Monthly Archives: March 2009

William Hill Bingo Gives to Charity

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After William Hill Bingo’s three-month Pink Ribbon online fundraising campaign, the Breast Cancer Care Charity has received Ј41,000.

During the campaign that started in October, players could play the specially marked Pink Ribbon games, thus helping raise money. Ten percent from every ticket were donated to Breast Cancer Care. In adition to that, William Hill Bingo donated ten pounds to the charity for every new registered player that played at least Ј20 within a month.

Breast Cancer Care is a UK registered charity organization that supports people affected by breast cancer.

Betsafe – Cryptologic’s Latest Loss

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Betsafe, a popular online casino poker gambling and betting brand that for two years has been working on the Cryptologic network, is known to be switching to the high quality Austrian OnGame Network.

The latter network, owned and operated by Bwin (a fast growing company on the OnGame Network offering unique products and features) is already regarded as a successful software development company for such online casino poker gambling sites as Poker Room, Red Kings and Hollywood Poker.

The reason why Betsafe decided to switch to another network is not clear, but it’s evident that the company has preferred OnGame Network, a perspective software developer offering a wide selection of tournaments, promotions and innovative software.

Good Perspectives for Online Casinos in 2009

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The online casino gambling industry is expecting great changes that should take place in 2009.

Two years ago lots of analysts predicted better times for online casinos, times when they would flourish and increase their profits. In the view of the world economic crisis, the predictions do not look that bright any more, however many online casinos and gambling sites are still showing positive growth and decent avenues.

With the gambling market growing in Europe, the European Commission started breaking up the land and online casino gambling monopolies within EU member-states what is really a good thing for the online casinos. There are still countries trying to keep the monopolies, but this fact cannot stop online gambling sites’ growth. It is worth mentioning here that Italy is starting to open its market and Eastern Europe’s online casino market is rapidly growing. Some gaming companies would like to enter Asian gaming market.

eCOGRA Expands its Testing Standards

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There is great news coming from eCOGRA: they are about to offer their “Safe and Fair” verification seals to sports betting sites and live betting operations.

Following the news, lots of bingo sites will start applying for the eCOGRA’s ceritification, but please mind that it won’t be an easy task. Betting sites must meet best practice standards in the areas of gaming fairness, responsibility and customer service. Application for the certification will result in constant monitoring and compliance inspections in all operational areas like financial systems, customer service and software fairness and publication of monthly pauout percentage reports.

For more details, go to eCOGRA’s website.

Special Pack of Casino Games for BlackBerry

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The portfolio of casino games designed for the use on BlackBerry devices has been recently launched by Spin3. Now, BlackBerry users can enjoy any one of Spin3 15 casino games 24/7.

BlackBerry lets its users play casino games on the move and adopt their gaming experience, improved thanks to the BlackBerry’s large and high-quality screen, to their busy life style.

Powered by Microgaming, Spin3 games can be played on BlackBerry devices with version 4.3 and better.

We’d like to mention that Spin3 GameWire platform supports nine languages and all major payment systems including credit and debit cards. Vodafone customers in the UK can even get casino credits via their monthly phone bills.

Will Hill Expanding

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William Hill, a UK based bookmaker, after a successful launch of internet betting is planning to add other sectors of the internet market to company’s holdings.

It has become known that Will Hill is curently working with Playtech at the development and launch of a network of online casino games and poker games. The work at the internet bingo and some other sectors is in the perspective.

To develop internet content and offerings, Will Hill is really investing lots of time, money snd resources. The new products and sites are supposed to be launched in the coming year.