A card dealer adjusts cards at the Paradise Walker-hill casino in Seoul September 17, 2007. The players might not look like athletes, but an organisation is convinced that it can turn Texas hold'em poker into a bona fide sport in Asia, complete with television coverage and cheering crowds. Picture taken September 17, 2007. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA) 

Men play poker at the Paradise Walker-hill casino in Seoul September 17, 2007. The players might not look like athletes, but an organisation is convinced that it can turn Texas hold'em poker into a bona fide sport in Asia, complete with television coverage and cheering crowds. Picture taken September 17, 2007. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA) 

A card dealer deals a hand for a poker at the Paradise Walker-hill casino in Seoul September 17, 2007. The players might not look like athletes, but an organisation is convinced that it can turn Texas hold'em poker into a bona fide sport in Asia, complete with television coverage and cheering crowds. Picture taken September 17, 2007. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA) 

A card dealer deals a hand for a poker at the Paradise Walker-hill casino in Seoul September 17, 2007. The players might not look like athletes, but an organisation is convinced that it can turn Texas hold'em poker into a bona fide sport in Asia, complete with television coverage and cheering crowds. Picture taken September 17, 2007. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA) 

An employee holds the chips at the gambling table in the casino at the Venetian in Macau August 28, 2007. The world's biggest casino opens in Macau on Tuesday, the most ambitious throw of the dice yet in a $24 billion effort to build a Las Vegas-style "neon alley" in this once-sleazy Chinese gambling enclave. REUTERS/Paul Yeung (CHINA) 

A dealer works at the SJM's flagship casino Grand Lisboa, owned by Stanley Ho, before its opening ceremony in Macau February 11, 2007. Picture taken February 11, 2007. REUTERS/Paul Yeung (CHINA) 

An employee walks past tables at SJM's flagship casino Grand Lisboa, owned by Macau tycoon Stanley Ho, before the opening ceremony in Macau February 11, 2007. REUTERS/Paul Yeung (CHINA) 

Out-dated coin cigarette machines await transportation to a scrap dealer, in the yard of a cigarette company in Ellerbek near the northern German city of Hamburg January 2, 2007. From January 1, only cigarette machines that have electronic-card payment facilities will be allowed, to prevent under-sixteen year olds from buying cigarettes.
REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen (GERMANY) 

Out-dated coin cigarette machines await transportation to a scrap dealer, in the yard of a cigarette company in Ellerbek near the northern German city of Hamburg January 2, 2007. From January 1, only cigarette machines that have electronic-card payment facilities will be allowed, to prevent under-sixteen year olds from buying cigarettes.
REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen (GERMANY) 

Out-dated coin cigarette machines await transportation to a scrap dealer, in the yard of a cigarette company in Ellerbek near the northern German city of Hamburg January 2, 2007. From January 1, only cigarette machines that have electronic-card payment facilities will be allowed, to prevent under-sixteen year olds from buying cigarettes.
REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen (GERMANY) 

A dealer distributes cards at the Betfair Asian Poker Tour in Singapore November 12, 2006. Betfair is the first gaming company permitted to present a poker tournament in Singapore. The Betfair Asian Poker Tour features players from across the world competing for an anticipated $2 million prize fund. REUTERS/Nicky Loh (SINGAPORE) 

A dealer shuffles cards at the new Playboy Club in Las Vegas, Nevada October 5, 2006. The club, in the Palms Casino Resort Fantasy Tower, opens October 6. REUTERS/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) 

Bryan Wolff, a table games floor supervisor, and blackjack dealer Maya Kilam check cards at the new Playboy Club in Las Vegas October 5, 2006. The club, in the Palms' Fantasy Tower, opens October 6. REUTERS/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) 

A blackjack dealer deals his cards moments after gaming was allowed to resume at Caesar's in Atlantic City, New Jersey July 8, 2006. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer (UNITED STATES) 

Steve Dannenmann of Severn, Maryland (L), and Joseph Hachem of Melbourne, Australia (R), watch the dealer turn a card during the final hand of the World Series of Poker at Binion's Gambling Hall and Hotel in Las Vegas July 16, 2005. Hachem won the tournament taking home $7.5 million and Dannenmann took second place with $4.25 million. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/R. Marsh Starks RMS/YH 

A dealer tosses out a card in the $10,000 buy-in, no limit Texas Hold 'Em main event during the 36th annual World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada July 8, 2005. Over 5500 players signed up for the main event which is expected to run through July 16. REUTERS/Steve Marcus SM/JJ 

SEGA CAMPAIGN WOMAN SHOWS CLIENT DEALER NEW ARCADE SOCCER GAME DURING
UNVEILING FOR NEW SEGA PRODUCTS IN TOKYO.


A Sega Corp campaign woman shows a client dealer its new arcade soccer
game during an unveiling for new Sega products in Tokyo November 16,
2001. Sega announced on Friday that it has reached an agreement with
the world's leading soccer trading card and sticker album manufacturer
and marketer Panini S.p.A. of Italy. The agreement with Panini enables
Sega to develop the worlds first innovative arcade soccer game, Sega
said. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa 

Britain's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook launches the Labour party pledge card in Glasgow May 10, 2001. [The party pledge card issued today has five key issues which include, lower mortgage rates, investment in schools and hospitals, fuel payments for pensioners and the power to seize assets from drug dealers.] 

Britain's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook launches the Labour party pledge card in Glasgow May 10, 2001. The party pledge card issued today has five key issues which include, lower mortgage rates, investment in schools and hospitals, fuel payments for pensioners and the power to seize assets from drug dealers.

JM/NMB 

Emma Purtill, 21, from Manchester, England, deals out cards on a Black Jack table in the Oasis Casino September 14 as one of the floor inspectors, Ian McCann from Bradford, England, looks on. The Oasis Casino is located in the Palestinian Authority self-rule town of Jericho in a desert area at the lowest point on Earth about a one-half hour drive from Jerusalem. The casino at a cost of $50-million will open tomorrow and will eventually be valued at $150-million and include a luxury hotel, a golf course, and conference center. The casino, which has 35 U.S. dollar-only gaming tab;es and 220 slot machines is seen as a bold gamble by Palestinian Presiddent Yasser Arafat.

JWH/CLH/ 

Russian share traders trade at Moscow's Russian Exchange, October 18. The dealer in front holds a card which says rouble -- his codename which he flashes when he wants to execute a trade. Russian markets have shrugged off President Boris Yeltsin's dramatic sacking of security chief Alexander Lebed, an event which could still have a big impact on Moscow politics. Friday's modest rise in equity prices confounded forecasts that the removal of tough-talking Lebed would push the market down. But Russia's new blue chips are still below the record highs set before Yeltsin's July re-election, and investors are jittery about his upcoming heart bypass surgery.

RUSSIA SHARES