Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, an online casino leader, has tried to explain their players why the process of payouts has been taking so much time. When Alwyn Morris, the CEO of the group, was asked about it, he pleaded the UIGEA.

There have been a lot of complaints from players who play on the different websites that it’s taking too much time to process the payouts. The process is taking more time than it did before the UIGEA had been passed. It would take players some hours to get their money from the site they played, but it is currently taking some weeks. The increasing time is not the single problem. The majority of players have complained that the process of withdrawal request is more complex.

Morris said that players would get their money, but the process just took nearly forty days from the beginning to the end. Due to the UIGEA, online casino gambling sites have to find for their customers other payment sources, and also to solve regulatory difficulties, all these cause payment delays. The majority of financial institutions are intimidated by the anti-gambling law and the US government, and that is the reason why the online casinos, poker rooms, and sports betting sites don’t allow US players in.

Those sites that work with American players have tried to find account processors which want to take money from the US players.

Morris has assured the players that they will get their money. The company is continually checking their providers in order to ensure that their customers receive their winnings in a reasonable period of time.

TitanPoker, one of the biggest online poker rooms all over the world, has added Russian to the list of languages available on their site. They have updated website pages, all their software, and support services in order to include Russian, and now the total number of foreign languages is twelve. The site offers English, French, German, Danish, Italian, Finnish, Norwegian, Spanish, Polish, Dutch and Swedish.

According to the manager of Titan Poker, Robin Steele, the company takes particular effort and care to suit all the players. She said that they’d like consumers to have the first-class quality online service as possible. And including more languages like Russian is a clear example of how they take care of players. The company considers that it is necessary to translate the whole site and launch the software in Russian, instead of making players use the site in foreign languages, which they may not know.

It has been noticed by TitanPoker that the number of players from Russia and also Russian speaking countries have grown since the winnings from tournaments and the cash tables have increased. So, it was necessary and natural to include Russian to the listing. TitanPoker is going to add more European languages and when they do this, more gamblers will be able to see what is happening around TitanPoker.

The poker room has been granting big monthly cash giveaways totaling over $16 million. In September there will be a tournament with the guaranteed prize of $2.5 million at the site. The tournament will be the biggest one that TitanPoker has ever held. The company is expecting a great turnout for it. Moreover the poker room will host satellites and qualifiers for live poker tourneys worldwide. TitanPoker was a success at the 2008 WSOP, that’s why they hope that the players whom they send to Macau to the Asian Poker Tour event in August will also do well.

The government of Ireland assigned the Casino Committee that then found out a huge number of benefits for giving a home base to online gaming operations, so far as they even propose putting favorable tax rates and exemptions in place in order to attract online gaming operations.

The aim of the committee was to carry out a study to better the efficacy of state’s laws regarding gambling, casinos and online gaming. The conclusions of the committee had some startling results.

The Casino Committee stated that after the USA had passed the UIGEA, Ireland got an economic opportunity and the Committee advised the government to take instant benefit and exploit this situation for the profit of Ireland.

They recommended the Irish government to approach online gaming operators and offer them to make their home base in Ireland. This will stimulate the economy just as when Web giants such as Yahoo and Google made the Ireland Republic the base for their operations in Europe. Objective researches and experts’ opinions show that the introduction of an online gambling ban like that in the USA, would bring problems with various unexpected and undesired consequences.

The government will introduce a limited licensing program and provisions in order to prevent underage players from gambling. They also make some regulations to protect consumers from fraud and dishonest online gaming operators. Moreover the committee went farther and stated that laws concerning land and casino gambling ought to be updated and modernized. The Irish government needs realistic casino gambling laws that will bring profits to the country and its citizens. Maybe, it is time to follow this good example for other countries.

The European Union is thought to be ready to liberalize its online gambling industry. Most member-states of the EU have begun regulating the foreign online casino gambling sector and open its market to foreign online casino operators. For example, Belgium has lately showed a genuine interest to enact new legislation, which will adequately comprise online betting as well as provisions for private internet gaming and casino site operators.

