| Casino Ships in Eilat Israel News Web Page |
| At the moment all the casino ships in Eilat are closed . On 22 january 2004 the israeli police stormed the ships and arested casino owners and mangement . This time is looks like will be for a long time . At the moment articles on local press coment about opening of a casino on land or on water but in israeli teritory and to be controlled by the national lotery agency . But this is not confirmated oficialy , israeli government deals now with other internal problems and can take months maybe years till will be again gambling in Eilat. Most of the foreign casino staff relocated to the cruise ships or Swiss (czech dealers) , the israeli dealers witch been trained in Eilat same of them still working in differnt locations in Israel in ilegal casinos , money is good over 100$ per day .As israeli they are released in couple hours in case that are arested . In Israel are still many dealers witch worked before in Eilat Ships , most of them in relationships with israeli , or they consider that the money and the conditions are better than back home . The games they only deal are black jack and carribean stud poker , very rarely they deal american roulette (much better paid) . Most of the "black casinos " are located in private houses , the locations are changed very often to prevent the arrests by police . The players are all israelis , most of the "casinos" have the own "house" players . At the moment Casino Austria , a casino operator have in Eilat the Casino Cancun is the ony ships ready to sail . Looks to be the most reliable to open verry soon .They never operated so never have problems with the police. The link to them is on the Eilat Casino page , at the moment no direcly news from them . In the port of Eilat are technicaly ready to sail casinos : Flamingo,Royal,Silver Star and Milenium ( after they recover the equipment from the police , usualy is stored in a warehouse in port of Eilat and released or destryed by court orders) . Palace it may be also operated but the owner was the Haifa Shipyard!! after the former ship owner failed to pay the shipyard in 1995 . The ship was chartered durring the casino operations . So far this are the news , i add same links to the news on the internet . |
| Last updated 13 March 2004 |
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