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Chartwell and HoGaming (and Entertasia?)

October 19, 2010
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Chartwell and HoGaming (and Entertasia?)

Chartwell Technologies came out with a press release a couple of days ago revealing plans to launch into the live dealer market. Chartwell are a Canadian based online casino software developer whose RNG casino games are pretty widely used in industry.  They don’t have a live dealer product, nor do they plan on developing...
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Monaco Igaming Awards: Best Online Casino Operator

October 12, 2010
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Monaco Igaming Awards: Best Online Casino Operator

…goes to 888 .  Congratulations 888! Now.  WTF are the Monaco Igaming Awards and do they actually mean anything? If you’ve never heard of the Monaco Igaming Awards, or Monaco Igaming Exchanges (the online gaming and betting convention at which the awards were held), then don’t for one minute think you’re drastically out of...
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Macau casino gambling: how big is it really?

October 11, 2010
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Macau casino gambling: how big is it really?

Put simply…just over twice the size of Las Vegas. Using casino monthly revenue as the measure anyway. Using total buffet consumption as the measure may have yielded a slightly different result! Casinos in the Las Vegas celebrated a rare reversal in sliding revenues when official figures revealed Nevada casinos took $944.5 million in August...
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Not live but very big: 888′s £8.8 million jackpot

October 10, 2010
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Not live but very big: 888′s £8.8 million jackpot

It’s not live dealer but it is so big that it’s worth a mention. The banner left pretty much says it all…any new players (UK only) at 888 get a crack at an £8.8 million jackpot.  What’s more, it’s a free crack. UK players registering an account at 888 any time before this jackpot...
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Paddy Power daily cash drops

October 7, 2010
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Paddy Power daily cash drops

Paddy Power are running another daily cash drop promo and it has to be said that we like where they are heading with these promotions. Here’s what I mean… August daily cash drop… September daily cash drop… October daily cash drop (Live until Sunday 12th!)… Let’s hope it’s a trend that continues for many...
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Best casino banner ever

October 7, 2010
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Best casino banner ever

Not that I’m qualified to judge the best ever casino banner – for the most part I ignore them because they’re usually at best annoying and at worst pretty obnoxious. Not this one. I came across it yesterday and thought it was just a little bit cool and a lot of fun. Mouse over...
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Playnow.com bonus bungle

October 4, 2010
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Playnow.com bonus bungle

Ain’t no free rides You never get something for nothing If it looks too good to be true…chances are it’s not Three sayings that encapsulate one of life’s unfortunate truths – very seldom does anyone hand over value to strangers and expect nothing in return.  And online casinos are no exception. Sure they offer...
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Italian players to get Media Live’s Italian dealers

September 26, 2010
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Italian players to get Media Live’s Italian dealers

Granted there are already a few great live casinos for Italian players but some time in the next few months another nice option will be added to this list. Media Live Casino (the software behind own casino 710 Casino ) will pretty soon be powering the live dealer games at one of Italy’s premier...
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Barney’s online gambling bill a lame duck

September 22, 2010
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Barney’s online gambling bill a lame duck

Last we heard things were going swimmingly for Barney Frank’s online gambling bill, HR2267.  The bill had passed House Financial Services Committee by a majority vote of 41-22 back in July, and Barney was talking up its prospects of having it getting onto the House of Reps floor for consideration before the end of...
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Politics and gambling in Australia

September 21, 2010
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Politics and gambling in Australia

Gambling policy debate in Australia is usually a hot pretty hot topic.  Largely because Australians like to gamble so much. According to the Australasian Gaming Council the average Aussie gambled $1,112 during 2009 making them just about the biggest (per-capita) gamblers in the world. $626 of this was related to play on poker machine...
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