The old email inbox copped a hammering today from casinos announcing their festive season promotions. We also did a bit of a scout-around to see what else is out there for the live casino enthusiasts…and there’s quite a bit. Some offers are good, some aren’t worth mentioning, some are really quite exceptional. Here are...
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Another month rolls around and another set of live dealer races are under way. These tournaments are starting to become very popular with players and more and more live casinos are running them. So what’s a live dealer race? It’s a competition running over a fixed period (day, week or month usually) in which...
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If you visited Betfair Sunday night for a spot of live dealer gaming, you may have unexpectedly found yourself at a very different website containing the message, “We Turk Guvenligi declare this day as World Hackers Day – Have fun” Visitors to Betfair and a bunch of other high profile sites were redirected to...
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I’m not one for the hard-sell mainly because its a tactic that personally dissuades me. But I would like to tell you why I like this promo so much. While it’s a casino race (ie play more, win more) it’s points are awarded based on hands played NOT total wager value. A £5 bet...
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Last week Germany’s new draft State Treaty on Gaming (“the Treaty”) was ruled incompatible with EU law in a detailed opinion issued by the European Commission (“EC”). This week, we bear witness a great example of what happens when an EU member’s protectionist/prohibitive stance with regard to online gambling doesn’t have the support of the EC....
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This is the same organization that turned sports betting on its head with an online betting exchange that processes over 5 million transaction daily. They won’t quite be having the same impact on the live gaming industry since they’re just a licensee (Playtech is their live games software/dealers of choice) but an operator of...
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About time as well! For a while now Betfair have been touting their real-deal casino games as the best thing since sliced bread. These are games dealt by what Betfair describe as ‘ultra-realistic CGI avatars‘ that are without doubt technologically impressive, but not really real; not in the sense that the dealers are flesh...
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Betfair, one of the dot-com era’s real success stories now looks set to list on London Stock Exchange after a couple of false starts. The company last week engaged Barclays Capital and Numis to work with principle advisers Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to dot the i’s and cross the t’s on IPO plans...
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Betfair are pretty excited about their new casino product. It’s been developed in partnership with software developer Openbet and was apparently 2 years in the making. They’re calling it Real Deal. Impressive…absolutely. Unique…granted. Exclusive to Betfair…you bet. But real?…well actually no. But then and again I guess it depends on your definition of real. ...
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