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The Club Cal Neva and Siri’s Casino will host a Job Fair on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. inside the Club Cal Neva Event Room on the third floor of the casino.

Both casinos will accept applications for all positions both full and part-time.

Managers from all departments will be on hand to accept applications and conduct interviews

Bulgarian regulator the State Commission on Gambling (SCG) has expanded its blacklist of unlicensed iGaming domains with the addition of five new sites, including domains operated by Cherry Casino and GVC-owned Sportingbet.

The new additions take the total number of blacklisted sites to 203, with the country’s internet service providers required to block Bulgarian players from accessing the sites.

Las Vegas (ABC) -- Oscar-winner Ben Affleck may be an A-lister, but even he can’t get away with being “too good” at blackjack.

The actor was banned from playing blackjack at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Casino after he was deemed “too good” at the game by security, a source confirmed to ABC News.

Some reports said that Affleck allegedly was counting cards, a gambling method in which the player memorizes which type of cards have already been played and uses that knowledge to perfect his or her playing strategy. It is not illegal but can get a player banned.

However, the casino did not use the words “counting cards,” the source told ABC News, and the Hard Rock said that it is its policy “not to comment” on guests’ gaming play.

Affleck was not banned from the entire casino, but was told he could no longer try his hand at blackjack, the source said.

The Hard Rock hotel was “very nice” about the incident and Affleck was welcome to play other games, the source told ABC News. However, Affleck and his wife, actress Jennifer Garner, decided to head back to their hotel for the night.

The Hard Rock issued a statement that read, in part, “Mr. Affleck, a valued guest of Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, is not banned from our property and is welcome back any time.”

Affleck and Garner were enjoying a quick getaway before Affleck headed to Detroit to start filming on the film “Batman vs. Superman,” ABC News’ source said

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands --- Two foreign companies have applied for an exclusive casino license on Saipan. Each paid the application fee of $1 million.

Press Secretary Angel A. Demapan said, "the commonwealth received two applications for the development of a casino resort on the island of Saipan."

He said the applications are from Marianas Stars Entertainment Inc. and Best Sunshine International Ltd. Both companies deposited $1 million into the CNMI government’s Bank of Guam account.

“The submission of these applications and the accompanying funds is the first step in the casino development process as identified in Public Law 18-38,” Demapan told reporters.

“The next step is for a further deposit of $30 million on May 5th and approval or denial of the applications by June 19.”

Gov. Eloy S. Inos said, “The deposit of the $2 million confirms the viability of the proposal to spur economic development through a highly regulated development plan. This development is not just about casinos. It is about construction of new hotels, expansion of infrastructure and the creation of thousands of jobs.”

According to the governor, “The issue that is the most appealing is that it will provide an economic future for many families, increased demand for real property, and many business opportunities for local residents. We will be closely reviewing these applications to ensure that they meet our objectives and protect the long-term interest of our residents.”

The Saipan casino law’s primary goal is to restore the cuts made to the retirees’ pensions and pay interest to Retirement Fund members who withdrew their contributions.

“It’s a big deal and these folks want to make sure. I expect that these submissions will be hand-delivered by this afternoon just to make sure they get here on time and get stamped.”

According to the Saipan casino law, whoever gets the exclusive casino license must invest $2 billion in an integrated resort which will include the construction of 2,000 hotel rooms.

Press Secretary Demapan said applicants were required to submit detailed information concerning their financial capability, experience in gaming, development plans and a three-year business plan.

He said all the information submitted will be thoroughly reviewed by a panel consisting of the attorney general, the secretaries of Finance and Commerce, and the commissioner of the Department of Public Safety. These officials are members of the lottery commission.

Demapan said these officials will also call on experts in the field of hotel development, tourism, law enforcement and gaming to assist in the evaluation of the applications.

In a separate interview, anti-casino advocate and former teacher Ambrose Bennett said he knows that retirees want their money back, but he does not think the community as a whole “really wants to accept the disrespect the Inos administration has shown them.”

He said the way he sees it now, “there will be $30 million to bribe the voters to win the elections.”

However, he is confident that the people will vote for a governor that will push for an alternative to a casino — “a governor who knows how to respect the will of the people and has the means to revive the economy other than through a casino.”

He said the next Legislature can repeal the casino law.

“They won a battle but the war is not over,” he said adding that the collection of signatures for the repeal of the casino law continues.

The courtyard area outside Temecula’s City Hall building was filled with the smell of food as multiple restaurants and wineries set up shop for a good cause on April 26. It was the fourth annual Taste of Temecula Valley fundraiser and thousands of event attendees tried food, beer and wine from the many businesses that participated from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. that day.

