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About Jesika Stoun

Jesika Stoun – was born in 1978 in Worchester, England, UK, in a very religious family. Now she is happily married to a professional poker player. In 1998 he had to enter the University of Worcester and study aerobiology. Having received her diploma four years later the young lady was happy to become independent from her relatives. She moved to Portland and finally indulged in what she really enjoyed – playing poker, sweepstakes etc.

Austrian Gamblers Spend More at Internet Gambling and Betting sites

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Austria is showing increased number of online gamblers. Online betting is very popular there and Austria’s gross gaming revenues are on the rise this year.

The Austrian betting market demonstrates significant overall increase of 12.4% for the country’s 50% yearly growth.

The gambling and betting industries’ analysts predict the European online casino and sportsbetting industries will grow at huge rates. As for the Austrian market, it will slow down on yearly gross revenue growth two year after its massive growth.

Another Online Casino’s TV ad in the UK got the “Ringer”

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The UK Gambling Commission and Advertising Standards Authority are keeping their promise to be strict about online casino advertising.

Thus, Wink Bingo’s latest TV ad seemed to be a little too risque for the ASA, as it “could be interpreted as condoning online gambling while in the workplace”. The ad features a maternity nurse at her laptop showing a Wink online bingo jackpot win on the screen. On the background a viewer could see a husband holding a teddy and the legs of his wife who is in labor.

“Find the appropriate moment” is the slogan appearing afterwards on the screen.

As the creators of the ad for Wink admit, the aim of the ad was to distinguish Wink Bingo from other so common online bingo rooms, but not to encourage online gambling at workplaces.

Despite the evident humor, the ad was banned by the ASA, as its slogan could be understood in the wrong way.

Spin and Win

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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

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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.

Parlay Entertainment Received Two Awards

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Parlay Entertainment is known to have received two awards at the first Online Bingo Awards: its bingo software Parlay 4 was named Best Online Bingo Software 2008, while its patent-pending side game BingoBets was recognized as Best Online Bingo Innovation 2008. Paddy Power, Parlay’s licensee was recognized as Best Newcomer 2008.

Parlay 4 debuted in 2006, and initially they introduced the standard for excellence in online bingo software. Parlay 4 was the first to introduce tabbed components, a larger chat area, auto-purchase and multiple ways to select bingo cards.

BingoBets, the world’s first bingo side game introduced by Parlay 4, allows players to place up to nine different wagers on every bingo game they play. There, fortunes change with every number called. The game also adds visual flair, offers more chances to win and increases bingo revenue for operators.

Parlay Entertainment has recently launched the next generation of online bingo software – Parlay 5. Thanks to it, bingo operators will be able to increase their liquidity by pooling players who speak different languages and use different currencies into a single bingo game. Besides, it will enable operators to fully differentiate their bingo brands in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

Euro 2008 is Followed by Arrests in Thailand

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More than 1,000 people were arrested and $30,000 was confiscated in Thailand. The people arrested were charged with gambling on Euro 2008 football matches. There were 192 bookies, 831 punters and 75 others among them.

As for the confiscated money, the sum is very small in comparison with the estimates by research company Kasikom which estimated that Thai gamblers would bet $1.2 billion.

As the police report, additional investigations would cause the prosecution of the biggest gambling operators.

With gambling banned in Thailand, police organized a special squad to keep an eye on major gambling criminals on the national scale. In accordance with the law, gamblers can be fined 1,000 baht or jailed for up to one year.
However, lots of Thais try to avoid the ban by going to Cambodia and Myanmar.