Peter Eastgate, winner of the 2008 World Series of Poker Championship, shocked the world last summer when he announced his untimely retirement from an intensely successful professional poker career. He did it again last week when he decided to auction off his 2008 WSOP Championship Bracelet on eBay.com.
Elite online casino brand Platinum Play has just incorporated four brand new online slots games into its already immense catalogue. The new online slots all present their own unique themed premise of graphics and special features, but each follows the fundamental qualities of today’s most popular online video slots.
There's a new name rising among the online bingo industry that could have Edwin S. Lowe, the inventor of Bingo himself, rolling over in his grave. Rollover Bingo entered the market just a few short months ago and is already attracting a massive player base through ingenious marketing and promotional campaigns.
The online gambling industry has maintained its hold as one of the top revenue yielding e-commerce industries in the world for many years running, but it seems that at present, online sportsbooks are taking the lead among related companies by leaps and bounds.
Ladbrokes, the UK's largest bookmaker, revealed its earnings for the third quarter and realized a 128% increase in revenue from last year’s Q3 reports, a fantastic rating considering its overall progress as of late. Ladbrokes attributed the overwhelming swell to “higher net revenue performance and lower operating costs.
The online poker industry has become fiercely competitive of late, not that it wasn’t always competitive before, but it seems all of the major online poker rooms are vying for licenses in once restricted or isolated territories. The most recent regional penetration comes in the form of a sister site to Party Poker as its parent company, PartyGaming, just received a license to legally operate in Venezuela.
As so many online gambling operators are fighting for rights to market their products in Western Europe, its rather surprising to find that at least one major online sportsbook is actually threatening to leave the eastern-most portion of the continent. Betfair Sports is threatening to do just that, talking of pulling out of the United Kingdom due to inequality issues among operators.
Computerized blackjack programs are nothing new to us. We’ve been playing these types of games since the 1970’s; online blackjack since the 1990’s. But as is always the case, technological advancements will continue to produce more expedient and true-to-life ways to play blackjack, online and otherwise.
Online bingo heavyweight Tombola Bingo has been steadily working its way up the industry totem pole, but a fresh promotional approach may be just the necessary kick the company needed to realize its full potential among such a competitive UK market.
Euro Palace Casino has barely finished celebrating its grand opening and is already rejoicing over yet another big cash winner. Maria P. won an awesome €28,572.91 playing the classically famous online slots, LotsaLoot.
Club World Group (CWG), a conglomerate of networked, RealTime Gaming online casinos, has recently seen its online slots progressive jackpots rise to an astounding total of more than $5,500,000 across its most popular online slot machines. Four of the progressive slots in question now present a jackpot valued at more than $1 million a piece.
Vegas Technology casinos have been hosting the networks finest slots tournaments for several years running. One of the most popular formats is the famed ‘Slottery Tournaments’, occurring on a weekly basis at online casinos like Caribbean Gold, English Harbour, Super Slots, Go Casino and VIP Slots to name a few.