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The game would increase health problems according to a study
A recent study by the University of Pennsylvania suggests that seniors who play young money also have health problems. The study shows that while the Seniors are playing, they can drink four or five alcoholic beverages, which could lead to serious health problems.
“This study raises some serious concerns for public health,” said Dan Blazer, a psychiatrist in geriatrics at Duke University. Dan Blazer said he is concerned about the Seniors who have already developed memory loss. These Seniors could lose consciousness about the money they spend playing.
The study also shows that 11% of Seniors who say they are spending more than they should to the casino.
In the Commission’s “National Council on Problem Gambling”, 4 to 8 million people in the U.S. are concerned.
Seniors are particularly vulnerable to the lure of casinos, says author David Oslin. Seniors who do not leave much can enjoy spending time in casinos with other retirees. In fact, 70% of 843 elderly respondents in this study said they had gambled at least once in the past year and going to the casino was one of the most popular ways to go play.
Oslin and his colleagues interviewed Seniors by phone, telling them about their gambling They found that 92 of 843 Senior players were at risk. They said they had recently wagered more than $ 100 in just a single bet or had gambled more than they could.
However, none was considered a pathological gambler (a person who spends huge sums of money, and develops a compulsion for gambling). However, the problem of gambling can lead to financial disaster for a large portion of seniors.
Oslin also said that the study does not recommend the Seniors to stop play if they are sufficiently accountable for their actions.
However, a spokesman for Harrah’s Entertainment Inc.., The largest manager of casinos in the United States, said the study showed that most people who like to play have no problem. Thompson said his company supports all studies that help to identify problem gamblers.
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A school of dealers, you win every time
In two years of existence, the only French settlement of employee training games room has succeeded: to train future professionals in three months with a guaranteed job at the exit.
The twelve students in the class of 2005 of the new “Cerus Casino Academy, the only training center preparing for the job of the dealer, in their fourth week of training.
Selected by aptitude tests and interviews, they have three months to learn the fundamentals of art. In the school premises, being located Herbouville (IV), a casino reconstituted in 100 m2 enables them to acquire basic skills in English and French roulette, blackjack and stud poker. Atypical education delivered by professionals nationally and internationally, alternating theory and practice. In addition to traditional courses on the collection of bets or the mastery of basic vocabulary (English and French), students also attend lectures where the topics addressed are the regulatory and gambling.
Staff shortages
“These students are brought to positions of high responsibility. They must know all facets of business,” said Benedict Engels, trainer and director of the institution. Despite high tuition fees (3800 euros), yet the training is full at each session. Due to the shortage of qualified staff, croupiers each apprentice is sure to find a job.
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SBM: The new palace called”Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort
Opening Saturday 1st October 2005
The SBM has finally found the name of its new facility built on the Larvotto. It will carry the name “Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort will open its doors on Saturday 1st October 2005
The resort includes four hectares of the peninsula Larvotto and includes a 4-star hotel of 334 rooms and suites at the forefront of technology, gardens planted with Mediterranean and tropical lagoon animated sand bottom – single in Europe – an indoor pool, a ‘Spa 5 Worlds’ and ten high-tech meeting rooms.
IT Jauts add a varied cuisine contemporary, two banquet rooms, a casino slot machine, Junior club, a hotel residence of twenty luxury apartments … not to mention the exceptional offer of Sporting: Salle des Etoiles, Jimmy’z, the Bar & Boeuf – Alain Ducasse, the Fuji and the Summer Casino. E Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort, will be headed by Sergio Mangini.
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Poker record 188,000 euros at La Grande Motte Casino.
A man pocketed a gain of 188,000 Euros playing poker on a slot machine casino in La Grande-Motte (Hérault), the largest jackpot won since the inception of the establishment in 1976, it was learned Thursday from the casino. On the night of Sunday to Monday, the player, originally from Gard, had bet a large sum, twenty tokens of ten euros for this single game and found himself quite happy to take a “royal flush”. This suite of five cards of the same color, which must begin with an ace, is the strongest hand in poker. “At first, when you win like that. It marks a little downtime as a result of surprise and then, after the champagne is flowing,” said Stephane Vosges, one of the leaders of the casino has 160 slot machines and hosts an average of 2,000 customers per day. “To succeed in such a sudden there was a secret to have much luck,” he added. Coincidentally, the previous record set by the game room of this seaside resort dating back to before the famous event. Got on another machine in the school, it was only 32,000 euros.
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Swiss casinos have generated more than expected in 2004
BERN – Swiss Casinos have generated more than expected in 2004. The 19 casinos have realized gross proceeds of 769 million, or 208 more than in 2003. They will pay more than 370 million tax benefit from the AVS and the townships of implantation.
