CashSplash It has been a busy week for Microgaming powered online casinos, and the large amounts of slot players enjoying the casinos have seen their equals winning jackpots in that time. Microgaming powered online casinos have been pumping out slot jackpots through the past weekend and into the new week.Mega Moolah Major was the latest of the big slot jackpots when it was hit yesterday. The jackpot paid one lucky player $22,396. The popular slot also paid out $15,000 three days ago, almost $40,000 five days ago, and $36,076 six days ago.Fruit Fiesta paid out to the tune of $36,749, [ Read More ]
Archive for September, 2010
Several of software provider Boss Media’s top online casinos have pulled out of the Canadian market. Bwin is the biggest of those online gaming companies, and they are claiming they have left due to Canadian regulations. The company did not elaborate on the possibility of re-entering the market, but with Canadian provinces changing their online gambling stances almost daily, there may not be any room for outside companies to move back into the market. British Columbia was the first of the provinces to regulate Internet gambling. The B.C. Lottery Corp. launched an online casino earlier this summer, although it was [ Read More ]
Washington Washington state lawmakers created a ban on Internet gambling back in 2006 and for several years, a lawsuit has sought to overturn that law. The lawsuit was brought on by Lee Rousso, an attorney from Renton and an avid poker player.This week, Rousso took another loss in the case. The latest came at the hands of the state Supreme Court, which ruled that lawmakers did not violate the U.S. Constitution when they created the Internet gambling ban.Rousso cited the commerce clause of the Constitution. Justice Richard B. Sanders and the other justices did not agree that the law violated [ Read More ]
Investors were clearly pleased with the news this week that Sportingbet had settled with the US authorities and cleaned its slate of pre-UIGEA hurdles. The $33 million settlement triggered an almost immediate reaction from the London market, where the company’s shares soared 12%, raising the market value of the business to some £400 million. Analysts opined that by removing the threat of US prosecution, Sportingbet has set itself up as a desirable acquisition by other groups active in the industry’s trend toward consolidation, with Party Gaming tipped as a possible buyer. At the same time the online gambling operator has [ Read More ]
The new season of Dancing with the Stars is set and there are the usual mix of celebrities, athletes, and musicians in the group of contestants that was recently revealed. Along with the list, sports books also unveiled the betting odds for the new season. In the past couple of years, online sports books have been receiving more action on proposition bets for reality competitions. Dancing with the Stars and American idol are among the most popular shows that gamblers have wagered on. Early in the year, fans latch on to a contestant they believe can win, and then they [ Read More ]
September 10 – bet365 Casino offers a great range of exciting online slot games, many of which are based on well-known films and TV Shows. The latest addition to this range is The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring from Microgaming. The Playtech casino is based on Playtech technology so this is their first Microgaming licensed game. The cutting edge game takes slots play to a new level with the introduction of Cinematic Spins that interpose video content inside the game. Read our The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring review. Steve Ibberson, Managing [ Read More ]
Microgaming-powered mobile-gambling provider Spin3 has now made Blackjack available as an application for Android users, with the rest of its mobile portfolio soon to follow. Casino Classics for Popular Smartphones Microgaming’s partnership with Spin3 has already enabled its casinos to offer online casino games like the Mega Moolah and the Major Millions to users of popular Smartphones like the Apple iPhone. Now Blackjack will lead the way for its Android applications, on the back of the prediction that by 2012 the worldwide market share of Android Smartphones will rise to 14%. Currently, Android is the operating system for high-demand mobile [ Read More ]
Nicholas Jenkins, the feisty lawyer and internet entrepreneur who has fought the Washington state government through the courts in defending his Betcha.com concept may have come to the end of the road. This week the Washington Supreme Court ruled that the founder of Betcha’s unique proposition that betting was not gambling because losing players were not compelled to pay up still constituted illegal gambling. In a unanimous ruling, the court defined Betcha as an illegal bookie because it arranged bets and took a percentage of the action as a fee, reports Associated Press. The Bench said it did not have [ Read More ]
Former West Ham coach and Aston Villa player Alan Curbishley is the latest big name gamble for the never-ending manager job saga at Villa Park, according to English bookmaker Ladbrokes. Curbishley has been backed into betting odds of 2/1 – from 10/1 – and is the new second betting favourite behind 6/4 chance Kevin Macdonald. Though, the bookies even admit that they are struggling to keep pace with the ever-changing market. David Williams of Ladbrokes said: “There seems to be a new name up for the Villa job almost every day. Curbishley is the hottest candidate at the moment but [ Read More ]
