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Online Casino giants cash in their chips

The four founders of PartyGaming, the world’s biggest online gaming group, sold a 5 percent stake in the company on Wednesday but maybe got less than they had expected. Gibraltar-based PartyGaming handles nearly half the global online poker market and the move has led to a lower-than-expected £232 million being raised in the shares sale. The selling shareholders are Nitin Jain and founders Anurag Dikshit, Russell DeLeon, Ruth Parasol and Vikrant Bhargava. The size of the deal was reduced to 200 million shares from 350 million previously planned, dealers said, adding that the...

Online Casino launches new and improved homepage

Online Casino (www.online-casino.com), the leading casino website for beginning and intermediate level players, launched a newly designed layout on the website’s homepage with new sections, a new flash movie and improved navigation. Two of the new sections include the website’s promotions page and an affiliate informational page. A sitemap (www.online-casino.com/sitemap.html) and reorganized structure has improved the navigation and made it more user-friendly. The new flash movie features an interactive display of the site’s blackjack, roulette, slots and craps games. Sean...

Online Casino adds cash give away promotion

Gambling portal OnlineGamblingSolutions.com has added a new casino to its portfolio that will offer unprecedented bonuses. 32 Vegas Casino will take the number of participating casinos on the portal to 11 and will launch by giving away a huge ‘first deposit bonus’ of 320% to all new players. OnlineGamblingSolutions.com has built a reputation for providing impartial, independent reviews of casinos as well as gambling strategies, sports betting, real-time jackpots and a digital bookstore. Currently all new players are receiving up to $50 extra to bet with on top of the casinos re...

Online Casino takes Da Vinci Code to Vegas

There is no greater wild goose chase at present than the Da Vinci code, and online casino Wild Jack has announced a promotion where players can crack the code to win cash prizes as well as a chance to win the grand prize of a weekend for two at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. ‘The Slot Code’ promotion requires players to download the casino, deposit $50, and try to break the code hidden in the picture to be one of 25 lucky players to win $100. (Hint: at the time of writing the code is ‘Loaded’, but check the casino lobby before you play). One player will win a weekend for two...

Online Casino launches new version of Major Millions

The Jackpot Factory has a reputation for paying out big - over $4 billion since its launch. Now they have increased their offering with another progressive game release. The latest addition is a megaspin version of the popular Major Millions game, which is set to launch on the group’s casinos along with Cashanova Video Slot and World Cup Mania Video Slot. Players will have six times the chance of snagging a jackpot on the progressive that is known as the million dollar spin machine. David Brickman, Spokesperson for the Jackpot Factory Group said, ’Our players love the...

Belle Rock Entertainment launches June promotion

This June, Belle Rock Entertainment is going to make a baseball lover, a music fan and a handful of traveling enthusiasts very happy with its latest promotions accessible from River Belle, Lucky Nugget, The Gaming Club and Jackpot City Online Casinos and Online Poker Rooms. With all four of the casino prizes below, players must enter the promotion and wager 4,000 credits on any games during the month of June. Here are the details on what they could win: * River Belle Online Casino -- Summer Loving $10,000 romantic getaway! If you’re looking for a romantic rendezvous for two, R...

Black Widow Casino now offering Tequila Poker to its players

Black Widow Casino (www.blackwidowcasino.com) announced May 18 that it has added Tequila Poker to its impressive roster of more than 90 games. The move comes as a result of an exclusive licensing agreement that sees Black Widow as one of only a small number of online casinos offering the popular table game, first created in 2005 for the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas. A similar arrangement involving the exclusive rights to the popular Blackjack Switch took place in 2004 and the game has quickly become a player favorite. The rules of Tequila Poker are simple – after an initial ante, a ha...

Charity championship gets online casino sponsorship

TigerGaming.com is to sponsor the Canadian Texas Hold’em Charity Championship, a national and regional Hold’em tournament that started life in Montreal and has now expanded to include Toronto this year. Tuesday, May 30 sees the start of regional tournaments in both Montreal and Toronto, which will eventually produce the final top 10 players who will go on to compete in the final table championship in Las Vegas. The successful players will be awarded prizes for winning their local tournament, and then be flown to Las Vegas to compete in the final table championship for the grand pr...

Online casino firm buys up Las Vegas condos

Two hundred-plus Las Vegas condo residents may not know it, but an online casino gambling firm is about to become their newest neighbour. Monkey Bet, an online sports book, casino and poker room, has recently completed negotiations to purchase land in the area and has set a tentative 2008 opening for a live online casino gambling establishment on the site. The sale has proved controversial given the 269 condo units, known as Chalet Vegas, already occupy the adjacent space where the online casinos gambling firm intends to build. Existence of a purchase agreement with online casino Monkey...

Online casino signs movie sponsorship deal

Aces online casino has confirmed that it has signed a deal to sponsor a new movie about poker, due to be released this fall. The online casino is distributing exciting prizes as a run up to the film’s release. Online casinos have started to have their presence felt in areas outside the world of the internet. Television reality shows featuring poker tournaments are all the rage and it wasn’t long before online casino gambling entered the world of Hollywood. An online casino has recently announced that it has finalized a movie sponsorship deal. Aces will sponsor the movie that wil...

