Pokerstars Holding Poker Camp
PokerStars, one of the famous online poker rooms, is going to run a second poker camp since the first poker camp was very successful. The second camp is going to be held in the coming year between 7th and 9th January in the Caribbean. The event has the name ‘the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’. The Atlantis Hotel and Casino, the Bahamas will host the camp. The first poker camp was in Barcelona at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour in July, 2008.
The poker camp will be held three days; players that will have been qualified will participate in poker modules, morning and afternoon. Famous poker players from Team PokerStars will lead each module. They are Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, and Vanessa Rousso. When it comes to these gamblers two of them are former WSOP Main Event champions, one is the top female world’s poker players, and one of them also a four time bracelet winner. In addition to them first-class poker instructors will be ready to teach these modules that will learn some tricks of the trade from the best of best in poker.
At the end of the learning modules, all the participants of the camp will be able to implement all they have learned in a unique tournament which is available to PokerStars poker camp participants only.
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure qualifiers’ guests are eligible to take part in the poker camp that means family members and friends accompanying the qualifiers can take part in sessions open to an audience. Some sessions are only for the qualifiers.
New gambler wins “Bad Beat” jackpot at UltimateBet
As for a two-day old poker network this could not be much more fitting. The Internet Texas Holdem gambler, who has been registered with UltimateBet many days ago, this gambler, has got over 250,000 dollars gambling Texas Holdem Poker at tables of UltimateBet Bad Beat Jackpot.
Because of the significantly enlarged gambler CEREUS’ base, the Bad Beat Online Jackpot at the poker site had been $789,827.72 by Thursday morning before a poker gambler holding a straight flush in his hand playing Texas Holdem was lost.
The similar loss at usual Texas Holdem tables would make any poker gambler devastated. However, the tables of UltimateBet Bad Beat Online Jackpot pay for losing.
Such Jackpots are like usual Hold’em poker in the company of an additional jackpot component. Plus to rake, $0.50 is gathered from qualifying online poker hands and put into a pot that grows regularly until somebody wins the jackpot. When a hand is lost by the online poker gambler with four eights or something better, jackpot’s 65 per cents is divided just among Bad Beat Jackpot gamblers (for the next jackpot 25 per cent is put in the pot and 10 per cent is taken as administrative fees). All gamblers at a Bad Beat Jackpot table have the similar game type and limit as where Bad Beat happened also hit jackpot’s piece.
On Tuesday, UltimateBet made known that it had already completed UltimateBet’s transition to the CEREUS Poker Network, giving online poker gamblers a mass of new traits and giving a promise of higher Bad Beat Jackpots, hotter promotions, and bigger tournaments.
Rome Casino Stays In US Market
In spite of the fact that Microgaming casinos were forced to shut their doors to US players, RomeCasino.com affirmed that it were going to continue to serve US online gambling market and were making its support staff bigger to accommodate new players that were blocked by their former casinos. Rome Partners, the casino’s affiliate program, were very busy in the beginning of the month with inquiries from webmasters scrambling to reroute their American traffic that had been blocked by their former partners.
To celebrate the decisions RomeCasino.com launched a new promotion - $1000 New Player Bonus. The highly popular 200% deposit bonuses remain the most successful company’s offers.
Lots of RomeCasino.com gamblers direct their friends to a casino accepting them and processing the transactions and they are taking the advantage of the new “Gladiator Referral” program of RomeCasino that offers a player 15% of his/her friends’ deposits.
Not long ago the online gambling industry was shocked by the news that Microgaming decided to block the customers from the USA from online playing on all their partner sites. Many think that the company did this as a response to the announcement that the Bush administration was going to finalize the UIEGA regulations. This can make it tougher for gamblers to make deposition and will make banks reject transactions they think are related to online gambling.
With love of Americans to ancient Rome and Hollywood hits centering in the Roman Empire, RomeCasino has become the home to lots of online players in a short time. Rome turned into one of the best casinos for American players after announcing their flawless processing abilities.
Online Casinos Offer an Adjustable Platform
If you look around at the online gambling industry, you will see that online gambling sites and software development companies are slowly starting to understand the irrefutable necessity of variety. The variety is said to be the spice of life, and online casinos seem to agree with this. Last year the 888 gambling group announced a unique integrated platform with the best online games which every software developer should offer and put all these games into one cohesive online casino gambling experience. Since then, increasing number of gambling companies has taken up the idea of adjustable gambling platforms and it is getting the industry’s trend.
