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Spin Palace Casino Comes Up With New Promotions

The different promotions at the online casinos offer more winning openings and it also allows the players to bet more. Spin Palace online casino is offering the players with a wide variety of promotions in the month of February. The Power Poker Contest is already in progress and it is scheduled till February 7th. Spin Palace online casino has assigned a variety of Microgaming’s 4-Play video poker games.

During the promotion period, those players who bet at these games will get a chance of winning a share in the thousand dollars prize pool. The player who will be betting the highest will be offered three hundred dollars and for the player with the second highest bet will be offered two hundred dollars. The player who will be making majority of the best will be offered hundred dollars and four hundred dollars will be divided between 8 players which are selected in a random manner.

The 5 Reel Slot Challenge is scheduled from February 8th to February 14th. For this promotion the slot games are The Palace Group, Spectacular Wheel of Wealth, Polar Bash, Age of Discovery, Boogie Monsters, Franken Cash, Burning Desire, Fearless Frederick, and The Rat Pack. Burning Desire is a slot game which is having the theme of Valentines Day. The promotion offers the players prize pool of thousand dollars which will be shared in the same way.

The Multi-Hand Blackjack Tournaments will function along with these two promotions. This promotion has started on February 1st and it will commence on February 21st. For this promotion, the players will be betting on the multi-hand blackjack games present at Spin Palace online casino. Here the prize amount is doubled at two thousand dollars and it is also shared in pretty much the same way.

There are two standing offers which are offered by Spin Palace online casino but because of the other promotions they are ignored. The first one is C$1,000 Jackpot Bonus. There are other progressive jackpots offered by Spin Palace Casino like King Cashalot, Mega Moolah, Cash Splash, and Major Millions. Other standing promotion is called C$50 Magic Strikes. The players who are logged in and betting are chosen in a random manner. Every single player receives reward of C$50 and the players who have won are notified with the help of e-mail.

Rival Casinos Launches New Slot Game

For the slot lovers, Rival Gaming has launched an all new slot game called Wacky Wedding at International Gaming Expo in London. The game is ready to be enjoyed at all online casinos powered by Rival Gaming. The signs on the reels mainly comprise of accumulated characters and the bride and groom are leading the cast. The players will find the bridesmaid, who is unhappy of not getting married and there is a waiter who is cunningly having drinks.

There are young boys, girls, and elderly people enjoying the wedding. The signs are presented in crazy cartoons and to make them attractive they are given bright colors. Some of the best animations are used in Wacky Wedding. The young boy is not happy for being forcibly asked to get dressed up. The old lady is instructing the caterers and old man is flirting with the young girls. As and when the four signs are united in the active payline, the full screen animations start functioning.

The bridegroom who looks like giving a second thought of getting married. He starts to sweat and sprints across the reels in order to getaway. Wacky Wedding has used standard signs and wild symbol is the wedding cake. Firstly, it become visible on Reel 3 but then it spreads out across to the other rows and thus offers extra payout openings. The scatter sign is the champagne and it provides the players up to 74 free spins. The bonus sign is the bouquet of flowers and on the second screen it activates a bonus game. In this game, the traditional ceremony is shown where the bride throws the bouquet of flowers at the unmarried females. A pointer is on the move constantly and as the player pushes the stop button, the bouquet gets thrown towards the pointer. The players are then provided with the bonus points.

The game allows the players to influence all the betting limitations. The players are allowed to facilitate 20 paylines and per payline they can bet up to 10 coins. The size of the coin differs from $0.01 to $ 0.09. Per spin the utmost total bet is $19 which is quite appropriate for the low rollers. The wedding sign provides the jackpot of 1400 coins when five of them make an appearance in the permitted payline.

Microgaming Launching New Online Slots

This time Microgaming announced their new online slots a little late, usually they announce them in the month of January. But the players’ wait will be worthwhile as the new slots promises to be outstandingly exciting. Microgaming has come up with two online slots games which are having topical themes. Winter Gold is totally based on Winter Olympics with the beginning of February 12th. Vancouver, Canada is the best place for the Winter Olympics which is situated in the mountains of British Columbia. The game of Winter Gold has five reels and ten payline video online slot game. In spite of the few paylines, the main game promises to offer astounding payouts.

