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November 23, 2009 -
Getting the Most out of Online Gambling News
November 23, 2009 -
Online Gambling Community Gearing up for EGR Awards
November 23, 2009 -
Few and Far Between Online Blackjack Tournaments
November 22, 2009 -
1 Million Reels BC Hottest Online Slot at Rival Gaming
Not much of a debate at all, actually, two leading
gaming analysts from Oppenheimer and Height Analytics
appeared on CNBC's popular financial news program,
"Closing Bell", and agreed it was not a matter of if
online gambling gets regulated in the U.S., but rather,
when online gambling is embraced by land-based casino
operators and liberalizes the online sector...
November 22, 2009 -
Treasure Nile Paying Out at Microgaming Online Casinos
Although you won't get any showgirls and Vegas action
like you did in Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous,
you will apparently get all warmed up watching Sandra
Bullocks new film that has some people talking about a
possible Oscar nomination...
November 21, 2009 -
CNBC's "Closing Bell" Debate's U.S. Online Gambling
Providing backend behavioral analysis software designed
to prevent fraud and detect abnormal human player
activity, Featurespace Ltd. - a startup software
engineering firm founded by Cambridge University fellows
- is now helping online skill gaming site, King.com,
detect online gambling bots...
November 20, 2009 -
No Vegas in Sandra Bullock's New Film The Blind Side
It's been a long run for Golden Casino, who took up lots
of the slack when Golden Palace Casino, Microgaming and
other top online casino software providers and licensees
dropped out of the U.S. market. Come December 1, 2009,
Golden Casino will do the same, but will still permit
current U.S. players to keep their accounts open and in
good standing...
November 19, 2009 -
Golden Casino to Cease Accepting New U.S. Players
It may very well be a long shot, but the fact of the
matter is that Flordia lawmakers are reviewing report
findings that show the regulation of online poker in the
Sunshine State will generate $90 million in usable tax
dollars in just three years, thus giving a strong boost
to an recession prone State economy...
November 18, 2009 -
Talks to Regulate Online Poker in Florida Show for $90M
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November 18, 2009
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Mobile Online Casino Game, Mega Moolah, Launched
Spin3 has come out with another mobile casino game, this
time replicating Microgaming's wildly popular Mega
Moolah progressive video slot, which currently has a
cumulative progressive jackpot worth $1.3 million, only
to reach record-breaking heights with increase traffic
via iPhones and Google's new Android...
November 17, 2009 -
eCOGRA Training Courses in High Demand
It's one thing when an online casino operator makes a
good faith action to become certified by eCOGRA, yet to
attend training courses aimed at preventing problem
gambling and implementing eCOGRA's best practice
standards beyond what is required is simply the height
of responsible gaming and moral social driven business
practices...
November 16, 2009 -
Virtue Fusion Bingo Software Signs With Rank Group
OCS has published a new guide on selecting the top free
play casino bonus offers, including our top picks of the
best offers currently available and information about
free play bonus terms and conditions, as well as how to
gauge if T&C's make claiming a bonus worthwhile to begin
with...
November 16, 2009 -
Top Five Online Casino Games Revealed at All Slots
The results of polling are in, and wouldn't you know it
that four out of the top five casino games preferred by
players at All Slots are bonus video slots. Some players
may even be surprised that all five games were not
slots, thus begging the question, what other game could
possibly be more popular than a slot?
November 15, 2009 -
Online Casino Review: Silver Dollar Casino Six Shooter
The latest online casino to grace the
reviews pages here at OCS is EHGV's Silver Dollar, which
is offering a Six Shooter bonus consisting of a $5
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and up to $400 free on the second and third deposits
each, a free slots tournament entry and 10,000 free comp
points...
November 15, 2009 -
Online Gaming Industry to Get Fresh Advertising Lyceum
Under the creative guidance of renowned
advertising consultants, Wholemeal Brains, leading press
release and events coordinator for the iGaming industry,
Lyceum Media, is expanding services to include fresh
advertising for gaming clients across several media
outlets...
November 14, 2009 -
NeoGames Showcases Success of Disco Keno
Expanding NeoGames portfolio of online
scratch-off tickets to over fifty, Disco Keno is now
available at leading scratch-off sites like
Scratch2Cash, and according to a NeoGames press release,
is already proving to be a big hit with players...
November 14, 2009 -
Cryptologic Software Posts 3rd Quarter Results
Cutting back net losses by half from the
same time period last year (now at $3.4 million), and
showing steady growth in branded online casino game
revenue - with more game rollouts expected before 2010 -
Cryptologic's business strategy for helping the former
U.S. facing software licensor get back on track appears
to be working...
November 13, 2009 -
Online Gambling Affiliate Programs Cleaned up by GAU
The Gambling Affiliates Union was
launched earlier this month with 100 members already in
the ranks and and expected 1,000 more recruited in six
months time. Aimed at providing legal arbitration
services for affiliates illegally ousted by online
casinos and affiliate programs, the GAU is already
underway conducting polls inquiring about the boycott of
three suspect affiliate programs...
