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December 21, 2010

Gambling Apps for Android Phones

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Online casinos have broken into the iPhone market and operators are looking for other outlets to appeal to gambling fans. The popular Android phones are being looked at for gaming alternatives on the move. Full Tilt Poker has announced its applications supported by Android 2.2 software and Flash 10.1. Players with existing accounts can log in and play online poker games for real cash. Full Tilt is setting a milestone and it is expected that other online poker operators will follow this suit.

Online poker is the most popular game in the online gambling world. It was a natural move to expanding in the mobile gaming market. Currently, some kinks are being worked out before the final version is released. Popularity of the application is a certainty in the near future.

Thanksgiving Promotions and Events for Slots Galore

Slots Galore, an online casino, has been offering a wide variety of promotions and there is still more to come. November has been a very busy month with great offers in addition to Thanksgiving and Black Friday promotions.

On 25th November players were able to make the most of Triple Points Promotion. The game was held between 12 pm and 8 pm (EST) and the promotion was for Triple Gold slot with specials on Thanksgiving Weekend. This kicks off from 25th November. The players have a chance to receive a 100 percent bonus throughout this time, in addition to the regular online casino competitions. Players can, at the same time, participate in The Big Turkey which is the month-long Thanksgiving online casino tournament. You can buy $5 and win a portion of $100,000!

Redeem Cash for Christmas

Now our minds are focused on Christmas as Thanksgiving is over. The Black Friday sales have just started and you need some extra cash to splash around. Your Xmas shopping could be funded from an unexpected source – your favorite online casinos! Black Friday is a great opportunity to cash in your loyalty points for cash or gifts.

Doyles Loyalty Scheme has been introduced by DoylesRoom with a new slogan “Cash is King.” This is their new mantra and the guys really know how to put their money where their mouths are. You can get hard cash in exchange for points earned at tournaments. You can earn Brunson Bucks which can be used to buy gifts in the Doyle’s Room Store or can be cashed in. Players can redeem up to $5,000 per month depending on their level. It doesn’t get any better!

Slot Release by Rival Gaming

Players will be happy as Rival Gaming has a new online casino slot game. Cream of the Crop is a five-reel twenty-payline video slot game. With its bright gardening theme, the game has pumpkins, corn, beets, sunflowers, and more.

The slot game has a new style of animation in which the icons grow out of seeds. The players have to tend their gardens, pull out the weeds, and look for the treasure chest which is the symbol that activates the bonus round. There are many exciting features in the game Cream of the Crop. Coin sizes range from 0.01 to 0.25. Players can play anything from one line to 20 lines. They can configure the wagers, and the default bet size is equal to $2.00 per spin. It is possible to win $22,220 in the normal game.

December 19, 2010

A New Way to Play Blackjack

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Blackjack is a game that you can play in every country. The main reason is the low house edge, and also that it has no variations. It is one of the best features of blackjack that it is played in the same way across casinos everywhere. This is unlike the other card games that have different variations for every casino, locality, country, and even festivals. The chances of finding that the rules on one blackjack table are different from the other were very slim. Until now it is the same. The game stands to go through what can only be a revolutionary change.

Strange as it may seem, a whole lot of new variations for blackjack are coming up. The strange part is that this is not something that online casinos that offer standard blackjack are doing. The games of blackjack with its variations are what online poker rooms are offering. What the gimmick is nobody is very clear about, but online casinos that offer standard blackjack have not started something new. Maybe the poker rooms want to help their customers and regulars find new games. Or maybe it could be all about the money.

It is a well-known fact that blackjack has perhaps the lowest house edge among all other card games. Now blackjack is no game on the sidelines, so the casino would not mind having such a low edge on it. This game is rabidly popular. In addition, casinos will rarely like something that does not make them as much money as they want to. With so many people favoring blackjack over the other games with a larger house edge, maybe they thought that it was about time that they brought about a change in the old ways. Now this induction is not a result of any bias against casinos, but the style of playing in the variations itself lets this out.

