Detroit Free Press – The U.S. Supreme Court plans to hear arguments in December on what power, if any, the state has to shut down an American Indian casino in northern Michigan. The case could have implications for other tribal casino projects in Michigan. Arguments are Dec. 2. The court earlier agreed to consider the case. The Bay Mills Indian Community opened a casino in 2010 in Vanderbilt in the northern Lower Peninsula, about 90 miles south of its Upper Peninsula reservation. Michigan argues that the tribe opened the casino without permission from the U.S. government and in violation of…

France 24 – Australian tycoon James Packer on Friday said he plans to pump Aus$400 million (US$384 million) into a five-star gambling resort in Sri Lanka, cashing in on the country’s tourism potential. The billionaire, who operates casinos in Melbourne, Perth and Macau and is planning a complex in Manila, said the project on the banks of Beira Lake in Colombo would create 2,500 jobs. Sri Lanka is banking on high-end casinos to attract high-rollers and boost tourist arrivals to 2.5 million by 2016 from the current level of about a million tourists a year. Packer said he was in…

iGaming Business – Chinese sports lottery software and systems developer AGTech Holdings’ Beijing subsidiary AGTech GOT Technology has won a tender to supply the Guangdong Sports Lottery Administration Centre with football single match betting (SMB) computerised sports lottery terminals. AGTech, which is supplying SMB terminals for the first time in China, said that its GOT terminals are compatible with all computerised sports products in the country. Guangdong currently ranks as China’s third largest province in terms of sports lottery sales during the last few years, while SMB is proving to be one of the country’s fastest growing products. “By entering…

Card Player – A woman who won a $1-million prize in a promotion at an Oregon tribal casino is suing the firm who insured it for stiffing her on her seven-figure payout, according to KGW. In 2012, Beverly Mackey, who currently lives off of disability and social security payments and a small pension, hit the grand prize in the Chinook Winds Casino’s “Swipe, Play & Win” promotion. To her devastation, the insurer of the contest, Nevada-based Odds On Promotions, reportedly refused to pay, claiming that it had made a terrible blunder. It said a company technician put the odds of…

New York Times – Baha Mar, a $3.5 billion luxury resort, is scheduled to open in December 2014 on the island of Nassau in the Bahamas. The ambitious project is on a 1,000-acre property set along 3,000 feet of beach that will have four hotel brands in separate towers for a total of 2,200 rooms: the Baha Mar Casino & Hotel, Rosewood at Baha Mar, Mondrian at Baha Mar and Grand Hyatt at Baha Mar. There will also be a 100,000-square-foot casino; an ESPA-branded 30,000-square-foot spa; 32 restaurants, bars and clubs; a Jack Nicklaus golf course; 14 pools; a water…

Players of progressive slot machines may see jackpot increases in the future thanks to some companies’ desire to compete with large lottery payouts in other states. The three-member Nevada Gaming Control Board conducted a workshop Wednesday on a petition by IGT and Bally Technology to change regulations that aim at get more players to spend their money on the progressive machines. The proposed amended regulation for these jackpot increases would allow a Nevada company with a network of progressive machines to tie the Nevada progressive machines into the slots owned by the company in other states where gambling is legal. If…