But the main attraction of Winter Gold is the bonus. The round of ‘Spin the Bonus Wheel’ provides the players with exclusive openings which comprises of free spins and automatic payouts. The players can also be a part in the exciting Winter Olympics events which are the biathlon, ski jumping, speed skating, and bobsleighing. For the bonus round the players have a chance of winning 23,000 credits. Yes, not everyone can participate in the Winter Olympics but all the players can bet at the Microgaming Winter Gold.

The second slot game bears the theme of Valentines Day. Seeing the Valentines Day the release of slot game having the theme of Valentines Day has become just about compulsory. Microgaming offered their first All Pays online slot game last year. This year the players can bet on some of the exciting games like Cherubs, Love Potion, Beauties, and Beaus and offer exciting 62,498 credits.

The two different bonus games are activated by two scatter signs. Unsurprisingly, one of the scatter signs is Love Potion. It provides the players with the bonus game on the second screen where they have to make a decision for 6 handsome gentlemen for winning the bonus prizes. This game will be surely loved by the females. The second scatter sign will bring about the free spins bonus round which will be multiplying the payouts five times. Microgaming has given an ideal Valentines gift in the form of Love Potion.

The last and third new release is called Hot Air. The game will take the players on the adventurous ride of hot air balloon along with the jackpot of 15,000 credits. Hot Air is a thirty payline slot game having the Pilot sign performing as the wild. The payouts are tripled while the players make the winning grouping. But the Balloon sign is the most important sign to look out for in this game. During the free spins whenever the balloon sign appears on the reels, the multiplier raises by one.

New Commission to fix New Jersey Gaming

On Wednesday, Mr. Chris who is the Governor of New Jersey announced the foundation of New Jersey Gaming, Sports and Entertainment Advisory Commission. This body is made to make use of newer methods to fix the downfall in the gaming profits in the state. Governor Chris set up the commission following the fresh publication of Transition Subcommittee reports based on entertainment, gaming, and authorities.

As per the report, municipal government not being able to support the industry, the casinos of Atlantic City are saddled by grossly uncompetitive regulatory expenditure, the sports authority failing to deal with those issues, and the racetracks of Monmouth and Meadowlands losing around $20 million in the year 2010. Governor Chris said that they cannot allow Atlantic City to fade away in the competition, not making the best use of our stadiums, and have a Sports Authority which is not able to increase their investments related to entertainment.

Earlier efforts were weak, slow and were not so convincing to solve the issues in an effective manner. This will be a proposal, to direct our procedure in making sports and entertainment infrastructure better in New Jersey, to become self-sufficient, becoming more attractive to larger viewers, and generate more profits in the near future. The Advisory Committee will be functioning with his management in order to solve all the contractual and other matter as soon as possible.

Square which is in Christie’s view is a horse racing industry of New Jersey which yearly gets thirty million dollars as financial support from the casinos of Atlantic City, and which Governor Chris want to become self-sufficient. He is also worried about the rising gambling choices in neighboring states like Pennsylvania and Delaware. This will result in less people coming to the Atlantic City’s East Coast gaming centre.

The Advisory Commission will be serving without compensation and will be dissolved by June 30th of this year, the final date for presenting their final report and policy proposals to the Governor Chris. The members of the commission comprises of Mr. Wes who is the MD of equity company WML Partners, Ms. Debra CEO of New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Robert who is the law professor at Rutgers School of Law, and Mr. Jon who is the ex-chairman of NJSEA (New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority).

Dispute between Merge online poker and PIC Club protracts

As per the latest posts on one of the information message boards by Mr. Chuck Kid who is the chief executive of PIC, Merge online poker and PIC Club is going through a serious dispute and it appears that the case might land in the courts. The outstanding duties payable to the players have been paid but PIC Club is still asserting fees it is still owed. Now the matter is given up to the lawyers.

This week Mr. Chuck posted a copy of his letter to the members of PIC Club on Gambling911.com. Simultaneously, he also advised that the case has been handed over to the lawyers. In the letter written by Mr. Chuck, he rationalizes his result to make the case of Merge online poker open in front of the general public after extracting his cash processing services from the network.