At the moment players visit online casinos expecting to have much more from them than they have wanted before. Now online gamblers want to play at the casinos that have the latest graphics and technology and all this should be integrated into every game. Many players specifically search for gambling platforms with an instant gaming offer. Some players also want to see a wide suite of slots with branded themes to choose from and others look for a wide variety of poker games, blackjack, keno, craps, and so on.
Since now there are a lot of the possibilities in the gambling industry and the number of online casinos are constantly growing there are loads of online software providers that are willing to go into the industry and offer things others do not have. So, while there is tough competition between the online casinos and software developers, there is also enough room for the companies that can offer completely distinct and adjustable platforms providing players exactly with what they want.
Casinomeister warns Online Players
Last week Casinomeister.com, the online gambling information site? issued the warning against an online casino operator. It was a warning for online gamblers about broken promises and ignored communications from the side of some gambling sites.
The most serious complaint was from a gambler who won $33,500 but couldn’t get the winning from BeTheDealer for several months. The casino had promised to pay out the player the winnings via installments but had not followed up with that after having made the first payout. Then the casino had decided to skip another 2 payouts. At the moment the player made a decision to ask for advice and help from the players’ advocate.
First BeTheDealer had not had any wish to discuss the case but then they assured Casinomeister that this player was given “a solution”. They asserted that the mentioned player had accepted this “solution”, and the casino promised to pay out all the rest money within some days.
But they didn’t do this. Once again Casinomeister called BeTheDealer to account and they knew that they had changed a date for the payouts to be made. At the point it seems that they can’t be conclusion to this problem. All the e-mails from Casionmeister.com and the player to the online casino BeTheDealer and to the manager have not received any replies.
So, Casinomester has issued a caution to warn all the players that BeTheDealer does not pay their players after they have accepted the terms of the payout. The casino management has more than once been making and breaking their commitments and the result is that players have not received their payments.
New Ways of the Gamblers Attraction
The new technological achievement has been demonstrated to the public. The absolutely new program will allow the gamblers to take part in the twenty-four-hour live dealing of playing hand from one of the Irish casinos. For competing with this technology Mirada Gaming offers the new kind of entertainment. Mirada Gaming declares that its Virtual Dealer Roulette is the new level of the game and can be licensed all over the world, it allows multiplayer roulette games, which are played from the previously recorded video.
This idea seems really interesting and the number of gamers will probably increase if this technology will be available to the public and Mirada Gaming will decide to continue the expansion of the new market segment and will renew the collection of video clips. But on the other hand some gamblers may decide that such kind of game is rather boring and even more – useless, because the clips will be recorded and the end of the game can be predicted. Although Mirada Gaming assures the players that Virtual Dealer Roulette has a special mechanism and all the clips will be pulled in random. By that mean each game will safe its unique, unpredictable character and will base on the completely chance base.
We can surmise that this Mirada Gaming new feature maybe becomes extremely popular. At this moment all the main online gambling companies try to find some advanced technologies or pioneering ways of the gambling industry’s development, some peculiarity of the new game which will attract people and allow to the site, performing it to the public to be the real leader.
Cryptologic Discussing with Partygaming a New Deal
Cryptologic, the top software developer, has announced that at the moment they are discussing an agreement with ‘another big poker network’, PartyGaming. The two companies are going to pool their online poker businesses together in order to save costs during the current economic crisis. CryptoLogic and PartyGaming are trying to keep their high positions in the online casino gambling industry.
After the news about that this November WPT Enterprises were closing their real money poker site WorldPokerTour.com. Some time ago CryptoLogic also lost the Will Hill license to Playtech. So, it is clear if they want to keep being financially strong any further they should make a new partnership. The deal with PartyGaming must mitigate the blow of WPT shutting and losing the Will Hill.
Online market share of PartyGaming has decreased to 8.5% from 40% over the last two years. The main reason of this abrupt loss is the UIGEA passed in October 2006. The company lost one of its most profitable markets in the USA after they had to close their doors to all American residents.
CryptoLogic is trying to decrease their annual operating expenses by $12 - $15 million. The agreement with PartyGaming is a five-year licensing deal on online casino games.