In 2004, all 19 casinos experienced for the first time a full year of operation. The largest share of their turnover comes from the PLC. They contributed 578 million francs, or 75.1% against 72.2% in 2003. Table games reported 191 million francs (24.9% against 27.8%).
This result exceeds the forecasts of most operators, says Friday the Federal Gaming Board in a statement. The latter estimated tax for 2004 will amount to more than 370 million against 260 million in 2003.
Some 316 million will go to the AVS and 54 million in the townships. The largest portion of the tax already paid in installments. The balance will be claimed after the final tax.
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Nothing goes to the casino of Kim Jong-il
People’s Republic of China and the “workers paradise” of North Korea, the ice of the Tumen River mark out a strange border. These are among the last frontiers shared by two nations claiming communism. Despite this solidarity, it is also a line that Beijing closes tight. Last year, China sent troops to stop the entry of North Korean refugees. A few days ago, she has also prohibit the release of its own nationals: Beijing decided to cut the chains of cheating and dirty money, having stopped in the other direction exodus of hunger and repression.
Neighboring countries have lent a deaf ear, Jan. 11, when China announced a major offensive against gambling – “Vice” officially banned since 1949 but played merrily, as trade sex and drug trafficking. Yet it is a “people’s war” that Zhou Yongkang, Minister of Public Safety and member of the Politburo, declared at a national teleconference held since Beijing.
Is the police force any action taken? Or international impact out of proportion sometimes aroused trepidation now each of the giant Chinese? For two weeks in any case, the shock wave and the tightening triggered by the Minister Zhou extend far beyond the borders.
In Macao, the rival Asian Las Vegas, casino-related securities business plunged at once. At the periphery of China, dozens of casinos, clubs and gambling dens property installed in Burma, Vietnam and the Russian Far East would be on the verge of closing their doors because suddenly deprived of their rich clients Kunming, Chongqing and Shenyang. Where possible, Beijing has even cut off water and electricity.
Kim Jong Il, Stalin, the little North Korea, it comes from the blow of losing his best pump currencies: Emperor Casino (Ying Huang in Mandarin), temple incongruous baccarat, roulette and slot machine-launched are five years behind the barbed wire of a dictatorship as spartan as fierce. An hour’s drive south of the Tumen and Eldorado Chinese, the Emperor is co-managed an affair with Albert Yeung, tycoon game, investor and owner of Macau casinos floating in the bay of Hong Kong.
The property is, it seems, the only success of the “special economic zone of Rajin-Sonbong. It is also the only company in North Korean hosts that the client 24 hours 24. Only foreigners are allowed to attend its green carpet, its massage parlors and prostitutes too few blondes and Russian. Aliens in this case there are 50 000 Chinese, including one-third of officials last year as outlined in the China Daily, organ of the English Republic.
Accuracy is not coincidental. According to the springs of propaganda proven, Beijing always begins by denouncing the evil come from abroad, whether the SARS virus, the excesses of democracy or the corrupting power of money. The real danger is therefore not the greed of Chinese players, but the string of casinos installed around the country. The border guards, by filtering the output of the Chinese now, in fact protect them from the temptation to go slumming on the other side.
As often in official discourse, the message appears only true watermark. In the opinion of all experts, even Beijing, the crux of the problem is less the game outside the boundaries of rampant corruption servants located in the heart of the Chinese state. If “people’s war” there, it’s not against the dealers or the Burmese Mong Russian Slavyanka. But cons circuits embezzlement, money laundering and recycling of funds that would never have left the coffers of the People’s Republic.
Since January 19, the border with North Korea is effectively closed to “tourists”, whatever their nationality. Chinese travel agencies, who lived round trips by bus to the Emperor on the pretext of routes “cultural” or “scienfitique” preparing to put the key under the door.
A 99% Chinese, the casino’s clientele includes North Korea usually a majority of businessmen who came slamming in the right mood profits of their business, with friends or family. “At the baccarat table, I saw one win 5000 dollars in ten minutes,” says one recent visitor. A dealer Rajin-Sobong ensures that bad luck has cost more than 6 million in 36 hours to another player. Nothing illegitimate in principle, if not a serious exceeded the ceiling for export of currency used by the People’s Republic.
At the Emperor, as in the casinos of Mong La, Slavyanka, Seoul, Vladivostok or Moscow, the Chinese gamblers who worry Beijing is those who travel alone, never talk to anyone, and bet all night without going through their room. “They play carelessly, as if money was not theirs, is another regular.