Mr. Chuck alleged that since the month of July he have been making efforts to get the Merge Network to make due payments owned to PIC Club and also funding the Players’ account. Throughout this time, he made so many concessions to Merge online poker in order to make the payment. Every time, they make a promise to make a payment for the outstanding amount and admitting that the money was really owed, they kept on sending him the checks through mail time and again.

The CEO of PIC Club added that one justification also comprises of their CFO caught in Japan’s typhoon. Almost immediately, it became obvious that they have no plans of making the payment for the outstanding amount. He sought council along with industry’s people he admires and to a person they decided to disclose this issue. Not only as a promising method of accumulating the money but also to show that Merge online poker was facing either financial problem or was operating against the law.

His methods have had some impact and the letter carries on….

They at last sent some money in order to conceal the cash outs of the players. But it is very disgraceful that they had to go through an offensive procedure to conduct an act which is beneficial for the players. There has not been one single proof to disprove the whole issue, they in its place planned out a campaign full of insult and lies waged by the owners of the forum.

Mr. Chuck noted that old members of the club were compensated 14.23 percent interest on the member’s account balance in the first year of PIC. In the second year it was 10.3 percent along with the rate for the current year to be decided once the final audits of the accounts are done. He promises the members which he aims to accumulate every cent payable to the club and that moreover the poker rooms will be signed.

In a similar story, it seemed from the latest press note that Mr. Chuck is chief executive of an associate in an all new set up which provides online poker against more than thirty strong groups of poker players like Barbara Enright, Kenna James, and TJ Cloutier. Poker Pros Network.com and .net started in early November 2009 with the partnership between Openlot Group and 1st Players Group, which provide the software technology for the functioning. The whole operation is defined as a new network for the online players where they can sit on air with the specialists. The CEO of Players Group Ltd. said that they are very pleased to collaborate with Openlot to initiate Poker Pros Network. The real cash play will be starting from 1st December.

Five Slot Games launched by Jet Online Casino

Jet Online Casino has launched five new slot games courtesy of one of the famous software provider- Playtech. The games are Captains Treasure, Sparta, Safari Heat, Diamond Valley Pro, and Arctic Treasure. These new games are certified by the online casino’s authorizing jurisdiction, the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, are now accessible for the players to experience in their smooth, modern customer.

Sparta game will make the players enjoy the role of famous Spartan Army where they can use primitive signs and battle machines as their lucky signs and King Leonidas as a growing wild sign. The players can win four thousand times their line bet and fifteen free spins along with a two times multiplier.

Arctic Treasure is on the soft side where good-looking females are being used along with natural world, and valuable stones as their lucky signs. The players enjoy the chances of winning up to ten thousand times their line bet, up to free spins along with a three times multiplier. If the players are lucky enough then they can also win up to 100 and 50 times their total bet at the crystal treasure bonus round.

Diamond Valley Pro takes the players to the Old Mexico. The players will come across Vultures, and Tequila, and Diamond the most important reel targets, the players can have the chance of winning up to ten thousand times their line bet. If the players hit five lucky Tequila bottles they can win one hundred thousand times at the same time as playing along with a ten times multiplier, of which can be won by tracing two diamonds on reels one and five.

Captains Treasure Pro offers the players to enjoy the pirate life as they hunt for the treasure chests, parrots, and also the captain on the lucky reels. With mystery scatter and free spins, the players have the chance of winning big and on hitting five captains on a winline they can win 5,000 times line bet jackpot.

Safari Heat takes the players to the African adventure along with different animals as winning signs. When the players hit five lions they can win thousand times their line bet or thirty thousand times if the players are lucky enough to win throughout the 15 free spins. They all have three times multiplier.

Along with these new exciting games Jet Online Casino also features their new ‘Double Up’ innovation. Here the players can put their recent winnings into danger in order to double their prize.

