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Live Coverage Of Mine Rescue Taking Away From Online Gambling

The live coverage of the mine rescue has captivated audiences all across the world, with several networks airing the historic event in Chile. Online casinos, however, have felt the effects of all of the people that are tuning in to watch the rescue.

Whenever a major event is on television, it pulls gamblers away from their computers, and when that event is as historic as the miner rescue, the numbers go way down at online casinos. Several gamblers gave insight into why they have stayed away from the casinos today.

“I have the opportunity to go to my favorite online casino to play poker at any time, but I doubt I will ever see a situation like the one taking place right now in Chile,” said Mark Bentle, as he watched from his home in England. “I can’t believe these people have survived this long down there.”

Millions of people have tuned in to CNN, Fox News, ABC News, and other networks to capture the rescue live. Last night. shortly before midnight, the conclusion to the miner trapping began to unfold. The rescue workers started to pull out the thirty-three miners that were trapped, and the effort continued into Wednesday.

“I wouldn’t miss this for the world,” said online poker player Matt Schwarn, who was watching the event with his girlfriend. “Usually we are playing in an online tournament right now before work, but today we chose to watch a piece of history.”

Online gambling has become more prevalent over the past decade, with millions of gamblers across the world participating. In countries such as the US, where online gambling is not regulated, lawmakers have been working on laws to protect their citizens that are currently gambling at offshore websites.

888 Repeats Massive Jackpot Promotion for UK Players – 10-10-10

October 10 -  888 Casino is preparing for a repeat performance of the profitable and hugely popular 8,888,888 Jackpot. Building on the enormous success of January’s 8,888,888 Jackpot promotion, where new players got three free spins, this October will give new players eight free spins to play in the Pirate’s Millions Video Slot to win the 8,888,888 Jackpot.

New players who register with 888casino during October will get eight free spins to use in the Pirates’ Millions Video Slot in 888casino, not only will they play for the 8,888,888 Jackpot, but they can also win smaller cash prizes worth up to 50.

The spins are absolutely free, no deposit necessary, players only need to register to get them. The free spins must be used within 30 days of registration and the winnings can only be cashed out after a first minimum deposit in 888casino.

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Win a Share of $10k in the “10-10-10 Tournament”

Swiss Casino is hosting a special “10-10-10 Tournament”  to celebrate a special date: October 10^th. The top 10 finishers in this 10-day tournament will each win a share of the $10,000 prize pool.

$10k Prize Pool
The 10-10-10 Tournament last for 10 days from Oct. 10 until Oct. 20. The buy-in is absolutely free and no registration is required as all Swiss Casino players automatically participate in the $10,000 casino tournament.

Leader Board
The sole goal in the 10-10-10 Tournament is to wager as much as you can on any of the Swiss Casino games. Players can keep track of their score on the constantly updated leader board on the Swiss Casino website.

Separate VIP Section
The prizes in the 10-10-10 Tournament range from $500 to $4,000 for regular players. For its VIP players Swiss Casino has created a separate section within the tournament that features even bigger cash prizes and a bigger challenge involved to cater to the needs of the true high rollers. 

 

Casino Club Jackpot Joker video poker jackpot won

The online player community marveled this week at a new development in the long-running saga of the Jackpot Poker progressive jackpot at Casino Club. InfoPowa readers may recall that the casino has been embroiled since 2008 in a dispute with a player over a €167,500 jackpot.

The issue has resulted in accusations against the player and the involvement of the Malta regulator, along with the controversial use of a clause in Malta law that gambling debts are unenforceable.

Adding heat to the debate has been a questionable decision by the casino to hold on to the disputed jackpot – which players fund from each wager – long after the case had been finalised.

Last week Casino Club, under some pressure on the forums, agreed to replace the jackpot, and was good for its word, re-fuelling the Jackpot Poker game on October 1st.

Almost immediately, the jackpot was hit again, according to a report on the casino website over the weekend which reads:

“Jackpot Poker just got even better. From the 1st of October the sensational amount of €200,000 has been added to the jackpot of the popular Video Poker game.

“Gavin already hit the jackpot of more than €235,000 in Jackpot Poker.”

The jackpot has been reset to €25,875.29 at €5 per hand.

German politicians meet gambling industry to discuss new State Treaty

In what could turn out to be a milestone event, politicians and a diversity of interested parties met in Kiel, Germany recently to exchange ideas on a new State Treaty which might permit the existing monopolies to hold on to lucrative lotteries but also benefit from the rewards of a liberalised and strictly regulated market.

