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About Christopher Cozzone

Christopher Cozzone – was born in 1977 in Florida, USA. At the age of 21 he successfully entered a prestigious Hodges University, Florida, USA and got his Master’s degree in Business Management four years later. Christopher is happily married, has a beautiful wife and two lovely kids. He cannot live without the adrenaline craze of gambling and enjoys speaking and writing articles about professional poker.

Cantor Meets Players’ Needs

Cantor Gaming, a fast-developing company in the international online gambling industry operating three internet gambling sites including Cantor Casino, Cantor Poker and Cantor Financial Odds for the European market, upon the request of their numerous gamblers has added a myltiple currency technology to the list of the products they offer.

Thanks to the technology, Cantor gamblers can choose to operate their accounts in pounds or Euro. Before that players’ accounts were available in pounds, but at check out time, gamblers were able to withdraw their money in Euro.

Cryptologic’s Future: Vague or Bright?

Two breakups have recently taken place in the online gambling industry: between William Hill and Cryptologic and Playtech and Will Hill. Cryptologic and Will Hill explain it as a way to take their operations in another direction.

Besides, Cryptologic’s deal with Party Gaming is likely to fall in court, as Cryptologic would like to cut back on costs by pooling their online poker resources with Party Gaming. To say more, Cryptologic seems to loose the World Poker Tour as well.

The fact is that WPT in their advisory report to the Securities Exchange Commission stated that their terminationg the contract with Cryptologic, despite two years left on the contract. And it is very likely that Cryptologic will be entitled to compensatory costs, that is $750,000 per year.

More Players will Sign up for Your Site if You Have a Sense of Humor

Successful and popular online casino bingo gambling site, with a creative design concept and innovative features appealing to a wide range of gamblers, Love Bingo has found a new and different way to attract customers.

It must be mentioned that the rules and regulations in the UK regarding advertisements from online casino and gambling sites are so strict that lots of sites find their ads banned by the Advertising Standards Association. No, wonder that some ads are very simple and formulaic in nature. To fight the present situation. Love bingo has presented a humorous ad concept that makes the site so different from its competitors.

The ad features a gambler who is desperately looking for something more in terms of online casino bingo. Suddenly the Cupid crashes through the player’s chimney, and helps the player find what he has been looking for – all of the internet bingo fun presented by Love Bingo.

NetPlay TV Starting a New Bingo Program

NetPlayTV, London-based interactive gaming company, is known to be starting its Live TV Bingo program on November 1. The program will be broadcast on Sky TV’s channel 867 from 2pm till 5pm and on Nuts TV’s channel 196 with the statement after an airtime contract with Turner Media.

In accordance with the contract, a new SuperCasino interactive gaming show is broadcast on Fridays and Saturdays from 11pm on Nuts TV that is available to more than 23 million UK homes.

New Games – New Players

Johnny Specter, Bob’s Bowling Bonanza, Spike’s Nite Out and European Blackjack Gold are the four new games, three brand new slots and a unique blackjack variation, released in October by Intertops Casino. Intertops Casino opened its doors in 1996 and since then, it has constantly been working at the expansion of their game catalogue.

Playing 5-reel 20-line Johnny Specter, a player can enjoy bonus games and some unique features. The focus symbol is the greedy green ghost appearing at least once on every spin. In case you capture the ghost, you can win as much as $7,500 or even double this sum.

Bob’s Bowling Bonanza is very similar to real bowling in your attempt to score a perfect game. When the strike symbols appear on reels one, three and five, the reels become bowling lanes. To get a huge payout, you should knock down all pins and score a perfect game.

Spike’s Nite Out is the game in which your wager decides the payout. And when the Spike’s Nout Out symbol appears, you can win up to 150,000 coins.
Based on European rules, European Blackjack Gold offers a couple of interesting bets like Perfect Pair (same suit and value for 30 to 1); Colored Pair (same value and color for 15 to 1) or Mixed Pair (same value, different suit for 7 to 1).

Cryptologic deals with GTS

CryptoLogic, a world leader in online casino and gaming software, announced a partnership with Gaming Technology Solutions PLC (GTS), a top world’s provider of platform solutions for internet gaming operations.

This partnership is consistent with the strategy of CryptoLogic to increase the amount of market leading online casino sites offering their games. GTS’s impressive list of customers includes Bwin, 888, Unibet, Betclick, and Expekt, and many other leading brands.

Under this agreement, CryptoLogic’s top games will be available to GTS customers via its EdGE (Enhanced Gaming Engine), a proprietary games platform. By the end of the first quarter of 2009 ten CryptoLogic games will be live on their platform for customers of GTS.

CryptoLogic’s President and CEO, Brian Hadfield said: “We have just connected CryptoLogic’s leadership in online gambling innovation with GTS’ capability to serve the world’s top-tier gambling operators around”.

EdGE is a leading, cross-channel content provider platform offering access to highly popular games created by first class developers such as CryptoLogic. EdGE facilitates fast new content delivery across multiple languages that include all the European and main Asian languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, domains and currencies. Casino, sports, bingo, puzzle and soft games can all be provided as downloadable or browser-based client products.

Steven Matsell, GTS’ Business Development Director said: “Our operators deserve market top casino products — and CryptoLogic just offers some of the global most recognized brands”. “This partnership makes perfect sense to us.”

In last months, CryptoLogic signed deals with PartyGaming, 888.com and Orbis.

With over 200 games, CryptoLogic has one of the most all-embracing casino suites on the Web at the point. CryptoLogic has received rave reviews from industry players and peers, and in 2008 got Gambling Online Magazine’s Top Casino Software award for the third time.

A Progressive Jackpot Going to Payout

The latest winning of the progressive jackpot worth Euro 501,000 at Europa Casino indicates that the casino is growing and enjoys benefits from the thriving online gambling industry in Europe.

The winner is DuarteF, a Portuguese gambler who frequents the online casino site. He was playing Playtech’s Global Traveler 5-reel, 20 pay-line progressive slots game.

Now, the Global Traveller is at its minimum and has started building up again.

Asian Gambling Market Grows despite Taboos

In spite of the fact that lots of Asian governments ban internet gambling, it has become very popular in the Asian Pacific gaming market and lots of online casino gambling companies are trying to enter or have already entered the market.

Thus, CryptoLogic has teamed up with Mahjong Time to offer Mahjong gaming products appealing to the Asian market.
The idea of that partnership is for international software developers like CryptoLogic to secure brand preference before online casino legislation is even passed. In fact, the popularity of Mahjong gaming in Asia proves to be very lucrative for the software development company as more internet based games come into demand in the coming months.

Playtech to Grow

Playtech is considered to be one of the top-five online casino software developers in the world and it is still working at the expansion of the brand within the online casino gambling industry. Besides, the company is bettering its products, services and offerings, possesses exclusive licensing rights to some of the top movie blockbuster themes and also offers poker gambling platform and poker gaming network growing in prominence all over the world. Meanwhile, its gaming products and the number of online casino and poker games have become very diverse, and the quality of the products is getting better and better.

Playtech’s report for the first half of the year says that the company occupies a good financial position. Playtech’s revenues have greatly increased in comparison with the same period in 2007, jumping 109%. Gaming revenues from company’s licensed online casinos revenues went 78% up and came in at $58 million.

Judging by increasing revenues, poker gambling in the Asian-pacific region and increased interest in the European market, experts in the online gambling industry think of growth opportunities for Playtech.

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.