Moneybookers offers innovative Prepaid Card

Moneybookers is one of the famous companies offering online payment services. Seeing the increasing usage and need of the prepaid cards for funding online casino accounts, Moneybookers has also launched their personal prepaid card. The prepaid card is called Moneybookers MasterCard. With this prepaid card the customers will be having access to their funds in the Moneybookers eWallet accounts or retail outlets where MasterCard is accepted. Moreover, this facility can be used across the world.

Newcastle Card Solutions Limited (NCS) which is a UK based company issues the Moneybookers MasterCard. Newcastle Card Solutions is the bigger providers of the MasterCard in Europe, Britain and it is ranked third across the world.

Head of NCS, Mr. Kriya Patel made a comment on Moneybookers MasterCard that MoneyBookers eWallet provides the customers with handiness and the customers will be enjoying free access to their offline while sitting in any part of the world.

One of the features of Moneybookers MasterCard is that the users don’t have to split their money and individually preload the card. One of the spokesperson of Moneybookers claimed that their company is the pioneer in providing major eWallet services. As per this feature it includes ease and flexibility, this also enables the Moneybookers MasterCard appropriate for various online and offline functions which comprises of the funding of the online casino accounts.

In the industry, the expenses combined along with the Moneybookers prepaid card are very less. The customers of Moneybookers will have to make a payment of €10. There is a fee fixed for the withdrawal i.e. €1.78 and the transaction fee are fixed at 1.97 percent. The Moneybookers MasterCard is obtainable in Polish Zlotys, American Dollars, and British Pounds.

Moneybookers was established in the year 2001 in London and it is managed by Financial Services Authority, UK. Since its beginning it has noticed considerable amount of development and they have processed online transactions of more than €14 billion to their credit. On daily basis more than twelve thousand new Moneybookers eWallet accounts are opened.

Moneybookers will touch new heights as industry of substitute payment will include more than twenty percent of total online transactions by the year 2012. The main reason behind this is that the customers are on a lookout for substitutes to the usual banking system for their daily transactions.

Mr. Martin Ott who is the Chief Executive Officer of Moneybookers said that they are quite pleased as they are going to launch something new in the online payments. They have freshly signed their ten millionth customers; with the development in this field the customer base is also increasing. They are looking to make the best use of all the protective measures of eWallet.

New Christmas themed slots launched by Realtime Gaming

As Christmas is getting closer, RealTime Gaming has launched two new and exciting Christmas themed slot games. The first slot game is called- Santa Strikes Back. The game is a continuation to Rudolph’s Revenge; it is an extremely famous online slot where Rudolph the Reindeer takes out vengeance on Santa for being overworked. This slot game is all about Santa Claus retaliating at Rudolph.

In the game, the Santa Claus is the wild sign and there are two spread out signs, one has the Santa winning and for the other one Rudolph is the winner. Another sign shows that Rudolph is tied with the ropes. Other signs represent different elves and high-value cards gift wrapped as Christmas presents.

There are two bonus features which are offered by Santa Strikes Back. One of features is known as Santa Strikes Back which offers seven free spins. At the time of free spins a candy cane might become visible on the reels. If it appears then the seven free spins gets activated one more time and the multiplier is augmented by 1X. The selected feature that the game offers is that the Santa Strikes Back feature can be re-activated up to nineteen times.

As for Rudolph’s Revenge feature it offers seven free spins but the multiplier is fixed at 2X along with the number of Santa signs. Santa Strikes Back offers a progressive jackpot which is hit as and when five Santa signs become visible on a permitted payline. The second slot game is called Naughty or Nice. Actually Naughty and Nice are two females and they are wild signs. Nice is dressed in one piece Santa suit and Naughty is dressed in two piece Santa suit. They are both desirable as they are wild signs.

Other signs on the reels are Nice and Naughty logo, Santa Claus, and an angry Mrs. Santa showing off a rolling pin, high-value card signs, and Christmas presents. Naughty and Nice carries a free spin bonus round where the players have to make a choice from Naughty and Nice in order to be the Bonus Substitute. During the free spins the selected bonus Substitute doubles the payouts.

