New York businessman Adam Kidan pleaded guilty of defrauding lenders for more than $20 million in the purchase of SunCruz Casinos. Kidan agreed to help prosecutors build their fraud case against his former partner Jack Abramoff, a once-influential Washington lobbyist.

Though online casinos lack the atmosphere of real ones, they are becoming popular globally. Some 400-500 Internet gambling sites have drawn over 90 million visitors. The online gambling craze attracted about 90 million customers worldwide .

The new Opera House Casino in Scarborough has smashed all records for pre-opening membership numbers for a UK casino.

More than 5,000 people have already become members of the St Thomas Street casino even though it hasn't opened yet.

The casino began taking advance membership applications on September 5 and has generated unprecedented interest from across the country.

If you're looking for a fun night out with friends and loved ones and want to help the victims of the recent hurricanes, look no further than the Mansfield Women of Today's Charitable Casino Night.

The night will feature several exciting casino games including Texas Hold'em, roulette, poker, black jack, a money wheel and more. You don't need to be an expert card player to have a great night on Saturday, Nov. 5. The celebrity dealers will help you with the rules of the game and cheer you on to a win. You can get "the deal" from John D'Agostino, Mansfield Town Manager, or Michael Redding, Mansfield's High School football coach. Other celebrity dealers include State Rep. Elizabeth Poirier and Mansfield Police Chief Arthur O'Neil. The top chip winners of the night will go home with generous prizes.

Hyatt Regency Hotels announced that it intends to open its casino in Tirana in October, upon payment of the Lek 1 billion (€8 million) for the license issued by the Albanian Government in January.

According to the business plan introduced by the company in Athens, this venture foresees an €14 million total investment, while George Galanakis, chief executive officers, believes that the company will get its investment back in only two and half years

eFlyte has announced the introduction of their latest product for the airline industry – inflight gambling. At the conclusion of a two year development program, the company is ready to launch gambling on the world's international airlines.

'We believe that the time is right for inflight gambling to be introduced. A combination of factors influenced our decision to launch now.

Atlantic City has an image problem. Now, 25 years after the city tried to save itself by embracing gambling, and nearly 40 years after the 1964 Democratic National Convention ingrained in the national psyche that Atlantic City was the toilet bowl of New Jersey, tourism officials say they are finally going to do something about it.

They're going to come up with a new slogan. It seems the current motto - "America's Favorite Playground" - has died a slow death. A new slogan has been in the works for several months now, with a team of consultants conducting surveys and focus groups - a $110,000 effort. The final catch phrase and logo will be unveiled in October.

Customers of a Japanese bank will no longer have to drum their fingers as they wait for their money at the cash machine, instead they will be invited to have a quick gamble.

From August 8, the cash dispensers of Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank, a regional bank based in the city of Ogaki, will double as slot machines, giving customers the chance to win back the fee they pay for using the machines out of business hours.

Impatient customers who line up three lucky sevens will cancel the 105 yen (54p) fee they usually pay the bank for using the machines after hours.

The entire Macau peninsula, two islands and a reclaimed river delta, covers about 16.9 square miles compared with Las Vegas' 84.3 square miles. But pound for pound, gamblers in Macau are far more aggressive than those visiting Southern Nevada.

When Macau was turned over to the Chinese government in 1999 -- the same year Hong Kong made a similar but more newsworthy transition -- one of the first moves by the new administration was to open the gaming market to competitors, ending a 40-year monopoly.

The resulting injection of competition has made the market explode, with analysts expecting gaming revenue to surpass Las Vegas levels this year or next.

Bally Gaming and Systems, a business unit of Alliance Gaming Corp. (NYSE: AGI), announced today that it has created the Bally Table Management Systems (TMS) division to capitalize on its growing portfolio of table technology products.

Bally TMS includes the technology formerly known as MindPlay and features touch-screen data ratings products (formerly known as eTABLE), card security (Bally MPBaccarat(TM), UCS intelligent card shoe), the state-of-the-art Bally MP21 system for automated tracking of player, bet and card information, which is patented and exclusive to Bally Gaming and Systems, and a chip manufacturing production line (MoneyPieces(TM) gaming chips).