Archive for December, 2010

Online casino debate heats up in Canada

December 27, 2010
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Online casino debate heats up in Canada

Looks like the online casino debate in Canada is really heating up.  And you can understand why. In the past six months two provincial governments – BC and Quebec have already launched their own online casinos and the smart money is on just about every other province following suit…and soon. Already more than a...
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Merry Christmas all

December 25, 2010
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Merry Christmas all

Merry Christmas to all from the team at Livedealer.org. Hope the festive season finds you safe, happy and above all very prosperous! cheers LD
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Skaidra – Our live dealer of the week

December 23, 2010
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Skaidra – Our live dealer of the week

When I launched a game of blackjack at William Hill a few days ago I was greeted by the amazing looking new dealer studio. This wasn’t the first thing I noticed though. The first thing I noticed was Skaidra. You’d be forgiven for thinking the shot left is from a professional model shoot.  It’s...
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Live casino video page updated

December 23, 2010
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Live casino video page updated

After much messing around and a good deal of procrastination our live game video demo page has finally been updated. A few video recordings from games recently reviewed and added to the site have now been included, and the look has been slightly spruced up to hopefully make it a little easier and more...
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Gambling to win

December 20, 2010
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Gambling to win

We all gamble to win.  That’s the whole idea right? But do you expect to win every time you play? I certainly don’t.  My approach to gambling is a pragmatic one.  I know each time I play there’s a good possibility I’ll win…I’ve played enough to know this possibility is a pretty reasonable one. ...
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Better than being in a real casino?

December 20, 2010
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Better than being in a real casino?

Spend enough time at the various online live dealer casinos and you see plenty of website slogans claiming the above, or words to this effect…’blurring the lines between traditional and online casino games‘, ‘better than a real casino‘, ‘capturing the true casino experience‘, ‘putting you inside the casino‘, etc, etc. Very recently Playtech gave...
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Not an online gambler I hope

December 20, 2010
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Sincerely hope this guy isn’t planning on playing high stakes online baccarat when he gets home… Then and again, what are chances he could even find his computer, let alone turn it on!
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How to take $1.5 million from the Bellagio

December 19, 2010
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A hot streak on the high-stakes baccarat table in Club Privé? A few MIT maths geniuses and a carefully formulated team card counting strategy on the blackjack tables perhaps? Or maybe for the real risk takers amongst you there’s the old roulette one-bet strategy…bet it all on black! Of course the other approach, more...
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Ladbrokes in takeover talks with 888

December 19, 2010
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Ladbrokes in takeover talks with 888

Merger and acquisition activity in the online gambling sector has gone into overdrive ever since Bwin and PartyGaming announced they’d tied the corporate knot. Analysts are getting chubbies speculating as to what the next big takeover will be, merchant bankers are licking their chops, and operators are madly scrambling to find targets, buyers or...
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Mercedes SLK winner number one is…

December 19, 2010
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Mercedes SLK winner number one is…

Baldwin H. Congratulations and hope you enjoy your new car! The ‘Race to a Million’ speedometer hit the 1,000,000 mark on 18 December and is on track to hit 2,000,000 some time tomorrow, at which point draw number 2 will take place and a second player at bet365 will have to make room in...
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