Category Archives: Gambling News

Online Gambling Expands in Canada

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Quebec is about to become the sixth province in Canada to offer online gambling. Players will be able to bet on sports and play poker next summer. There are some law restrictions regarding the online gambling, however, the Quebec government is believed to amend these laws, as Loto-Quebec claims they have safeguards in place to promote responsible gaming.

Popularity of online gambling grows and governments have no right to underestimate the amount of revenue they could get from online gambling. In view of the fact that the popularity of internet gambling is expected to increase over the next few years, it looks like Quebec’s decision has been absolutely right.

Trendy Features Turn into Classic

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With the technologies constantly developing, it is often hard to make decisions as for which of them will make real alteration in the future landscape of the gambling industry. Thus, the most recent but increasing in popularity real-time virtual gaming technology is spreading very fast. However, we should admit that lots of online casinos, even the most popular and established ones, have misjudged this innovation and, as a result, are losing lots of money now.

According to numerous opinions of analysts and gambling experts, live dealer gambling is not a matter of fashion only. With the time they will gradually integrate into the fundamental structure of the online casinos.

New Markets, New Opportunities

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In accordance with the agreement with Italy’s largest remote gaming service provider, Microgame, Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment AB will serve as a casino provider of choice for Microgame.

Being Italy’s largest independent remote gaming service provide, Microgaming manages in excess of 1.3 million game accounts on behalf of its Italian authorised customers. Its market share in poker currently stands at 25 percent while that for sportsbetting is 28 percent.

Johan Ohman, Chief Executive Officer for Net Entertainment said: “It is encouraging that one of the dominant incumbents has selected Net Entertainment as its strategic casino partner, thereby giving us a substantial footprint in a totally new market.”

“We are very happy to join Net Entertainment to our exciting gaming project for the new emerging Italian casino games market,” said Fabrizio D’Aloia, Chief Executive Officer for Microgame. “The worldwide recognition of Net Entertainment’s expertise in developing and marketing casino games will be strategic for Microgame in maintaining its leadership in the Italian online gaming market.”

Proper Regulations May Help Patch the Budget

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No doubt, there are lots of debates in the USA about the online casino gambling industry, but the changes are already seen – online casinos are taking small steps forward in some states.

Thus, the state of Illinois votes on new gambling laws expanding the scope of land and internet horserace betting in the state. Other states are considering legalizing forms of online casino betting and poker within the state borders to cover the budget deficit.

Taking into consideration how popular internet gambling is, the idea of getting revenues from the online gambling industry may become very popular with the state governments.

Nostalgia-Factor from Sega

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With the recently received license from Alderney, Sega Games Ltd. is setting its headquarters in Alderney. And now, it’s just a matter of months before the new online casiono and internet poker sites will ready to launch.

Sega Games powered gambling sites are known for bringing into the industry such characters as Sonic the Hedgehog and games like Sonic, House of the Dead and Virtual Fighter. After a deal with Playtech, Sega will have to launch and operate on the popular Playtech gaming platform. The deal will also let the sites to use Playtech’s already popular games.

How They Make Money…

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With no casinos in Hawaii, the state, however, manages to collect revenues from the residents who gamble in other states.

In accordance with a new law, gamblers who win a jackpot will have to pay taxes on their winnings, but their losses will not be deducted.

The change in the law is hoped to ease the state’s multi-billion dollar deficit, however, Hawaiian Governor Lingle has some time until July 15th either to veto the new tax code or to confirm the change in the law which lots of gamblers consider unjust and unfair.

Kentucky supreme court solving case with online Casino domen names

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The issue is risen due to the fact that the court had misused the old meaning of the statute regarding gambling, mainly “gambling device” and turned its attention to domen names of the Online Casinos.

This fact had huge impact on local online entertainment facilities as more than 140 casinos risk to lose their domens and in case the court wins the precedents on this grounds will immediately spread all over the world.

The main cause of his hunt is the fact that the companies are illegal and provide illegal gambling services but the attorney insists on the fact that there is no law which could ban the online gambling in the state.

No more progressive jackpots from online Casinos

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Last three months were very helpful for all gamblers from all casinos and it was only lazy one who didn’t take the chance to win his cut out of more than $4 000 000 provided in progressive jackpots.

Dark times have come for gamblers to face the dull uninteresting casino games as it’s been a while since a gambler was teased with a fine jackpot. Online Casinos have changed their strategy after the line of progressive jackpots.

Table games were most profitable due to frequent winnings but progressive slots had bigger jackpots. The largest jackpot won by one man constitutes enormous pile of cash, mainly $1,261,887.00!

Another week is coming to an end with 2 days of online entertainment to please the gamblers. But the question is if the gamblers will be pleased as they can be left with nothing third time in row like two weekends before.

We’ll see what surprises online casinos hide in their long sleeves while teasing players with absolute nothing if we talk about jackpots.

German Online Casino Ban threatened

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German Government prohibited online Casinos for the whole its territory and the only gambling entertainment the citizens can afford is horse racing. The ban actually contradicts the political views of the EU but this fact was of no importance and had little effect on the ban. Today they have one state comprising Germany which demands for this ban to be ended. The state leaders claim that in case if the national ban is not moved or reconsidered they will have to look for the internal solutions like interstate gambling licensing.

Anyway their supplications will be heard as the present treaty banning online casino will no longer be valid after 2012 and the German Monopoly will be left unprotected though the government has several times won the right to keep the closed gambling monopoly on German territory on the grounds of consumer protection, gambling victims issues which are easily solved when you have one system instead of out-of-control multiple entertainment organizations seeking for easy revenue.

Several Approaches to Online Casino Guides

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What do you consider most important before signing up to an online casino? Its safe to assume weve all asked this question before. And the answers are many.

Whether its reviews or a peers opinion, a good track record or proper licensing, all elements are of import and none should be discarded. However, you do not need to start making phone calls and visiting a hundred sites, which your not sure you can trust, either.

Which leaves you with classy online gambling portals. Especially those that address the various aspects from a number of angles.

Online Casino Reports is one such online casino guide for you. Such portals offer news of recent online gambling developments and new bonus alerts. They also feature elaborate reviews, with full info on payment methods accepted and licensing issues, among other ID data. In the OCR example you can even find video previews and reviews of casinos, their lobbies, and practically all of their games.