Last September the government of the United Kingdom liberalized the gambling advertising since then extensive gambling advertising has become a new activity there. The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) was founded to discuss complaints relating to doubtful ads. At the present online casinos can make ads shown on main stations, so a growing amount of complaints are flowing the ASA and its task now is to set the fundamental guidelines for potential gambling cases.

Recently 2 online casinos, Paddy Power and Intercasino got some bad news – these two gambling companies are made to pull their advertisements after the ASA stated that the ads of the above mentioned companies infringed existing regulations concerning online gambling advertising. The ASA examined the adverts responding to a lot of complaints that were connected with the internet-based casinos gambling market.

Concerning the advertisements of Paddy Power, the casinos gambling and betting company, they were said to suggest sexual ability as a gambling result that is completely forbidden. Though Paddy Power says that the adverts are being misinterpreted, the ASA has ordered the internet gambling company to pull these advertisements totally. In response to the ads the ASA said that they considered the ads were irresponsible.

The ads of Intercasino were pulled for the reason that their cartoon dwarves that were depicted in their ad were thought to target juvenile players. As in case with Paddy Power, the ASA has ordered the online casinos gambling company to stop using these advertisements.

Last week the French government declared that they were planning to legalize online gambling. The office of Francois Fillon, Prime Minister of France stated that they were studying a report that they commissioned in November 2007 into how the internet gambling market could be opened in their country.

At this time, France bans all online games that involve money, with the exception of the pari-mutuel, that is pool betting, monopoly PMU on horse betting and Francaise des Jeux, the lottery monopoly of France which provide scratchcards and online betting. Last year, in France several heads of foreign gambling operators were arrested for breaking gambling laws of France.

In the report there are 3 possibilities to open up the tightly regulated French gambling market: first of all France can issue licenses that will limit internet-based betting to sporting events, plus card games betting, or it can license all the games excepting lotteries.

The report seems not to imagine wide-open gaming in the country. According to this report the internet-based slot machines legalization could run in contradiction of “aims of common interest” of France as well as the protection of players against addiction and the money laundering and fraud prevention.

The European Commission wants to put an end to state gambling monopolies. France is one of the ten member nations of the European Union that currently violates EU policy concerning free trade between the states of the EU. Now the European Commission is going to enforce the EU antitrust rules and free internal market.

Antigua and Barbuda that sued the US for failing to live up to its commitments in the WTO treaty could receive more money out of its dispute with the US pending negotiations for online gambling funds recompense. Antigua and Barbuda has been granted by a WTO arbitrator 21 million dollars per year that according to many analysts is considerably lower than what Antigua and Barbuda has rights to.

Contrary to the 3.4 billion dollars that Antigua has every year so they’ve lost as Antigua says due to the UIGEA, and the consequent US decision to stop honouring its WTO obligations, this decision to pay out $21 million really seems awfully low. According to Antigua’s lawyer he thinks they’ve got a good opportunity to take their case to the WTO General Council.

The arbitration panel of the WTO stated that the financial recompense of Antigua was limited to bets that Antigua lost at horse racing. Though, Antigua and a lot of other delegations conversant with the dispute consider the USA ought to cough up far more in betting revenue from sports betting, poker and casino gambling.

This Caribbean island licensed hundreds of sports-books and online casinos. At the present, that amount has decreased considerably. It’s obvious that after passing the UIGEA, the greater part of operators moved just to other jurisdictions or simply closed down. It is the main claim for Antigua in order to take their dispute to the General Council of the WTO, something that nobody has ever done before.

Italy has made a step toward legalizing online gambling and liberalizing the country’s online betting industry. Some official comments on Italian legislative draft to enforce and regulate internet gambling laws for wagering sites and online casinos that face Italy have been issued by the European Commission.

In these comments protective measures for gamblers are criticized by the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) and the Malta Lotteries and Gaming Authority. According to Malta’s Opinion, where they expressed their concerns, essentially Italian legislative draft needs amendments. Recently the EGBA has published its own statement.

Sigrid Ligne, Secretary General of the European Gaming and Betting Association, has stated that even though Italy in reality amends its legislation to meet cross-border laws of the EU, the statement that was issued by the European Commission runs that this legislation would come short of “public order interest” still.

