The Baltic Times reported recently "following last July's lifting of a nationwide gambling ban Lithuania's first casino has opened for business in the sea port city of Klaipeda.
Players at the Nese Hotel's casino can choose from four gambling tables, three of them for card games and one for roulette.
Some 20 croupiers are on hand to assist up to 30 players at a time in a classic English style casino setting. 슬롯머신사이트
Kazys Paulikas, Nese's owner, has spent the last few months visiting casinos in Las Vegas and talking to Belgian consultants in an effort to ensure the project's success.
The opening night at the casino on March 1 proved popular although nobody bagged the maximum potential payout of 1.2 million litas (US$300,000).
But Nese's casino will not have long to wait before competitors start nipping at its heels.
Last month two gambling halls were opened in Vilnius by Estonia's Olympic Casino Group Baltija, owner of the Baltic states' biggest casino, the Park Hotel and Casino in Tallinn, and owner of 12 gambling halls in Estonia.
The company plans more gambling halls and to open a casino in August.
Casino Planet plans to open casinos in Vilnius' former planetarium building and in Lubys' Vetra Hotel in Palanga this year.
Meanwhile an as yet unidentified Latvian enterprise is planning a casino in Lithuania's second largest city, Kaunas, and is advertising for croupiers to work at the city's Los Patrankos nightclub.
Lithuania lies in the east of Europe, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. In the north Lithuania borders with Latvia, in the east and south with Byelorussia, in the southwest with Poland and with the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation.
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