Manchester Wins Supercasino

In a complete upset, bottom ranked Manchester wins the right to have the UK’s first slot machine supercasino in their city. Many thought that it would be Blackpool or the Millennium Dome – especially since Manchester was always at the bottom of the committee’s list for consideration. However, it will be Manchester that the slot machines will be ringing in, not anywhere else.

The list included the above as well as London and Glasgow, and the supercasino will bring in 1,250 slot machines to the city. Manchester now starts the long process of deciding where it will go and what slot machines they will be bringing in. Experts feel that they will now start soliciting the larger casino operators to see who they might want to allow in their town.

Most in the UK think that a group run by Kerzner International will be the front runner, but no decisions have been made yet. The idea behind bringing in a slot machine supercasino was to give an area of the country that needs a little help, a little boost. Manchester has a 4% unemployment rate, and is a city of 2.6 million people.

The Casino Advisory Board chose Manchester because they seemed to truly take into consideration what was good for their residents, and this will give them a chance to study the impact that the slot machines will have on the city and the country. If all goes well, there could be another slot machine supercasino in the UK’s future.


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