Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Player protection measures take super-casino to Manchester

In a surprise decision, the UK Casino Advisory Panel awarded the much coveted super-casino license to Manchester, the BBC reports. Most experts had been predicting that the bid would go to either Blackpool or Harry Anschutz's Millennium Dome. Oddsmakers had ranked Manchester as the least likely of the seven finalists to win the super-casino. One of the key factors in the decision was Manchester's emphasis on responsible gaming principles in its proposal - further evidence of the CSR message resonating with regulators as they fend off a backlash to unbridled gaming expansion. In its original plan, the UK intended to grant licenses for dozens of super-casinos across the country, before scaling back its ambitions to just eight, and now to just this single "pilot" scheme.

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