Monthly Archives: October 2008

Learn to Play Blackjack with Cantor Gaming

StatJack offered by Cantor Gaming is a new online blackjack game providing real-time coaching on the best moves to make what is good not only for beginners.

The game possesses such functions as real-time coaching, winning and losing probabilities based on hands, percentage stats of other players who have chosen the same option when dealt the same hand, a “Card Tally” function that counts cards and shows how many of each value are left in the shoe. Besides, the software includes each players hand history, dealer stats and card histories.

The new bets offered in the game are a series of wagers that can be made on the Dealer’s hand what reminds pf Baccarat. So, it looks like a hybrid that will for sure draw the attention of the online gambling community.

Unfortunately, Cantor Gaming does not accept U.S. players.

The Latest Version of Elvis Title is a Fusion of Elvis Enthusiasm and New Technology

The latest Elvis slots title (actually not the first one for the international gambling market) released by Wageworks is believed to become a very popular online casino slot machine for the company.

The game infused with the latest graphics and sound technology offers online gamblers a complete “Elvis Experience” and a chance to increase their winnings.

The Elvis title is a 5-reel and 50-payline slots title having new bonus features and earning multipliers. Wageworks has presented their commitment to details for the game symbols. Naturally, some of the game symbols are related to Elvis Presley and besides that, Wageworks did their best to produce original music for the slots games.

The Elvis title is available at a majority of the Wageworks licensed online casinos.

Online Bingo Experience on Platinum Play Brings Fun and Entertainment

More and more online casino operators try to make their gaming offers as diversified as possible. It doesn’t mean that their gaming packages include online bingo rooms only; they offer new hybrids of the bingo game itself.

Platinum Play, the member of the Fortune Lounge group of online casinos, is known to have launched “Bingo Ball for Life” – less of a new game, but more like a new software feature and all-around promotion that enables players to win $1,000 in weekly jackpots and up to $50,000 with jackpot rollovers.

You have to be an active real-money player to become eligible for the jackpots. Players, having chosen a lucky bingo number for life for themselves or having taken Platinum Play’s “Bingology” quiz, if fortunate, could complete a Full House on their lucky bingo number and win the jackpot prize.

To learn more about the promotion and offer, go to Platinum Play.

AllSlots.com Announced $100,000 Free Slots Tournament

Another $100,000 Free Slots Tournament with 200 cash prizes and a top reward of $50,000 has been announced by AllSlots.com. The online casino will host gratis semi-final events awarding tickets to the $100,000 Main Event to be held during the first weekend in August. So, the first prize will amount to $50,000, the runner-up will receive $10,000, and the third prize winner will take home $5,000.

The Free Slots Tournament is open to guests who may register and play without any deposit at the online casino.
Online casino players will be able to view their standings in a real-time environment. If a player does not qualify in one of the semi-final competitions, they can still buy into the $100,000 Main Event at the price of $50.

Hosting the second $100,000 tournament this year, AllSlots.com does their best to retain their position as number one online casino.

Texas Holdem – General Guidelines

In Texas Holdem player is dealt two cards down as their personal poker hand, after there first betting round comes. Three board cards are simultaneously turned (named the flop.) And another betting round occurs. The following two board cards are individually with betting round ticket after each turn. The board cards are community cards and one player can contain any five-card combination from among the board and personal cards. A player can all of the board cards and personal cards do not even use a hand to form (you play the board). A dealer button is used.
Purpose of Texas Holdem is to collect five best poker hand with any combination of hole cards and community cards and win the pot.

Texas Holdem betting rounds:

1.The dealer deals each player their own two down cards (pocket cards)
2.1. Bets
3.Taking the card dealer then turns three cards to (the flop)
4.2. Bets
5.Taking on the dealer another card then turns 1 more community card
6.3. Bets
7.The dealer turns another card then 1 final community card
8.Bets
9.Showdown (each player shows hand with the regular walue for the first represents)

All players must use one of the following variants when Showdown:
Two pocket cards and three board cards
A pocket card and four board cards
No pocket cards and five board cards (named games of the board)

This is Texas Holdem short guidelines.

New Bingo Rooms to Open

4 new bingo rooms including a 90-ball speed bingo room and a 75-ball pattern bingo room offered by JackpotCity will soon be available for players.

75- and 90-ball bingo rooms are still available. Players can participate in Buy One Get One Free games from Monday to Wednesday between 5pm and 6pm. On Thursdays the prize pools start at $250 and $500 on every half hour. As for Fridays, the prize pool begins at $100 and every hour increases by that much.

The second 90-ball bingo room, called Bob’s Bingo in a Box, is to be open between 12pm and 2 pm every day, and then between 7 pm and 9pm. Tickets start at $0.01. Currently, the jackpot there is worth over $11,000.

Spin and Win

Making a spin on Nostalgia Casino’s 5-reel game Wow Jackpot progressive jackpot, a lucky player scooped $5,041.
Nostalgia Casino offers Wow Pot in two versions: the original 3-reel version and a new 5-reel, 15-payline platform, where extra paylines give more chances to win. Both versions feed into the same progressive jackpot.

Nostalgia Casino has some offers: a 25% match bonus up to $50 and a 100% deposit bonus up to $100. The 25% is also available on your second deposit. Your second deposit can also bring you a discount of 25%.

Platinum Play Goes Mobile

Platinum Play Casino is the second of Fortune Lounge’s online casinos to go mobile. To make online gambling possible for its players from their mobile phones, the casino uses the Microgaming powered mobile platform of Spin 3.

With the success of the mobile platform at Royal Vegas online casino, Fortune Lounge believes that mobile gambling at Platinum Play Casino will prove successful.

It must be noted that Platinum Play is open to U.S. players residing in the states that are not listed on OCS’s U.S. Microgaming Restrictions page.

Spin 3’s platform comes with fourteen downloadable online casino games compatible with practically every cell phone make and model. Blackjack, Roulette, Baccarat and Three Card Poker are among them. The online casino’s players thanks to the platform can even participate in progressive video slots.

U.S. Citizens Still Gambling

As it is reported, the number of U.S. citizens gambling online has grown, that is despite the UIGEA.

Thus, in July U.S. traffic at internet betting sites was up by 5% from June. If to be exact, approximately 12,648,000 players visited betting sites. Though, the data does not show whether these sites were U.S. facing or not, still it is evident that U.S. citizens are gambling online in large numbers.

Vincent A Hits Massive Jackpot

Another Casino Tropez’s player won E257, 250 by hitting the massive jackpot on the popular 20-line, 5-reel slots game Lotto Madness. The player, who became a winner only after a few hours of playing, is going to spend the money on paying off his mortgage and car purchase.

The lucky player is Vincent A, a government worker from Spain.

Vincent is absolutely amazed with the fact of his winning. No doubt he really demonstrated patience while playing, and here is the reward.

Vincent gave a piece of advice: “I would advise other online players to have patience when playing as luck is always just around the corner”.