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Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: PNK) received its 2006 award at a ceremony hosted by County Executive Charlie Dooley. The award has been given in recognition of Pinnacle’s tight collaboration with lots of government agencies and the Lemay community in south St. Louis County. This is the place where the company is carrying out its $ 375 million project of constructing River City (SM) Casino & Hotel entertainment complex.  Besides, the company is planning to build a new access road from Interstate 55 to its Lemay site. This project is believed to motivate and encourage additional investment and economic activity in the area. And there is a third project: to construct a multi-million dollar community center for the Lemay area.

It is planned to open the River City Casino in 2008. The variety of entertainments services it will offer is really great: 3000 slot machines, 60 table games, 100-guestroom hotel, full-service spa, restaurants, a boutique boiling alley, a multiplex movie theatre, an indoor ice rink, extensive retail and entertainment space, and a public park with athletic fields and a hatch-shell music and entertainment venue.

Being a leading manufacturer and supplier of casino table game equipment under the Paulson, Bud Jones and B & G brands, Gaming Partners International Corporation (Nasdaq: GPIC) has recently completed the setting up of the equipment at the newly opened Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa, Station Casinos’ 15th property in Southern Nevada. It has provided the casino with chips, including RFID chips and readers, colorful graphic layouts, dice, and custom made accessories.

RFID chips have proved to be able to improve chip security and verify chip transactions. Thus they have been adopted by several Station Casino properties. No doubt, the merits of the chips are the traditional weight and already recognized quality.

Bill Petuskey, director of casino operations at Red Rock Casino commented: “GPI was the perfect choice for producing the Table Games at Red Rock. The quality of their product is exceeded only by the performance of their staff. A special thank you to Pat Butrico for his time and attention to detail”.

Pat Butrico, sales manager for the Las Vegas area said: “Station Casinos’ and GPI share the same philosophy of personalized service and quality that made our collaboration so successful. We are very proud to have been a part of this innovative, unique casino, and that we were selected for our state-of-the-art products as well as for our unmatched service”.

Now you can make sure that Red Rock Casino and Spa offer main and pool area gaming pits, poker and high limit rooms, with 87 state-of-the-art tables, matching the decoration of the casino area.

The World Poker Tour will take place in August 26-30, 2006 at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. Having held the first of four Direct Entry Satellites for the Legends of Poker on the 13th of May, Everest Poker is ready to announce the first winners. Thus, Everest Poker Player rosco1963 will receive a prize running as high as $ 7,500. The Italian player will have his $ 5,150 seat paid for by Everest Poker and he will get $ 2, 350 in spending money.

Jonathan May, Everest Poker’s Property Manager claims that it a big thrill for them to send players to the Legends of poker, as they do it for the first time. He adds: “This old and established tournament is the only WPT event where bounties are put on famous professionals. It’s a great opportunity for someone to make a name for themselves even if they don’t win, by knocking out a famous poker player”.

So there are three Legends of Poker Direct Entry Satellites left. They will be held on June 10, July 8, and August 5. Besides these tournaments, now Everest Poker is also featuring such satellite tournaments for the following poker events:
1. The Everest Poker European Championship, an exclusive Everest Poker event taking place September 9, 2006, in Barcelona, Spain
2. The Grand Prix de Paris, a World Poker Tour event taking place June 12-16, 2006, at the Aviation Club de France in Paris, France
3. The World Series of Poker Main Event, taking place July 28 – August 10, 2006, at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In case you need more information, please go to www.everestpoker.com.

Normandie Casino which is located 15 minutes East of LAX at 1045 W. Rosecrans Avenue in the City of Gardena will offer a free entry to all Military Carrying personnel to enter the Memorial Day Weekend $ 10,000 Poker tournament. The event will take place on the 26th of May, at 10 p.m. The casino appreciates those who have defended the country, that’s why the event will be held to honor the military services.

At the moment the casino offers a huge and various list of games: “Pure Blackjack” (Vegas Style, Natural pays 3:2, Double Down, Split, Surrender, 52 cards per deck, nothing wild and no jokers), Texas Hold’em, Card Craps, 3 Card Poker, Live Video Blackjack, Pai Gow Poker, Pai Gow Tiles and Baccarat.

The casino is open day and night, all year round. It features Miller’s Sport’s Bar & Lounge, Cafe Michelle’s Restaurant, Sandi’s Snacks and live entertainment in its Club 1045. For more information, please call (310) 352-3400 or (800) 9 Winner or visit Normandie Casino website at: www.normandiecasino.com.

This site is considered to be the only one offering free service. It offers access to worldwide poker game data with real time statistics.

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Playing in online casinos for about two years and a half, Kari Bunting won for the first time, immediately having become $ 200,000 richer. How did it happen? She played the Desert Treasure Jackpot Slots. She managed in an hour of playing to collect three icons that allowed her to access the bonus feature where the top prize was the $200,000 jackpot.

Actually she plays at three online casinos, but she really likes playing at BetWWTS as they offer a list of various games that are not offered by other sites. All that, according to Kari’s opinion, makes BetWWTS unique.

Here what she has told: “I knew the chance was there for some big money when I got to the bonus.But when all five of the icons matched up, I was just completely shocked. I was amazed when three icons matched, but then when all five had the same female icon, I just could not believe it”.
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As it has been announced by Riviera Holdings Corporation (AMEX: RIV) Ron Johnson resigned for personal reasons on May 16, 2006.

