Century Casino Edmonton Will Be Home to Mark Breslin's Famous Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club

Century Casino Edmonton Will Be Home to Mark Breslin's Famous Yuk Yuk's Comedy
Club

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Century Casinos,
Inc. (Nasdaq: CNTY; Vienna Stock Exchange) announced today that its Century
Casino & Hotel Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, will be home to the new Edmonton
location of Mark Breslin's Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club, the world's largest chain of
comedy clubs.

Pursuant to a five year agreement, the Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club is expected to
open during the second quarter of 2009 adjacent to the gaming floor of the
Century Casino & Hotel Edmonton and will complement the total entertainment
experience the guests already enjoy at the casino.

Mark Breslin's Yuk Yuk's has been entertaining people for over 30 years and is
considered Canada's national stand-up comedy chain with 15 clubs from coast to
coast. Comedy stars that have graced the Yuk Yuk's stage over the years
include Jim Carrey, Dan Aykroyd, and Norm Macdonald.

For further information about the Century Casino & Hotel Edmonton and the Yuk
Yuk's Comedy Club please visit the websites under
http://www.cnty.com/casinos/edmonton/casino/ and http://www.yukyuks.com,
respectively.

About Century Casinos, Inc.:
Century Casinos, Inc. is an international casino entertainment company that
owns and operates the Womacks Casino and Hotel in Cripple Creek, Colorado, the
Century Casino & Hotel in Central City, Colorado, and the Century Casino &
Hotel in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Company also operates casinos aboard
the Silver Cloud and the vessels of Oceania Cruises and has an agreement to
operate the casinos on all vessels (estimated to be three) put into service by
TUI Cruises before December 31, 2012. Through its subsidiary Century Casinos
Africa (Pty) Limited, it owns and operates The Caledon Hotel, Spa & Casino
near Cape Town, South Africa, as well as 60% of, and provides technical casino
services to, Century Casino Newcastle, in Newcastle, South Africa.
Furthermore, the Company's Austrian subsidiary, Century Casinos Europe GmbH,
holds a 33.3% ownership interest in Casinos Poland Ltd, the owner and operator
of seven full casinos and one slot casino in Poland. The Company continues to
pursue other international projects in various stages of development.

For more information about Century Casinos, visit our website at
www.centurycasinos.com. Century Casinos' common stock trades on The NASDAQ
Capital Market(R) and the Vienna Stock Exchange under the symbol CNTY.

This release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are
based on the beliefs and assumptions of the management of Century Casinos
based on information currently available to management. Such forward-looking
statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the closing
of our sale of Century Casinos Africa, progress at and plans for our casinos,
gaming, the impact of improvements at our properties, the impact of the
Colorado law banning smoking in casinos and impact of economic downturn. Such
forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from future
results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the
forward-looking statements include, among others, the risks described in the
sections entitled "Risk Factors" under Item 1A in our Annual Report on Form
10-K filed on March 16, 2009. Century Casinos disclaims any obligation to
revise or update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to
time by it or on its behalf.

SOURCE Century Casinos, Inc.

Peter Hoetzinger, Co CEO & President, +1-719-689-5813, +43 664 355 3935,
peter.hoetzinger@cnty.com, or Larry Hannappel, Senior Vice President,
+1-719-229-6448, larry.hannappel@cnty.com, both of Century Casinos, Inc.