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Arthur Goldberg, head of Park Place Entertainment
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CRIPPLE CREEK, CO -- Century Casinos, Inc. announced Cotober 23 the successful opening of its second shipboard casino out of four to be installed on the luxurious Silversea cruise vessels. The 40-gaming position casino is open for business on the 296-passenger Silver Cloud which departed Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday and is currently cruising in the Mediterranean. Century has an exclusive, five-year concession agreement with Silversea Cruises to install and operate casinos aboard all four Silversea cruise vessels. The Company is now operating casinos on two vessels -- the Silver Cloud and the new 388-passenger Silver Shadow -- and has scheduled its third shipboard casino installation in approximately two weeks on the Silver Wind. The fourth casino will be installed aboard the new Silver Whisper, scheduled for completion in July, 2001. "In the last 40 days we have delivered 3 casino projects on-time and on-budget, demonstrating our ability to successfully |
implement our growth strategy,'' said Erwin Haitzmann, Chairman and CEO of the Company. "We look forward to openingour third shipboard casino scheduled early next month aboard the Silver Wind, giving us a total of six casino operations and further strengthening our base of revenue-producing properties.'' Silversea Cruises is a six-star cruise line based in Fort Lauderdale. Silversea has receive the coveted "World's Best'' designation by the upscale Conde Nast Traveler magazine for five years running (1996 through 2000) as voted by its readers. Century Casinos owns and operates Womacks Casino in Cripple Creek, Colorado; jointly owns and operates The Caledon Casino Hotel & Spa near Capetown, South Africa; has a five-year casino concession to operate four casinos aboard the ultra-luxury Silversea cruise vessels; and manages the Millennium Casino in the new Marriott Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. |
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Hankinson, ND - Elizabeth Hoyer of Morris, Minnesota, a member of the Dakota Magic Players club decided to visit Dakota Magic Casino and Hotel on the players club, "double point day". She told her husband she was going to 'win enough money to buy new carpet'. She did! Mrs. Hoyer won $135,482.00 on the ELVIS Progressive slot machine.
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Las
Vegas, NV
- Excalibur guest Robert W. Schlichter of Cincinnati, Ohio struck it rich
over the weekend playing the "Wheel of Fortune" slot machine. Schlichter
won $932,222 playing the fast-paced machine after two hours on September
25. He said, "I've never won anything before!" Schlichter who has worked
in the service industry for 26 years is married to Karen. Together the
Schlichter's have three children: Julie, Chris, and Jennifer. The family
traveled to Las Vegas for no special occasion, only to enjoy the action
and sights of the Strip. Schlichter feels "great" about winning nearly
a Million dollars at