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October 21, 2011

Promotional Offer By Singbingo.com

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The online Bingo gaming website SingBingo.com has launched a great promotional offer for its players and here the players have to propose the name of a lively mascot. The player who wins this promotional offer is entitled to get a top cash award worth 100,000 points. To take part in this promotional offer, all you have to do is to visit the Facebook page of this gaming website and click on the “like” button. This allows you to post your suggestion for the promotion. Twenty suggestions will then be shortlisted and a winner from amongst them selected. The site has popularized its singing mascot and he is popular for his smile but no one knows his name. They think this is the right time to give him a name. The shortlisted suggestions will be posted on the website for all to view.

Rome Casino Launches New Slot Game

Anew online slots game is due to be released by Rome Casino. It is said to have prehistoric age as its background theme. The game titled Cool Stone Age comes with five reels and twenty pay lines that allow players a unique chance to win nearly 10,000 credits. The players can identify easily the graphic images and features, which this game provides in its reels. The game is popular because it caters to all kinds of players and gives them an opportunity to win huge cash amounts. You can win anything from a penny to nearly $100 for a spin. The Cool Stone Age game has been much appreciated because of its stunning visuals, which come with beautiful cartoon sound effects. There are forty winning combinations and many attractive, free spin features, bonuses, wild and scatter symbols. These give players higher chances of winning.

Paddy Power gets new Marketing Director

The Irish online gambling giant Paddy Power recently recruited a new Marketing Director Woolfenden. He replaces Barni Evans who has been shifted to Australia for taking care of the divisions of this company based in this country like Sportsbet and IASBet. Woolfenden has joined this company after serving as Global Brand Director at Barcadi. Profits recorded by Paddy Power for the half year were exceptionally high especially in the mobile and online sectors.

Intralot gift for Italian players

Italian sporting enthusiasts can now use mobile phones to place wagers on different sporting events. It has been made possible, thanks to the Italian subsidiary of the systems developer Intra lot, which is an Athens-based game and transactions processing system. The new Intralot mobile sports book can be accessed through all smartphones and has the greatest levels of security so that players can enjoy a unique gaming experience. This novel service adds another feature to Intralot’s interactive games portfolio and is the part of a constant effort on part of the company to come up with newer products for satisfying customer demands. This platform is very easy and safe to use and the company is confident that it will appeal greatly to Italian players.

October 19, 2011

Lucky Witch Arrives

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Although Halloween is still a month later, a reputed casino recently launched many Halloween themed slots, which go by the name Lucky Witch. This online casino slots game has some great bonuses and features guaranteeing handsome awards for the players. In this game, whenever three or more than three potions or scatter symbols come on the screen anywhere on the reels, the free spin feature starts. The Mystery Bonus, the title of the bonus game, gets triggered by a cauldron symbol, which shows up on 1, 3 and 5 reels. Once this bonus starts, other bonuses like the Witch’s Vault, Witch’s Spell Books, Potion Bonus, and Pumpkin Bonus follow.

The great part about this new launch is the fantastic audio-visual effects like magic crystals, eerie noises, and psychedelic graphics of eerie cats, pumpkins symbolizing Halloween, spell charts and so on. All these make the game more interactive and exciting. The game contains fifteen pay lines and five reels and the players can get a maximum payout of $120,000. You can win nearly $6000 through bonus games. This game is all set to begin working its charm from the month of October.

All Slots Casino Promotion

Egyptian mythology came face to face in a clash with Norse mythology at the Fight Club during a promotion by the All Slots Casino. Goddess Isis led the Egyptian mythology characters in the slots game with the same name. Thor headed the Norse mythology in a game bearing the name Thunderstruck II. This promotion was expected to last through the middle of the month of September. The promotion had two stages.

In the first stage, the players had to compete for acquiring the top sixty positions in every game in the leader board. Players did it through wagering maximum amounts in their favorite games during this promotional period. The highest ranked players in this leader board get bonus credits while the other fifty participants can each get twenty free spins.

