Europa Casino is celebrating Halloween by offering a special treat for players in the form of a free €5 bonus for new players on their first deposit. To claim the bonus players need to make their first deposit at the online casino anytime between October 27-November 9, contacting Europa’s customer support department after the deposit is made and mentioning the bonus code “treat”. Once that’s done, the free €5 bonus will be added to the player’s account and can be used to play slots as well as a host of other casino games. Europa is also releasing a special “Halloween Fortune” [ Read More ]
Archive for October, 2011
Online poker site PartyPoker has recently launched its new PokerFest series of online poker tournaments that will award more than $3 million in overall prizemoney. Last Sunday PartyPoker launched the new series of online poker tournaments that includes 47 different events held over 2 weeks. The action is capped off with a $1 million guaranteed main event on November 6; players can also win extra cash in leaderboard competitions as well as through prize draws for all participants. With the demise of Full Tilt other poker sites such as PartyPoker have been adding new offerings to try to persuade players [ Read More ]
The Black Friday indictments sent reverberations across the online gambling world. It impacted the industry across the globe, not just in the United States. Since the indictment, the companies involved have come under more scrutiny and as a result, we have learned that Full Tilt Poker wasn’t engaging in the best business practices (to put it lightly). At worst, Full Tilt was running a Ponzi scheme to defraud its customers. At best, they mismanaged their funds and ran out of money to cover what is owed to players. In either case, the customers are kind of out of luck, unless [ Read More ]
Donald Trump has joined the chorus calling for legalized online gambling in the US, pointing to millions in potential revenue that is leaving the country and going to offshore sites. “It should be approved here,” Trump told The Associated Press in an interview on October 20. “An awful lot of money is leaving the U.S. that should and could stay in this country.” The interview was in response to a filing from Trump Entertainment that signaled plans to set up a joint venture to offer online casino and poker games if laws in the US changed to allow it. The [ Read More ]
bwin.party executives have been exploring various partnership that would allow its PartyPoker and World Poker Tour brands to potentially operate online poker and casino sites in the US if the legal situation changes in the future. The company — formed from the merger of bwin and Party Gaming in early 2011 — is seeking out potential partners in the US to work with to target the online gambling market if federal laws were modified or repealed that currently bar online gambling. Co-CEO Jim Ryan has been making pitches in the US for the last several weeks to potential investors and [ Read More ]
Football betting has been a popular activity across the world and it has just recently started catching on in the United States. By football, I mean the sport that most Americans call soccer but almost everyone else calls football (though it was the English that first used the term soccer as a nickname for Association Football). Not long ago, the world, and even some in America, was enthralled with the FIFA World Cup. The World Cup is also the largest sports betting event in the world. In other years, that betting didn’t really cross over to the United States, but [ Read More ]
Plenty of online poker players have a hard time dealing with bad beats but Michael Gallagher from the UK has taken tilt to whole new levels (and ended up in jail as a result). Upset at huge losses that he’d suffered playing online and believing the software was rigged, he sent an email to an unnamed online poker site he’d been playing on, threating to travel to their headquarters and “blow the f***ing brains out of every single person who crosses my path” unless the site put $50,000 into his account to cover his losses. His email went on to [ Read More ]
Three members of a card making team has been arrested for allegedly cheating in France by marking cards, with two casino employees also implicated in the cheating ring. The three players (all Italians) won about $40,000 playing poker at Les Princes Casino in Cannes, France but were detained and arrested when it was discovered that they were using special cards that had been marked with infrared dye — a cheating method used in the past in US casinos as well as others around the world. The cheaters were special glasses or contact lenses that allow them to see the marked cards [ Read More ]
The beautiful Caribbean island of Curacao is a top vacation destination. The country, which is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is home to beautiful beaches and a thriving online gambling industry, though most of the island’s visitors don’t know about that side. An important group in the nation is CIGA, the Curacao Internet Gaming Association. CIGA is a trade group that focuses on creating fair and responsible trade guidelines for the industry, meeting the common interests of those in the market, and serving as an advocate for the gambling operators with the Curacao Gaming Commission. There are a [ Read More ]
Social games developer Zynga has continued its push into the gambling sector, unveiling casino games and bingo to go along with its popular Zynga Poker offering. Zynga Casino and Zynga Bingo will provide pretty much what their names suggest, giving players the chance to try their hands at slots, bingo, blackjack, and other popular games via Facebook and mobile apps. All of Zynga’s games are free to play and for play chips only, with the company insisting that it has no plans to challenge existing online casinos by ever offering online gambling for real money. Zynga’s games are tightly integrated [ Read More ]