The Bonus Substitute also provides the players with following gifts- an immediate prize up to 20X the activating bet, one extra free spin, and the reel with the Bonus Substitute take place in place throughout the subsequent free spin. Naughty and Nice also offer the players with progressive jackpot which is hit as and when five Nice signs or five Naughty sings become visible on a permitted payline.

Royal Vegas Casino reveals an all new look

Royal Vegas online casino has got a new and refreshing visitors’ lobby. The main attraction is the free sign up bonus of €1200 and the games are placed in a vertical manner on the left side of the screen and the progressive jackpots are placed on the right side. Royal Vegas offers different languages and various currencies. These all are easily accessible from the top tool bar. And just underneath that there is a tool bar which comprises of the operational menus.

The main change which can be noticed is in the Getting Started menu. This menu can be put into use by two players, one who is coming from other online casinos and knows the whole process. And secondly, is the novice player and Royal Vegas has taken care of it. There are five steps and they are very nicely explained. The first step suggests the players to choose from the instant play version or the download version.

The benefits are also discussed in a brief manner. As per the second step, the download procedure is explained where the players can make a choice from the casino’s download version. According to the third step, the casino allows the players to register with the Royal Vegas online casino. The players are allowed to register a Real Money Account or Practice Play Account. There are two steps process which is required in each case. For the convenience of the players, the registration process can be done while the downloading of the casino.

The Fourth Step is dedicated to those players who have made the choice for opening a Real Money Account. The depositing procedure is explained in a detailed manner. Although Royal Vegas online casino accepts credit cards, the casino advocates that the players can also deposit their funds from one of their Alternative Payment Methods for hassle free transactions. These methods comprises of Click2Pay, EcoCard, and Neteller.

When the players make their first deposit using the alternative method at the online casino, the players are provided with ten percent bonus. The concluding step in Getting Started is to start begin playing. At Royal Vegas online casino’s visitors’ lobby two of their famous online tournaments are emphasized. These two tournaments are- Blackjack League and International Slots League. The International Slots League provides the players with forty thousand dollars as weekly prize amount along with buy-ins ranging from free twenty dollars.

The main online tournament of the week is $20k Weekend Rebuy which provides the players with prize amount of $20,000. The International Blackjack League is known for their Elimination Blackjack Tournaments which offer some of influential prizes, the mystifying secret bet, and live dealer board.

William Hill’s Management Team gets stronger

Mr. Neil Cooper has been appointed as the new group Finance Director of William Hill plc along with of Kristof Fahy as Brand & Marketing Director. This is a new role which the company is planning out to strengthen their position both online and offline. Mr. Neil will be joining his new office in January 2010.

Mr. Neil will be joining the William Hill’s board after the present Finance Director Mr. Simon Lane decided to resign after serving the company for four years. At present Mr. Neil is working as a Finance Director at Bovis Home Group plc. His job comprises of external and management coverage, IT, relationship with the investors, financing and treasury, and internal audit. Previously, Mr. Neil has worked with Whitbread plc where he had played an important role in the field of financing for eight years.

Speaking from the Board side, Mr. Charles who is the Chairman of William Hill wanted to thank Mr. Simon for making valuable contribution to William Hill. His major efforts comprises of creating a strong balance sheet during the year 2009. They wished him success for his future professional career. They are also quite pleased with the joining the board of William Hill.

Mr. Neil has the appropriate experience in the field of handling various financial matters and also given valuable contribution in the leisure field. The company has declared that Kristof Fahy will be appointed as at a senior management position of Brand & Marketing Director and will be directly reporting to Mr. Ralph Topping who is the Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Kristof is accountable for managing and expansion of William Board at all the places where the company’s business is flourished. He has had worked for a healthy seventeen years in the field of brand communication and marketing. In recent times he has also worked as VP International Marketing for Yahoo! Inc. Previous to that he worked as Brand Marketing Director EMEA for Blackberry, worked for five years as Head of Brand, Advertising, and Planning with Orange, UK. Soon he will be becoming the part of William Hill in January 2010.

Mr. Ralph said they are quite pleased to welcome Mr. Fahy as a part of their senior management team at their company. He added that Mr. Fahy’s marketing and branding proficiencies along with experience in online communications will definitely help the company to strengthen both their offline and online business.