That means that the legislation should adopt the protective measures which are being used by betting websites and online casinos licensed in other EU member states, for example, the online casinos of the UK meet the strict standards that the UK Gambling Act imposes.

Particularly, it is the decree which requires online betting operators from other countries to connect up to a centralized IT system that according to the EGBA imposes additional restrictions, which serving to keep from criminal activities, is more expensive and needless than the up to date technological measures employed in other EU nations successfully. One more objectionable issue is the extreme restrictions imposed upon specific games.

Another big jackpot was hit at one of the most popular Mega Moolah’s progressive video slot at Microgaming online casinos. Though it wasn’t the biggest one, without any doubt it was one of the largest. And a $5,556,736 prize unquestionably made one more online player a millionaire, although the player’s name is still unknown.

The jackpot was won at Blackjack Ballroom, the Casino Rewards group. All the best online casinos including Casino Rewards casinos in operation nowadays, respect their players’ privacy, and at the most, publish the player’s username - First and last name initial - together with a picture if a big jackpot is won.

Taking into consideration that this jackpot is a little bit smaller than the last year’s jackpot (nearly $5.9 million) at Inter Casino, top British Casino of Cryptoligic, I think Blackjack Ballroom and Casino Rewards will be doing their own publicity when the winner is identified. Actually, the casino is sure to know who the winner is. Arrangements are likely to be made for organizing photo session and a marketing event for the player as described before.

This jackpot continues large wins at Casino Rewards, with a number of big jackpots won at Casino Classic recently.

Concerning Mega Moolah, it is worth saying it’s rapidly becoming one of the most popular of Microgaming’s games. Appeared recently, the first big jackpot (4.3 million) of Mega Moolah was hit in last November to a South Africa’s player. Since then, Mega Moolah has been attracting constantly players for its entertainment, reasonable stakes, and the big progressive jackpot.

As a rule Microgaming is awarded as the software development company that releases most online casino games every month of the year round. However, this month Cryptologic gets this award coming out with six new casino games.

There is a great deal of games Cryptologic’s portfolio including more than 250 download games, about 50 available on the Flash platform, several games, but the most well-liked casino classics in Flash. The latest casino games releases can be found at Inter Casino.

Being a slots devotee, you’ll like this latest casino games Cryptologic released. These 25-30 line games offer a lot of action and a lot of ways to become a winner. Here is the latest list of games from Cryptologic.

Roamin’ Gnome is a 5 reel, 30 line video slot, offering bets from a penny to US$600. A bonus feature and free spins will allow you to take a roamin’ trip worldwide to exotic places.

Another game is a 5reel, 30 line video slot, Dad’s Day. Very like Roamin’ Gnome, Dad’s Day provides bets from 1 cent to US$600. You can win up to six thousand times a line bet size here.

A 25 line video slot, Outta Space Adventure, offers several bonuses. Line up 3 planets and double earnings with up to 20 free spins.

Fantasy Realm features 25 lines of betting action as well. You can win three thousand times a line bet size with bets from a penny to US$500 in the fantasy video slot world.

One more 25 line slot, Sunday Afternoon Classics is offering the bets, like Fantasy Realm’s ones, but winnings can be up to six thousand times the line bet if you line up 3 Leading Lady symbols at least.

Silent Screen is the game but without the audio: there is music, but there is no talking! Silent Screen is 25lines of action and you can win up to five thousand times the line bet size with stakes from one cent to US$500.

One of the very popular internet gambling tournaments worldwide is The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). It can boast a vast entry field and a noteworthy prize pool. Another FTOPS starts just in May. So, the poker players are already aiming for taking part in satellite and qualifications. Full Tilt is considered to be one of the more outstanding of the online poker gambling websites. It surely places in the top ten counting average players’ visits at this site weekly and daily.

It’ll be the 8th of these online casinos tournaments which attract poker pros from both the traditional and online poker gambling industry. The FTOPS is thought to be one of the best on the internet. Full Tilt started these tournaments in August, 2006 and since then it has been continuing to hold a FTOPS tournaments every three months. Guaranteed cash prizes that this tournament offers is about US$10 million and will begin on 7th May and finish on May 18th.

