April 28th, 2010
Singapore threw open the doors of its second casino on Tuesday as part of a $US5.5 billion complex built by US gaming giant LasVegas Sands.
The Marina Bay Sands is the world’s second most expensive casino after MGM Mirage’s CityCenter in LasVegas and is expected to generate as much $US1 billion in annual profit.
Singapore gave the green light for casino gambling in 2005, setting off a flurry of construction that went ahead despite the city-state slipping into recession in 2008.
April 23rd, 2010
Las Vegas impresario Steve Wynn has opened an all-suite hotel and casino adjacent to the Wynn Macau, mirroring his firm’s properties in Las Vegas.
Encore at Wynn Macau, which opened on April 21, consists of 414 suites and villas which Wynn describes at the “loveliest hotel in the world.”
The property includes a 205,000 square foot casino, six restaurants, 46,000 square feet of retail space, a health club and pool.
It also hosts Spa at Encore, which offers eight private therapy suites, each with their own steamroom, sauna and aromatherapy bath and shower.
February 19th, 2010
Internet platform Sedo, which is the auction of secondary domain names, today announced the conclusion of the most expensive deal in the blast zone. Org.
According to Sedo, a domain Poker.org was sold for $ 1 million.
Company National A-1 sold the specified domain operator online casino PokerCompany.com.
Believe it or not, but Poker is becoming a serious billion dollar a year industry that spans the entire world, and easily employs more than one million people.
October 14th, 2008
Celebrating the inaugural SKYCITY Festival of Poker, Amber Peebles wore a specially designed chip dress worth $1 million at the SKYCITY Lee Nelson and Brooke Howard-Smith Celebrity & Media Invitational poker tournament last week.
The dress was made out of 200 casino chips worth $5000 each, and required the MTV presenter to have her own security team following her around.
Amber Peebles said: “When SKYCITY first pitched me on the idea of the Million Dollar Chip Dress I thought it was very Paris Hilton, but how many times does a girl get to wear a million bucks?”
The dress, weighed more than two kilograms, was made only for this event at the SkyCity Casino in Auckland, and will never be worn again.
March 12th, 2008
The so-called Freedom Ship, a floating city of thousands, is an idea that has been tossed around for a while.
Now the Freedom Ship company has a new set of designs for the floating urban space, which looks sort of like a giant mall parking lot, and sort of like a really giant Love Boat.
Here you can see the new design of the ship. The designers estimate they’ll have it built in three years. Here are some of the specs on this giant ship city.
February 15th, 2008
This is not a Blimp. It’s a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that could change the way you think about air travel. It’s the Aeroscraft, and when it’s completed, it will ferry pampered passengers across continents and oceans as they stroll leisurely about the one-acre cabin or relax in their well-appointed staterooms.
Unlike its dirigible ancestors, the Aeroscraft is not lighter than air. Its 14 million cubic feet of helium hoist only two thirds of the craft’s weight. The rigid and surprisingly aerodynamic body-driven by huge rearward propellers-generates enough additional lift to keep the behemoth and its 400-ton payload aloft while cruising. During takeoff and landing, six turbofan jet engines push the ship up or ease its descent.
