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For over a century and a half, Montreal was the industrial and financial center of Canada. The variety of buildings included factories, elevators, warehouses, mills, and refineries which today provide a legacy of historic and architectural interest, especially in the downtown area and the Old Port area. And now, a Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment center will be added to the list. Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. is the the gambling empire that operates the wildly popular World Series of Poker. At the insistence of Montreal native and gaming executive Mitch Garber, Harrah’s has agreed that its newest subsidiary – Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment – will be based in Montreal. Its mandate is to take the World Series of Poker brand online and to look for new partnerships with brick-and-mortar casinos around the world.

Harrah’s is confident that it could manage the World Series of Poker teams already in Las Vegas and England out of a Montreal office and still focus on growing the 40-year-old Vegas-based competition. The World series of Poker is fast becoming popular all over the world and it is the intent of Harrah’s to deal with government and licensing authorities in every jurisdiction to grow the World Series of Poker

Garber, a Montreal native and gaming executive of Harrah’s already has a Montreal office in the core of the city and about 10 people, mostly business-development types, working there. Should all go according to plan, the office will expand to “hundreds” of people, mostly customer-service employees and a scattering of Web designers. The business plan has two main goals, said Garber, who has invested “substantially” in the privately held Harrah’s. The first is “to offer online gaming in the U.K. and potentially elsewhere in Europe where it is legal and government-licensed.”

Harrah’s already has an interactive gaming license issued in Alderney, a British Channel Island, he said. But no decisions or commitments have been made in that or any other jurisdiction, he said. In the U.S., a bill was introduced this month to overturn a 3-year-old ban on Internet gambling. Harrah’s is among the entities supporting the legislation that would allow Americans to gamble online for money, instead of playing the current “for fun only” games.

Garber is confident that despite the current recession experienced all over the world, a world series of poker will still be a big hit saying that “There is currently a hunger for World Series of Poker events, like PGA golf, with events taking place everywhere, whether it is Moscow, Montreal, Rome.”

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