PokerTec is one of the poker rooms that is adding a blackjack variation in the form of a side bet on their electronic blackjack table. The side bet is that before the casino deals, the hand players will get an option to place a bet on the side related to the game itself. The bet is a small insignificant bet that requires not much understanding or knowledge of probability. An example of the bet is that the first two cards will total 20. Such a bet has odds of winning to the tune of 1 in 100. Now this may be discouraging, but the payoff is not. It can be anything from 4 to 1 to 1000 to 1, but it all depends on the combination of the winning cards. The purpose of this side bet is to tempt blackjack players to place a bet on such a game that offers the house a bigger edge.

The Cake Poker Network on the other hand has a new game called “Tourney Blackjack.” The players in this game play against each other instead of against the house. The winner of the game will be the person with the max number of chips. As it is so similar to poker, it is for other poker players seemingly. There is no reason to worry; the core blackjack will still be the same!

December 17, 2010

New York State Casino Deal with Indian Tribe

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New York State has struck a deal with an Indian tribe to open a casino in the Catskills. The Catskills Mountains is a vacation destination for the elite crowd of New York. The Catskills is dotted with resorts and camps. This area is also a heritage location with the Catskills Park and Forest Preserve. It is in this land that New York State has agreed to give out a piece of land to a Wisconsin Native American tribe.

The deal is an exchange between the tribe and the State. The Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe’s 23,000 acres of land in New York is to be exchanged for the 330 acres of land in the Catskills. The Tribe plans to construct a 584,000 sq ft casino in the land. The land already being a vacation spot is ideal for a casino of this magnitude as gaming is one of America’s favorite pass times. The casino will be in Sullivan County and is expected to increase the revenues of the county by manyfold. The officials of Sullivan County and New York State are thrilled by the concept of the casino in the Catskills.

The deal was kept under the carpet until recently. The surfacing of the news about such a deal has brought out a lot of criticism from environmental activists, other Indian tribes, and casino owners.

Environmental activists’ main concern is about the air and water pollution that would be caused in the area due to such a move. They state that the Catskills has one of the most important freshwater ecosystems in the world and the building of a casino definitely means several steps toward its destruction. The other Indian tribes’ main concern is about how the deal was struck. They are also curious about the reasons behind choosing the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe over others who have applied many times to start such a casino without any good results. Some of these tribes like the Oneida tribe plans to file a petition against the deal and holds the proceedings till matters are cleared out. Other casino owners criticized the deal as it would be competing with casinos in Monticello and Yonkers. Others are also criticizing that is a speedy move from Governor Patterson to seal his legacy in New York before he leaves office in December 2010.

The news about this deal surfaced just when the Governor of New York has been facing fierce criticism about a casino deal in Queens with Aqueduct. But the New York State administrative wing is all for the deal. They even claim that the State legislature has approved schemes to allow the opening of three casinos in the Catskills as early as year 2001. They also state that this fact was something that was publicized from day one and there has been no efforts whatsoever from the Patterson administration to keep the deal between the State and the tribe a secret. The Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe stated that they had no intention to dupe anybody and they wish to work in complete cooperation with other tribes.

The State and the tribe hope to sign the deal by the last week of November 2010. But, there are chances that it may be delayed indefinitely if the Oneida file their petition to stay the deal in court.

December 15, 2010

Lucky Live Casino Getting a Revamp!

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Lucky Live Casino is going to experience a complete revamp. Even though the website has always been very appealing, it is taking its popularity a notch higher by planning to create a more interactive and enjoyable experience for the players.

Lucky Live Casino is known to be the innovator that sets the standards in this industry. When the website was first launched, its design was regarded as state of the art. But as it started to get popular, several other sites started to copy the model, leading to a lot of duplication and similar looking sites. Not being somebody to stand and let the competitors catch up, Lucky Live has again decided to separate itself from the swarm of online casinos and undertake a complete makeover. The brand-new design is going to offer a more enjoyable experience to the gamblers. They plan to create a casino that looks and feels more realistic when the players log in to the website.

