MGM Resorts has scouted the world's biggest fish market as a potential site for the casino resort it wants to build in Japan.

The Auckland Council was an early supporter of Te Ururoa Flavell's Gambling Harm Reduction Bill and it saw the legislation as a toolkit.

Analysts appear to be satisfied with SkyCity Entertainment Group's performance, despite a drop in annual profit.

Winning the jackpot may not solve all your problems. Here are four instances where big feuds have occurred because of big wins.

SkyCity Entertainment Group profits have taken a big dive, its normalised net profit for the June 30 2014 year down 8.1 per cent to $123.1 million.

Significant news will emerge from SkyCity when its annual result is revealed this morning - what will it reveal about the $402m convention centre?

The last time billionaire James Packer bet on Las Vegas's casino industry he lost $1.5 billion, but he is having another punt on Sin City with a new venture.

The offending of a former Department of Internal Affairs worker left one of his victims worried that his family's citizenship bid was in danger.

The pachinko industry in Japan wants casinos, driven by attendance that has sunk more than 60 per cent since the mid-90s and an uncertain legal status.

A blackjack epiphany cured my anti-gambling crusade, writes Matt Heath.

Suspense during yesterday morning's Fifa World Cup match between Brazil and Chile proved too much for a Kiwi punter who bet $2000 in extra time on the losing side.

Almost half the adult population buys a ticket once a month - but what game gives you the best chance of winning?

When Luis Suarez scored the second goal for Uruguay to win 2-1 over England at the Fifa World Cup yesterday, the biggest sigh of relief may have come from a New Zealand punter.

One lucky punter went home $11,000 richer by betting big on the right scoreline of the opening game of the Fifa World Cup.

A winning Lotto ticket worth more than $13 million proved to be the perfect cure for its owner's migraine.

Lotto tickets printed on supermarket receipt paper have been found by lottery bosses to wear out faster than normal tickets.

An office worker who stole $1.1 million from a Canterbury family firm to fund a spiralling gambling addiction has lost an appeal against her jail sentence.

A new commission structure for pubs with pokie machines is being condemned by anti-gambling lobbyists as "a giant leap backwards".

A New Zealander has reportedly been arrested in Thailand after police raided an illegal gambling den in the seedy tourist hotspot Pattaya.

The Problem Gambling Foundation will take the Ministry of Health to court to try to overturn a decision.

Little is known about high-roller Zhao Li, except that he is - or was - fabulously rich. So rich a Melbourne casino lent him $14m for a one-day gambling spree.

Maori and Pacific problem gambling services have won more money out of a tender which stopped all funding for the country's biggest provider, the Problem Gambling Foundation.

An Auckland man who says he won $125 on card tables at SkyCity is now before the courts accused of cheating.

Pacific broadcaster Fa'amatuainu Tino Pereira was the sole non-bureaucrat on a panel that evaluated bids in a controversial tender that axed most of the Problem Gambling Foundation's funding.

There is "no substance" to Labour MP Shane Jones' claims that Countdown squeezed thousands of dollars out of Lotto, the organisation's chief Wayne Pickup said last night.

Gamblers mistakenly believe they can always beat the odds in a game of chance because they have developed a different pattern of brain activity to non-gamblers.

Two of the six panel members who made the shock decision to stop funding the Problem Gambling Foundation had conflicts of interest, a review has found.

A gambling industry leader was among the first people knocking on the Salvation Army's door this week after news broke that the army had displaced the country's main help agency for gambling addicts.