Southwest Casino enters into a consulting agreement with Palace Resorts

Under the consulting agreement, Southwest will immediately begin assisting Palace Resorts in all phases of design, game selection, training and equipping the casino that will be part of the 1,700-room resort that is scheduled to open in 2008.

Palace Resorts is a leader in providing world-class resort vacations at all-inclusive properties throughout Cancun, the Riviera Maya, Nuevo Vallarta, Cozumel and soon, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

"We are proud to work with Palace Resorts and assist them in developing a signature quality, large scale casino at the Moon Palace Resort in Punta Cana," said James Druck, CEO of Southwest Casino. "The Moon Palace casino will set a new standard for diversity of games, design, friendliness, customer service and player satisfaction. We are excited to be affiliated with Palace Resorts and the Chapur family, the premier developer of all-inclusive resorts in the Yucatan and now the Caribbean."

Rodrigo Chapur, Director of New Projects for Palace Resorts, said, "We are pleased to have a company like Southwest Casino that is willing to commit its time and talent to developing our first major casino enterprise."