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Alderney delays Full Tilt’s hearing

admin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:13:04 +0000

The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) announced that a substantive hearing concerning the recall of Full Tilt Poker’s gambling license has been put off in order to give Full Tilt time to continue advanced commercial talks which could turn out beneficial for interests of players. Therefore, the main hearing on Full Tilt’s case will begin on or before the 15th of September.

The representatives of Full Tilt and the AGCC met in London on Tuesday in order to talk over the decision of AGCC to suspend Full Tilt’s license on the 29th of June. After the suspension all operations of the online poker room were stopped immediately.
The AGCC claims that the decision to put off the hearing serves the interest of Full Tilt’s players.

The US Department of Justice indicted the founders and seized the domains of Full Tilt, PokerStars and Absolute Poker on the 15th of April. Then the Department agreed to return Full Tilt its domain to make it possible to pay out American players’ money. Full Tilt stopped accepting US players and continued to provide real-money gaming services outside the States until its gaming license was suspended.

But unlike PokerStars, the company has yet to repay any American players.

New look of online casino games.

admin — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:40:41 +0000

Realtime Experience With The Fantastic New Face Of Casino Games

Casino games based on flash technology have become very popular with those who enjoy playing games of chance on the Internet. Such flash games differ from classic online games since they use new Macromedia Flash technology by Adobe Systems. This brand new flash software has completely changed the idea of online gambling.

Flash games are better because they have much more realistic graphics and sound effects of higher quality. They make you experience the game just like in real land-based casinos. Such games have been highly successful in creating a real casino atmosphere on the screens of players’ computers.

Interactive flash games have one more advantage compared to other online games: players do not have neither to download nor install anything. You can play these games directly in your web browser. Unlike traditional software that took long time to download, these new casino games load very fast in few seconds, so you do not need to wait any more. And what is more important, flash games are not on zip or exe files and that means no security risk for your computer since no downloading or installation is needed.

Moreover, flash casino games are becoming more popular because of easy accessibility of different flash players. Such players are simple applications that you can use in various programs. Almost every new computer has pre-installed flash player and according to statistics about 98% of all computers support flash. If you have flash software, your web browser will routinely play flash. Indeed, casino flash games offer great possibilities to gaming enthusiasts. You can play all classic casino games like baccarat, roulette, craps and blackjack, with a big choice of top slots.

You will be offered lots of fun instant-play games, especially the slots. Online casino slots give you multiple subjects to enjoy and there is always something to play for everybody. Whether you are interested in film, music, adventure, travelling or standard fruit machines you will always find something that suits you best. There are a lot of games to choose from and each of them is worth trying. The number of flash casino games is really huge, but the most popular flash games are bingo, craps, baccarat, Caribbean poker, roulette, paiGow poker, slot machines, video slots, blackjack and video poker.

Of course, there are also bonus games available for both experienced and beginner players. You can play these online games using your virtual money and avoid any monetary risks. However, it is essential that you master all relevant skills before starting to play using real money.

Like any other web games, online flash casinos have to provide the best possible security. As a result, flash game scan boast high-tech security measures to prevent any eventual slip-ups and ensure complete security. Any persona, professional or monetary information you give is well-protected. In addition to that in case your computer loses internet connection the game you were playing is saved and your bankroll remains safe too. Online flash games are the real choice for everybody who enjoys online gambling.

