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Woman wins $100k after pokies fight...
An Adelaide woman is receiving a $100,000 Christmas present after the Adelaide Casino agreed to pay out a pokies win after an 18-month fight.
Cecilia Cubillo played a $1 credit that another person had left in the poker machine when she hit the jackpot.
But her excitement was cut short when the casino told her it would not be giving her the money.
The casino says it is against regulations set by the Office of the Liquor and Gambling Commissioner to pay out abandoned credits, but the casino says the Commissioner has now agreed to review those regulations.
The casino has apologised to Ms Cubillo for any stress and embarrassment and will now give her the money.
It has asked the Commissioner to clarify his position on the use of abandoned credit to avoid similar situations in the future.
Woman run over by taxi at Burswood Casino...
A woman has received serious head injuries after being run over by a taxi at Burswood Casino.
Police are investigating whether she was involved in a separate incident just prior to the crash at 4.30am on Sunday.
The taxi left the scene, however, has since been located by Police Major Crash investigators.
It is unknown if the driver was aware of the incident.
The woman remains in a critical condition in hospital.
Police are calling for anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers.
Lotto tickets to be sold online...
Making lottery tickets available online will fuel gambling addiction, Independent Senator Nick Xenophon says.
SA Lotteries will begin selling tickets on the internet from the middle of 2012.
The arrangement is expected to provide $3 million a year in revenue and has been approved by the South Australian Government.
Credit card purchases of tickets will be limited to $1000 a week.
Senator Xenophon says that is an extraordinarily high cap and will only encourage problem gamblers.
"That's close to average weekly wages and to have it on credit is very problematic.
"If a publican gives you credit at a pokies venue that's a serious criminal offence. Using a credit card to get lotteries tickets really can fuel gambling addiction.
"You're not using your own money, you're using credit. At least if you buy lotto from a newsagent the newsagent can see the whites of your eyes and at least make some judgments... to determine whether they're dealing with a problem gambling.
"But there won't be any such controls with online sales."
Finance Minister Michael O'Brien says careful consideration was given to the decision.
"The SA Lotteries Board have indicated to me that they believe that the regime that is in place for online gambling actually offers higher protection for the potential problem gambler than is the case currently," he said.
"People spend whatever they wish either on the poker machines or on lottery tickets or on the horses, or whatever other form of gambling. Now whether they do that by cash or by cash via a credit card facility, they still spend the money. At least with this particular arrangement, there is a limit."
He says the decision brings the state into line with the rest of Australia.
Woolworths arm takes over pubs...
Grocery giant Woolworths is buying more heavily into the liquor market.
Its pub and bottle shop company ALH Group is taking out long-term leases on 31 pubs located across New South Wales.
Woolworths already operates 27 pubs in the state as the majority owner of ALH Group, which is also Australia's largest poker machine operator.
ALH spokesman David Curry says the buy up boosts the grocery giant's ownership of pokie machines to almost 13,000 nationwide.
He says it has invested in pubs with good trade potential as well as their gaming capabilities.
"There's about 680, it brings the total nationwide to just under 13,000 - proportionately, we don't have a significant percentage of electronic gaming machines - we've only got about 6 per cent of electronic gaming machines in the country," he said.
"Notwithstanding the pokie tax or what's been proposed by the Federal Government, we think the hotels we've actually signed long-term leases to can achieve good trading growth.
"We're looking at injecting further capital into the business and overlapping our management expertise in NSW across those hotels."
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