One of the top mobile gaming sites in the United Kingdom, Wild Jack Mobile Casino, will continue it's sponsorship of two of the world's leading snooker players. The sponsorship arrangement allows the players to forget about their finances and to focus on being the best snooker player they can be, while providing Wild Jack with additional exposure each time the sponsored player is featured on television.

Known collectively as "Team Wild Jack", the two players who were lucky enough to obtain this sponsorship are 27 year-old Ryan Day from Glamorgan (UK) and 29 year-old Michael "Hitman" Holt from Nottingham. While both of these players openly express their gratitude for having their sponsorship extended another year, fans of the snooker duo will quickly tell anyone with an open ear that it is actually Wild Jack who is lucky to have such fine players on their side.

All casinos have officially been removed from Krasnoyarsk following the passage of a law that banned games of chance in the area. Following the activation of the new statutes, police conducted spot inspections of all former gambling houses and reported that gambling had been all but eliminated from the territory. Illegal slot machine gambling was found at three locations on a small scale, but all other gambling dens had been closed in accordance with the law.

The Russian Newslab reported Sergey Shults, the Deputy-Chief of the Consumer Rights Department, as stating that gambling had been eliminated from Krasnoyarsk. The news followed police inspections that were conducted yesterday at 462 gambling establishments. The establishments that were inspected included 11 casinos, and a large number of taverns and other businesses that were previously allowed to operate slot machines.

The British High Court has dismissed a plea entered by the largest casino lobby in the United Kingdom. The plea was entered to stop the development of 17 large scale casinos that current casinos will not have the ability to compete against. The ruling by the British High Court leaves the door open for Britain's 2005 Gaming Act, which oversees the Super Casino and the others, to be implemented by September 1, 2007.

The plea before the High Court had been entered by the British Casinos Association (BCA), which represents the interests of 90% of all casinos located in the United Kingdom. The groups represented by the British Casinos Association are Gala Casinos, the Rank Group's Grosvenor Casinos, Genting's Stanley Casinos Group and the Harrahs owned London Clubs International. These four groups control 116 of the 138 casinos licensed in the United Kingdom.

More than two years of plans, debates and legislation have been shot down as the House of Lords, led by unelected Bishops, tossed the UK's plans for a Super Casino into the garbage. Plans for sixteen smaller casinos have also been put on hold until a joint committee can evaluate the decision making process behind the casino application and licensing procedures.

The vote came as a complete shock to UK Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell, who had touted plans for a Super Casino in Britain since the beginning. When Ministers first presented the new Gambling Act in 2005, they were forced to compromise again and again. Original plans called for 40 Las Vegas style Super Casinos. That number was quickly reduced to eight super casinos, which eventually dwindled to just one Las Vegas style Super Casino.

The United Kingdom has now released the official terms that will govern bidding for a new wave of casinos to be licensed in the country. This includes one Las Vegas style super-casino to be built in Manchester, and a number of smaller local casinos as well.

In a surprise move last month, the Government announced that Manchester would become host to the country's first super casino. The move was unexpected by most, with Blackpool being the leading favorite to win this coveted casino license.

A COMMISSION is to be created that will examine the case for a large casino to be built on Waltham Forest's doorstep.

Last month the Government's Casino Advisory Panel (CAP) announced that Newham, subject to approval from Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, is one of the eight authorities permitted to build a large casino.

The complex, which would have at least 150 gambling machines, is set to be built at Stratford City, West Ham United FC or the Docklands' ExCel Centre.

THE world's biggest gaming company could join the race to build Britain's first supercasino in Manchester.

Harrah's Entertainment, the Nevada-based firm behind Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, said it was `looking forward' to finding out about the bidding process and claimed it would offer `the most complete package for the UK'.

PLANS for Britain's first super casino were plunged into doubt last night after Manchester was unexpectedly selected over Greenwich and Blackpool.

The British government was facing the prospect of a rebellion among MPs after an advisory panel rejected the two front-runners and plumped for Manchester, previously the 16-1 outsider at the bookmakers. It is also expected that there could be a legal challenge to the move.

A ban on casinos, betting shops and other gambling operators advertising on television was relaxed by the Government on the eve of today's announcement of the first Las Vegas-style super-casino.

The decision to allow operators to advertise on television for the first time raised fresh concerns of an increase in problem gambling.