In the second stage of this promotion, the one slot out of these two namely Isis and Thunderstruck II, whichever acquires the greater share of wagering, gets the bigger prize pool. The amount here is twice of the smaller pool and the largest bonus here is$400 while the smallest is $40. In the second and smaller prize pool, the largest bonus amount is $200 while the least is $20. All free spins have to be used within a week of them being awarded. What you win from these free spins are held as bonuses and gets credited to the player’s bonus account. This account also gets all cash prize amounts credited to it. These bonuses must be played at least 30 times, after which you can make a withdrawal. In case these are not played during this time, they are deemed invalid and removed. The gaming software provider Microgaming powers the All Slots Casino. Many of its most popular games have been included in this promotional offer.

October 17, 2011

EU And Online Gambling Laws

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There has been a long raging debate on whether every state of the European Union should have its own laws on gambling or whether all gambling related decisions are to be left to the European Commission. To get the best possible solution, the European Parliament has been involved in debates for quite some time now. A vote has been scheduled for the month of September on this topic. Earlier this year, a green paper was launched which voiced this concern. A liberal member of Parliament, Jurgen Creutzmann from Germany, suggested that the European Union should take over all decision making power regarding gambling laws. He is not in favor of a single law for governing gambling in all member states but he is in favor of closer cooperation amongst them.

This Parliament member held the view that while member states are not capable of regulating all areas of gambling on the Internet, there remains the need for unity among national regulatory bodies. Currently all member states of the European Union have their own independent laws on online gambling. However, borders cannot define gambling online. It is better that all the gambling that takes place within European Union states abide by certain common standards.

On the other hand, there is a group, which sees no need for any common regulation by European Union members and they are in favor of unregulated gambling. Some other sections strongly object to Internet gambling having been limited. They are of the opinion that gamblers must be given warning messages while there are some other sections who want restrictions to be imposed on online players. Following the September vote, a subsequent vote is expected to be conducted in the subsequent month.

Neteller and its new payment mode

Neteller has always been one of the most secure and trusted ways of withdrawing and depositing funds used by online gamblers. There are many members who have signed up with this online payment solutions mode and who recently have been informed about the introduction of Neosurf. This new method of monetary transaction called Neosurf is however not open to all European nations currently. This is available for players only in countries like Italy, Belgium, France, and Spain. This new method allows players to buy the Neosurf prepaid card. Through this card, they can deposit funds into their Neteller accounts at once. From this e-wallet account, the players can then make their deposits to the casinos they prefer. In those countries where the Neosurf card is already being bought, the players can get them from any authorized Neteller retailer.

Once this card is bought, the players must register themselves in their current Neteller accounts. When they want to deposit funds, they can choose the Neosurf option and deposit any amount ranging from 20 to 4,000 Euros. To do so, they must use the PIN printed at the back of their Neosurf card. The amount then is deposited in their accounts and the players can thereafter make their deposits to their favorite casinos. The Neosurf customer care support team is always available to assist players in case of any problems they may face in depositing funds.

October 15, 2011

Milan Convention

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The tenth Annual iGaming Congress took place between September 19th and 22nd at Milan, Italy. The convention held at the Milan Convention Center is expected to be the biggest of its kind in this online gaming industry. The event coincides with the Totally iGaming Week hosting several online gaming tournaments. At this convention, there were online games software providers and gaming website operators, media persons and others interested in this industry as a whole.

This event follows a similar event that was successfully held at Copenhagen, Denmark. Italy was selected to be the next venue because the country is slowly becoming a popular gambling destination and its online gaming market is expanding by the day. Incidentally, Italy is destined to emerge as an industry leader in the online gambling world and is expected to have a strong influence on the growth of other European gambling markets.