Ocean Dreams Slot from Real Time Gaming

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:26:46 +0000

As the period of summer vacations is at full swing now, several online gambling software developers have released new slot machines featuring popular holiday destinations. Real Time Gambling is not an exception with its colorful Ocean Dreams slot. Those who can not afford a real trip to the ocean will be more than content with incredible graphics of Ocean Dreams. The main screen of the game is set under the ocean waves. While all the 25 paylines of this 5-reeled slot in a golden frame rest on the deep-sea floor with tropical fish and corals, the top of the screen represents a magnificent sunset over the ocean on the background of a beautiful island.
A current trend in the sphere of online slots is that the more a new game is unlike anything that has been released before, the more popular it becomes. From this point of view, Ocean Dreams is going to be a hit, because it not only features a unique system of free spins, but more than compensates for the absence of a separate screen bonus game with its irresistible progressive jackpots. Every spin of the reels gives an opportunity to hit one of the two jackpots of Ocean Dreams, no matter what symbols appear on the screen. The progressive of a lesser value is called Minor Jackpot and is usually good for only a couple hundred dollars, while the Major one gives away thousands, but much less frequently. Both the sums on stake are always visible on top of the screen, so a player knows what he or she is gambling for.
Besides the stylized symbols of high value cards, the reels of Ocean Dreams feature some of the brightest species of ocean fauna like crabs and seahorses. The biggest in the game fixed jackpot of 10,000 coins is granted by the symbol of Orca, which is as usual a wild one. The other wild symbol looks exactly like the first one, but made of gold. It can only appear on the middle reel, but will double the payout of any combination it is a part of. The most exciting feature of Ocean Dreams is of course its round of free spins. While in the majority of online slot machines a free spins round is triggered by a number of scatter symbols appearing anywhere on the screen, in Ocean Dreams the symbols of Island have to be aligned on one of the active paylines, whether from right to left, or from left to right. During the free spins not only all the payouts are doubled, but also all the Orca wild symbols become golden, so a regular winning combination with a wild symbol will give away a quadruple payout during the bonus game of free spins. Even the already high fixed Orca jackpot becomes an incredible sum of 40,000 coins that on a relatively high coin denomination can grant enough of money to fulfill an actual dream of a summer holiday spent on the ocean shore. Besides, with the specifically Real Time Gaming feature of Win-Win bonus, free spins rounds become an ultimate win, no matter what symbols appear on the reels, as if the amount won at the end of a bonus round does not exceed 10 times a player’s bet, an incredible bonus of up to 1,000 times the bet is automatically transferred to the account of a player.

VIP Casino Presents Two Great Freeroll Tourneys

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:14:18 +0000

Being one of the leaders in online gambling industry, VIP Casino has offered quite a number of amazing online tournaments since it has been opened more than 10 years ago. The perfect balance of unmatched wagering safety and never-ending excitement of various casino games from Cryptologic allows VIP Casino to draw the most demanding customers to their website. VIP players are not just those who like to wager a lot. Most of them also understand the irresistible value of freeroll tournaments. After all, what can be better than a chance to play for real money without betting anything?
This month a whole of two freeroll tourneys will be held at VIP Casino. They are common in every aspect except for the games chosen to be played on. Both will have an amazingly high for a freeroll competition prize pool of $1,000. This amount will be shared by the top 22 players of each of the winning boards. The majority of winners will walk away with only $20, which is in no way a little amount for having all the fun of internet gambling without any risk of real money wagers. Bigger prizes will be given to the first two winners of each of the tourneys. The second place victors will get an amazing sum of $200, while the ultimate winners will receive twice more, having $400 deposited to their accounts after the tournaments come to an end. VIP Casino, just like any other provider of internet gambling services, is much more interested in the customers willing to bet real money than just in those clients that only want to waste their time gambling online for free without making any wagers. This is why both of the freeroll tourneys will only accept real money account holders of VIP Casino. And considering the high prize pools this is only fair. Every participant will receive 10 minutes to wager with the set amount of $500 of tournament chips on the game chosen for the tourney, so good time and chips management may be even more important than luck.
The two freeroll competitions will require absolutely different skills from its participants, in spite being played by the same rules. As usual, the winner is the person to increase the starting balance of $500 by the maximum amount. The first tourney will be played on the classical European roulette variation called VIP European Roulette by Cryptologic. Here the roulette fans have a huge advantage as in spite of the ever present regular 2.7% house edge, the range of possible bets is very high and a player needs a lot of attention and experience to decide, whether he or she has to put all the money on black, or try one of the corner bets, distribute the bets equally through the luckier numbers of the field or place more on one or several of the numbers. The other tourney, being played on a much less popular table game gives less of an advantage to the experienced players, so everyone will have equal chances of victory. The game chosen for the second freeroll tournament is a card game called Casino War. It features not less varied wagering opportunities than the classical roulette with its tie bet option, going with the main bet to offer a huge win of 10 dollars for every buck placed on the tie bet. As the game is really fast, a wise player may be willing to stop wagering before the time elapses. For this very reason the leaders’ board is always visible and if a gambler is satisfied with his or her standing, no additional wagers are required.