Markets and Research has recently released a report concerning gambling situation in The EU. According to it, Belgium is the latest of European countries, which express a less defensive position on online casino and lottery monopolies run by the state, and shows more benevolence towards the internet gambling industry all together. Though some countries, such as Spain and Italy, have a way to go still, the stable progress is certain to be in liberalizing the gambling industry due to the pressure from the side of the EU.

After positive changes concerning online gambling in France and Ireland, Belgium has made a plan to bring in new online gambling legislation that will let the National Lottery go online, in fact. If this happens, the Belgium Federal Parliament wouldn’t have any choice except to open the country’s market to private operators. And according to some analysts, that could occur in 2009.

At the moment, it’d be hard to work out any updated online gambling legislation not including online betting provisions. It is the swiftest increasing area of the betting industry all over the world, and it is unsure to slow down in contrast to the land gambling industry. It’s worth adding that Belgium’s position on online poker and wagering are relatively tolerant.

GPSGlobal has begun beta testing their Live Dealer Elimination Blackjack software. In case internet casino players receive this software well, the company will launch this software in the forthcoming few weeks. Live dealer games are the new feature for the online casinos although online casinos have been existing for more than ten years. In such a game, a live dealer deals cards and interacts with players by means of a webcam in real time. Players can do everything they do in real casino: bet, raise, and fold staying in the comfort of their own home. Players get the same service they could receive while playing in any land casino.

At the moment only a small number of online casinos give their customers the opportunity to play a live dealer game. Lawrence Davie, the GPS Global Director of Casino Operations, says that their Live Dealer Elimination Blackjack software will set a new standard in the online gambling industry. He also added that the company has already got very positive feedbacks from the players. It is great when the players can see the cards being shuffled and dealt in comparison to shuffling and dealing the cards by a computer.

There are already 5 live dealer games ready and seven more are in production by GPS Global. The population of the live dealer elimination games has increasing over the last few years and GPS thinks that Live Dealer Blackjack Tournaments is the next step. Elimination Blackjack Tournaments are already popular at top online casinos. By adding a live dealer feature and real time play, such games are sure to set a higher standard for other websites.

At the end of this August a bill concerning online poker could appear. This bill is now going via the California Senate that comes to a decision which can become precedent for other states of the USA to follow it if it’s approved. It’s moving to the Senate Appropriations Committee. If the Committee approves it, the next will be a full vote by the legislature of the state. If the State Senate of California agrees to pass this bill, California will be the first state that would offer its people to play online poker legally.
A Democrat Lloyd Levine, who represents Van Nuys introduced this bill. The name of this assemblyman will go in history if this bill passes. California could legalize and regulate online poker in the state, and may create the rules which other states of the USA could follow. Originally the bill was made to create a commission on studying online poker and the reaction to the game of citizens of California. The study had to provide sufficient information that could allow California’s lawmakers to make a decision to legalize online poker or not. The results of the study have been debated by the state’s legislators and now it is time of a final vote for implementing the findings.

To meet conditions that are outlined by the UIGEA, the Senate Governmental Organization Committee of the state voted 6 to 1 for the following: the Bureau of Gambling Control will work together with the Gambling Control Commission of California to develop and implement regulations for when this bill is legalized. These groups have the enthusiastic support of the people, particularly from the side of the Poker Voters of America.

A new 3D online casino, WinADay.com was announced to be launched by Slotland.com. Several months ago the free games were launched by the online casino and now the real money slots have been added to them. Everybody can play the Lucky-Go-Round, one of the latest 3D games, in free and also real-money Games Hall on the internet casino site.

Players will delight in the animated 3D customer service attendants that greet them when they enter. They help players orientate themselves in the games. The new 3D Games Hall games provide any new player with a 100% deposit bonus (up to $250).

According to Martin Smith, the Pit Boss at WinADay.com, the 3D online casino has taken big steps by realizing the new games, animated customer service attendants, and additional facilities. The team of WinADay.com has been testing the games for a few months and they are going to celebrate the real-money slots launch on their site. The players are sure to enjoy the new offerings from WinADay.

The Lucky-Go-Round 3D slot promises to be a popular with WinADay’s players. The Creators also expect the new game to attract even the most steadfast players who usually play their standard fruit slots. So, one of the regular Slotland.com players after he had tried playing the new slot said that he thought that he found himself in a real casino when the 3D animated attendant greeted him by his first name.