Chief Executive Officer William L. Westerman has been appointed to Johnson’s position as President of Riviera Black Hawk, Inc. Westerman being already the head admitted: “We appreciate Ron’s 15 years of dedication and service to the Company, especially his contribution to the development of our successful Black Hawk Casino, and wish him well on his future endeavors”.

The board of Directors of Aztar Corporation (NYSE: AZR) has admitted that the revised proposal of Wimar Tahoe Corporation d/b/a Columbia Entertainment, the gaming of Columbia Sussex Corporation to acquire Aztar is superior in comparison with the terms of the current merger agreement with Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc.

The terms of the revised offer are as the following: Aztar would be acquired in a merger transaction. The holders of Aztar common stock would get $ 54 per share in cash, whilst the holders of Aztar’s Series B preferred stock would get $ 571.13 per share in cash. The offer also contained a merger agreement in accordance with which Aztar receives in certain circumstances a substantial deposit. In case there is an increase in the purchase price, the agreement provides for it at the rate of $0.00888 per share per day beginning six months, and then to $0.01184 per share per day beginning nine months, after the signing of the merger agreement in the event all required regulatory approvals have not been received by such dates. Besides that, Columbia Entertainment provided a signed financing commitment letter.

According to the revised offer of Columbia Entertainment, it would remain open till 2:00 p.m. (NY city time) on Friday, May 19, 2006.

According to the terms of Aztar’s merger agreement with Pinnacle, Aztar is to wait three business days before it can terminate the merger agreement with Pinnacle and enter into a merger agreement with another party. As it has already been announced the merger agreement with Pinnacle dating 5th May, 2006, determines the purchase price for each share of Aztar common stock as $47.00 per share in cash and $4.00 of Pinnacle common stock, subject to a collar.

At the moment no news is coming from Aztar’s Board with respect to the Columbia Entertainment offer. Nobody is sure whether the agreement will take place.

If a casino is looking forward to creating its future growth and profitability, there is nothing like a combination of Robinson & Associates’ Advocate Index™ methodology and best business practices offered by Advocate Development System.

Martin R. Baird, the chief executive officer of Robinson Associates, a customer consulting firm for the gaming industry worldwide says: “The business environment in the gaming industry is highly competitive and casinos must be equipped with the proper tools to drive themselves forward for continued success. Advocate Index is the one number casinos need to plan their future growth and Advocate Development System gives them a structured program to leverage the index and take action”.

The methodology behind Advocate Index announced by Robinson & Associates last October, is the result of a thorough and profound research in more than a dozen of industries that shows that the index has tight correlation to future growth. Regarding casinos Advocate Index is the “baseline number that reflects where a casino is at the moment”, through a simple survey it measures the degree to which casinos have guest advocates that would be willing to risk their reputation by acting as casino’s advocates. Baird adds that “Advocate Development System utilizes the index and best practices to gauge, monitor and improve the casino’s performance and guest service. The end result is creation of more guest advocates and ever higher index scores. The higher the score, the more successful the casino will be because advocates are highly likely to return to play again and generate new business through the positive word they spread about the casino.

Leadership, program management, goals and metrics, incentives, action planning, improvement, guest and employee closure are the best business practices admitted by the Advocate Development System. Baird comments:

Leadership. It is necessary for the management to act as leaders to show how important guest advocates are. It’s not enough for the management staff to support any changes necessary for the company’s improvement, but they have to lead showing the example.

Program Management. Robinson & Associates partners with a casino on the implementation of Advocate Development System designs the developed and monitored formal program so that the casino can take it over when it’s high time.

Goals and Metrics. All the casino departments have goals and metrics established for them but being tightly connected with the casinos goal to become a success.

Incentives. Incentive, reward and recognition programs implemented will spur employees on providing customer service that turns guests into advocates.

Action Planning. Action plan will determine who will do it, when and why they will do it.

Improvement. The internal improvement processes implemented to create more guest advocates will involve educational, fun and participant-centered training for all employees.

Guest and Employee Closure. Keeping employees informed about the state of things gives them closure. At the same time guests will be asked how the casino can be a better place to play. They have closure when they are told by the casino how their input was used.

Baird admits: “Advocate Development System creates a focus on methods and programs that will bring increasing numbers of guests to a casino and cause existing guests to return more often, play longer and have such a positive experience that they themselves tell others to visit the casino. The System is reliable, consistent and effective; it will revitalize and support phenomenal growth at casinos”.

For more details, please go to the Advocate Development System Web site at AdvocateDevelopmentSystem.com.

You may call 206-774-8856 or e-mail Lydia Baird, director of business development, at e-mail protected from spam bots.

Note that the Web site also outlines 11 reasons for why a casino can benefit from the system, 7 mistakes casinos make when they come to improving their guest service and 10 top reasons for why customer satisfaction surveys fail. The site also has a link to an Advocate Index white paper.

Robinson & Associates has a Casino Customer Service Web site at CasinoCustomerService.com.

About Robinson & Associates: it is located in Annapolis and is a member of the Casino Management Association and is and associate member of the National Indian Gaming Association.