The Gibraltar-based online betting and gaming firm 32Red has reported record revenues with total gross win of £7.8 million in the half-year to end-June (H1,2009: £5.8 million).

The performance was underpinned by good results at the company’s flagship operation, the 32Red Casino, which has continued to flourish in the first half of 2010.

Trading stepped up once again during H1,2010 with casino operations experiencing strong levels of performance across all disciplines:

• Gross win £6.8 million ( H1,2009: £5.2 million)
• Active casino customers 19,497 up 35% on H1,2009
• Casino player yield £353 (H1,2009: £360)
• New Casino players 12,289, up 26% on H1,2009
• Casino cost per acquisition: £86 (H1,2009: £89)

Poker revenue followed a general industry trend and was down 14% at £400,000 and Bingo revenue declined 3% to £100,000.

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Last week InterCasino ran a lucrative tourney on roulette which put online casino fans into a spin. This week’s tournament challenge is being played on the sultry-sounding Samba Nights casino slot machine. The tourney began on Monday July 12thth – so there is still plenty of time to get your dancing shoes on.    and will run until Saturday July 18th

The luckiest Samba Nights players at InterCasino stand to win a share of the £250 prize pool. In order to take part, players must log into the InterCasino account and head on over to the tournament section of the site. Once there, simply select the Weekly Tournament tab (currently Samba Nights) and accept the £10 entry fee.

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Leading online casino FullTiltPoker.com is offering players the chance to take home a share of sponsored pro Phil Ivey’s winnings from the main event of next month’s World Series of Poker (WSOP).

The main event of the 40th annual tournament is set to begin on November 7 and, although seventh in the chips going in, Ivey is third favourite at odds of 5/1 with PaddyPower.com and Ladbrokes.com to win the $8.5 million top prize.

FullTiltPoker.com’s Piece Of Ivey promotion is offering players seats into two special freeroll competitions with a percentage of Ivey’s winnings up for grabs. Read the full post >>

The October issue of Bluff Europe has hit the newsstands this week featuring an in-depth interview with European Player Of The Year Marc Goodwin alongside a frank talk with Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies.

Appearing on the cover clad in a James Bond-style tuxedo, Goodwin offers frank and in-depth analysis of the key hands that led to his second-place finish at the European Poker Tour’s Barcelona tournament including his monster heads-up battle with American Carter Phillips.

In addition, Sahamies, Finland’s best-known nihilistic high-stake player, discusses why he now ‘hates poker’ while revealing just how many kebabs he can eat in one day.

The October issue of Europe’s most widely read poker publication also features a peek into what could be the world’s biggest cash game with Sammy ‘Any Two’ George. Read the full post >>

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One of the best known poker brands, Party Poker, are the marketleaders when it comes to online poker and promotions. On 11 September they will bring this to a higher level, 150 feet to be exact with the Poker in the Sky event.

The Poker in the Sky event will be held in Copenhagen in Denmark on 11 September, 150 feet above the Town hall Square. A total of 22 poker players will gamble in the event, which will last for four hours. The players will sit at a table on a platform, at 150 feet hoisted above the town hall square by a crane. Poker in the Sky is a much talked about event, one player has already retreated from the event even though he had already qualified, after he realized how high 50 meter really is.

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The 2009 World Championships Of Online Poker (WCOOP) begins tomorrow from half-past two in the afternoon New York time with a $215 buy-in no-limit hold’em six-max event featuring a $1.25 million guarantee.

Being hosted at leading online poker room PokerStars.com, the WCOOP is promising in excess of $40 million in guaranteed prizes spread over 45 events throughout September.

The second WCOOP event is a $215 Razz competition featuring a $200,000 guarantee scheduled to take place from half-past four on Thursday.

The action will continue on September 4 with a $215 pot-limit OMAHA six-max tournament featuring a $500,000 guarantee and a no-limit single draw two-to-seven tournament with rebuys for the same stake. Read the full post >>

One of Australia’s favourite gambling vehicles – poker machine games commonly referred to as ‘pokies’ – are at the centre of a new row building downunder. Eight of the 134 games approved since December 2007 have a level of volatility which is higher than that recommended by the Australia/New Zealand Gaming Machine National Standard, but their identities remain secret, reports news site News.com.au.

The Australia/New Zealand Gaming Machine National Standard recommends the nominal standard deviation of a game be no more than 15, yet the eight machines exposed through Freedom of Information Act disclosures are alleged to have volatilities in excess of this number.

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August 23 – Wild Jack Mobile Casino, a proud member of the Jackpot Factory Group and leading mobile casino, congratulates two lucky players who hit noteworthy payouts this month: Ryan A. won 4,275 on Thunderstruck and Samantha B. won 2,106 on Tomb Raider in her second day at the casino.

With 17 Exciting Games, Wild Jack Mobile Casino Offers Top Winning Opportunities

Wild Jack Mobile Casino, which launched in January 2006 with seven games, is well-known for its high quality Blackjack, Roulette and Video Poker.

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A new online casino has launched at DiceLandCasino.com and it is promoting itself by offering all new players up to $9,999 in bonus cash for signing up and making at least ten deposits.

DiceLandCasino.com is from the same firm behind RomeCasino.com and it is offering a full matching deposit bonus of up to $1,000 on the first ten deposits made by a new player.

The site will accept deposits via UseMyWallet, Visa, Neteller, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, Western Union, ACH, EcoCard, Click2Pay and QuickTender and the bonus money can be used to play its large selection of online casino games, which include video and classic slots with progressive jackpots, poker, blackjack, roulette and keno.

DiceLandCasino.com is powered by Topgame Software, which was founded last year and has already provided software for a number of sites including ThebesCasino.com, RichCasino.com, GoldVegasCasino.com and 50StatesCasino.com.

The new site is a member of the RomePartners.com affiliate programme and, in contrast to many other online casinos, stated that it accepts players from all 50 American states.