WinADay.com has programmed its games with the newest instant play, no downloadable Flash technology. With the help of this format, the creators can use the rich media in order to meet players’ requirements.

WinADay.com encourages their players with a progressive jackpot that is available in three games: ‘Wheeler Dealer’, ‘Jack’s Show’, and, of course, the ‘Lucky-Go-Around’.

This summer Microgaming has released a new online casino slot game, Jolly Jester. It is already a success at the gambling sites licensed by Microgaming. Jolly Jester has two other names, French RouletteGold and Big Kahuna Snakes and Ladders. All these games are available to Microgaming platform licensees. A ground-breaking and unique theme of the Jolly Jester video slots game is certain to keep players excited and interested. And the recurrent bonuses and multipliers which there are in the game without any doubt will grab the keen interest of the public in the game.

Playing the Jolly Jester game you are immersing in atmosphere of the Middle Ages, the time of kings, queens and royal crowd, knights and castles. The game provides players with a first-class graphics, sound effects, and so on. In the game online players try to force their way into and all through the castle, that allows them to get access to special bonus screens where they will be able to win free spins and increase their chance to enhance their winnings. Jolly Jester is a 5-reel 25 pay line video slot with the high quality software that everybody expects from Microgaming.

While playing the Jolly Jester game players ought to hope to win the Jester symbol, which is the wild symbol in the game, it triggers a lot of special bonuses, right of entry to new screens, and other additional incentives to go on playing this game. Jolly Jester was released some weeks ago and the smaller internet gambling sites are launching it on their platform at this moment. For example, PlatinumPlay.com has just announced that Jolly Jester is available on their site.

After a sudden death of Warren Cloud, an online casino pioneer of South African, at the end of June after a heart attack, there are a lot of unanswered questions left concerning money owed to creditors and what will happen to the online casinos which he founded. The US internet casino sites including RealTime Gambling directed by him closed down. These sites told their clients to remove their money from all online cash accounts connected with these sites by 31 July, 2008, because there is a risk for customers to lose their money. The reason which influenced on closing the sites hasn’t been announced still.

The Silver Sands Casino works still. But I wonder how long they could keep their head above water without Cloud. Let’s begin with the matter that Cloud’s business acumen was dubious and he used some aliases in his business deals. A number of the casinos under his management brought in millions but due to his shady start, he got a bad rap because he hadn’t paid players who tried to withdraw their money.

After forming up with RealTime Gambling Cloud’s online casino career got moving. Albeit his online casinos are still popular, his reputation was tarnished and for several years he was intermittently on the rogue list of consumer protection sites. So, one of the biggest protection sites, CasinoMeister, warned users to stay away from Cloud’s sites for a long time. Brian Bailey, the CasinoMeister’s owner, states that players have been constantly complaining about Cloud’s casinos. Some of such complaints are still waiting to be settled up.

Since the UIGEA passed in the USA Congressman Barney Frank has been making attempts to replace the online gambling law. The latest defeat of Barney was a blow to the most of online casino gambling industry, however, there is hope still. Frank is trying to pass his previously proposed online gambling act, the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act (IGREA). Since the number of supporters for the proposal is growing continually, a light has appeared at the end of the tunnel. IGREA is developed to overturn the controversial online casinos gambling ban, the UIGEA, and if it is implemented it will give power to the US state governments to regulate online casino gambling individually.

The defeated Payment Systems Protection Act, HR 5767, proposed by Barney Frank and Ron Paul nearly passed via the House Financial Services Committee, but unfortunately all ended in a 32-32 tie vote (meaning it’s defeated) and as a result failed to pass. HR 5767 could not have solved the internet gambling situation in the United States but could have stopped instead the controversial drafted regulations for the UIGEA whereas Congress keeps debating the online casino gambling issue.

However, there are a number of other bills in preparation, that is without a doubt luckily for the online gambling industry. There are now 48 cross-party co-sponsors for Frank’s IGREA that would propose licensing and regulating the online casino gambling industry. Moreover there is a bill from Representative Robert Wexler in the works that wants to legalize online poker specifically, this bill also has support. Last on the promising bills list is the proposal of Shelley Berkley for a research of the online gambling industry.