Bill Wright, COO of Gottaplay and General Manager of the Broadband Division claims that since Gottaplay Interactive Inc and its restructured Broadband business division have achieved great results, even better ones that they have expected.

The division is supposed to offer Internet connectivity and digital video to individuals, business, multi-family housing, various organizations, agencies, institutions and establishments, including educational and government ones in such states of the USA like Washington, Oregon and Hawaii.

The services provided by Gorraplay’s Broadband business division have proved to be high quality ones. With scalable Internet access, web hosting and development, equipment co-location, networking services they have an ambition to become a dominant Internet provider in underserved rural markets.

Fortune Lounge operating such casinos like Platinum Play Casino, 7 Sultans Casino and Royal Vegas is currently running a promotion known as the International Casino Games 2006/2007. By playing at the casinos mentioned, and taking part in weekly promotions and tournaments you have a great chance to win an amazing 7-night Mediterranean cruise aboard the “Costa Fortuna” ship. There you’ll participate in a final event – the onboard Slots tournament. The prize of the final is said to be $250,000 in cash!

As soon as you are aboard, get ready to get fun, enjoy the sun and gambling – all that will be accompanied by the beautiful views of Spain, Italy and France. This is the thing to fight for, as this year’s promotion has exceeded the heights and fun of the previous year Caribbean trip and final!

You haven’t participated in the promotion yet? There are several tournaments left before the end of the promotion. You have time to enter and win the chance of your lifetime. Go to the Fortune Lounge Casinos and be the one!

What’s going on the gambling market after signing the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act has both negative and positive sides. It’s obvious that the idea of leaving the US market by so many online casinos and gambling companies cannot but be negative. But the appearance of new ideas to attract customers to the casinos with the help of amazing promotions is but positive, as it works out in benefit of the players from all over the world.

Today, the casino world needs new customers more than ever. And what can be better than to attract them the way Belle Rock Gaming, the online gambling group, does. They are going to give away a Porsche Roadster in a lottery-like event. Every time a customer wagers 500 credits at Lucky Nugget and RiverBelle casinos operated by the group, he or she enters the drawing for the Porsche Roadster. Customers can accumulate their entries up to the 28th of January, while the drawing will take place at the beginning of January.

Something similar is undertaken by Casino on Net and other casinos. Their customers are collecting entries for different drawings. For example, Casino on Net players can win free money or hi-tech electronics.

So, as the promotions show, more and more people can win now and leave the casinos happy!

EcoCard Payment System is now able to compete with such payment methods like Neteller and FirePay, as all of them at the moment have similar services offered to their customers. Having added new features to their ewallet, the casino payment processor has released this news.

Addition of a new local banking network supporting domestic payments in most European countries, Canada, Australia and Singapore enables a much faster process of receiving and sending money to the wallet and from it. Besides, at the places where the network reaches, local currencies will be supported.

Another change concerns US customers, who now can find their account using Automated Clearing House (ACH). On the other hand, now they cannot withdraw money straight into their account.

One more new feature deals with the real time transfers between card holders who are to know the destination account number. The new service is known as person to person transfers, or P2P.

The world’s first online-only lottery is reported to be purchased by NetPlay TV. “This acquisition further enhances our position in the interactive TV gaming arena. Our mission over the coming year is to build a substantial interactive TV gaming company – this is just the first step in what we believe is a very exciting road ahead,” – claims Martin Higginson, chairman and CEO of NetPlay TV.

The lottery owned by Chariot plc presents to NetPlay TV as a result of the deal a huge database that consists of more than 280,000 lottery players and £50,000 of ticket sales per week. NetPlay TV is planning to introduce new interactive games. Their special focus item is a TV lottery game show based around their brand which is supposed to start by mid February. In future there will be internet access at www.playmonday.com what will definitely make the brand more popular.

Online gambling during business hours costs English firms more than £300m every year in lost productivity. This is the result of the survey commissioned by Consultancy firm Morse. 664 office workers nationwide were questioned on the topic of online gambling.

The survey reveals the following figures: 30% gamble online, buy a lottery ticket or make a bet while at work what indicates that they are likely to spend 13 hours on gambling over a year; 38% of men and 21% of women gamble at work; 35% of employees in Northern England, 29% – in the South and 27% in the Midlands use their company time to make a bet.

The increase in popularity of online casinos and uncontrolled access to Internet are the tempting facts that distract employees from work thus resulting in a substantial dent in company productivity.

The Online Poker Tour together with some sponsors like Vegas Poker 247, Royal Card Club, Third Bullet, CD Poker, The 3D Poker and a mystery room that has yet to be found out  announced plans for 2007. It is going to be a New Year Bash with four trips to the Playboy Mansion and five trips to the Ultimate Poker Challenge given away. And that includes air travel, accommodation, food and drinks, VIP parties, etc.

To participate in this year’s offering, you can take part in free and $1.10 buy in January and February qualifying tournaments. The finals will be broadcast live on Rounder’s Radio.

Last year eight trips were won to the Playboy mansion, and two trips – to a celebrity poker tournament that was attended by Shannon Elizabeth, Tara Ried, Don Cheadle, Lakers’ owner Jerry Buss, plus poker pro’s such as Daniel Negreanu, Hoyt Corkins, Ted Forrest, and Gavin Smith.

A lot of thing change in our lives with the time. That concerns fashion, politics, families, other spheres, and of course gambling. Earlier people rather watched than played, as the bets like in Baccarat game were pretty high. Players easily wagered from $25 to $100 a time. That made the game not accessible for ordinary people.

With the invention of the online casino Baccarat game everything has changed. Thanks to much lower bets, ordinary people have got the opportunity to play their favorite game, especially mini-Baccarat. The game itself hasn’t changed: Player bets, Bank bets and Tie bets with the house edge 1.36%, 1.17% and 14.1% respectively.

The quantity of people playing Baccarat is really great. And many online casinos try to meet their needs by offering Baccarat with very low minimum bets.

Some European countries such as the UK and Italy have already taken some regulatory steps to deal with online casinos that seem to be illegal or indecent for their citizens. And their legislation has proved to be effective.

As, it has been reported by the leading Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak, some measures will be taken by the Turkish Government as well. The expansion of Penal Code Article 301 (online crime) is being planned now. As a result Turkey’s Security Agency will get the right to block any illegal from their point of view site. Moreover, Internet Service Providers will have to block them as well. Besides, some legal action will be taken against the owners of the offending sites in case they can be reached.

Many critics claim that this Act will hardly prove to be affective, since many find censoring offensive. And this is the thing the situation in Turkey may be compared with.

Nottingham Trent University initiated a gambling report, called “The Global Online Gambler Report”. The survey is commissioned by eCOGRA. It is believed to be the largest online gambling survey which results are promised to surprise anyone at the upcoming ICE exhibition on the 23rd of January.

Player protection, preferences, different gambling portals, their value, favorite games and responsible gambling are the things under the survey. “…We think it will be very revealing for both industry insiders and a wider public,” – said Andrew Beveridge, eCOGRA CEO. The reason to think so may be the amount of participants from all over the globe – 10,000. The figure helps to get a clear vision and interpretation of the online gambling industry from the players’ point of view.

The results of the survey, as the gambling research team at Nottingham Trent aided by the Las Vegas based University of Nevada believe, have been achieved by employing the leading minds in business and psychology.