Century Casinos Announces Polish Open 2008 Poker Tournament

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov. 14 /CNW/ -- Century Casinos, Inc. (Nasdaq:
CNTY; Vienna Stock Exchange) announced today that its subsidiary Casinos
Poland Ltd. will present the grand Polish Open 2008, a four-day Texas Hold'em
No Limit tournament, hosted as part of the fifth EPT European Poker Tour
Season at its casino in the Hyatt Hotel in Warsaw from November 15 to November
19, 2008.
    The tournament will be capped at 400 players who will play for a total
prize pool of up to PLN 8,000,000 or approx. $2,700,000. The buy-in for the
tournament amounts to PLN 21,000 or approx. $7,000. According to the official
website of the EPT a lot of stars are heading to Warsaw for the next stop on
the Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour. Among the top players set to compete
at the four-day event are Team PokerStars Pros Gavin Griffin, the EPT Grand
Final winner in Season 4, EPT Player of the Year Luca Pagano, PCA Champion
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, William Thorson, Season 3 Warsaw finalist Katja
Thater, EPT London finalist Marcin Horecki, Dario Minieri, Alex Kravchenko and
Isabelle Mercier.
    The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour, which kicked off Season 5 in
Barcelona on September 10, 2008, is Europe's richest and most popular poker
tour. Season 5 features 11 scheduled events. The EPT Grand Final will take
place in Monte Carlo in April/May 2009. The upcoming EPT in Warsaw is the
third stop of the grand EPT Poker Tour in Poland hosted by Casinos Poland.
    Century Casinos holds a 33.3% stake in Casinos Poland Ltd. since March
2007. Casinos Poland is the market leader in Poland with a 50% share of the
Polish casino market. The company owns and operates seven casinos in
international four and five star hotels and one slot casino throughout Poland.
    For further information about the Polish Open 2008 in Warsaw please visit
the website of Casinos Poland Ltd. under http://casinospoland.pl/en/index.php.

    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, the Century
Casino & Hotel in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and the Century Casino Millennium
in the Marriott Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. The Company also operates
casinos aboard the Silver Cloud and the vessels of Oceania Cruises. 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
http://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 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 section entitled "Risk
Factors" under Item 1A in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 17,
2008. 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.

For further information: 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. Web Site: http://www.centurycasinos.com        
        http://casinospoland.pl/en/index.php