Cai Haowen, former director of the Transportation Department of Yanbian border, probably belongs to this category. Since November 17, he is a fugitive after he went to the casino 27 times North Korea dug and 3.5 million yuan in the Chinese state funds (€ 350,000).
Other high-flying bureaucrat and Communist colorfast, Zhang Zhonghai, director of propaganda in the metropolis of Chongqing, was arrested at the end of last year. He had “borrowed”, played and lost over 100 million yuan of public funds in Macao (10 million).
This is probably just the tip of the siphon. With land speculation, traffic building permits and off-shore banking channels, foreign casinos have become conduits for China’s privileged money embezzled or improperly acquired.
Unless it is discovered, the officials martingale-cheaters seems foolproof. If I win, I’ll refund the difference and j’empoche. If I lose, I “borrowed” a bit more into the public treasury, with the hope to make it. Ultimately, I have not risked a single sapeck. The same calculation applies to bribes, recycled into legitimate earnings (and personal) after a brief stint on the green on the other side of the border.
The inclination of the notables of the single party and the Chinese bureaucracy to the game is such that the Central Commission on Discipline of the CPC and Ministry of Supervision have jointly administrative banged his fist on the table in December, by circular, any public official caught in flagrante delicto is now liable to immediate dismissal.
With the approach of Chinese New Year holiday, the party has sent undercover agents to monitor its members in the casinos of Macao, the capital of gambling and addiction hitherto untouched by the Chinese anti-corruption campaign. The Department of Public Safety has also opened phone lines and website to collect denunciations against hard cash.
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Place your bets! Rien ne va plus!
How to make a fortune? You can choose between a life of hard work, the hypothetical expectation of an inheritance, a masterful stroke of Exchange, a grand scam … Stop it! You sure? So, know that each week two million French people choose the dream at the same time and the law of least effort in playing the Euro Millions. Is this stupid? Unreasonable? Immoral? You’d have to ask the six people who earned between 10 and 33 million since the game launched in February 2004.
The French game company that honors its commitments, do not hate advertising. She communicates so. An Agence France-Presse tells us that the most lucky winners in France is a retired couple and their son, who won nearly 34 million euros with a validated ballot to Carmaux (Tarn) in May 2004. Pascal, butcher Bègles (Gironde), just after, with a gain of more than 26 million.
Conclusion: The French play and win. They play more games drawing and scratching. They are betting on the horses in the pubs, on the racetrack or on the internet (under the supervision of the PMU). They play slots, roulette and blackjack in casinos. They play by the millions and billions drop …
In 2004, the French Games achieved a record turnover of 8.55 billion euros, up 9.8% over 2003. The company thus provides, she says gravely, “the mission of public reconciling the necessary renewal of his offers with its imperatives of safety and supervision of the game.” The PMU and casinos are no exception. The French have wagered a total of 32.3 billion euros in 2003.
They play more and more, and this refuge in the game appears as a social good thermometer. The latter reveals no fever but the certainty that fortune depends more on chance than work. In short, the game would be a reasonable investment since the famous “social elevator” is not working (it may be, as appropriate, the school, increasing purchasing power, full employment, etc.).. Rather than hoping and waiting for the market economy one day recognize their value, they prefer to invest in a die and the slogan unstoppable tempter: “100% of winners have tried their luck.”
In the absence of a better tomorrow (political utopia brought hope for centuries) or a desperate confidence in liberalism, they mean the game as the surest way to ascend in a split second the firmament wealth, even if the bet is not exclusive of other strategies.
Nothing new, you say. Man has always played. Yes, except that the fever is now spreading all backgrounds. It is a religion, an opium sweet. The main institutions responsible for organizing these fun whisper sweetly to think carefully, thinking about our future, to ensure our comfort. “Get rich!” They say. Play! ” The question is how. Moderation? A madness?
The literature offers a track in this case. She gave us two models: Casanova (1725-1798) and Dostoevsky (1821-1881). The first unforgettable adventurer and playboy, had chronicled his life in a French language equal to its energy. Player, he was consubstantial because it was only play this game that allowed him to ride coach and live like a prince by eclipses. Of his life, besides his talent as a seducer, his insatiable hunger and trickery, we can retain this philosophy: play to win, win to spend, spend without counting.
Play was his lifestyle, his way of defying the property, forcing her luck. He won, thanking the fate he lost with plume, libertine assured that the wheel turns. He never dismantled. His eyes remained cold and his face powdered.
Dostoevsky, on the contrary, his life was playing roulette. In fever and torment, anguish and despair. He played in anticipation of gains evaporated as you go. He played like it was torture, winning, losing, regaining, losing everything and capsizing. While nerves shaken, trance, regretting not being able to dominate or better control what can not be. The game was a loss, vertigo and abyss. The game was his passion.
