Halloween Halloween is less than a week away and that means good and bad news for online casinos. The industry rolls out some of the biggest online slot tournaments of the year, but also is faced with gamblers who are too busy to show up.At land-based casinos, Halloween is a time when promotions can be run offering up big rewards for the best costumes. It is a promotion that nearly every casino in the US uses, and one that brings gamblers off their couches for some gambling and dress-up fun.That is the bad news for online casinos. While they can [ Read More ]
Archive for October, 2010
Online gambling software providers NYX Interactive and Cryptologic have inked a deal which will see Cryptologic games offered on the NYX Rapid Platform. David Flynn CEO for NYX Interactive said “Our vision at NYX is to empower our customers with as wide a choice of gaming content as possible. This agreement with Cryptologic expands our portfolio of deliverables with our Rapid Platform solution. With this agreement NYX can deliver this content for our licensed customers. With the NYX Rapid Platform, not only are operators able to take advantage of the other products that NYX offer including Bingo, Scratch cards, lottery [ Read More ]
The respected Gibraltar-based bookmaker Stan James has renewed for the third time its software agreement with Canadian software developer Chartwell Technology, taking the business relationship through to 2012. “Over the past six years, Chartwell has played an important role as a key supplier of Stan James’ casino content,” said Steve Wells, casino manager for Stan James. “A strategic goal of Stan James is to improve the experience of our iGaming customers across all global markets. We look forward to working with Chartwell in future to achieve this goal.” Dan Phillips, chief executive officer for Chartwell Games said: “Having Stan James.com [ Read More ]
According to reports on the BBC Monday, the Netherlands Antilles Dutch dependency has ceased to exist following constitutional status changes which make the islands, including Curacao and St Maarten in the Caribbean, autonomous countries, joining Aruba, which attained autonomy in 1986. The islands have become prolific issuers of online gambling licences over the past decade. There are five islands in the cluster, Curacao, St Maarten, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba. All are now autonomous special municipalities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which retains responsibility for matters of defence and foreign policy. The Dutch government will also have initial oversight [ Read More ]
Best Online Casinos USAPlayers FreeDowload CanadianPlayers FreeDowload EuroPlayers FreeDowload UKPlayers FreeDowload While the US continues to stay stuck with their outdated online gambling laws, another country is moving ahead of the US within the industry. The Netherlands is moving towards a regulated Internet gambling industry, proving again how regulations, and not prohibition, are the answer in the online gambling industry. Holland Casino, the largest casino located in the Netherlands, has been lobbying for the past several years to expand their operations to the online community. The casino has expressed their interest in driving illegal online casino operators out of the [ Read More ]
Leading Irish betting firm Paddy Power have today taken the unprecedented step of paying out on imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo as the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize a full 48 hours ahead of the scheduled announcement. The bookmaker was forced to cut the odds on Liu Xiaobo winning earlier this week from 3-1 to – odds-on – 4-5 after a late surge of betting including several bets of €200 placed by punters across the globe. Ken Robertson, spokesperson of Paddy Power, explains: “Obviously we’re taking a risk but it’s a calculated one. Over the past decade we [ Read More ]
The police in Montreal, Quebec have busted a major online sports betting ring, with ten persons pleading guilty this week on charges of illegal bookmaking. Police spokesmen claimed that the ring, which handled over 800,000 bets involving some Cdn$26 million during a seventeen month period, was one of the largest to be broken up in Canadian organised crime history. The mafia in Montreal invested in the business and collected a slice of the action in return for providing protection for the ring’s agents and assistance in collecting bad debts. Most of the bets were on a diversity of US sports [ Read More ]