CryptoLogic is also going to continue their business and management of their investments in Asia, namely in China, Singapore and Korea. They are also providing India-based Khel Galli with online casino games, one of South Asia’s fastest growing gambling companies.
Jim Ryan, CEO at PartyGaming, considers that the agreement with CryptoLogic and the new suite of games they will be able to provide will help improve their own market leading position.
New Games Launch from Microgaming
Microgaming seems never to exhaust ideas of new casino slots and other games. The company releases a new suite of games monthly as part of their campaign called “New Games Rollout”. Microgaming is the most fruitful software development company in business at the moment. October has not become an exception the company has announced that they are launching another game.
The recent online games release is well-timed. You know Halloween is celebrated at the end of this month, so Jonny Specter online casino video slot summons ghostly spirits. Reminiscent of an 80’s movie classic, Jonny Specter is a hero who catches ghosts. The slot has a wild symbol, an expanding wild, free bonus spins and multipliers. It is the classic American/Australian slot that is rolled into one.
Bob’s Bowling Bonanza slot is similar to Jonny Specter but less scary. The slot has 5 reels and 30 pay lines of fast-paced action. The game features wild and scatter symbols, bonus round and a unique gamble feature. If the Strike symbol appears on reels 1, 3 and 5, the reels transform into virtual bowling lanes. If a strike is bowled in the bonus round, you can get up to 20x winnings.
Spike’s Nite Out is the third new online slot launched in October. The game is designed for dog fans and has 15 pay lines and 5 reels of dog symbols. This entertaining slot has wild and scatter symbols. There are also bonus opportunities in this slot. The game is a great play for low-rollers, a minimum bet is $0.01 and maximum $0.20 and the maximum bet is $30.
Moreover Microgaming has recently released a new addition to the Gold Series.
GoldenCasino Changes Its Domain Name
Governor of Kentucky, Beshear has caught all the world’s headlines while making his plans to ban online casinos and poker rooms at his state. Kentucky’s Governor has been trying to seize 141 gambling domain names in his state. The state itself supports gambling, it is known as one of the biggest horse race betting states in the US and the state tries also to get land casinos there, but the Governor is absolutely against online gambling, Beshear thinks that online casinos do not pay tax revenues, do not provide jobs for the state. At the point, Kentucky has temporary seized those 141 names.
Reacting to this, Golden Casino, one of the popular online casinos, has moved to a new domain name that is NewGoldenCasino.com now, the site has transferred their software and has fixed their links to the new domain. The event has made the online casino members question what is going on. Some of the members are from Kentucky and the site, like others, has not accepted the state’s players due to the Governor’s actions.
There are a great number of e-mails from players to online gambling information sites. The decision of Golden Casino to move was abruptly, but it is quite understandable. While the result of Kentucky’s request is still pendent, the management decided not to run any risk. The suddenness of the move, though, has made online casino members and the community on the whole wondering whether they were being tricked into going to a false online casino website with viruses and other horrible computer bugs.
However, the site is legitimate and gamblers can go there, no worrying about it.
888 Adds More Games
At the moment another three of Cryptologic most popular online games can be played at 888 (CasinoOnNet). The two leading gaming companies agreed to collaborate even further, increasing the total licensing deal to 13 casino games.
They have recently added two games of the Marvel Superhero slots - Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, the highly popular “Bejeweled” based on the puzzle game of the same name. Both companies are sure to be happy about the said deal. Cryptologic gets benefit as 888 is one of the biggest online casinos on the net, whereas the players of 888 can get experience playing the hottest online casino games and enjoying the best graphics available.
Sorry to say, but one of the reasons why 888.com and Cryptologic could work together is because they do not accept players from the USA. The unique part of the relationship is that Cryptologic doesn’t solely power CasinoOnNet. 888 operates on a number of software platforms, including their own. The company is supposed to be called a proprietary blend of casino software.
Indeed, 888 Holdings Plc is the British second-largest gaming company. It has several great credentials and is a very big site with large customer service. Without any doubt, the 888 Casino site offered exciting and frequent promotions funny to play, and funny to foresee. 888 is fine for newbie, non-US players. Cryptologic is certainly powered most of online casinos. And now, any with an inclination for 888, “Bejeweled” or Marvel Superhero slots can join 888 and have a great time playing online.
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