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Gambling News
Nova Scotia Says No to Online Gambling
British Columbia was the first to launch a legal online gambling site in North America with their playnow.com site. Ontario and Quebec are also getting ready to follow B.C.’s footsteps. If you remember, Nova Scotia, was right on the heels of this online gambling bandwagon. Back in late August, Finance Minister Graham Steele said it was time that Nova Scotia had its own online gambling for the good of the people. -
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Internet Bingo
Happy Birthday, Giggle Bingo!
There certainly are a lot of Bingo Birthdays in October! As we mentioned last week, World Bingo also blew out some candles this month. What is it about the fall season that makes it such a great time to open an online bingo hall? (That or the previous January was a pretty fun time…).It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since Giggle Bingo first laughed onto the online bingo scene sporting some schnazzy Microgaming software and some great 75- and 90-ball action.
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Games & Casino News
Halloween Slots Tournaments for October 2010
You can play in Halloween specials this month, beginning with a $100k Haunted Slots Tournament and a $2k Halloween Freeroll Tournament! Both Halloween slots tournaments are special for this season.
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William Hill Teams Up with Iovation for Fraud Protection
One of the UK’s biggest bookmakers, William Hill is teaming up with Iovation and their ReputationManager 360 software in their fight against fraud. According to a press release today: Iovation, the device reputation authority protecting online businesses from fraud and abuse, announced that William Hill, the UK’s leading betting and gaming company, has adopted iovation ReputationManager 360 as part of its overall fraud prevention strategy.
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Wife of Democrat John Tierney’s Indicted on Online Gambling Charges
The seven-term Massachusetts Democrat Representative John Tierney is facing an election coming up; his wife Patrice is facing jail time. Patrice Tierney pleaded guilty to four counts of aiding and abetting the filing of false federal tax returns all resulting from her managing more than a $7 million bank account stemming from her brother, Robert Eremian’s online gambling business. Eremian’s site, PlayLegal.com, used a site based in Antigua but operated out of the United States.
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Internet Bingo
Happy Birthday, World Bingo Network!
Accepts all Players The World Bingo Network turns 9 this month, and while I try to calculate what age that make them in Internet Years (42? Do I carry the one?), you can take advantage of their celebratory promotion that goes on through the month of October. Accepts all Players As birthdays are all about cake, Jeeves has distributed an assortment of Birthday Cake pattern games with a fixed $25 prize in all rooms throughout the month.
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Gambling News
Dutch Government Regulating Online Gambling?
It seems the Dutch government is having a hard time with what to do with online gambling and has now, again it seems, flop stances. The Government has done a lot over the years to keep online gambling out. They made a blacklist of foreign online gambling sites (2008) and then told banks to not do business with them for fear of being prosecuted; the Dutch version of the U.S. UIGEA.
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Games & Casino News
New Microgaming Slots for October 2010!
Four new Microgaming slots are due live October 11th. They are, Dolphin Coast, Tiger’s Eye, Monsters in the Closet, and Steinfest slot games. Nearly all of these new slots will have stacked wilds during some point in the game, except for the monster game which will give extra bonuses instead. You can enjoy an upgraded classic nine-line slot, or play one that has over three-thousand ways to win.
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October Slot Tournaments Offer Thousands to Win!
Join Super Slots, River Belle, and Club World Casinos, where online players can win thousands in slot tournament prize pools during October! These slots tournaments offer prize pools starting at $1,000, for all day tourneys at Microgaming casinos, to $100k with a month-long slots tournament at Vegas Technology casinos. Check out our newest professionally made slots tournaments section, showing all the best online casinos that offer tourneys with freerolls and buy-in competition.
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Gambling News
Major Casinos Looking at Online Gambling
There has been a lot written lately about the online gambling regulation in the U.S. this year. Proponents of legalizing and regulating internet gambling have seen positive and negative so far from Barney Frank’s H.R.
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New Treasury Rule Proposal and Online Gambling Funds
There has been a new ruled proposed that has gotten online gamblers in the U.S. in a foul mood. A rule proposed by the Treasury Department would require a weekly report of all electronic money transfers into and out of the U.S. by all financial institutions. Along with the reports the social security numbers of all those making thing transaction will be included. Currently no reports are made if transactions are less than $10,000.Could the U.S. government use this information to halt all U.S.
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Internet Bingo
"Wicked Fun" this October at New Bingo Billy's
Today’s the first day of October, and there’s no better time to swoop in on the promotions at New Bingo Billy’s. I happened to be in the neighborhood, (ahem, at my desk, scrolling through my favorite bookmarks) and noticed I arrived just in time to spread the good word on what ol’ Billy had to offer this month. And what I found gave me the chills.
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Games & Casino News
New Bowled Over Slots at Rival Gaming Casinos!
Bowled Over slots have 5-reels, 20-lines, an interactive bonus game, expanding wilds, and free spins, as the newest i-Slots game available now at Rival Gaming casinos. The bonus round in these new slots is a bowling game which will give you two chances to knock down ten pins. Knock down all 10 pins on the first try to get a strike and extra coins. Bowled Over i-slots can be found in our new slots area, along with all the new slot games that come out during the month.
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Gambling News
Washington State Court Upholds State Gambling Ban
Lee Rousso, is an avid online poker player, the Poker Players Alliance Washington State’s Director, a lawyer and is fighting the online gambling ban in Washington State through the court system. His central argument against the internet gambling ban is, “The central argument is that Washington State’s statute that bans internet poker is protectionist in nature. It protects in-state businesses from out of state competition. The Commerce Clause of the U.S.
