It was such a nice day today that the thought of sitting in a dingy, dark office reviewing casino games seemed a little depressing. With the wonders of modern technology and the age of wireless connectivity upon us, I thought heck-it, I’ll take the office to a nice outdoor cafe a plug away in...
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Archive for January, 2010
Playing live dealers on cafe Wi-Fi
Take 2 on M’gaming blackjack review
We shook off the disappointment of yesterday’s attempted review session for Microgaming’s new live blackjack game and popped along to one of their casinos to have another crack today. I thought 8 am (at GMT +10) , would be a good time to give it a go. This corresponds to late evening across Europe…a...
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Baiba – Our live dealer of the week
There are plenty of reasons why Baiba is our dealer of the week. She’s precise with her deal, she has a very pleasant disposition, she dealt me a $200+ winning streak on her blackjack table, she’s gorgeous and she has a very appropriate name. Yes, Baiba by name… You’ll find her dealing from Playtech’s...
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The European I-Gaming Roller Coaster
It’s rare that a day goes by without some major development in the online gambling regulatory landscape in Europe. The EU consists of almost 30 Member States, all wanting to apply laws consistent with their own cultural and political agendas and understandably protect local operators in the national interest. Then you have the the...
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Latvia’s live gaming footprint keeps getting bigger
According to news hot off the press, Entertasia are partnering with a Latvian based gambling software developer to create games for the Western playing market. Their new partners, CXTM are based in Riga. Yes, that’s the same Riga, Latvia where Evolution Gaming have set up their dealer studio, dealing games to players at Unibet,...
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What’s going on Microgaming?
After the fiasco of finding out yesterday that a bunch great Microgaming casinos had dropped the live games platform following a software upgrade, we set out today with new resolve to test the new blackjack game at Royal Vegas and Canbet. Here’s the succession of events all culminating in a rather underwhelming impression of...
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Microgaming’s new live blackjack
On hearing about the launch of Microgaming’s highly anticipated live dealer blackjack game we were keen to get out and road test it, complete with screenshots and video recordings to give you guys a good feel for how it stacks up against the competition. It has a couple of fancy features that the folk...
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Anatomy of a great online casino
We woke this morning to the news that 32Red, the well known UK based online casino had been crowned Casinomeister’s ‘Online Casino of the Decade’. Awards, certifications and testimonials in the online gambling industry should always be viewed with a healthy degree of skepticism. Many are meaningless. And while this one doesn’t exactly come...
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Our take on roulette systems
Do a search on Google for ‘roulette system’ and you’ll find around a million sites out there selling a supposed sure fired guaranteed roulette system that will, according to the salesperson, have the casinos begging for mercy. There seem to be more systems devised for the game of roulette than all other casino games...
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What’s with the all the 8′s ?
There’s a well known online casino that is listed at Livedealer.org named 888.com. We also list a casino that is the Asian facing operation of the well known Bodog brand, named Bodog88. And they’re not the only online casinos with the number 8 included in their domain name and branding. Are the 8′s a...
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