Daily Mail – A 39-year-old man who leaped from a second-floor balcony to his death inside a Queens casino yesterday was on a winning streak. Sayed Alam was up by about $1,200 on the slot machines when he plunged 30-feet inside the Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct Race Track just before 6pm. Dozens of people were standing in the main lobby of the gambling hall on Rockaway Blvd in South Ozone Park when the man jumped, New York Daily News reported. The reason for the man’s death is not known. However sources told The New York Post that Alam was…

Orlando Sentinel – The casino-hotel talk in Tallahassee has gone on for more than two years, so what’s one more week? Sen. Garrett Richter, head of the Senate committee on gaming, had planned to release a draft of a comprehensive gambling bill on Monday. But he announced Friday that his bill will need to wait a week, after the committee failed to complete its agenda during a two-hour session on Monday. “As it turned out, we did not finish the workshop on ‘elements and options’ for inclusion in the proposed committee bill,” Richter, R-Naples, wrote in a memo released Friday….

Macau Business Daily – The first tourism satellite account data have quantified the city’s dependence on gaming, revealing that about 84 percent of their spending is at the city’s casinos. The data for 2010 show tourists spent MOP220.4 billion (US$27.6 billion), including MOP184.5 billion in the casinos and MOP19.3 billion at the shops. The tourism satellite account is meant to assess the value of the tourism industry to the economy, the Statistics and Census Service says. In 2010 the value added by the tourism industry was MOP51.8 billion, or 35 percent of gross domestic product.

Register Mail – After failing to win enough support the past two years, proponents of expanded gambling in Illinois see it having better chances this year, with other issues out of the way and the state in dire need of cash. The legislation, which would establish five new casinos and authorize slot machines at racetracks and airports, went out with a whimper last May as the session adjourned. Lawmakers discussed the lengthy, complex proposal extensively but never called it for a vote. So far, advocates are pushing almost identical legislation this year, but circumstances are different. It’s an election year,…

Card Player – A plan to put a commercial casino in Virginia reportedly will have to wait until 2015, despite a positive advancement on the idea early this year. Senate Bill No. 19, which will be shelved, called for a casino in the Hampton Roads area. The state doesn’t have any Las Vegas-style casinos of any kind. According to The Washington Post, Sen. L. Louise Lucas, sponsor of the bill, asked her colleagues this week “to put her own measure off for the year while she gathers support in the more-conservative House of Delegates. Lucas said she’s found a House…

Bloomberg – To bring Las Vegas-style gambling to Florida, casino operators like Sheldon Adelson are sending more than 100 lobbyists to the state Capitol to battle their biggest adversary: Mickey Mouse. The clash pits casino operators Genting Bhd. (GENT) and Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS), controlled by billionaire Adelson, against Walt Disney Co. (DIS), which runs theme parks and resorts near Orlando, and may face new competition for convention business. Companies on both sides of the dispute are sending lobbyists and campaign checks to Florida lawmakers, who say they’ll consider expanding gambling this year. A state-commissioned study found that full-service…