Among the 80 delegates involved in the discussions were politicians, lottery and betting companies, sports associations, academia, media and advertising industry representatives.

The publication isa-guide.de reports that the consultation was organised as a hearing for the formulation of a Schleswig-Holstein draft for a new State Treaty to replace the former exclusive agreement between German states, which expires in 2011.

The CDU parliamentary leader Christian von Boetticher and his colleague Wolfgang Kubicki FDP observed that it was not too early to commence a serious debate on the next treaty, and that such a discussion should be open-minded in order to effectively examine all the possibilities, including the repeal of the present internet gambling bans.

Recent rulings by the European Court of Justice and developments in other European nations, together with a Deloitte survey that showed government revenues from gambling have been declining, were seen as motivation for a new approach to the legislation and future treaties.

A representative from Pokerstars said there was significant potential for online poker in Germany, which he estimated could be as high as €7.8 billion in revenues, given time and a sensible regulatory environment.

Taking a more current view, Dr. Michael Schmid, a consultant with Gold Media, said that a study by his company put the value of the unregulated, foreign-based online casino market in Germany at €1.5 billion – a quarter of the total market.

Norman Faber, a German lottery executive, warned that if the current monopolistic system was allowed to continue it could ultimately put at risk tens of thousands of jobs and the survival of many businesses in Germany.

Canadian player lands $107,064 Slotland jackpot

A Canadian player with the screen name Winnipegleg became internet gambling’s latest big winner this week when he hit the jackpot on Slotland’s progressive Wild Heart, a recently upgraded game in the online casino’s proprietary software games suite.

The latest major win comes only five weeks after the last $147,711 big hit at the casino.

Slotland manager Michael Hilary said, “We don’t usually have to wait very long between wins but we were pretty surprised to have another big jackpot winner again so soon!”

To win the jackpot on Wild Heart, Winnipegleg achieved a Royal Flush on all three lines when he had a max bet on each line.

“Believe me, I’ve often daydreamed about what I’d do if I won a jackpot,” said the winner. “Now that it’s happened I can’t remember any of the wonderful things I wanted to do! I’ll probably donate some to a good cause and invest some of it. But I’m also going to buy a few treats for my wife and myself!”

Wild Heart is a multi-hand video poker game with an exotic jungle theme, and is based on a Double Joker format. It’s a triple play video poker game where players have a chance to win on several lines at a time. The object is to get the best possible five card poker hand on one or all three lines. There are three 54-card decks, each with two wild cards. The same cards are dealt to all three lines. Players can hold one or more cards and, on the next spin, receive up to five new cards on each line.

Online fantasy sports business booms

Good weekend reading came from Associated Press this week in an article on the growing popularity of online fantasy sports gambling, a pastime sanctioned in all but 6 states by US law despite the banning of other internet forms of gambling.

In fantasy sports, participants pick a team of real-life players in baseball, football or other sports and compete based on their real-life statistics. Such competitions typically last a season, but more websites are springing up that offer prize money for teams that last only one night.

The AP report notes that rivalries among friends or co-workers are building new nightly online betting into a hit for the $800 million fantasy sports industry, with over a dozen websites managing daily fantasy sports wagers, earning a percentage for doing so.

Paul Charchian, president of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, which represents 120 companies, revealed to the AP that commissions amount to $35 per player per month at one of the largest new sites, FanDuel.com, and that nearly 7 million Americans and Canadians were already playing fantasy sports for money by 2008, with the total expected to soar.

One of the market pioneers, Fanball.com, launched a daily game in late 2008 called Snapdraft, and quickly attracted players; another was FantasySportsLive.com, which launched daily games with gambling in mid-2007.

Charchian observed that fantasy sports betting is not considered sports gambling because gamblers can’t wager on scores or team wins or losses, and they can’t create fantasy teams that mirror real-world teams. These are what-if teams, where individual performance is the most important factor.

Newer arrivals in the sector include FanDuel, which launched in the spring with $1.8 million in venture capital funding and now averages 20,000 users per month who have placed more than 65,000 bets, according to CEO Nigel Eccles.

Eccles said the site’s use increased 10-fold with the start of the NFL season this month.

“Whereas season-long drafts have already had their single bite … our daily draft model enables us and our partners to continue to add players throughout the NFL season,” he said. FanDuel has expanded into Canada and now has deals with seven major U.S. newspapers to attract players. The two businesses evenly split the commission FanDuel collects on each bet.

