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...