Topics like the need to use social media to reach out to audiences, how to better integrate media and sports, how to handle online gambling crimes and so forth were discussed. There were debates on the impact of gambling laws on the industry as well as on the market in Italy in particular. Such debates discussed reasons as to why the appeal of online poker had been gradually diminishing as well as suggested ways to revive it. The convention also discussed the modifications made to European online gambling laws and their overall impact on the gambling industry.

Participating members are expected to hail from gaming giants and gaming software providers like Playtech and Microgaming. This convention not only offered an excellent platform for networking and social interactions amongst the key players in the gaming industry, but also guaranteed a great time full of fun-filled social activities and interesting workshops.

2011 Rugby World Cup

The 2011 Rugby World Cup is all set to be launched in September in New Zealand almost at the same time that InterCasino launches its great casino bonus offer. This offer seeks to commemorate this event. The rugby tournaments are expected to be played over a period of seven weekends. During this period, the Inter Casino also will be offering the Bonus Scrum promotions. The games are expected to end by 23rd October. The quarter finals, semi-finals and finals are scheduled for October. To participate in these stages, players need to qualify in the first four rounds or pools. Each such pool has five member teams and five bonus offers. Winners in the finals have the chance to win some great and exciting rewards. The players are entitled to get 75% bonus on every deposit they make in the finals weekend. The final prize means $500 free. Those who get this free amount are all those players who have qualified in all the four preliminary rounds and have successfully chosen the winning team in the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Players need to put in their bonus codes during this promotion and all such details can be got from the casino website.

October 13, 2011

Suicide Of Gambling Addict – A “Wake-Up Call”

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The husband of a woman who killed herself after getting into $100,000 of debt due to gambling said that British Columbian casinos need to have more support in place.

Lost battle

Yoo Choi had moved to Vancouver and opened the Velvet Cafe based on Broadway. But, as her husband, Mark Dawson, explained, she had a compulsive gambling habit which she kept a secret but had been battling to deal with over a number of years.

After she had managed to get into $150,000 of debt playing at Edgewater Casino in Vancouver, she eventually registered herself into an exclusion program. Here she received counseling and her husband believed that she had managed to overcome her addiction.

But, on June the 16th she phoned him, apologizing for the fact that she had started to gamble again. After this, she disappeared only to be found 26 days later floating in Lynn Canyon which is located on Vancouver’s North Shore.

Increased suicide risk

Dawson expressed his regret at not being aware that a problem gambler is two times more likely to commit suicide than any other form of addict.

“If I had known, I might have been able to take her home,” he said. “It wasn’t on my radar at all. I might have been able to say, ‘let me hear you start the car, stay on the phone with me while you drive home.’”

Gambling addictions that lead to suicide are not that uncommon. It was revealed that one man who murdered first his partner and then himself back in January had lost $200,000 in a local casino. Back in 2002 another man killed his wife, set fire to their home, then committed suicide. An inquest later found that he had got into financial difficulties due to gambling.

It is estimated that 200 problem gamblers commit suicide every year in Canada. In BC alone, the Coroners Service released that there were 34 suicides related to gambling between 2003 and 2010.

According to Professor Robert Williams, it is hard to truly estimate the figure due to the fact that in general a suicide is not linked officially to gambling. Williams, an expert in gambling addictions at the Alberta Gambling Research Institute as well as teacher at the University of Lethbridge, estimates that in Alberta about 20 percent of suicides are related to gambling in some way. Also, as per his estimate, for each person who kills themselves due to problem gambling, four others try but fail.

Program ineffective

At the Edgewater Casino and in other BC-Based casinos, facial recognition technology is used to help keep out problem gamblers who have put themselves on the voluntary self-exclusion program. Yoo Choi herself was escorted out of Edgewater a number of times. But, Dawson sees the program as ineffective in that there was no penalty connected to her lapses and he was not made aware of them.

“It’s a wake-up call … If you know somebody, be a little bit more aware of the repercussions,” Dawson said. “It can go, as I found out, beyond rock bottom.”

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