
And that's okay for now with general manager Doug Boon, who comments that two recent weekends were sold out with gamblers.
"In the first 15 days, business was pretty soft," Boon said Thursday. "But we've sold a few of the weekends out, and business is picking up more and more." Read the full story at The Olympian
Gambling addict wins a fortune in court ruling against casino - 2004-02-21 A compulsive gambler who lost his business and tried to kill himself after running up enormous debts on casino blackjack tables and roulette wheels finally struck lucky in Austria last week.
The country's Appeals Court ruled that Christian Hainz should be reimbursed €499,729 (£336,709) by the operator of two casinos where he claimed that he lost up to €2.5 million (£1.68 million) in a three-year betting binge. He argued that the casino had done nothing to help to cure his gambling habit, and should pay back some of his losses. Read the full story at Telegraph.co.uk
