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December 11, 2010

Facial Recognition System To Help Gambling Addicts

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A high-tech facial recognition system has been introduced in Ontario’s casinos and racetracks in order to identify and bar gamblers from getting entry inside. Registering for this service will cause an alarm to sound to alert staff as soon as a recognized person enters the casino. Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner have approved the equipment.

Man Wins $7.3 Million Jackpot In Atlantic City

The Press of Atlantic City has reported that a man named Tom has won $7.3 million as Wheel of Fortune progressive jackpot on Tuesday. This jackpot is the second largest in Atlantic City casino history.

20 Years Jail For Casino Cheats

Two Italian males aged around 60 have been nabbed in London while they tried to enter casinos where they had been barred. A per “This is London”, they used fake identities. These two men are known for cheating casinos worldwide. In fact, these two men are accused of being a part of an “international criminal network.” As per reports they have been cheating casinos for the past 20 years.

Sugar Creek Still Hoping to Get Casino License

State of Missouri has still not approved the bid for New Casino. According to law, the state cannot have more than 13 casinos operating in the state. However, after the closure of President Casino in St. Louis, officials and residents of the state of Missouri were hoping to get license for a new casino. The Missouri Gaming Commission will most probably handle the license in December. The Isle of Capri is considered to be the favorites by gaming industry insiders.

Casino Cruise Ship Gambling Back in Jacksonville

Because of economic regression in Florida, Jacksonville’s Cruise ship gambling had become history but the good news is that the world of gambling has revived and old gamblers are quite ecstatic about it. The Jacks or Better casino ship finally had its first sail on Friday evening. More than 300 guests were present on board in order to welcome back casino gambling.

Though the town has land-based casinos, getting out on water and enjoying casino games is thrilling. Employment is also supposed to get a boost as more than 100 employees have already been hired and more staff is needed. The gambling cruise ship can handle up to 500 passengers at a time.

MyPokerLab/Facebook is giving away $1000 in November

Yes, that is true. In a promotion, MyPokerLab/Facebook is giving away a total of $1000 in November. The offer comes as an advantage for fresh players who can not only earn while playing but they can also learn while earning. For players who use MyPokerLab tool, My PokerLab/Facebook is giving away $250 every week.

MyPokerLab is basically a poker enhancement tool that players use to find assistance in enhancing their poker play. The website also offers video content about poker fundamentals and report cards with the help of which players can track their progress. This promotion will end in November and the top 50 players will receive the payouts.

December 9, 2010

Millionaire Casino Plans To Host Late Night Gaming Action

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A leading member of English Harbour Casino group, Millionaire Casino, is a well established and highly respected casino in UK. The casino offers a wide selection of exciting games including conventional and modern games to their clients. It mainly offers thrilling slot tournaments along with compelling bonuses.

Now, it has decided to host The Late Night Show online tournaments during the last week of November. Starting from November 24th, 2010, these tournaments will be hosted every evening beginning from 10 pm.

Operating since 2001, Millionaire Casino offers all the popular variations of table games that give a truly amazing experience to the players. Unlike other casinos, it is very liberal with players when it comes to withdrawing amount after the gameplay.

It allows players to withdraw up to $5,000 per day and strives to deliver a comfortable and rich experience to them. Moreover, it does not impose any stringent rules on players and keeps gaming easy and comfortable for the players.

The Latest News

Millionaire Casino now decides to host an amazing late night tournament offering endless fun and big jackpots to players. The Late Night Gaming Tournament will be held in the last week of November. From 24th November, 2010, the tournaments will be hosted every evening from 10 pm till 2 in morning.

The idea behind organizing daily late night game tournaments is to provide never-ending fun and excitement to those who work till late in the evening and don’t get the time to play online casino games. The winners are announced at 2 am for every slot event.

Scheduled Games

The casino has many exciting slot games to offer to its clients. The games will be changed every night. The site will launch a new late night event every evening at 10 pm running till 2 am. For Wednesday 24th, the slot game will be Sumo that features Japanese characters including the sumo wrestler, the geisha girl and the samurai warrior. This will appeal to those who love wrestling.