As expected among the poker games being featured in the next Full Tilt poker tournament are all the well-liked types of land and online poker: from the traditional and extremely popular No Limit Texas Holdem poker to newer games like Horse and Razz, and of course everything between.

And taking into consideration that this online poker tournament is bigger than the events have ever been before, since it’s becoming the tradition, a Tournament of Champions Freeroll event will be offered by Full Tilt. It’s open to all the prior Full Tilt winning players.

This month a delegation of 7 players was sent by Titan Poker, the biggest poker room of the iPoker Network, to take part in the European Poker Tour held in Italy, San Remo. Players from many European nations, including Denmark, Italy, France, Austria, The Netherlands, and the UK represented the world-known poker site.

A $10,000 prize package with flights, spending, accommodations and free entry to the £4,700 + 300 Main Event included were given to all players as an award. Daniel Walker, winning player from the United Kingdom, said that Anthony Lellouche busted hole Jacks of Walker with his Queen-6, he played greatly and took the second prize. Certainly, he put Walker’ chips to great use! Walker thanked organizers for an excellent week!

Kenneth Tomming, Titan Poker winning player from Denmark, had an only chance to play with Daniel Negreanu, pros poker player at the same table. Over and above San Remo, Kenneth Tomming has won a seat to the future Eurocity Poker Tour (ECPT) Madrid Open 2008 that will be held in May.

Titan Poker regularly gives its players awards such as seats to the internationally best-known poker tournaments, for example, the Aussie Millions Poker Championship or European Poker Tours. What’s more it will be sending its gamblers to the World Poker Showdown that will be held in the Dominican Republic and the World Series of Poker (WSOP) taking place in Las Vegas later. Titan Poker announced also launching of the second edition of the European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP II), one of the biggest online poker tournaments these days that will be kicking off in May where skilled players will compete for a share of $3.6 million.

After introducing the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in 2006 the majority thought that American citizens wouldn’t be able to play online casino games again. The internet gambling market was believed to have officially died. Without a doubt the UIGEA has effectively prohibited banks and payment method companies to continue their business with Americans, but it remains ineffective concerning the long-standing issues of the online casino games legality. Some time passed and most Americans and businesses have realized that internet gambling hasn’t been unequivocally declared illegal for real players, and in spite of the a lot of setbacks, a great deal of Americans still get pleasure from their favorite online casino games regularly.

Americans are finding many ways to open and maintain internet-based payment accounts in order to finance their gambling. The majority of online casinos, bingo sites, poker rooms and lotteries are starting to accept American players now. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act doesn’t exclusively address the online casino games legality since it doesn’t resolve the problems that are going around the Wire Act of 1961, in defining whether the internet is deemed to be wire-based. Till the issue is cleared up and addressed, it’s impossible to prove that playing online casino games or offering them is illegal.

uscasinos.blogspot.com, the gambling site of the USA, has named the most frequently used ways of funding an internet-based account for North Americans, plus the sites that want to let American customers play the online casino games. The site instructs Americans in details how to register at these sites as well.

The second World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) tournament is scheduled to take place in London from the 19th September to the 1st October. Betfair, free casino provider, has announced that it’ll be the principal sponsor of this tournament. The WSOPE will be held at all the venues of London Clubs International, in addition to The Casino and Sportsman at the Empire sites.

Betfair is already giving seats to the World Series of Poker Europe tournament, each seat costs a enormous USD 23,000. To the final event seats now cost USD 50,000, and it’s expected that the free online casino will give away another on 20th April. Players may be eligible for the seats by means of qualifying via the daily satellites of the site, which free online casino has set at just $5.50. Additionally, those who won’t be able to qualify can play for a $4,000prize jackpot.

According to David Yu, the CEO of Betfair, last year The WSOPE tournament was so fantastic that it easily exceeded all the company’s expectations. Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner of the WSOP, explained that a great deal of the tournament ’s success is that European Continent is home to a number of the best up poker players, many of them are young talented players that fancy giving the recognized pros a run for their own money.
According to Michael Silberling, COO, London Clubs International, the land-based event and the internet-based qualification tournaments that Betfair free online casino holds is a “first class tournament,” and it promises to bring out the best poker gamblers in the globe.