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Gambling Gets Big in Landlocked Britain

Where: Phoenix Way, Coventry, United Kingdom, CV6 6GE
July 12, 2007 at 8:47 AM | by amandak | 1 Comment

Great Britain just got its biggest casino with the opening last week of Isle Casino Coventry. It's the first overseas casino for the Isle of Capri Casinos gang who are gambling on Brits being big gamblers. A cascading indoor waterfall, 30 slot machines, a 12-table poker room, and 50 roulette stations fill the 100,000 square feet of the new casino.

Coventry, England's ninth largest city and nearly a hundred miles northwest of London, was until now famous for being further from the coast than any other British city. Whether its fortunes will go up or not with the new Isle casino might just be a matter of chance.

Related Stories:
· Isle Casino at Coventry Opens [CNN]
· Casinos coverage [Jaunted]
· Coventry hotels [HotelChatter]

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  1. MattyC

    Jaunted Member

    Coventry's claims to fame

    'famous for being further from the coast than any other British city'

    I didn't know that. That's a good nugget. I thought Coventry was famous for only two things:-

    i) Being bombed to smithereens by the Luftwaffe;
    ii) Being the place you metaphorically 'send' someone when you want them to be ostracised by your entire circle.

    BTW, the plan for a "supercasino" in Manchester (i.e. a low budget Bellagio where you don't need air-con) was biffed on the head yesterday by Gordon Brown, our puritanical new PM.

    July 12, 2007 at 10:39 AM
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