The Advantages of Card Games

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:20:28 +0000

While internet gambling presents plenty of opportunities for innovation in all spheres, some things never change. A good example is card games. Hundreds and even thousands of slot machines are available; the number of game developers is growing, new games appear every week, while the quality of their graphics keeps getting better on a yearly basis. Yet, any online casino is still more than willing to satisfy the customers’ demand for card games.
There are several reasons for such everlasting popularity of card games. First of all the basis of most of the games of cards is the same standard deck consisting of 52 cards. Every suit, whether spades, clubs, hearts or diamonds, includes 13 cards, which are numbers from 2 to 10 and three face cards, namely Jack, Queen and King that represent royal figures, which is why they are also called court cards. The last but not at all least is Ace, which is in many games considered the highest card of the deck. Some games also demand the wild cards of Joker, which is most often used to substitute any other one or grant the most points. There are usually two of them in a deck.
On such a simple basis, a countless multitude of games have been developed over the course of centuries. Every country in the world has its own card games and most of the regions have different varieties of more common ones. The rules may be as simple as drawing a card of a bigger value from the deck than your opponent does, or as complicated as the rules of professional poker with all its puzzling combinations and wagering peculiarities. Out of many games there are, every player is free to choose those that he or she likes the most. There are games, which are perfect for a party, games for children and seniors, games for dozens of players at the same table and all those countless variations of solitaire, sometimes called patience, which can be played all alone. Some games require several decks of cards, while others use only several cards of a deck.
Out of that almost endless ocean of games, three are known all over the world. Having different histories behind them, they are played in almost any country, in every casino there is. We are talking about Blackjack, Poker and Baccarat. Blackjack originated from France, where it was called “21”. Its variants are played virtually everywhere, from cold Siberian prison camps to luxurious casinos of Monte Carlo. Every card has its value and the aim here is to gather a hand of cards, which would amount to 21 or as close to that number as possible.
The game of Poker is currently the most popular one on Earth. Surprisingly, it has also spread from France, where it was called “Poque”. The aim here is to gather one of the many possible combinations which have a strict hierarchy depending on how difficult it is to get one. The most interesting feature of poker is the strategy of bluffing when a player can pretend having a high hand so well, that everybody else would just fold, giving him or her the whole pot without even looking at the cards.
Baccarat is one of the simplest, yet oldest games there is. It originally appeared half a millennium ago in Italy and since then it has spread all over the world to such an extent that almost every casino nowadays invariably has a baccarat table or even several of them. While the two previously mentioned games require a lot of skill combined with luck, the game of baccarat is almost purely depends on chance and good betting management. It takes a whole of eight card decks to play the game, so counting what cards are left out there is almost out of the question.
Card games have a history almost as long as that of civilization itself. They evolve and change as the centuries pass, but one thing will remain forever: as long as there is gambling, no matter virtual or real, there will be card games.

Three Last Weeks of Oceans 15 Promotion

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 11:29:06 +0000

The biggest Fortune Lounge group casino attraction of this spring, the Oceans 15 promo, is coming to its end. Having started on the 30th of March, it has already awarded two thirds of its awesome prizes, which are fantastic cruise vacation tickets for two persons. During the remaining 3 weeks of the promotion, which is going to end on the 15th of June, 5 more tickets will be given away. The prizes can only be received by those players who are in good standing with the casinos of Fortune Lounge group, as they are awarded through the Invite Only contests. No matter of which Fortune Lounge group casino a player is a member, he or she may receive an invitation via e-mail. The group includes such famous online gambling locations as Royal Vegas, Vegas Villa, Vegas Towers, Vegas Palms, Desert Dollar, Fortune Room, 7 Sultans and Platinum Play. All the locations are operated with the aboriginal gambling license of Kahnawake Gaming Commission, which makes sure that players’ bets and withdrawals are safe and secure.
The remaining events of the Oceans 15 promotion do not have a pre-designated game to be played on. That means that any Microgaming creation of Fortune Lounge group may be wagered on to participate. This week, from the 23rd to the 29th of May the lucky winner of an 8-day Mediterranean cruise will be determined by the Highest Wagering contest. The gambler who wagers the most at any casino of the Fortune Lounge group will get a free plane ticket to Rome, where the vacation of his or her dreams will start. Any other person of a player’s choice can be taken with to have an amazing trip on the luxurious sea liner called Noordam, which will stop at 6 unforgettable locations of Greece and other Mediterranean countries with centuries-old history and modern tourist attractions. During the first week of June another player will get a cruise ticket for the 20th of August, which is the first day of the dream vacation. He or she will be determined through the Highest Purchasing contest. The second week of June will give away the 3 remaining tickets. All the winners will be randomly determined by means of the Lucky Draws. Two of them will be distributed among all the invited players, while the third one is saved for a VIP member.
Besides the 15 astounding cruise tickets, the Oceans 15 promotion will give away 15 Diamond loyalty statuses for life and several more of them that will last for a year or a month. The players of any Fortune Lounge group casino get special bonuses with every tier of loyalty, which start from the Silver level, awarded to any newcomer, then for fulfilling several wagering requirements, a Gold status is awarded. After that, the Platinum level is granted, while the Diamond status, awarded through the Oceans 15 promo is the highest possible level of loyalty, which usually takes months of wagering to achieve. It not only gives a player lower play-through requirements before a possible withdrawal on most of the casinos’ match money bonuses, but also allows accumulating loyalty points, which can be later used for wagering on any game, at an increased rate.