VIP programs make sense at the online casino

If you are a regular player at your favorite online casino, it may be worth your while to join the site’s VIP program. An online casino recently awarded an all-expenses paid trip to Ireland to one of its VIP players. Many online casinos offer VIP programs whereby regular players can become part of an exclusive group of gamblers. The online casino awards these VIP players with special bonuses and payout rates and these programs have become very popular in recent years. VIP players get to play in special VIP lounges at the online casino and enjoy attention, perks and inside information ...

eCOGRA aims to reduce underage and problem gambling at online casinos and poker rooms

The practical use of effective measures to promote responsible gambling at over 100 top Internet casinos and poker rooms will receive added impetus at the end of May when online standards and player protection body eCommerce and Online Gaming, Regulation and Assurance (eCOGRA) holds its second global training session in London, UK. Today, online casino and poker room managers are concerned and committed to resolving the problems surrounding underage and problem gambling. Managers responsible for handling these issues around the world will converge on London for two days of intensive tra...

Two slots jackpot winners in a month at online casino

As the saying goes, lightning often strikes twice. This was the case at online casino Roxy Palace, as they announced that the King Cashalot progressive slots jackpot has been won at the casino for the second time in less than a month... In what must be an industry first, two lucky Roxy Palace casino players have won the King Cashalot Progressive Jackpot slot in quick succession of one another. The jackpot was won for a massive £ 814,592.01 ($1, 427, 369.74)at Roxy. The second jackpot was won this week for a much smaller amount of $140,232.36. The jackpot is reset at $100,000 every ...

Gaming providers launch new online casino tournament

Two providers have joined forces to launch the next generation in online Backgammon. Spill Group and GameAccount will release GammonTournaments.com, which will be a unique venture into backgammon games. Unlike its competitors it can be played immediately. GammonTournaments.com will offer several options, including ’MoneyPlay’ and ’MatchPlay’ scoring formats. Users will be able to play this game worldwide because of the GameAccount technology platform’s ability to handle all multi-currency and multilingual features. Reinout Te Brake, Marketing & Busines...

Kiwi Casino gives 30.000 dollars to fortunate player

Although the month of May is only half gone, several players at Kiwi Casino, an online gambling website, have already collected some hefty prizes. Playing at Kiwi Casino only for an hour, Bret X, a resident of Missouri, hit an incredible jackpot of $30,000 playing Let ‘em Ride. Bret was quoted as saying, “Kiwi is the real deal! I hit a $30,000 Royal Flush on Let It Ride! They rock!” Bret’s win came only a day after another fortunate Kiwi Casino gambler received $23,770, after hitting the jackpot of the online casino’s Fruitmania slots. Kiwi Casino is a member of the Kiw...

Slots24 celebrates its 21st by unveiling dollarsaurus

Slots24.com has just added another themed slot game to their growing selection of online slot machines. The new 5 reel, 5 pay line internet slot is called Dollarsaurus, featuring a primitive feel across the reels but a 21st Century approach to payouts and fun! Volcanoes, dinosaurs and eggs make up the winning symbols in this Prehistoric landscape of plenty. And the game is just the first of many new themes, bonuses and features planned for the future! Slots24 has unleashed their new Dollars Galore promotion to follow in the wake of Dollarsaurus. Players who wager $50 stand a chance of...

Casinos to become smoke free on June 1

The days of puffing while playing the slots at casinos across Ontario will come to an end June 1 with the implementation of Ontario’s new smoking ban that requires all public and work places to be smoke free. The ban will include Casino Rama near Orillia and the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino near Port Perry — Ontario’s only two casinos built on natives’ land. At Casino Rama, the Mnjikaning First Nation has passed a bylaw similar to the one adopted by the Ontario government, said spokesperson Jenna Hunter. Hunter said that no smoking will be permitted inside the b...

Online Casino Launches iSlots

The Global Interactive Gaming Summit and Expo (GIGSE) will see the launch of new software from Rival Gaming. Rival will showcase its new slot development, i-Slots, at the event, held between May 16-18, at Montreal’s Palais des Congrès. i-Slots is an updated representation of classic slot games with interactive features such as animated video clips, bonus interactive mini-games and evolving storylines that unfold over the course of the game. Scott Giesbrecht, Managing Director at Rival Gaming, said, “Many software developers have been claiming that their games are interactive...

Gaming Corp in mobile deal with Vodaphone

A fully interactive mobile casino service on Vodafone live is due to be launched within the next month following a deal with Gaming Corporation, the owners of gambling.com, got2bet and casino.co.uk. The service will initially have 11 java games, including Blackjack, Roulette, Stud Poker, slots and scratch cards. It will be available for both practice and real cash play. Registration and deposits can be made via the mobile handset. Vodafone’s Content Control system will bar underage gamblers. Player deposits will be limited to valid credit card transactions. The company will se...

Neteller marches on while the US prevaricates

Neteller plc, the quoted Isle of Man-based provider of “e-wallets” for the gaming industry, has issued a trading update for the first quarter of 2006, ahead of today’s Annual General Meeting, demonstrating the serious money being made in online poker and gaming. Neteller has established itself as the leading provider of a convenient online facility for players needing to transfer monies to and from their gaming accounts. This has been aided by the reluctance of the big mainstream finance companies to get involved, especially with the threat of sanctions from the hostile political envi...