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Casinos of the World
Episode 1: Melbourne, Australia.
Country music star Kenny Rogers shows us
around the world’s top casinos. Here we visit the ‘crown
jewel’ of gaming in the Southern Hemisphere, Melbourne’s
Crown Casino, a 3 block, ultra-luxury hotel and entertainment
complex. It’s Chinese New Year, and Crown is full of Asian
high rollers!
Episode 2: Juans les Pins, French Riviera
The French Riviera’s very first themed
casino is the Eden Casino in Juan-les-Pins. It’s a ‘gold
mine’ of social life in the most popular towns on the
Riviera; the twin cities of Antibes and Juan-les-Pins, famous
for their Jazz Festival and ‘Aquatic Opera’.
Episode 3: Aruba
Aruba is one of the capitals of gaming
in the Caribbean, and the Occidental Allegro Resort and Casino
combines resort lifestyle with island-style gaming and international-level
nightly entertainment. Caribbean Stud Poker was invented in
Aruba, and it is this episode’s featured game.
Episode 4: Stratosphere, Las Vegas
Country music star Kenny Rogers shows us
around the world’s top casinos. In the gaming capital
of the world, there’s a casino that literally ‘stands
out’. This is High Point’s ‘Las Vegas: Thrill
Town’ episode, not just because of the non-stop gaming
action. The Stratosphere Tower and Casino has the highest observation
deck west of the Mississippi, and the tower is topped by thrill
rides that leave visitors breathless.
Episode 5: Canada’s National Capital
The most popular tourist destination in
Canada’s National Capital isn’t the stunning gothic
Parliament building. It’s the Casino de Lac Leamy, a luxury
urban resort in the middle of a man-made lake in the heart of
the capital region.
Episode 6: Gold Coast, Australia
Australia’s Gold Coast is called
the ‘Miami’ of Australia, and Conrad Jupiters is
its only casino on the Gold Coast, set on its own island in
the city’s canal system. Surf meets turf in the casino’s
‘Magic Millions’, an exciting horseracing event,
with a three-way gamble!
Episode 7: Aix-en-Provence, France
Aix, the historic capital of Provence,
has a new, cutting edge attraction: the “Pasino”,
a ‘concept’ casino, where there’s not only
gaming, but also a full range of entertainment, including themed
restaurants, theatre and shopping.
Episode 8: French St Martin
Country music star Kenny Rogers shows us
around the world’s top casinos. The tiny Caribbean island
of St. Martin is the smallest place in the world shared by two
countries: France and the Netherlands. It’s also one of
the region’s great gaming destinations, and here High
Point visits the Princess Casino, an elegant haunt of the yachting
fraternity.
Episode 9: Niagara Falls.
Niagara Falls is one of the natural wonders
of the world, and Casino Niagara is one of the three busiest
casinos in the world! High Point meets a million-dollar winner
and offers viewers a few tips on etiquette at the blackjack
table.
Episode 10: North Carolina, USA
The US state of North Carolina has only
one casino: Harrah’s Cherokee Casino. It’s an Indian
casino, right on the Cherokee reserve, and it preserves and
promotes Cherokee culture, with the largest collection of internationally
famous Cherokee art.
Episode 11: Tasmania, Australia
Australia’s island state is home
to the country’s very first casino: the Wrestpoint Casino
tower in the capital city of Hobart. High Point gets a glimpse
into the history of the groundbreaking casino that was the focal
point of social life in Australia when it opened.
Episode 12: Lyon, France
Country music star Kenny Rogers shows us
around the world’s top casinos. Lyon is France’s
second largest city, but it could be considered the country’s
gaming capital. It has two casinos: France’s top casino:
the elegant and historic Lyon Vert, in a spa area just outside
of town, and the Pharaon, France’s first urban casino
under new gaming laws.
Episode 13: Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi is the gaming capital of the Southern
USA and the third largest gaming centre in the country after
Las Vegas and Atlantic City. High Point’s featured casino
is the Grand Casino, where the featured game is three-card poker.
Episode 14: Motor City (Detroit)
High Point revs up in the Motor City! Detroit’s
gaming culture is as colourful as the car culture that made
it famous, and the featured casino here is the MGM Grand, where
we live it up as VIP ‘Grand Celebrities’ and meet
some of the lucky winners of cash (not to mention cars).
Episode 15: Montreal
The world’s second largest French-speaking
city knows how to live the good life! The Casino de Montreal
is one of the top 10 casinos in the world. Thousands of gaming
spaces occupy two avant-garde pavilions; one decorated with
European elegance, the other with Vegas flash and flare.
Episode 16: Brisbane, Australia
In this episode a Sri Lankan born Wall
Street banker decides to open the first South Asian restaurant
in a small Michigan coastal town. She's invested everything,
but knows nothing about restaurants. At 30, single and with
a glamorous shoe collection, she is the local oddity.
Episode 17: Thousand Islands, Canada
This cross-border millionaire’s playground
has a new gaming facility: the Thousand Islands Casino, built
with natural limestone and copper on a nautical theme that brings
the region’s shipping and yachting traditions indoors.
Episode 18: Miami
Miami sets the world standard for a wild
city on the water, and High Point scores in the world’s
fastest and most dangerous game: jai alai, which moves to the
Latin rhythms of rueda de casino, a group salsa that was born
in the casinos of Cuba.
Episode 19: Wild, Wild West (Atlantic City)
There’s no place like the Wild West,
especially when you’re on the eastern seaboard! Bally’s
Wild, Wild West Casino is the first fully themed casino in the
eastern USA’s gaming capital.
Episode 20: Dutch St Maarten
Country music star Kenny Rogers shows us
around the world’s top casinos. France and Holland share
St. Maarten, but the casino action is all on the Dutch side.
Over a dozen casinos heat up the nightlife in the capital’s
streets, and in the beach resorts, and High Point’s featured
resort and casino is the superb Maho Beach.
Episode 21: San Jose, Costa Rica
Surrounded by volcanoes, rainforests, beaches
and jungles, Costa Rica’s capital is home to the Barcelo
San Jose Palacio hotel and casino, the meeting place for the
creme de la creme of Costa Rican society, business, and international
visitors.
Episode 22: Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Puerto Plata is the Dominican Republic’s
‘silver’ port on its ‘amber’ coast.
High Point’s featured casino is in the Occidental Allegro
Playa Dorada, the most elegant casino in this famous resort
complex along the sugar-sand beaches near Puerto Plata.
Episode 23: Caesars, Atlantic City
Even in the gaming capital of the eastern
seaboard, Caesars is Caesars! The ancient Roman Empire comes
alive in this gaming palace on Atlantic City’s famous
boardwalk strip and High Point takes us around the tables.
Episode 24: Grand Bahama Island
Country music star Kenny Rogers shows us
around the world’s top casinos. Just 60 miles off the
coast of South Florida, Grand Bahama Island is the gaming destination
of choice for hundreds of thousands of American gamers. High
Point’s featured casino, the Royal Oasis, has created
a unique gaming experience that lets everyday players get a
taste of the life of a high roller.
Episode 25: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
The capital of the Dominican Republic was
the first European City in the New World, founded by Christopher
Columbus. The El Embajador Hotel is one of the city’s
modern landmarks, built by a former dictator, and host to royalty,
celebrities and other VIPs.
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