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Canadian Players Banned from Certain Online Casinos
Could all the legal online gambling action involving Canada lead to some online casinos to drop Canadian players? This could be one explanation to the sudden emails sent out by Bwin Interactive, Paddy Power and Casino Club announcing they will no longer take Canadian players effective Sept. 24th 2010. Another interesting development is that all these casinos run the Boss Media software. There is no explanation in the email about why other than citing “new regulations” as the cause.
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Slot Winners
Bodog Casino One Day Winners Total Over $115,000
Bodog casino has a lot of great things going for it including fantastic sign up bonuses, loyalty programs and tournaments along with an abundance of games to choose from and of course big jackpots with lots of money to give away. Case in point, Bodog paid out over $115,421 in one day alone. Out of all this money 5 were paid for online slot jackpots. The biggest daily winner was Jack H. from Texas. While playing Aztec’s Treasure, Jack hit it big winning $50,915.
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Gambling News
RIP Spearmaster - Ted Loh
Guys, I am just about speechless. Earlier this week, Spearmaster, Ted Loh, passed away after a struggle with cancer. Ted is well known in the industry. He was the first affiliate I ever met in person, and he made me feel welcome. Ted was outspoken and straight forward. He spoke his mind, even in situations where most people didn’t share his views.
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Sportingbet PLC to Forfeit $33 million to Settle U.S. Online Gambling Charge
UK Internet gambling company Sportingbet Plc agreed today to forfeit $33 million that it provided to US customers in a deal that they hope will allow the company to resume U.S. online gambling operations sometime in the future if the laws are changed. According to a statement made by Sportingbet as part of this agreement with New York, the company offered online gambling to U.S. residents from 1996 to Oct. 2006.
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Gambling News
Online Poker Affected After California State Sen. Wright Indicted?
What a difference a week makes. California State Senator Roderick Wright (D- Inglewood) seemed to be a light for legalized online poker in the state has now been indicted by a grand jury on eight counts including filing a false declaration of candidacy, voter fraud and perjury beginning back in 2007. If convicted, Wright faces up to eight years and four months in state prison. He pleaded not guilty and was released after posting bail of $45,000. His next court date is October 8th.
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Goldwater Bank To Forfeit $734,000 in Online Gambling Case
Today the bank Ahmad Khawaja and his two firms Allied Systems and Allied Wallet reportedly used to transfer funds to players online poker sites, as agree to forfeit assets.
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Games & Casino News
PokerStars 50 Billionth Hand Dealt Event!
PokerStars is sponsoring a 50 Billionth Hand Dealt event, and when this milestone is reached players will get cash and free tickets to the WCOOP Main Event on September 26th! The PokerStars 50 Billionth Hand Dealt event has four categories to choose from and all poker players can enter to make extra cash.
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Goblin's Treasure Slots - Newest RTG Slot Game!
New Goblin’s Treasure slots are live today.
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Daniel Tzvetkoff Released from New York Jail
The Australian businessman Daniel Tzvetkoff has been released from a New York jail according to news.com.au. The 27 year old had been charged with money laundering, conspiracy to launder, fraud and conspiracy to defraud.
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Games & Casino News
Royal Vegas Casino Offers an Extra $10 Free!
Join Royal Vegas Casino as a new player now and get an extra $10 free for playing The Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring slots, on top of their regular bonus offers of up to $1,200 free! This is a treat, and if you’ve ever played the new Lord of the Rings slot game the extra ten credits will surely help, plus you’ll have a blast playing.
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Games & Casino News
Two New Vegas Technology Slots!
The latest Vegas Technology games are, Agent Cash slots the first of its kind with 5-reels and 30-lines, and Paradise Riches slot as another 5-reel 25-payline game.
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Indian Casinos to Have Legal Online Poker in U.S.
Legal internet poker is coming to the United States, at least on tribal land. In a press release today, Atlantis Internet Group Corp. announced a licensing agreement with Cake Gaming NV which will allow Native American casinos across 30 states to legally play poker online.
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Slot Winners
Mega Moolah Progressive Online Slot Hits for $4.1 Million
The jackpot of the very popular Mega Moolah Summertime progressive online slot has been hit for $4,170,128. In a press release from Crazy Vegas, the casino manager Trevor Penn says: “CrazyVegas.com is delighted to announce this latest and most dramatic Mega Moolah win on the Microgaming Network.
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Games & Casino News
High Noon Casino - New RTG Online Casino!
High Noon Casino is hot off the press today offering $60 free to all players and a 200% first deposit bonus up to $2,000 free! See a fresh new look to RTG casinos with High Noon’s rustic wild-west scenes; in their promotions, which show a moving train, horses and carriage, and a river boat. And in their games preview, where tumble-weeds tumble and old western buildings store all the goodies.
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Gambling News
Blanca Games Acquires the Cereus Poker Network
Stuart Gordon’s led Blanca Games, Inc has acquired the Cereus Poker Network the third largest online poker network. The acquisition includes the network operations, software and the two brands, Absolute Poker (AP) and Ultimate Bet (UB). According to Gordon the Chief Executive Officer of Blanca Games in their press release, “The acquisition of Cereus is a significant opportunity for us. Cereus is a major platform of well-managed assets.
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Online Gambling Changes in South Africa, Holland and Nova Scotia
What to do with online gambling has been a hot topic with cash strapped states, provinces and countries lately. California recently wrestled with it, some provinces in Canada have embraced it with others to follow suit and many other European countries have chimed in on one side or the other. South Africa, Holland and Nova Scotia have been the latest to headline the online gambling news.