Best Gaming Experience

Lucky Live Casino’s commitment to superiority and brilliance continues to show as it goes all out to produce the best gaming experience for the gamblers, irrespective of the level they play at. The brand-new design has really laid down the standard for the competitors as it has again raised the bar of play when it comes to online gaming.

Lucky Live Casino has been known to be the first online “live dealer” on the World Wide Web. They are the ones who have set the bar when it comes to live gaming and persist to be the most liked online casinos existing today. Along with the huge collection of live dealer games, this casino features several RNG games for the gamers’ enjoyment. With both practice accounts and real money available, players can enjoy and practice the games before risking their money.

The website already uses state-of-the-art technology. For instance, it lets its viewers watch games in action through their Distance Gaming technology. All the results are decided from the game which is actually being played in real. Once the players have registered and have become members, they can play just for fun as much as they like using Fun Tokens that they get upon membership. Soon after making cash deposit into the account of LuckyLiveCasino.com, they can play for money and keep the winnings. Every type of game has been created in a way that people feel they are playing in a live casino. The games are extremely intuitive and the website offers a separate help page so that the gamers get their doubts cleared.

The website of Lucky Live Casino is being revamped to be more proficient and simple for the members. This is known to be extremely secure, meeting all security standards required for a web-based gaming facility. Gamers can play and visit a real casino during any hour of the night or day from the ease of their home. This site very simple; it offers the best gaming experience obtainable on the World Wide Web today.

December 13, 2010

World Cup of Poker is Back!

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PokerStars.com, one of the leading poker websites, has declared that its 7th World Cup starts from the last weekend of November 2010. The tournament offers gamblers from more than 50 nations a chance to compete for prize money of $290,000. But, this time the world cup of poker will differently work, giving all players a fair shot to make it to their team. Mentioned below are the ways it works.

Stage One: Make it To the National Team

PokerStars doesn’t care where a person is from. To make it through, the player just has to qualify for his or her nation’s four-player team. Interested people can qualify for a spot on their countries team by doing well in a series of qualifiers which started on November 27 and featured buy-ins of one dollar.

Stage Two: Divisional Finals

Stage two requires players to fight against other teams from other countries to move on to Stage Three.

Stage Three: Live Grand Final

The Grand Final of the world cup will take place from January 9 to 16, 2011. The teams that qualify to the Grand Final will get a prize package that comprises travel and lodging at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas.

The Final Table is going to be a “Tag Team” event where every team will revolve in and out of play till one team wins comprehensively. They will get the prize money of $100,000 along with the title World Cup of Poker VII Champions!

There’s a huge sum on the line. But there is only one country which can claim it, national pride, and hundred thousand dollars prize money for first place at the final in Bahamas. Poker cannot get any exciting than this. PokerStars.com declared that every team will contain four players of the same country. Each team will then fight in one of the seven divisions, with the champions receiving prize packages which comprise of accommodation and travel in The Bahamas and a spot in the final.

The grand final will take place as a part of the Caribbean Adventure of PokerStars.com. To end things in style, every player who played in 1 FPP and $1 qualifier tournaments for the World Cup of Poker 7 will be invited to play the $100,000 Freeroll. This tournament will take place after the end of the Final on January 30, 2011, Sunday. This is a fantastic way of celebrating the country’s World Cup win.

The start time of the tournament will be decided to suit the nation which wins the title, so the viewers have to keep checking for details.

Last year in this tournament, the Chinese were crowned as the champions. They defeated about eight other teams during 16 hour poker from across the world. The match was held in the beautiful surroundings of the PCA, PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in Bahamas. They took the first place with prize money of $100,000 that equals about $20,000 per player. In addition, the title of World Cup of Poker VI Champions and trophies were also provided.

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