Tag Archives: Ritz
UK – Profit swings to loss for unfortuitous Ritz
The Ritz casino in Mayfair demonstrated the volatility of London’s VIP casino sector with losses of £11.7m reported in 2017. The loss follows profits of £8.9m in 2016. GGR dropped from £33m to £22.3m during the period although the casino’s owners, the Barclay brothers, revealed that footfall had been consistent referencing luck as being the…
VK – Ritz wint opnieuw VIP Room of the Year
De Ritz Club in Londen heeft voor de derde keer de prijs gewonnen van VIP Room of the Year bij de International Gaming Awards. Lesley Samuels, General Manager of Gaming en Nick Ostler, Customer Relations Manager van The Ritz Club hadden de eer om de prestigieuze gamingprijs voor Casino VIP Room of the…
VK – Ritz-croupier wint UK Dealer of the Year Award
The Ritz Club, het belangrijkste casino van Londen, is verheugd aan te kondigen dat Jamie Leigh Cummins is bekroond met de UK Dealer of the Year Award tijdens het jaarlijkse National Casino Forum (NCF) UK Dealer Championship, dat deze week werd gehouden in de Playboy Club, Londen. Tijdens het evenement streden 16 van de beste dealers van het land tegen elkaar...
VK – Slechte debiteuren dwingen Ritz tot een verlies van £12 miljoen
One of the UK’s most high-end casinos, London’s Ritz club has reported a loss of £12.7m compared to a £5.2m profit last year due to ‘gaming debts’. The Mayfair casinos said that if it hadn’t been for the big debts run up by high rollers, it would have made a £2.4m profit for the year…
UK – Evolution partners with The Ritz Club
Evolution Gaming has entered into partnership with The Ritz Club, one of London’s most exclusive casino and private members’ clubs. The agreement will see Evolution deploy a Live Casino service for The Ritz Club that will initially include an on-premise ‘Dual Play Roulette’ convergence solution, alongside an extended range of live tables hosted at Evolution’s…
UK – Judge’s patience runs out with Ritz debtor
A judge has ruled that a billionaire businessman who owes London’s Ritz casino £2.2m should be jailed for ten months. The High Court ruled that Swiss national Safa Abdulla Al Geabury, 52, who blamed the casino and the Devil for his gambling losses was ‘deliberately dishonest’ and that he must settle the debt with the…
UK – Ritz rolls into the red due to high roller gambling debts
The Ritz Casino has revealed it has made an operating loss of £12.5m in 2013 as a result of ‘significant non-recoverable gaming debts.’ Turnover for the Piccadilly club improved from £21.5m to almost £32m whilst the adjoining Ritz hotel made a £9.6m profit. The Ritz has cited unpaid gambling debts from high-rollers as the reason…
VK – Ritz wint in zaak van 'probleemgokker'
London’s Ritz Casino has won a court case forcing Noora Abdullah Mahawish Al-Daher to pay £1m plus interest from a gambling debt she owed. The judge ruled it was significant that she and another family member accumulated losses of £3m in Las Vegas just a few months later. Mrs Al-Daher, wife of the foreign minister…
VK – Ritz gaat een cheque van meer dan £ 5 miljoen aanklagen
The Ritz Casino in London is being forced to sue a Singapore player after his check for £5m bounced. In a writ served at the High Court, the high-end casino claims that property developer Bharat Kalwani exchanged the ‘worthless’ cheque for chips last October. Two months after the player’s multi-million-pound gambling spree, the casino tried…
