Category Archives: Gambling News

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.

Patching Budgets

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In the light of the economic crisis deposits at online casinos have dropped by nearly 30%. To cope with the problems in the budget, some online casinos started offering bonuses with every deposit, other casinos have dropped deposit limits and increased welcome bonuses on first deposits.

Thus, La Isla is known to be offering their customers automatic bonuses credited at the deposit time, special bonuses to regular players on some tables like blackjack, poker and roulette. Their payment methods like U-Kash, ClickandBuy and Click2Pay are rewarded with special bonuses .

The measures are believed to be helpful.

Zapak Extends Offer to Global Consumers

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Zapak Digital Entertainemnt is India’s largest online gaming company. Its gaming portal, Zapakworld.com, offers users service in their own language, and the company is known to be constantly adding more languages. They are proud to offer 12,000 single player games, and they are about to add multiplayer games. Zapak’s virtual site has made it possible for their users to upload their photos, create their own avatars, make new friends, spend virtual cash won by playing online games in a virtual shopping mall, try before to buy downloadable games.

Zapak suppose their site has the best content, excellent technology platform and a unique community. There are over 5.1 million registered users on the site what creates the largest database in the country so far.

The company also has intentions to launch their gaming websites in Brazil, China and Russia.

Microgaming Enforcing Restrictions

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Microgaming is known to be enforcing regiment of their policy to block players residing in some US states (the list of the banned states can be found on U.S. Microgaming Restrictions page) after passing of the UIGEA.

The policy is not new, however not every third-party maketers, affiliates, for Microgaming’s online casino licencees let their customers find it out. Moreover, some players from theses states managed to find ways to gamble at Microgaming sites.

Taking all this and the recent domain name seizure in the State of Kentucky into consideration, Microgaminghas decided to tighten its restricitive measures. Microgaming’s licensees have already started sending emails to affiliates and third parties in which they are advised that any players residing in the restricted sites will be blocked by Microgaming’s sites and their IP blocking service is using a proxy detector to find the players using a proxy to hide their IP address. The pleasant news is that all the players having current balances with an online casino or poker room, will have their balances payed out in full.

People residing in the banned states should also take into consideration that they will be able to register with a Microgaming online casino or poker room and play the “Practice” version of the software for free, but they won’t be able to play for real money.

Cryptologic’s Future: Vague or Bright?

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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.

Inspired Gaming and Hermes Softlab’s Successful Collaboration

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The virtual gambling industry is a non-stop developing sphere of our life. Thanks to that it can now offer services, like 3D gaming, that were previously unavailable.

Virtual Sports Book product is the latest release of a collaboration between two emerging online casino gambling software and technology development companies, Inspired Gaming and Hermes Softlab. Virtual Sports Book is the product that is believed to transform the approach of online casino gamblers and bettors to the internet sportsbetting industry.

Multi-player functionality, multi-event scheduling, central management and a multi-sport engine are just some of the product’s key features. Both companies are very pleased with the final result of their collaboration and are looking forward to anicipating positive response from the online gambling industry.

Casinos as a Source of Work and Revenue

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Gambling is not unusual in Irealnd. It has always been present in this or that form for centuries. Every weekend lots of citizens bet on horses or place wagers on their favorite football teams.as for poker and casino games they are not less popular. People play online, as well as in land based casinos.

After a careful study of the gambling market in Ireland, the Irish Gaming and Leisure Association have issued a report which says that new regulated land based casinos and new  online casinos could generate a revenue of over $68 million and provide from 3,000 to 10,000 new jobs that are highly needed due to the growing economic crisis.

Actually, the government ministers and economists have been looking for the way to provide these jobs. And regulation of the online casinos, poker rooms and land based casinos would create these positions so  badly needed by people.

Lasseters Online Closing

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It has become known that the story of Lasseters Online, one of the first online casinos to take bets on the web, has come to an end.

The Unlawful Online Gambling Enforcement Act turned out to be the beginning of the end for Lasseters.lack of proper oversight, management and overal vision for the online business caused hardship for the company. Besides, last year it took a $15.5 million loss in revenue. Since then, the financial losses of Lasseters have been multiplying.

An auditor review has shown that the things cannot be turned around. As a result, Lasseters is no longer competitive on the Web and is closing its doors.

Korea – the Next Hotspot for Online Gambling Market

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With the possibility that Korean market will be extensively legalized in the coming years, lots of gambling companies are looking for footholds within this market. Korea is supposed to become one of the most extensive and lucrative gaming markets in the world, the market worth an estimated $1.7 billion in 2009.

According to the latest market research approximately 80% of the households in Korea have internet access. The number of online gamers is huge and it is still growing despite the fact that online gambling is not legalized there. There are also lots of cyber cafes where gamblers spend hours playing skill, casual and increasingly multiplayer online role playing games. In fact, unlike Europeans heading to online casinos, Koreans head to gaming portals.