iGaming Business – UK shadow planning minister Roberta Blackman-Woods has criticised the government for a change in legislation that she claims could lead to a further rise in the number of high-street bookmakers. Blackman-Woods said that the UK had already witnessed a 3% rise in betting shops over the past 12 months. “While many of us have been arguing for greater powers to assist local communities in shaping their areas, the government has been busy giving away the powers that do exist to provide for that,” Blackman-Woods said. “The government’s approach is entirely the wrong one and profoundly anti-localist. It…

CBS News – Police say one person is dead and two others are injured after an early morning Monday shooting at a Las Vegas Strip nightclub inside Bally’s Hotel and Casino. Las Vegas police Lt. Jay Roberts says the suspected shooter is in custody. The victims, whose names have not been released, were taken to University Medical Center. The conditions of the two who were injured were not immediately available. Roberts says the shooting happened about 5:45 a.m. Monday at Drai’s, an after-hours club that caters to the late-late crowd. It’s located in the lower level of Bally’s. The Strip…

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…