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Fortune Lounge Launches Largest Online Slots Tournament

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The Fortune Lounge Group of online casinos, in conjunction with their International Slots League, announced today the start of the Internet's largest online slots tournament — the $150,000 Slots Tournament.

Starting in February 2008 and running for 13 weeks, the Online Slots Tournament boasts a first place prize of $50,000 in cash, plus $100,000 in additional prizes. Also, Fortune Lounge Online Casinos customers will not have to spend a cent in order to participate in this tournament.

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BackgammonMasters Introduces Revolutionary ‘Game Lobby’

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BackgammonMasters has once again revolutionized the online game experience with a newly launched Game Lobby that features a sleek look and enhanced navigation platform. News has leaked that this may well be the pilot for a fully integrated casino system which will consist of over 200 popular online casino game variations such as Video Poker, Roulette, Slots, 21 BlackJack and more.

According to the site's CEO, “Backgammon Master's Backgammon platform has always been known for its high quality game experience and superior graphics, the feedback from our players prompted us to offer the access to more of their favorite games besides multi-player Poker and 21 Blackjack. If they're coming to us to get it, they know its going to be top quality.” With such a wide variety of single-player and multi-player games, BackgammonMasters is fast becoming a top notch leader in the Online Games niche.

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24 hour poker – is it fair?

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Poker is accepted by most people as a game of skill, and it is well known that poker players play for an extended period of time. But as online gaming companies make more effort to try and limit the amount of time people spend playing online, it seems land based casinos are beginning to go the opposite way.

A combination of media attention and social responsibility means that online gaming companies are offering preventative strikes against addicted gambling. These include time and spending limits to help reduce the number of hours spent playing online.

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Plans for UK Supercasinos to Move Forward?

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Although the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, symbolically axed Britain's first Las Vegas-style supercasino, it has emerged that 16 gambling palaces would still move forward. Churches and charities warned that casinos with hundreds of slot machines offering £4,000 jackpots would push up crime, addiction and poverty in the most rundown communities.

Mr Brown won plaudits when one of his first acts as Prime Minister was to block plans to build a supercasino offering £1million jackpots from 1,250 one-armed bandits in a deprived area of Manchester. He also ordered a review into the other 16 casinos - raising hopes he would kill off the gambling free-for-all championed by his predecessor Tony Blair. But yesterday, Whitehall sources signalled that eight large and eight medium-sized casinos would go ahead.

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International Award for Holland Casino

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Yesterday evening Holland Casino received the international award for 'Socially Responsible Operator of the Year' in the casino industry. Johan van Kastel, vice president Security & Risk Control, had the honour to represent Holland Casino at the Gaming Awards 2008 in London. Other nominees for the award were a.o. Harrah's Entertainment Inc. (USA), Opera House Casino (UK) and Groupe Partouche (FR).

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Lasseters’ Affiliate Programs to be Featured at CAP Euro

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The Lasseters online casino and Sportsbook affiliate programs will be featured at the upcoming CAP Euro conference to be held in London from January 24th to 27th, 2008. As longstanding partners of the Income Access affiliate network, Lasseters will be represented by their program's affiliate manager at the Income Access booth, number 43.

With the recent addition of several new games at Lasseters Casino, including the exclusive slots 'Cupid's Bow', 'Ancient Wonders', and 'World Cup Heroes', as well as a new ten-hand video poker game, 'Ten Hand Jacks or Better' the affiliate program has added a wide suite of accompanying creative tools to promote these new additions. Lasseters also offers their affiliates industry-leading support with their multilingual player options and database of geo-targeted creative, in addition to creating individually personalized landing pages for specific traffic demographics.

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Online Casino Gets London Duo on Guestlist at Playboy Mansion

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Owen Wilson and Paris Hilton are just some of the celebrities that have helped Hugh Hefner party at the infamous Playboy Mansion recently. However, this New Year, thanks to an online casino there were two extra names that made it on to the sacred Playboy Mansion guest list that may be a little less recognizable.

Julian and David two friends from London, made an all expenses paid trip of a lifetime to drop in on 'Hef' and his glamorous Playmates at The Mansion in Los Angeles. So, how did the lads find themselves with the key to the legendary manor? Well, as it happens, visiting Hef was not quite as difficult as you might think. Julian and David are big fans of Playboy's online casino (www.playboygaming.com) and took part in an ongoing promotion that allows player's to visit The Playboy Mansion.

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Press Release: WSOP Academy Announces First-Ever Advanced No-Limit Hold’em Academy

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The World Series of Poker Academy, poker’s premier series of instructional camps where participants learn first-hand from the world’s greatest poker players, announced today details for the first-ever poker camp focused exclusively on advanced No Limit Texas Hold’em theory and strategy.

Scheduled for April 18 – 19, 2008, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the WSOP Academy’s No Limit Hold’em Advanced Academy will be the most comprehensive, two-day poker camp and experience ever offered, covering “next-level” topics such as winning cash game strategy, advanced tournament stage strategy, heads-up strategy, advanced mathematics of poker and much, much more.
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Antigua Seeks End to Gambling Feud with US

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Antigua and Barbuda's top finance official said Wednesday he is hopeful that a high-level meeting in Washington with a U.S. trade official could lead to resolution of a dispute over Internet gambling.

Antigua accuses the U.S. of crippling its gambling industry by banning Americans from placing online bets with gambling operators, including those based in the twin-island nation of 70,000 people. Last month, the World Trade Organization backed Antigua's request to target U.S. services, copyrights and trademarks in retaliation for a U.S. online betting ban, but ruled it could impose only $21 million in annual trade sanctions.

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Potential New Law Aims to Eliminate Online Poker in Finland

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To put it mildly, a potential amendment to Finland’s gambling laws is absolutely ridiculous.  According to Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health will propose an addition to the law which would allow online gamblers to get back their losses. 

Are we talking about some sort of tax deduction?  No.  If this amendment becomes an official part of the law, those who lose money playing poker, craps, blackjack, or other forms of gambling on the internet can actually get reimbursed for their losses.  But from whom?  Not from the government.  The money would either come from the person who actually won the money, the online gambling company itself, or the credit card company the player used to make the deposit. 

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