An outsider trying to understand: Australia’s online gambling regulations; and the manner in which regulators choose to enforce those regulations, would be forgiven for being extremely confused. Federal legislation doesn’t permit online poker and casino games. But this law isn’t enforced at all. Some of the industries’ UK/EU based operators exclude themselves from the...
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Here are a couple of live casino races presently underway that are really worth considering. What’s a live casino race? Simple. It’s a straight turnover (wager, bet volume, total stake amount…whatever you want to call it) tournament in which prizes, usually cash or bonuses but sometimes other prizes, are awarded to the highest staking...
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Quite a few news services are reporting that Spanish authorities have issued the first round of online gambling licenses pursuant to its new laws passed last year…Spanish Gambling Act (Ley 13/2011 de Regulación del Juego). In actual fact this is the second round. Local operator Casino Gran Madrid were awarded their license last year,...
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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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