Sloto’ Cash Casino Presents the Anonymous Free Play Option

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:56:20 +0000

A lot of online casino players are tired of those endless personality checks required to start playing. Of course, when it comes to real money wagering, identity verification is necessary to prevent underage gamblers from breaking the law and spending money that doesn’t belong to them, but the question is whether identity verification is really needed for playing just for the fun of it. Nowadays it takes time to register at an online casino and download the game that seems interesting to just try it. Even the games available in the instant online flash variant that require no download are also available only to the registered online casino players. Sloto’ Cash casino is trying to cope with this issue by introducing the new Anonymous Free Play option.
The Anonymous Free Play feature of Sloto’ Cash casino provides an excellent opportunity to check out any of its games before playing. It has been realized through a link format. A player needs to enter the provided link into his or her browser and after that only two numbers are required to start playing. The first one is the identity code of the needed game. This allows the system to display the very game that a player wants to check out. The identity code may either be taken from the Sloto’ Cash casino software that also requires no download or received through e-mail. The second number required before starting to play is the identity number of a casino’s affiliate. Unfortunately, the Anonymous Free Play feature is currently available to the affiliates only, so regular players will still have to register and log in every time they want to try out a new game. After an affiliate enters his or her identity number and the number of the required game, an unspecified amount of time is given to play it. After the time expires, the site entered through the link format will ask an affiliate to log in as usual.
By using these two requirements Sloto’ Cash casino makes sure that the feature does not violate a law. Underage gamblers are still unable to play without going through the identity verification procedure, because only affiliates are currently able to access the games. At the same time, the set time limit guarantees that the casino’s website doesn’t run out of its players, because every affiliate will have to eventually log in to continue playing. The Anonymous Free Play feature is a sign that online casinos are doing everything they can to facilitate gambling. Every new game now can be tried without having to spend the time required to log in, so if an affiliate only wants to see whether it is worth playing, the feature is the very best thing he or she can use. Now we can only hope that the useful option will become available to normal players also, and maybe in the course of time some of the other online gambling sites will realize that saving the time of their customers will only attract more clients.

Online Gambling Is to Get Legal in France

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:18:33 +0000

A major step towards legalizing of online gambling has been recently taken in France. The bill of legalization, which was passed by the Senate of France, didn’t meet much opposition in the National Assembly either, so now it would only take a confirmation of the already drafted decrees by the European Commission before the Minister may sign it.
The EC is expected to determine whether the terms of the decrees approved by the Senate and National Assembly of France correspond with the European Union laws by the end of April and in case they do, the market of French online gambling will be gradually taken under control by the government. The requirements expected from an online casino to legally operate in France are already available for consideration, while some of the analysts point out to the fact that it might be too difficult for independent gambling operators to fulfill all of them.
On the one hand, Internet gambling market in modern France is unprotected by any laws and as François Baroin, the Budget Minister of the country, announced, a legal alternative to the black market of online casinos will be created, providing the consumers with increased stability and safety of their bets, while generating additional tax income to the state’s budget. In spite of the fact that not all of the legislators support the current legalization, it will most likely be taken on the as is conditions. The French Socialists confessed of intense pressure, which caused the bill to be passed, as many lobbies are interested in the law to raise their funds. The spokesman of Left Wing opposition Gaetan Gorce even promised to take the matter to court.
On the other hand even the agencies that should be wholly interested in legalization of gambling seem to disdain the recent French decrees. The RGA (Remote Gambling Association) considers that the decrees do not comply with the rules of European Union as they will offer too much protection to domestic online casinos, making it almost impossible for the operators of other countries to compete with the French ones. In the end it may come to the point when it will be unprofitable for international online gambling companies to offer their services to the customers of the state. In any case, the European Commission is likely to sign the decrees proposed by French legislatives as it is quite pressed for time by the football World Cup Championship in June. After the Minister signs the bill in May, online gambling will come under the government’s control and numerous court claims and issues are sure to follow.

Three New Games by WagerWorks for Virgin Casino

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:40:09 +0000

The already wide selection of games at Virgin Casino has been recently increased by 3 new ones. All created by WagerWorks online gambling software provider, the games fall into a wide range of categories to the joy of the casino’s customers preferring different kinds of online entertainment. It is even more surprising that while most of the online casinos add one game at a time, Virgin Casino has treated its customers to three of them simultaneously.

