Just last September 23, 2010, the PokerStars.com Italian Poker Tour stops over in Nova Gorica, Slovenia for five days.

During the 5^th stop of the tour, they will be featuring a €2,000 + €200 buy-in main event as well as a cap of 500 with two day ones beginning that day. The event took place at the Perla Casino and Hotel.

Just last season, the PokerStars.com organized 2 events in Nova Gorica which lured around 362 players. Virgilio Giuseppe Di Cicco got the season one Italian Poker Tour at Nova Gorica for a prize worth €200,000.

Gambling is defined as the putting of money or any valuable material on an event with an unknown outcome with the intention of either winning extra money and/or material things. In Slovenia, though not a huge country, have lot to offer to their tourist including their entertainment industry largely compose of the casino business. Slovenian casinos have been considered today as one of the largest sectors of their tourism industry.

Gambling in Slovenia is considered legal within the bounds of the casinos. Sports betting are also considered legal if using a sports book located in one of the country’s casinos. Gambling facilities were built to primarily create flow of revenue to the area where they were created. Slovenia’s local and national governments can earn big amount of money by heavily taxing them. Another good thing about having land-based casinos is the jobs they could offer with them. This comes crucial when the country’s economy is under crisis or when many of their citizens are unemployed. Slovenia’s gambling facilities have blossomed and has helped in the countries economy, which resulted to the creation of the $1.5 billion super casino in Nova Gorica starting in 2005. Casinos in the Italian borders have also generated a lot of money for the Slovenian government because Italians frequently cross the border to make bets everyday. The Slovenian government has been persistently regulating the casinos since 1995 and has raised millions of money for Slovenia.

At present, citizens and tourists can still enjoy the land-based and online casinos in Slovenia. Though the government had forbidden gambling earlier on some foreign sites, the trend never stopped and people still continue to indulge in.