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Time Served for Michael Olaf Schütt
The 29 year old Naples man, Michael Olaf Schütt was staring down 30 years in a federal prison for money laundering. Schütt has been accused of funneling millions of internet poker money through multiple bank accounts. Instead he is now looking at a plane ride back to Germany, all though not with his American wife, after cooperating with the feds and negotiating a “substantial assistance agreement” in his case. -
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New Microgaming Slots for November 2010!
Four new Microgaming slots are being introduced on November 9th; Robin Hood Feathers of Fortune, Reel Gems, Retro Reels, and Mad Dash slots, all with special features.
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Betfair Next Online Gambling Company to Leave the UK?
The UK has some of the most liberal laws concerning online gambling in the world. They have enacted some of the most comprehensive and fair systems regarding regulation and operations but all this has come at a price in the means of taxation and the horse racing levy. This taxation is now causing some companies to consider leaving the legal umbrella in the U.K. For some companies that are walking the line between profit and loss, the tax in the U.K. can be a big hurdle to overcome.
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Bingo Gala Announces Dates for Bingo World Championship
Accepts all Players Bingo Gala announced the dates for its 2011 Bingo World Championship. If you think you have what it takes to daub with the big dogs, mark your calendars for Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 5pm EST. A prize pool of $8,000 is at stake. Qualifying rounds started on Monday, November 1st. You still have plenty of time to show off your Bingo hollering skills, but don’t wait too long–only so many seats are available.
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State of Washington Seizes $553K From Online Payment Processor
It didn’t take long after the Sept. 23rd decision by the state of Washington’s Supreme Court that their ban on online gambling did not violate the U.S. Constitution for their federal prosecutors to seize $553,000 from Secure Money, Inc. Prosecutors asked a U.S. District Court judge to order the balance of 6 bank accounts they say are associated with the Canadian company to be forfeited to the government. According to a civil complaint filed on October, Secure Money, Inc.
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Exclusive $500 Slot Tournament from Games and Casino!
Accepts All Players Vegas Tech casinos offer an exclusive $500 slot tournament from GamesAndCasino, with free entry, and a $200 first place prize for online players! The $500 Slot Tournament begins November 1st at 6pm EST, 2010, and ends November 15th 11:59pm EST.
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Witch's Brew Slots at Slotland Casino!
Witch’s Brew slots have arrived just in time for Halloween at Slotland Casino, with 3-reels, 1-pay-line, a progressive jackpot, and extra wilds are produced in caldrons for better payouts! Slotland Casino game makers keep stepping up the pace with their new slots, as Witch’s Brew is able to produce more wilds for extra fun and coins while you play.
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Microgaming, Cryptologic & BetsoftGaming Partner with NYX Interactive
NYX Interactive is an award winning provider of innovative software solutions for the e-gaming industry and in the last couple weeks has been establishing partnerships with some of the leading online gambling software providers in the industry. NYX offers such products as bingo, casino, sports betting, poker and lottery. The Sweden based company announced on Oct 18th, 2010 that they had reached an agreement with BetsoftGaming for the provision of its Slots3TM games.
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Playtime Bingo is "Fangtastic"
There’s so much going on for Halloween at Playtime Bingo, I’m afraid I don’t know where to start! “Witch” promotion will you sink your teeth into? Between the Guaranteed $250 Halloween Jackpot and the Spooky Kooky Halloween Patterns and the Spooky Halloween Collectible Patterns and the Halloween Costume Contest, there’s so much to do at Playtime that I’ll barely have time to stuff my face full of chocolate in between games.
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Online Gambling at Harrah's
There has been big news coming out of the world’s largest casino company, Harrah’s Entertainment this week. One that will directly involve online gamblers and one that will help the company take advantage of any changes financially. It was announced finally after rumors have been heard for a while that this month Caesars Online Casino will be re-launched by Harrah’s using JackpotJoy as the new software behind the site.
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Get Free Bingo at bet365 Casino
Accepts all Players Except US Players An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but an hour of free bingo a day, may keep people flocking to bet365 Bingo. Starting on October 21st, in the exclusive Premier Lounge, get free bingo for a whole 60 minutes. How do you get into an exclusive Bingo Lounge, you ask? Meet the wagering minimums on the standard 90 ball Bingo game one day, and voila! You’re in! Every evening, you’ll get a chance to play for £100 in prizes.
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Desperate Times...call for Desperate Bingo
Accepts all Players Since we can all still legitimately celebrate the World Bingo Network birthday for another week, I thought I’d peruse the other fun promotions offered by this award-winning bingo group. And what I found both shocked and amused me. Accepts all Players In the heat of passion, some people scream Hallelujah. Some shout names they should (and some they shouldn’t).
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Update: GoWildCasino Police Raid
According to an affiliate program representative posting at the Affiliate Guard forum, there was an issue regarding Go Wild Casino and the police but it is all do to a “vengeful ex-employee that was recently dismissed”. Also expected soon is a press release from Microgaming and Go Wild.
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Win A Fortune Slots - Live at Win A Day Casino!
Accepts all Players Win A Fortune slots are a 5-reel, 15-line progressive slot, with several bonus games, including a double-money round, at Win A Day Casino! These new slots first appeared online on 15 October 2010, and there are four different features triggered by special scatter symbols. You can read everything about this game by reading our Win A Fortune slots review, and in our new slots section you’ll find a brief summary of the game.
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GoWildCasino Raided?
According to two Belgrade newspaper reports dated yesterday, Serbian police in an operation they called “Atlantis” arrested a group of foreign nationals that they say were running an online gambling operation in Serbia without permission. One of the sites allegedly said to be operating in Serbia and has since been seized is the popular GoWildCasino.
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New Jersey Looking at Intrastate Online Gambling
While the federal government is slowing grinding away at regulating online gambling and the courts deciding that regulating online gambling will be left up to individual states to decide, several states have been trying to work something out including Florida, California and New Jersey. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has come up with two expansions to help save the New Jersey gambling industry and hopefully help bring his state much needed revenue.
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Spartan Slots Casino - New Rival Gaming Casino!
Accepts all PlayersExcept Canada Spartan Slots Casino has more than 100 online games, in slots, i-Slots, table games, video poker, and others, and up to $5000 free for new players! Spartan Slots was live on 22 September 2010 as a new Rival Gaming online casino, and they offer six deposit bonuses to their new players for up to $5,000 free. Their first two deposit bonus offers will give you up to $1,400 free.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
