About
Our Network
Breaking News
Internet Links
Our Forums
e-mail me
Our Executive sign up page was launched on September 18th 2007. May we advise you to bookmark this page as changes will be made weekly.
 
Join Our Mailing List
Email:
For Email Marketing you can trust
 
SEPTEMBER UPDATES
   Executive job of the month: Latest executive position posted by the Sports Recruitment Company on September 22 is for a Casino General Manager  with a salary of £80 - £100K in the UK (Midlands). Click here
  Michael J. Gore MBA, J.D. has just been appointed as the CEO of the Andaman Club, a 200 room Golf and Casino Resort near Ranong in southern Thailand. Michael Gore says: He says that the Andaman Club will become the Poker Headquarters of Southeast Asia and that Air Asia will commence flights from Bangkok to Ranong in early November, 2007. See Andaman Club Website
   Alan is pleased to announce that the Casino Tours Abroad Autumn and Winter junket  schedules will commence on October 18th and the first junket will be to the Portomas Casino in the Hilton Hotel on Malta. Later in the year some of Alan's clients will be joining www.pokerconsultants.com  members on
     Even more good news, as with our other contributors and administrators to Scarab we are pleased to announce that Mike Somers is taking the position of General Manager of the Planters Casino  in The Plantation Resort,  Mahe,  Seychelles. Mike, who is our Poker Consultant for Africa and the Indian Ocean, will now be based in the Indian Ocean, hope he doesn’t get too wet, and can be reached either through the Scarab Casino Management web site or through his business email address, which is available on the Scarab web site. Mike believes that the Seychelles  really is the perfect Paradise location for future celebrity poker tournaments, and will become a hot poker location in the world. 
   Joe Ricci is heading back for another challenge in Kenya, this time the Las Vegas in Nairobi. More to report after Joe arrives.
   In another venture for Rene Lindsen of Swiss Gaming Corporation  a strategic alliance has bee formed between his company and  www.pokerconsultants.com  See the press  release here          
   Steve Hand has informed us that the Poker Consultants Casino Shop is now open for business from September 23rd.  click here to visit the latest range of casino supplies.
   Latest executive position posted by the Sports Recruitment Company on September 22 is for a Casino General Manager  with a salary of £80 - £100K in the UK (Midlands). Find out about this and other TSRC executive job listings by clicking here .  Read  Will the new Personal Licenses change the face of casino recruitment in the UK by TSRC's Steven Jackson.
Click the links below for:
WGA Newsletter August 2007                        WGA Newsletter September 2007
Our subscribers are the ones in the know and you will find news here from time to time from them on events that may not of already been reported elsewhere. If you have an announcement  or breaking news or your company has a press release please email Susi
Our Executive Network page here
 
Some of our subscribers are often in the news. To view the full articles please click on the links below. 
We will be adding articles from the 13th September. If you have subscribed and have had articles published in the past and wish us to place a link here please email executives@scarabcasinomanagement.com
 September 2007

Author: Michael J. Gore MBA, J.D.  Title: Gaming problems in Singapore   Publication: WGA, Casino Life Magazine   Date: September 13th   Synopsis: Rumours of unexpected increases in construction costs for both Singapore's casino properties were confirmed when the Sands recently announced that total project costs will rise from the original planned estimate of US$3.6 billion to almost US$5 billion.

Author: Steven Jackson  Title: Will the new Personal Licenses change the face of casino recruitment in the UK   Publication: Casino Review, Scarab, Swiss Gaming Corp  Date: September 13thSynopsis: With all the press coverage and controversy over the new Casino Licences and the planned location of the UK’s first Super Casino, an exciting and important element of the 2005 Gaming Act seems to have slipped by unnoticed.  Yet the new system of Personal Licences could potentially have just as great an impact upon the industry as the new regional casino licences themselves.

Author: Steve Hand  Title: Asia Casino News  Publication: WGA news   Date: September 8th   Synopsis: Each month a member of Scarab will report on the latest gaming news from Asia. Daily updates are available here

Author: James Wrethman   Title: The Four Horsemen Publication: WGA news, Scarab   Date: September 13th   Synopsis: We’re not sure what day-jobs the fearsome horsemen had, but today they would have been: Accountant, Lawyer, Bureaucrat and Politician.

Author: Jim Goding   Title: On writing reports   Publication: Scarab, Casino Surveillance news  Date: September 1st   Synopsis: Occasionally a Surveillance crew feels that writing reports on personnel is of no value, or is unjust to the people being reported on. After all, “There are many who are doing the same thing that are getting away with it,” right?

Author: Alan Hughes   Title: Beat the Bookies   Publication: WGA news   Date: September 13th  Synopsis: In the 80's and early 90's. Alan ran a bookmaking business which specialised in taking football bets from Denmark. Then one day in the early 90's Fedex turned up on his doorstep to deliver a package from the Desert Inn, Las Vegas; the world-famous casino asked if Alan would like to become a junket agent.

Author: Mario Ingretolli  Title: Kenya memories  Publication: WGA news   Date: September 13th  Synopsis: As an ex-British Colony, Kenya’s Gaming Rules are based on English rules. No tables can be opened or closed without the presence of a gaming board official.

 August 2007
Author: Colin Stewart Title:Mobile Marketing for the Casino Industry  Publication: WGA news Date: August 18th  Synopsis :With the upcoming relaxation of the advertising laws and membership requirements for casinos, it is time for operators and their marketing teams to seriously consider their options.
Author: Steve Hand  Title: Bahamas Happenings Publication: WGA/Scarab news  Date: August 18th  Synopsis: Steve Hand reviews exciting news of recent developments in the Bahamas

Author: Mario Ingretolli   Title: Maltese gaming and casinos  Publication: WGA news   Date: August 18th  Synopsis: There are four casinos in Malta – Dragonara Casino, Casino di Venetia, Oracle Casino and The Casino at Portomaso. Malta has a very efficient Gaming Board which has been set up using mostly English gaming rules.

Author: James Wrethman  Title: Luck Publication: Scarab- WGA news Date: August 18th  Synopsis: Undoubtedly the word most used in connection with gambling is 'luck'. But what is luck ? If you consult your dictionary it will probably give you - events that are beyond control and seem subject to chance- or - the supposed tendency of chance to bring a succession of favourable or unfavourable events
 Author: Antonia Stoian  Title: My Romania Publication: WGA news  Date: August 18th  Synopsis: In 1997, Romania had 57 casinos among which 17 were in Bucharest. Reporting to the number of inhabitants, Bucharest was classified, at that time, the third city of gambling opportunities, in Europe.
 Author: Mike Somers  Title:Suriname Gaming  Publication: Scarab news  Date: August 18th  Synopsis: My Happy time in Suriname started in January 06, I was going out there on a consultancy basis for MAGNUM Industries ltd; I flew out with KLM (not my favourite Airline) and landed in Paramaribo the Capital of Suriname.

 January - July 2007 archives   

 Do U.K. casinos need marketing?  Author Colin Stewart of CMD.   Singapore Rising  by Mike Gore and Steve Hand.   The Rise of Macau by David Smart   Asia stories  by Mike Gore

 Poker and Bridge Corner  by Terry Poole   Poland Revisited  by James Wrethman   Asia Gaming  by Mike Gore   Casino Legislation Ireland  by JJ Woods   Casino News 2050 by James Wrethman

On the Junket Frontline  by Alan Hughes

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

|About| |Our Network| |Breaking News| |Internet Links| |Our Forums|

Webhosting