The first game is a variation of the famous European roulette. Called Grande Roulette, it offers a wide range of features to all the numerous roulette fans of Virgin Casino. There has already been a great selection of this kind of games on their website, but most of them didn’t give as many diverse gambling options as Grande Roulette. The players now can not only customize the color of the layout, but choose the speed of the wheel’s rotation, draw the screen closer to see the table better, and even save the lucky bets to the hard drive of their computers to try them again anytime they wish. The new game also allows special bets and even the so-called “arc bets”, when the player can choose a section of the wheel, where the ball might fall, to cover all the respective numbers on the table with chips on a single push of a button.

The second game is called 4 Play Hi Low Bingo. It falls into the section of Instant Win games of Virgin Casino and allows the players to raise their bets by simply guessing if the next number randomly drawn by the program will be higher or lower than the one already in place. As is apparent from the name, another lucrative option for a player of 4 Play Hi Low Bingo is to complete a horizontal or vertical line of a bingo card. The more complete lines a player manages to get by the end of the draw, the higher is his or her reward.

And to call it a day Virgin Casino presents the third game of the most popular kind among the online gamblers. The video slot called Hole in the Wall allows a player to feel as an actual participant of a video show with the same name, where participants divided into two teams struggle to win by jumping through holes of different shapes. The holes are made in a wall which constantly moves and if a player fails to pass it, he or she gets pushed into a pool filled with water. That process is simulated in the bonus game of the video slot, triggered when a Hole in the Wall symbol appears on the reels. The player controls a number of animated cartoonish characters. As soon as a character is chosen for the jump, he starts to change his posture to suit the layouts of the current hole. It takes some practice to successfully get as many characters through the wall as possible, but when each one manages to get through, the number of coins awarded for the bonus game is multiplied. Not only the bonus symbol reminds of the actual TV-show, but all the other symbols do as well. The Action Replay symbol is a scatter, intended to trigger a number of free spins with multiplied payouts when several of them appear anywhere on the reels. There are also the symbols of players from the Red and the Blue teams, carefully drawn in a cartoonish style and colored according to the TV-show uniform, featuring all kinds of protective gear. Even the audio track of Hall in the Wall video slot reminds of the game show, especially when a character of the bonus round falls into the water after an unlucky player’s decision.

February releases of Microgaming

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:14:53 +0000

Microgaming has released five brand-new games this February. All of them will be used as bingo side games, namely 3 video slots, one of which is featuring a well-known comic character, a blackjack with never before seen number of options and a classic style fruit machine slot.

The new video slots are celled Hellboy, Dogfather and Age of Discovery. While the last two games are made from scratch, the Hellboy is a bingo side remake of a very popular online casino slot with the same name. Age of Discovery is the game to play if you are longing for marine adventures in the endless ocean with yet unexplored islands, while Dogfather is a mafia mockery featuring mongrels going wild on the streets of a cartoonish city. Fire hydrants will give you a bonus game and the fleas will triple your coins on free spins, so look out for these symbols!

If you like playing online video slots, you should already know the Internet casino favorite Hellboy. And now this branded slot is also available as a bingo side game. Hellboy, the brutish super hero of Dark Horse comics, along with other good guys and villains will entertain bingo fans, looking for high payouts. With enough luck you may trigger a four level bonus round, where you have to avoid collapsed tunnels and climb the open ones to multiply your coins. The bonus occurs if three or more scatter symbols appear anywhere on the screen. The game also features a Super Mode Bonus with three fixes wild symbols.

The new Premier Blackjack bingo side from Microgaming can be customized to a level never heard of before. You can change almost anything, starting with game speed, card design, table color to the very rules of the game. Whether you prefer a classical Hi-Lo blackjack, a bonus bets game or a multi hand blackjack, with Premier Blackjack you can try any combination.

Thor Blimey develops a fruit machine slot concept in the Vikings setting. That brand-new bingo side game is played on a classical 3 reel 5 win line screen with stern warriors and gorgeous Norse maidens, flagons of ale and thunder hammers. It has everything you would expect from a fruit machine, including nudge bank holds, gamble and repeat or turbo gambling.

As the Head of Bingo at Microgaming, Neill Whyte explained, one can hardly imagine a modern UK Bingo website without a number of side games. This rapidly developing trend in the world of Bingo attracts a large share of customers, looking for fun, entertainment and reward to those bingo operators, who use the sophisticated side games provided by Microgaming.