November 12, 2009 -
Dual Thanksgiving Online Casino Slots Tournaments
Between two online slot tournaments
offered at two popular U.S. facing, Vegas Technology
powered online casino networks, $250,000 is being
guaranteed in tournament winnings. One tournament has
been underway all month, while the other is kicking off
tomorrow morning...
November 12, 2009 -
Vacation Holiday Giveaways at Gone Bingo UK
One player will win a £1,000 vacation
voucher for two and four others will take home £500
vouchers as part of Gone Bingo UK's Holiday Giveaways
promotion, which essentially rewards those players who
make the most real money wagers on Christmas Eve.
November 11, 2009 -
World Poker Tour Party Gaming Deal Finalized
Announced back in August, a deal between Party Gaming
and World Poker Tour Enterprises, in which Party Gaming
will acquire all of WPT's assets for $12.3 million plus
a 5% revenue sharing scheme of $3 million minimum, has
officially been sealed...
November 10, 2009 -
Poland's PM has an Axe to Grind With Online Casinos
Shortly following a lobbying scandal with land-based
gambling interests - unearthed by "Operation Blackjack"
and commencing with the resignations of four high office
Polish authorities, including the Deputy Prime Minister
and Minister of Sport, Poland's unpopular PM Donald Tusk
says he will be reforming legislation to ban all forms
of gambling outside of land-based casinos...
November 9, 2009 -
Online Sports Betting Kingpin Sentenced to Four Years
For BetOnSports founder, David Kaplan, even a hideout in
the Dominican Republic wasn't good enough to keep U.S.
authorities from finding and extraditing him back to his
homeland, where he was recently sentenced to four years
and some change, and hit with a $50 reparation fee...
November 8, 2009 -
Club USA Online Casino Hosts $10K Crack-the-Code
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going to need some great luck on your side. If you are
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November 6, 2009 -
Fire Pay "Pay's Up" to New York State D.A. $19.2 Million
Even though FirePay ceased allowing New Yorkers to
process bets with their popular eWallet service after
the UIGEA was passed into law, the U.S. District
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was
successful at waging prosecution threats for $19.2
billion worth of bets made between 2004 and 2006...
November 4, 2009 -
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November 2, 2009 -
Online Casino Review: Pure Vegas Casino Under the
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Pure Vegas Casino is the latest RTG powered casino to be
reviewed and listed here at Online Casino Suite. Not
just another virtual spin on Las Vegas, Pure Vegas
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November 2, 2009 -
OnlineCasinoSuite Newsletter Highlights the Month of
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October was not the busiest month all year, yet it
nonetheless was time well spent for a few lucky gamblers
taking home hundreds of thousands in tournament winnings
and progressive jackpots...
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CASINO NEWS
News of the Month...Who would have thought that after nearly four years the
UIGEA has still not gone into effect. And even though
this will change come December 1, 2009, financial
analysts predict that business will go on as usual.
Precisely, approximately $100 billion worth of business,
which is approximately what American's spend each year
gambling online...
America's UIGEA Online
Gambling Ban to go in "Effect" December 1, 2009
Considering the Unlawful
Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was passed back in
2005, it seems somewhat surprising that it still has not
gone into effect. But then again, if you consider all of
the flaws in the legislation, not to mention the burdens
it places on the financial industry, you might say the
UIGEA has never really been an "effective" piece of
legislation to begin with. Nonetheless, the UIGEA is
actually supposed to go into law in just one month.
December 1, 2009 is basically the deadline that banks
have to begin enforcing the law. In other words, come
December 1st, banks are required to cease processing
transactions used for online gambling. Well, I take that
back. Not just online gambling, but certain forms
of online gambling. A carve-out ridden piece of
legislation (the UIGEA allows for horse racing bets and
fantasy sports), this is precisely why online casino
gamblers and poker players need not worry about being
denied their online gambling fix. The American Banking
Association (whose members represent something like 95%
of banks in the U.S.), have long been saying it will be
nigh impossible to police and identify all of the
transactions used for online gambling purposes, and that
placing this burden on the private financial sector is
unfair and unrealistic. And never mind the fact that
online casinos have found inventive ways to securely
process transactions, while simultaneously bypassing any
red tape. Certainly, the UIGEA has been a major nuisance
to many a top-tier online gambling business - but,
that's how it goes...for now. The reality is that
it probably won't be long before the UIGEA gets
overturned with legislation to tax and regulate online
gambling - even if it's just for online poker. Reports
now show that regulating online poker in the U.S. would
generate nearly $42 billion in taxes over the next
decade - and you can rest assured these numbers have
caught the attention of the U.S. Congress, sixty members
of which have already signed on to support the Safe and
Secure Internet Gambling Initiative, which reports that
Americans gamble nearly $100 billion a year on the
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