High roller hits casino where it hurts with his £3m jackpot

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Times
By Dominic Walsh and Helen Nugent



BIRMINGHAM may not have the glamour credentials of Monte Carlo, but one punter’s run of luck at a Midlands casino forced one of Britain’s biggest gaming companies to issue a profit warning yesterday.

Paul Newey, thought to have been playing at Birmingham’s Star City casino, is rumoured to have won £3 million, wiping 12 per cent — £64 million — from Stanley Leisure’s market value.

Rumours of the win surfaced after the casino chain, founded by Lord Steinberg, a donor to the Conservative Party, announced that it had “suffered material losses to a major player” at one of its casinos.

The company hopes that it will get the go-ahead to become one of the new super-casinos envisaged under the Government’s controversial gambling deregulation.

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1. If this was vegas...

that guy would have been whacked before he left the building.