Further evidence, if any were needed, that playing online is considerably safer than visiting a casino, especially after you’ve enjoyed a decent run and ended the night a few quid ahead of the game, arrived from the Mediterranean earlier this week.
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While Melbourne-based organisation Crown, Australia’s biggest casino operator, was announcing they were scrapping plans to build a casino in Las Vegas, matters in Yorkshire appeared considerably more positive.
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Even if visitors to bricks and mortar casinos find their chip stack decimated, they generally end up with a dollar or two’s worth of chips in their back pocket which, as many subsequently discover, is of little use when it comes to paying for a taxi fare. Nonetheless, frequent chip ‘collectors’ may be inclined to check whether they trousered anything by mistake when visiting the now defunct Showboat Casino, which operated in Las Vegas between 1954 and 2001.
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After a record-breaking run in Las Vegas, where she appeared five nights a week for five years, Celine Dion started her latest tour in Manchester earlier in the week. While the Canadian superstar might not be everyone’s cup of tea (apparently her audience consisted mostly of elderly couples, mothers and daughters and gay men), her phenomenal run in Vegas provides some idea of how Sin City place is performing in the face of a widespread economic slowdown.
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It was only last year that Manchester won the bid to host the country’s first so-called ‘super casino’, beating off strong competition from Blackpool in particular. The award was greeted with genuine enthusiasm and wholesale approval across the city as the project was intended to be a catalyst for urban regeneration close to Manchester City Football Club’s Eastlands stadium. Casino operators planned to invest hundreds of millions of pounds, thousands of permanent jobs were to be created, the city’s international profile would have been raised and the council anticipated a huge surge in tourism.
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