The event was organized to benefit the Temecula Valley Foundation for Excellence in Education (TVEE), which is an organization that seeks to help schools in Southwest Riverside County meet some of their educational goals.

In addition to delicious food and drink, guests could also dance to live bands performing a number of hits from the 70s and 80s.

Chef of Mama’s Cucina Italiana at Pala Casino Spa & Resort, Luciano Cibelli, whipped up a variety of handcrafted Italian favorites such as Lobster Ravioli, as well as a trio of desserts that consisted of Pana Cotta, Crème Brulee, and Macaroons.

This was Cibelli’s first year at the Taste of Temecula Valley festival and he said Pala Casino Resort & Spa’s booth was very busy as people flocked Advertisement

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According to event chair Mark Katan, this year’s Taste event was one of the largest. Katan said there were over 30 food vendors, 10 microbreweries, six wineries, and 14 other businesses on site.

Katan has been involved with the Taste of Temecula Valley festival since its beginning. He was one of the people that devised the idea five years ago when TVFEE members were trying to come up with a good fundraiser to benefit students.

In the year he devised the idea, he wasn’t able to get adequate support to make it a reality, but that changed the following year.

Since then the event has been going strong and growing, according to Katan. He said that one of the positives has been the ever-increasing variety in terms of food and beverage choices.

"The increasing variety is probably the biggest thing," Katan said. "There’s a diverse group of restaurants that are amazing."

Katan said he was proud how this year’s event turned out, because it was much more versatile than in previous years.

"This year we have something for everyone," he said.

Ontario's Lottery and Gaming Corp. failed to adequately consult municipalities before promising to increase revenues by building new casinos that it turned out cities don't want, auditor general Bonnie Lysyk reported Monday.

"OLG included projected profits from those casinos without first confirming that new casinos would be accepted, would be considered, in certain municipalities," said Lysyk. "In fact, large Ontario cities such as Toronto and Ottawa rejected OLG's proposals for constructing new casinos."

Lysyk issued a special report on OLG's modernization plan that also criticized the agency and the Liberal government for the "abrupt cancellation" of a program that gave $347 million a year from slot machine revenues to horse racetracks.

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"The profit estimates should have been more realistic, and the abrupt impact on the horse racing industry could have been mitigated had more people been consulted beforehand," she said in the report.

OLG originally projected it could bring in an additional $4.6 billion in gaming profits between 2013 and 2018 through new casinos and other modernization efforts, a figure it has since revised downward by nearly half to $2.2 billion. However, that's still too optimistic for the financial watchdog, who puts the figure at $1.8 billion, or about 60 per cent less than the forecast.

The Progressive Conservatives said that means the Liberal government faces an even larger problem trying to eliminate an $11.3-billion deficit and balance the books on schedule by 2017-18.

'There's a huge hole'

"There's a huge hole in the Liberals' accounting due to OLG revenues," said PC finance critic Vic Fedeli.

But Finance Minister Charles Sousa said he'd already taken the lower-than-expected revenue hike from OLG into consideration in last year's budget, and then lowered the figure even more in last fall's economic statement.

The agency is expected to turn over $2 billion to the province this year, and had hoped to increase that by $1.3 billion more each year by 2018, but Sousa put a much lower revenue figure in his budget.

"In the provisions of the budget at the time, we lowered them — we didn't make it as high in what we put forward in our budget projections, and since then we've revised them again, and I've since revised them even lower to $600 million," he said.

OLG also overstated the number of jobs that would come from its modernization plan by projecting 2,300 new positions would be created, said Lysyk, who warned there would likely be job losses in the end.

"OLG projected that all of this expansion was to have created 2,300 net new gaming jobs in the province," she said. "With the cancellation of a GTA casino factored out of this projection, there may be a loss of 1,000 net new gaming jobs."

Problem may be changing leadership

In addition, OLG's hopes of attracting $3.2 billion in private sector capital investment has been reduced to only $940 million, "most of which would be realized from the sale of OLG's existing gaming assets," said Lysyk.

The auditor also said part of the problem may be changing leadership at OLG, noting it has had five different board chairs and seven different CEOs since 2005, and is now reporting to the fifth cabinet minister to be responsible for the lottery agency.

"One wonders if stable leadership and governance could have benefited OLG and the gaming industry in Ontario," wrote Lysyk. "In our opinion, the government and OLG did not do enough preparation and planning before launching an ambitious 'best-case scenario' modernization plan."