Archive for March, 2011

Looking for the fastest live blackjack deal?

March 31, 2011
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Looking for the fastest live blackjack deal?

Don’t like to wait too long before your next live blackjack deal? This must have been the feedback Evolution Gaming were getting from players because they now give you a mere 8 seconds to place your bets before the next deal starts! This has been applied across all casinos and all blackjack tables (standard...
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Viktoria – Our live dealer of the week

March 31, 2011
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Viktoria – Our live dealer of the week

Viktoria had this award pretty much sewn-up at the start of the week. This post says it all so no need to add much more here other than to say congratulations Viktoria! Have a great weekend all, and best of luck with your gambling! LD
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Market changer: American Internet gambling regulation

March 30, 2011
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Market changer: American Internet gambling regulation

A lot of people in the know are now talking about a regulated US online gambling market as more of a ‘when’ than an ‘if’ proposition. While there’s not much happening right now on the draft legislation front compared with the later part of 2010 there’s certainly plenty happening on the corporate front with...
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WHO is 2011 online company of the year

March 30, 2011
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WHO is 2011 online company of the year

Ever heard of the Betview Awards? To be honest I hadn’t, and according to Betview they’re the Oscars of the UK betting industry.  Shame on me! Anyway, they were held on Tuesday night at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane.  It was a star studded affair hosted rather controversially by Ricky Gervais...
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Viktoria you little beauty

March 30, 2011
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Viktoria you little beauty

We have many ways of expressing our affections for something or someone here in Australia… “little ripper”; “rip-snorter”; “bonza”; “grouse”; “little beauty”; “little beaut”, “the duck’s nuts”; “absolute cracker” and on the rarest of occasions that compliment that tops all others and is reserved for the very, very special… “dead-set legend”. I could use...
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eCogra ownership change

March 29, 2011
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eCogra ownership change

Back in 2003 three of the bigger players in the online gambling industry founded eCOGRA. Those founding members were Casino-on-Net (now 888), Bwin and software developer Microgaming. eCOGRA’s mandate was to serve as a fair gaming advocate, offering players an avenue for dispute resolution and ensuring members bearing the eCogra seal (around 145 online...
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Online baccarat just got better at Playtech

March 29, 2011
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A while back Playtech added a great full-screen play option to their live blackjack and roulette  interfaces.  For some reason baccarat remained available for play in small-video-mode only. Until now that is. From today you can play live baccarat in full screen mode also.  It won’t increase your chances of winning.  But it does...
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The European Commission Igaming Green Paper

March 28, 2011
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The European Commission Igaming Green Paper

On Thursday last week the European Commission (“EC”) kicked off their public consultation process into EU online gambling with the release of a Green Paper setting out the parameters of the process. It’s a 36 pager titled “On-line gambling in the Internal Market“  that you can read in full here. The paper invites responses...
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Natalija – Our dealer of the week

March 24, 2011
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Natalija – Our dealer of the week

This is Natalija and she took out the dealer of the week award before I even placed a bet. While waiting patiently for the next round to start I was listening to Natalija’s very insightful critiques of a few well known movies. If she ever give up the dealing caper there’s a future there...
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$400 free at bet365 only for Livedealer.org visitors

March 24, 2011
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$400 free at bet365 only for Livedealer.org visitors

Thanks to the team at bet365 for coming to the party on a nice little bonus for Livedealer.org visitors for the month of April. In addition to their regular bonuses available to all players, you get the chance (very good chance just quietly) to share in $400 drawn on 26 April. 10 players will...
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