This lasted ten years and cost him dear. In a letter to his wife, he shot himself the conclusion of its long nightmare, “Now, at work and grief, to sorrow and to work! And I still show what I can do.”
To date, the model has collapsed Casanova. The model Dostoevsky continues. He especially birth to a new breed of players who dream of breaking the bank. The modest gain eternal covet the lottery they would pay in monthly installments. The ambitious hope for the jackpot, the jackpot enormous: a pile of gold to thrill the rich.
In this violent desire, there is belief. A final belief that the state remains the master. Is it not Balzac who spoke of gambling as a “passion essentially taxed? The French game makes us useful to know that the Treasury will receive $ 2.3 billion on bets played in 2004.
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Hotels and Casinos de Deauville: results 2003 / 2004 up
The Society of Hotels and Casinos de Deauville reached the end of its fiscal year 2003 / 2004, ended Oct. 31, a turnover of 216.4 million euros, up 6.5% over the previous year. Operating income grew by 6.8% to 18.1 ME, while net income group share came to 5.8 ME, slightly down by 5.3% due to an exceptional result much less .
“Despite the increased rate of CSG (impact of – 2.9 M in full year) from 1 January 2005, the group’s results should be growing through the expansion of the fleet of machines in the casino of La Rochelle (+ 20 slots), operation of a new product in the renovated casino d’Enghien, Menton and Trouville, and increased hotel revenues under the combined effect of economic conditions over positive and a tailored marketing and sales, “says management.
Recall that following the merger, Groupe Lucien Barrière SAS owns 88.61% of the shares SHCD. In addition, the Group Lucien Barriere considering initiating the first half of 2005 a tender offer for the shares it does not hold SHCD on the basis of the accounts for the year ended October 31, 2004 and taking into account the selling price and value contributed by its actions SHCD Accor Group Lucien Barriere , or 441.06
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Company Fermière Casino Municipal de Cannes: net degradation accounts
The Company Farmer City Casino in Cannes today announced a deterioration in its accounts for 2003/2004, with net income rising in the red at -2.6 million euros at 31 October 2004. Operating income is also Nefat to – 0.7 ME 4.1 ME cons a year earlier.
Debt has risen to 57 cons ME 53 ME 30 October 2003, notably due to the opening of the Casino Barrière Les Princes.
For 2005, the group says it intends to increase its turnover, but remains cautious about its level of profitability.
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The former mayor of Cannes Michel Mouillot set out Friday on his judicial
Michel Mouillot, the former mayor of Cannes UDF-PR, will be set Friday at his lot by the Nice Criminal Court in a case of jars of wine claimed leaders against allowing casinos to operate Slots at Cannes in 1996.
Six years in prison and 100,000 euro fine was required mid-December against Mr. Mouillot, 61, already under sentence of four years imprisonment imposed on 1 December 2004 by the court Appeal of Aix-en-Provence to have seen the “envelopes” to promote a real estate transaction on the Croisette in 1994.
This decision is final and executory at any time since Mr. Mouillot did not appeal in cassation.
“The purpose of Mr. Mouillot, who will attend Friday, is to turn the page and be done with this business,” said his lawyer told AFP François Saint-Pierre, who had asked at the hearing Nice, a concurrent sentences.
Friday in case of rejection of this application which is at the discretion of the court, the former mayor will still appeal the ruling.
Bandits
At his trial in Nice in December 2004, former elected had denied having enriched personally but admitted he accepted in June 1996, “this sign of sympathy” (460,000 euros, Ed) leaders Carlton Casino Cannes, intended, he said, to finance a Republican Party at bay.
Arrested and indicted for bribery, Mr. Mouillot had been placed 15 months in custody, July 1996 to October 1997.
Four months after his incarceration in November 1996, even as he sought a provisional release, broke a similar case in another hotel on the Croisette: Casino Riviera Noga Hilton.
Heard by the police, the director claimed to have issued some 230,000 euros in cash to the mayor to win permission to plant a hundred more bandits.
Indicted a second time for bribery, Michel Mouillot is also accused of abuse of corporate assets and taking unlawful interest in a related matter: he is suspected of having received fictitious jobs at two companies – 1995 to 1996 – even though he held office at City Hall.
In this case said the “casino”, three years in prison with two suspended were also required Nessim Gaon cons, 82, boss of Swiss Noga and her husband, Joel Herzog, 55, suspected of having particular lent a hand to the remittance transaction.
Finally, 18 months suspended sentence were claimed against four other defendants, including the son of Mr. Mouillot.
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