Online Gambling Press

February 7 – Jackpot Capital Casino, the leading Realtime Gaming online casino, is running an exciting points promotion this month, allowing players to win cash prizes simply for playing their favourite games at the site. To qualify for the Cupid’s Arrow promotion, players need to play the games at Jackpot Capital and earn points in the process. The more points earned, the more the player will advance from circle to circle on the scoreboard – until they hit the target! Everybody has a chance to win in this promotion, and each player level has a different scoreboard. Players can check  [ Read More ]

In a ‘Ways to Win’ online slot game, the player can win a jackpot anytime she gets the same symbol appearing on adjacent reels of the slot machine, starting with the first reel on the left. The important distinction from Payline slots is that, in ‘Ways to Win’ slots, it does not matter where on the reel the symbol appears. For example, Diamond symbols appearing in the middle of Reel 1, at the bottom of Reel 2, and at the top of Reel 3 create a Way to Win even if it does not match any known slot machine payline.  [ Read More ]

Earlier this week, it was reported that Cyprus’s plans to ban online gambling have been delayed. Because they are part of the European Union, their bill has to be approved by the EU before it can become a law. Cyprus sent the bill to the EU back in September, believing that there was plenty of time to get feedback from the EU and then pass the bill by the end of the year. Not it is clear that it won’t happen in 2010. Originally, the EU intended to respond to the Cypriot request by December 14. Then that day came  [ Read More ]

The successful Italian mobile operator Buongiorno is to extend its offering following an online casino deal with gambling software developer Playtech plc. Buongiorno is a mobile entertainment company, providing a wide range of mobile content to more than 300 million users in 57 countries around the world. It already offers Italian online players poker and bingo under its increasingly popular Winga brand, in full compliance with the Italian regulations set out by AAMS. Under the agreement announced this week, Playtech will provide Buongiorno with its online casino product, to be launched in Italy following the regulation of online casino gaming,  [ Read More ]

InfoPowa readers will recall the case two years ago of Anurag Dikshit (39), one of the founders of online gambling giant, Party Gaming plc. After resigning from the company, Dikshit independently negotiated a plea deal to co-operate in the ongoing investigation with US Department of Justice officials, and made a payment of $300 million in order to clean his personal slate. Sentence was delayed for two years and this week has handed down by a New York District Court. Forbes news reports that Judge Jed Rakoff sentenced Dikshit to one year’s probation but questioned why other prosecutions had not come  [ Read More ]

According to reports in the Moscow News this week, Russian online gamblers can expect bad news in the near future as the politicians draft new laws banning online gambling, with provisions for punitive measures against anyone caught indulging in the pastime. In July 2009 tough new general gambling laws banished non-sports betting land gambling operations to remote areas of the country, throwing the Russian industry into disarray and driving much of it underground. The new proposal is authored and introduced by Ivan Savvidi of the United Russia party, and proposes fines between 500 and 2000 roubles for people gambling outside  [ Read More ]

William Hill, one of the leading online casinos and betting exchanges in the industry, is holding a festival for this winter holiday season. The promotion is called the William Hill Winter Skills Festival and it is a large tournament with a total prize pool of £10,000. There are five tournaments for five different games, each with a guaranteed prize pool of £2,000. The tournaments have entry fees for as little as £2.50, though once you run out of chips you have to re-buy if you want to continue playing. The tournaments are held in the games of blackjack, poker dice,  [ Read More ]

December 5 – The TIME Magazine list of candidates for Person of the Year is generating a lot of buzz. As is usually the case with these types of novelty bets, BETUS.com is the first to post odds on the eventual outcome. TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year winner odds: The Chilean Miners 3/2 Mark Zuckerberg 4/1 Hu Jintao 5/1 J Craig Venter 5/1 Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert 8/1 Recep Tayyip Erdogan 5/2 The People of Haiti 5/1 Glenn Beck 10/1 Sarah Palin 10/1 Bill & Melinda Gates 10/1 Steve Jobs 6/1 The Unemployed American 8/1 Chris Anderson (TED  [ Read More ]

It’s an event much anticipated since the Quebec provincial government gave its imprimatur earlier this year for Loto Quebec to develop an online gambling site; the launch of Espacejeux.com this week was supported with millions of dollars in promos and plenty of publicity in the Canadian media. Based in a province already internationally known for its proximity to the First Nation online gambling hub of the Mohawks at Kahnawake, barely an hour’s drive from Montreal, Quebec has become the second Canadian province to take the provincially regulated internet gambling route. Earlier this year The British Columbia Lottery Corporation launched its  [ Read More ]

Neovia’s Isle of Man-based subsidiary Neteller has announced that it is switching client contracts to Neteller (UK) Limited from November 30, providing users with more protection. The e-cash processor told customers in an email this week: As of 30 November 2010, your contract with Neteller Operations Limited will be with Neteller (UK) Limited. How this affects you: Because Neteller (UK) Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom (FSA), your funds will be safe-guarded in accordance with FSA regulation. You will now have access to the UK Financial Ombudsman Service should you have any complaints that  [ Read More ]