**EXHIBIT 31.1**

 

**CERTIFICATION OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER**

Section302 Certification

 

I, Gordon Yuen, certifythat:

 

1.             Ihave reviewed this Amendment No. 1 to annual report on Form 10-KSB of ElixirGaming Technologies, Inc. (formerly known as VendingData Corporation);

 

2.             Basedon my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement of amaterial fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statementsmade, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, notmisleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3.             Basedon my knowledge, the financial statements and other financial informationincluded in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financialcondition, results of operations and cash flows of the small business issuer asof, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4.             Thesmall business issuer’s other certifying officer and I are responsible forestablishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined inExchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the small business issuer andhave:

 

a)              Designed such disclosurecontrols and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures tobe designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relatingto the small business issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is madeknown to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period inwhich this report is being prepared;

 

b)             Evaluated the effectivenessof the small business issuer’s disclosure controls and procedures and presentedin this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosurecontrols and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this reportbased on such evaluation; and

 

c)              Disclosed in this report anychange in the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reportingthat occurred during the small business issuer’s fourth fiscal quarter that hasmaterially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the smallbusiness issuer’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5.             The small business issuer’s other certifying officer andI have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control overfinancial reporting, to the small business issuer’s auditors and the auditcommittee of the small business issuer’s board of directors (or personsperforming the equivalent functions):

 

a)              All significant deficienciesand material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control overfinancial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the smallbusiness issuer’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financialdata information; and

 

b)             Any fraud, whether or notmaterial, that involves management or other employees who have a significantrole in the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting.

 
| Date:  October 4, 2007 | By:                                                   | /s/  Gordon Yuen |   |
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|                   | Gordon Yuen,                                          |
|                   | Chief Executive Officer, Principal  Executive Officer |

 

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