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And I'm a West Ham fan," he grinned, "so if they end up here [at the Olympic stadium after the Games] I'll never leave. Most popular.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} Nicola McCollum and Nicola Norris had come from Southend, partly to shop, partly because they knew the casino was opening and wanted a look. Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City, the biggest casino in Britain, built inside the biggest "in-town" shopping centre in Europe, is now open for business — and apart from Christmas Day, when a lull will be imposed from midnight to midnight, it will never close. Large," said Norris, turning her head to take it all in. Topics Gambling. Additional reporting by Rebecca Smithers. What was his game? The seat was very comfortable, the bleeping, chirruping soundtrack cheering and rather soporific. Before the Gambling Act, which permitted the establishment of "supercasinos" of which this is the first, the maximum number of machines an establishment could license was The casino in Stratford has attracted criticism since Newham was awarded the licence in , with campaigners arguing it would encourage gambling in a very poor borough and, given its site next to the Olympic park, have little impact on regeneration. Emboldened by the minimum stake on the slots 2p per line , the Guardian had a flurry. If it's like this now, think what it'll be like at night. Dean Little, 26, hovering over a blackjack table clutching what was left of a pint, said he had been looking forward to the opening. London Retail industry Poverty Social exclusion features. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}Good luck everyone. Reuse this content. Aspers is a joint venture between the Australian gambling group Crown and Damian Aspinall, whose zoo-owning father John Aspinall ran the famously louche Clermont Club in s Mayfair. From below, heads began to emerge, craning to take in the dangling copper lights and huge chandeliers, the rows of blackjack tables and the scores and scores of slot machines. Most of the or so who had been queueing in the shopping centre below immediately formed a second queue to collect membership cards, despite the best efforts of staff to usher them inside. McCollum couldn't quite get over how many people were there already. We class this as a space for fun entertainment, that's all. At 65, sq ft, the complex in east London is host to 40 roulette and blackjack tables, 92 electronic gaming terminals, a seat poker room, a "fast-casual" restaurant, two bars, one of which is next to an enormous screen with betting facilities, and slot machines, chiming and flashing hypnotically 24 hours a day. Come here, have a meal, maybe go to the cinema. Over the next hour or so he would do the same again, several times, amassing small piles of chips that he rattled with practised dexterity on to 10 or more numbers with each spin of the wheel. It's lovely, looks really classy. They had just staked a fiver on an electronic roulette table and lost. In contrast to the dukes, earls and cabinet ministers who colonised that institution's tables, the Stratford casino is targeting a rather different market. Not for the first or last time on opening day, the house had won.