On Thursday, November 25th, the casino will be hosting Tiki Lounge featuring exotic environment of South Sea Islands. The late night event scheduled for Friday evening is Fat Cat with characters such as the filthy rich Fat Cat and his girlfriend. Birds of Paradise is the perfect game for a Saturday evening.

Players can enjoy this amazing game from 10 pm to 2 am. Eastern Dragon is the slot game scheduled for Sunday, 28th November. A very popular casino game, Cash Caboose set in the days of transcontinental railways, is the slot game for Monday, 29th November. Finally, the Late Night Gaming Tournament will end on Tuesday, 30th November 2010 with Rocking Robin.

Entry Fees and Prize

The entry fees for these exciting tournaments is as low as $ 2.25 with subsequent re-buys costing $ 2.25 each. If you like to settle down with casino action after working late into the evening, this is the best opportunity for you to have endless fun and excitement. Though it does not offer any guaranteed prize but the amount collected will be divided between the top three players.

50 percent of the total amount will be given to the first placed player, 35 percent will go to the player in the second place and remaining 15 percent of the pot amount will be given to the player in the third place. A consolation prize of $ 10 will also be given to the players from position 4th to 8th.

December 7, 2010

Australian Authorities Censored Pokerstars Online Casino Ads

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PokerStars is the world’s largest poker website that offers the largest online poker cardroom to its clients. The site offers you the widest selection of games offering you non-stop action and fun. People from around the world play poker games on the site and win real big jackpots.

Recently, it launched some television ads on Nine Network and Network Ten to promote their brand name and make their services more visible. But the Australian Authorities censored its ads, calling it a breach of Australian Advertising Regulations.

About PokerStar

Needless to mention, PokerStars is an online poker site that offers a wide range of poker games including both traditional and modern. On its website, games run around the clock and tournaments start every second. It offers you endless fun and non-stop action.

PokerStars is one of the safest places to play online poker. That’s why people from around the game can’t stop themselves and join them to take advantage of the widest range of poker games and the largest real-time jackpots.

It has also been announced as the “Best Poker Operator of the Year” by eGaming Review in the year 2005. Getting started with PokerStars is extremely easy. You can easily download their gaming software by following few simple instructions.

This can be run on both Windows and Mac. If you’re a beginner and have never played any game, observe any of the games running on the website and know how this software works. You’ll definitely be convinced about joining this huge network of players once you try your hands on it.

Games Offered by PokerStars

PokerStars offers a large selection of poker games including Five Card Draw, Triple Stud, Badugi, Texax Holdem, Omaha High, Seven Card Stud, Omaha Hi/Lo, Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo, Razz (Seven Card Stud Low), Horse & 8-Game Mix (Mixed Games) and 2-7 Triple Draw & 2-7 Single Draw.

What Happened?

Under their promotional scheme, PokerStars released its television ads on Nine Network and Network Ten recently but Australian Authorities censored those ads saying that they breached the Australian Advertising Regulations.

The ads appeared in the coverage of Wimbledon 2009 on Nine Network and Network Ten. The authorities said that it was prohibited to promote online casino, gambling games or services on television.

According to Australian Advertising Regulations for internet casino games, no one can promote or endorse gambling on television. It is against the laws and anyone doing that may fall in serious legal troubles.

Actually, showing ads on television was a part of promotional strategy of PokerStars to reach more people and increase site visits. But in most countries, it is seen as an offense. The media cannot promote gambling openly and explicitly.

What Television Channels had to say?

Nine Network and Network Ten defended themselves by saying that PokerStars is free to join and anybody and everybody from around the world can join it absolutely free of cost. Technically, they are not sponsoring gambling and provoking people to play online casino games. They are just diverting players to visit an online casino site.

However, even after these arguments, both the channels are ordered to hold staff training meetings about internet gaming regulations. Authorities told them to implement rules and regulations strictly. In case of breach, the licensees as well as television channels will be challenged with immediate legal action.

December 5, 2010

Students Continue To Ignore Online Gaming Prohibitions

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The more you ban it, the more is the interest an average teenager shows in any activity be it, smoking, drugs or gaming. The Annenberg Adolescent Communication Institute just invested in a telephonic research at the University of Pennsylvania which has shown conclusively that more and more students continue to flout norms prohibiting online gaming sites.