In 2008, an Ipsos survey showed that fantasy sports gamblers were spending an average of $134 per year on their leagues as the daily gambling sites were just starting to take off. The research firm found that of the 27 million Americans and nearly 3 million Canadians who play fantasy sports each year, about three-quarters do it just for bragging rights.

Media owners like the fantasy sports concept because it gives their readers comething new and different, Yoni Greenbaum of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, told AP. “It’s a niche that fits into a larger strategy,” he said, adding that the hope is that links like this will get readers to make Philly.com part of their daily routine; already some players have complained that they can’t bet enough each night, he said.

Online Casino Site Sportingbet Settles With US

Sportingbet Sportingbet has seen its stock rise in the past couple of days after announcing that they have reached a settlement with the US that will keep the gaming company out of court in the country. The settlement stems from illegal activity before 2006.

When the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was created back in 2006, many of the foreign gaming companies pulled out of the US market. The law did not take affect until this past June, but companies with listings on the London Stock Exchange pulled out when the law was signed just over three years ago.

Sportingbet, however, had trouble with the US before 2006. The settlement allows Sportingbet to avoid prosecution and possibly opens the door to the company re-entering the US market in the future should the laws change.

The US Justice Department has been negotiating with Sportingbet for the past couple of years. The violations stem from Sportingbet taking bets on casino games from US citizens. The company has agreed to pay the US $33 million.

The $33 million may seem like a get out of jail free card for Sportingbet. The company has had the threat of US prosecution hanging over it for years, and it has caused investors to stay away. Now, the company may see a similar jump in price as what PartyGaming saw last year.

PartyGaming also settled with the US involving the processing of bets in the country. PartyGaming agreed to a much stiffer penalty because of its PartyPoker site that was once the most popular online poker room in the world.

Online casino launches freeroll slots tournament – Online Casino News

Microgaming-powered online casino GoldenRivieraCasino.com has launched a series of free slot tournaments that are offering players the chance to take home a share of €100 in cash every day.

A member of Vegas Partner Lounge, which is the same firm behind sites including CrazyVegas.com, SunVegasCasino.com and 777DragonCasino.com, GoldenRivieraCasino.com revealed that its new €100 Daily Freeroll Slots promotion begins every day from eight o’clock in the evening London time before closing 24 hours later.

Registration opens twelve hours before the start of each event with a maximum of two add-ons costing three Euros each. A minimum of six players is required for each event while one re-buy is available for one Euro.

Malta-licensed GoldenRivieraCasino.com stated that it will reward the top five players in each daily tournament with a portion of the €100 with the best placed competitor taking home €40. Second spot will walk away with €25 followed by €15 for third and ten Euros each for fourth and fifth.

“This is a way of providing players with a rip-roaring adrenaline rush of a tournament every day of the week,” said Austin Green, Brand Manager for GoldenRivieraCasino.com.

“And, with daily cash prizes to be won, we guarantee that players will be completely filling up their schedules.”

GoldenRivieraCasino.com revealed that its €100 Daily Freeroll Slots promotion is being hosted on six of its most popular games, Avalon, Hitman, Loaded, Thunderstruck, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Ladies Night, on a daily rotation.  

All Slots Casino releases Andoid app

Online casinos are great, because you can play your favorite casino games without having to visit a brick and mortar casino. If you’re away from home or a laptop computer, though, you may not be able to access your favorite site. Some smartphones are able to run online casino software, but that is often not the case. For that reason, many online casinos are developing mobile casino apps. Most of the gambling apps that have been released, though, have been for the iPhone and iPad. That makes sense, due to Apple’s dominance of the market, but what if you have an Android cell phone? All Slots Casino has you covered, now releasing a mobile gambling app for the Android.

All Slots Casino has released two different Android apps, bringing some of the best All Slots games directly to your cell phone. One is a free blackjack app, which allows you to play online blackjack using play money. It is a good way to play some carefree blackjack games while on the go without worrying about your bankroll. The downside is that you can’t win money. That’s where the other gambling app comes in.

The other new Android app from All Slots is a real-money casino app. That app requires you to download casino software and it then allows you to play casino games for real cash. There are nine games currently available on the Android app, though more should be on the way soon. The games currently available are the progressive slots Major Millions and Mega Moolah, the traditional video slot Tomb Raider, Classic Blackjack, Bingo Bonanza and Roulette.

If you have an Android smartphone and are a fan of the games offered at All Slots Casino, these new gambling apps are a great way to enjoy your casino games on your phone. If you don’t, then sorry, but I guess this blog doesn’t really concern you (on the other hand, maybe you should get an Android phone).

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