New York Racetracks Lobby for Table Games Nine racetracks in New York have banded together to form the new New York Gaming Association and one of its first tasks has been to begin the process of appealing to the state to let them off table games such as blackjack, roulette, and poker. Racetracks, Indian tribes, and real estate developers are all eager for the state of New York to pass a constitutional amendment to legalize privately run casinos, which are currently illegal except on Indian reservations. Tracks in New York are currently limited to operating only video lottery terminals and claim [ Read More ]
Sometimes here at Gambling Review we like to step back and look at the different online casinos and software developers out there. For this blog, we are focusing on Realtime Gaming and their related casinos. Realtime Gaming, often called RTG, is one of the pioneers of the online gambling industry. The company was developing gambling software back when most people never even considered the possibility of playing casino games over the Internet. If you look at our page on Realtime Gaming or check out the wiki page about Realtime Gaming, you will see that the company was established in 1998 [ Read More ]
To gamble means to “bet on an uncertain outcome” or to “stake something on a contingency: take a chance,” according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary. The implication is that gambling is risky. That is true. It does a disservice to gloss over that and pretend that it’s just a fun pastime with no risk. The people who say that gambling is dangerous are right. It certainly can be if you are not smart about it. That is why gambling smarts are so important. While I hate to make broad generalizations, I’m going to here for the sake of the blog. [ Read More ]
New York Racetracks Lobby for Table Games Nine racetracks in New York have banded together to form the new New York Gaming Association and one of its first tasks has been to begin the process of appealing to the state to let them off table games such as blackjack, roulette, and poker. Racetracks, Indian tribes, and real estate developers are all eager for the state of New York to pass a constitutional amendment to legalize privately run casinos, which are currently illegal except on Indian reservations. Tracks in New York are currently limited to operating only video lottery terminals and claim [ Read More ]
Today we want to let you know about free online casino games from OnlineCasino.net. Before you get too excited, no there are no free games at the website. Don’t be misled by the title. There are no games there at all, since it’s not an online casino. The website is an online casino directory and review site, just like this one. So why would you check out OnlineCasino.net when you already have a great site here at Gambling Review? That’s a good question. While we would love for you to find everything you need here, sometimes it helps to get [ Read More ]
The Minsk-based online gambling software provider Viaden Games has announced the launch of 7 more games to its licensee inventory. 5 feature-rich online slots: Cherry-Go-Round, Dragon’s Tale, Empire’s Glory, Land of Unicorn and Lucky Pirate; a lottery game of Keno and an entertaining Golden Flush video poker join a gaming suite from the company that already includes a variety of poker games, online roulette, fruit machines, card games, and video pokers. A company spokesman revealed this week that the new releases all feature beneficial Scatter, Wild, Expandable Wild and Wild Around symbols, enabling players to increase their win up to [ Read More ]
Lucky Players Cash in Big at Slots in May The month of May paid off big for some lucky online slots players at various casinos, with a PartyCasino slot fan headlining the action with a huge $4,445,947 win for hitting The Big One Colossal Cash progressive jackpot. PartyCasino was the home for plenty of other big jackpot wins in May, with another player claiming just over $600,000 for hitting the Gold Mega Jackpot. Other big winners in May included Peter Brown, a newsagent who turned 1 into a jackpot win worth 345,253 playing Leprechaun’s Luck at William Hill, while a Canadian player took down $96,935 at [ Read More ]
According to Reports, the Washington, DC, district councilman who pushed to allow the city to become the first US jurisdiction to have legal online gaming has been working for a law firm that represented an online casino software developer. Michael Brown, the sponsor of the bill that added an amendment to the DC Lottery Charter, had earned over US$240,000 last year from the law firm of Edwards, Angell, Palmer and Dodge. The law firm hired Brown as a public policy consultant last year. The firm also represents several companies in the gaming industry, both live and online. One of [ Read More ]