Details of the study show that 16 percent of males between fourteen and twenty years of age are using online gaming casinos. This figure was only 4.4 percent in 2008 and this shows a marked increase of almost 12 percent in use of these sites. Additionally, it shows that even the percentage of high school students who gamble monthly has gone up from 2.7% to 6.2% in the same time period between 2008 and now.

The female population is not far behind though their participation in online gambling is still less than that of their male counterparts. Between 2008 and 2010, there has been recorded an increase of 9% in the weekly as well as monthly rates of both online as well as offline gambling in the case of high school females between the ages of 14 and 17.

This particular survey covered as many as 835 respondents during 2008 and nearly 600 respondents during 2010 which are between the ages of 14 and 22. The researchers behind the study have concluded that on a national basis, more than 400,000 college-going males in the age group 18 to 22 use online gambling casinos at least once a week and more than 1.7 million are gambling online at least once in a month. It was also shown that roughly 530,000 high school-going males are gambling online once in a month.

The irony is that the US happens to be one of the largest gambling markets in the world despite the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act coming into effect in 2006. Rather than curbing online casinos as it was intended to do, the act actually fuelled increased growth in the industry. ACI Director, Mr. Dan Romer, has gone on record to say that payment restrictions are no longer enough to stem the tide that this industry is witnessing in this age group and stricter rules need to be enforced.

While online poker players have already been lobbying with lawmakers to modify the current laws, no real change has come about. It is also a fact that the online and offline gambling industry is a big revenue spinner for most governments. But the sad truth is that this money and profit is adding to the expenditure of the poor middle class individual trying to make a little extra money by gambling away the little that he has.

Gambling is also very addictive and can turn into a serious vice if it is allowed to continue unchecked. Online casinos offer total privacy and convenience making them far more accessible to almost everybody, despite age or gender. The need of the hour is to sit down and create a better system which can prevent increased interest in gambling especially among the younger population.

December 3, 2010

Online Gambling more Addictive than Land based Casinos?

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A new study on gambling spends show online casinos have proved beyond doubt what most of us knew all along. Online gambling is more popular and is beating land based casinos by a long shot when it comes to spends made.

Published in the reputed Montreal Gazette, the study was on the gambling habits of people in the city of Quebec. The reason for the study using a Canadian location can be traced to the fact that Canada is one of the very few countries in the world where gambling is a legal operation.

There are some provinces where gambling is banned but Quebec is not one of them. It showed that nearly 86,000 adults in Quebec spent to the tune of $10,000 per annum on internet based casinos and gambling activities. An actual number of 11,888 gamblers were actually interviewed for as much as 12 minutes to understand their habits, spends and preferences.

The report also said that people who were not fans of online gambling are spending the sum of $527 on average annually; This is a revelation when you compare it to the spends of the online gambler who is spending 18 times as much. It was also found that the average or median annual spending of users who claimed lower spends on online gambling, is $856 as compared to the average spend for gamblers who actually stayed away from online gambling which is $128.

Apart from the above, this study also showed the demographics of the high-spending bracket of online casino users which turned out to be mostly 44 years old, unmarried males with a tendency towards marijuana smoking as compared to the other types of gamblers. Most interesting results and insights are expected to continue from this 5 year research that will continue till 2015. It will also be insightful to compare the evolution of the industry and the users in the 5 year time period.

Why Is Online Gambling Becoming More Popular?

While the study shows it to be a fact that online gambling spends are several times more than spends in land based casinos, it does not elaborate on the reasons why. It is interesting to note that a professor of the Concordia University who is also a director of the Addiction research Lab had already gone on record claiming that people spend more in online casinos as compared to land based gaming establishments. Some of the reasons thought to be behind this popularity could be:

  • Ready Access : As against, land based casinos, internet gambling can happen 24×7, 365 days of the week without taking the trouble to walk out of your home.
  • Privacy: Online gamblers do not have to share details of their hobby with their spouse, children or other extended family.
  • At home entertainment: Internet casinos actually rate high in terms of entertainment as compared to other `do at home’ options.
  • Controlled environment: Many new and even veteran gamblers find online gambling a more controlled environment in which they can read up, take time and take more informed decisions than in a casino where the tendency to get carried away is higher.

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