Rome Casino Accepts American Express
Rome Casino is going to welcome the players from USA, it has recently announced that in the nearest future it starts to accept the American Express cards making it one of the main payment methods. This news causes the great support from the side of the loyal players of the casino.
American Express is one of the leaders on the USA market, it guarantees the highest security level and some nice bonuses for the owners, so it can be called one of the best existing payment methods for the online gamblers. But nowadays the players unlikely will be able to use the American express at the online casino, thought the situation can change. Rome Casino as the most part of the gambling sites accepting the players from USA has to offer the numerous alternative withdrawal methods.
Rome Casino offers different welcome bonuses for the gamers who have chosen this casino, you can select the bonus according to your tastes. You can get 100% of the sum of your first five deposits up to $5,000. In a case you can be called the high roller slot player you have the opportunity to receive 400% up to $3,000 Free. If you prefer Blackjack, Video Poker or Roulette you will be given 25% bonus.
This online casino performs various reload promotions and weekly bonuses, for example keno bonus which is equal to 50% free. The weekend bonus program includes the raw of 10 offers of 150%, each of them up to $1,000 for free.
New Microgaming Slots
Microgaming performs to the gamblers the new portion of the excellent quality casino games. Now you can find any of four new slots at any online casino working on the Microgaming software platform.
The first release is the Silver Fang, this is five reel, fifty payline slot game which has the wolf theme. It has the scatter and wild symbols which are the keys to the free games.
The next new game is called Get Rocked, as you can guess it has the Rock-n- Roll theme. It has 5 reel, 30 payline format. The singer icon is your way to the bonus game, which in its part means the free spins and multipliers.
Mega Moolah Isis is the next slot game which has the ancient Egypt theme, if you have some online gambling experience you certainly know the great Microgaming progressive slot Mega Moolah which is extremely popular because of the highest jackpots. Isis has 5 reels and 25 lines, it has such nice bonuses as 30 free games and 6 time multiplier. The key to the multiplier is the combination consisting of three or more hawk symbols.
Wealth Spa is the last but not the least of the Microgaming news which have been prepared for this month. It has 5 reels and 20 paylines, it also has the special bonus system which consists of five reward levels. The name of the game reflects its theme and you can get the golden tokens which are the main prize of the slot.
Good News From Party Poker – PartyPoints Are Getting Increased In Value.
Don’t miss the chance: at the end of this month the PartyPoints store will undergo some improvements, provided by Party Poker. The PartyPoints will increase in value substantially – by approximately 50%! Having been launched, the PartyPoints store will provide such casino bonuses and such cash back, which will give you up to 30% rake-back, sometimes even 40%. Besides, there are a lot of items offered over there, which will add a wider range of the options.
It has become also much more accessible for the gamblers to reach the Palladium level. The quarterly target has been lowered - from 15,000 (which is based on the previous monthly target, that is 5000 points) to 9,000 points. The quarterly target for the exclusive Palladium Elite has been lowered from 75,000 (which is based on the previous yearly target, that is 300,000 points) to 50,000 points. The PartyPoints can be redeemed by the player for cash or for the key level bonuses, for instance.
Besides, Party Poker has introduced Silver and Gold levels, thus making it much easier for the gamblers. A little table below will show the way the key levels are arranged and the way, any of them can be reached:
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Now the most important fact: don’t redeem your PartyPoints at once. The above mentioned changes will not take place until the end of this month. But wait now, and keep on collecting your points, it will bring greater value to them.
Italian Videolottery Picks up the Steam
The coming September comes to be a proper remarkable time for the Italian gambling industry, as the major Italian online gaming companies together with AAMS – the gaming regulator of the state – are going to open up a new stage in their videolottery promotions, which brings great improvements to the popular slots market. The most notable change touches upon the latest videolottery machines which offer a wider range of games and promises more cash back than the regular slot machines. There is a new online jackpot feature, which has been introduced by the improved videolottery machines, this feature guarantees the percentage of payout not less than 85% - it is 10% more than on the existing games.
This promising plan is still being developed and has also to go through the procedure of final ministerial approval, but the gambling industry specialists predict sooner appearing of these machines – probably, at the end of this summer. Taking into account the current situation in the world economy, the expansion of the Italian lottery sector really makes sense. Last month their online gambling industry had a 9.5% rise in profits, and about half of it is a merit of the videolottery network. It is going to be a substantial boost in the gambling industry.
The abovementioned facts could not have come at a better time to show how intensively the Italian online gambling market is developing. By this time one of the most popular and frequently chosen games is online poker, to play it Italians mostly apply to the foreign sites, it is a great hope – not a groundless one – that the second-place game will be videolottery and it will be provided by the native sites.
A Bold Move from Cryptologic
Among all online casino software providers Cryptologic takes one of the leading positions. More than 400 slot machines, poker and table games are offered at Cryptologic-based online casinos. Cryptologic enjoys great popularity for their high-tech graphics, for their themes, and for the bonuses which can be provided by slot machines. They are making a bold moveby proving Cryptologic-based software platforms to such online casinos which already have some certain software provider. Among the offered games there will be only be their slots.
Cryptologic have really decided that they needed broadening of their consumers’ base in order to increase turnover. The main objective is to let ever more players to reach their games. By now any online casino has had just one software provider. That is, if you really enjoy playing games from Real Time Gaming or RTG you would have no other variants than to play at one of their casinos. The same with Cryptologic – if you liked this provider’s game, to play it you would necessarily belong to some another online casino. This new change will open a new possibility of belonging to one casino and at the same time finding those games which you truly love.
Recently Cryptologic has signed an agreement with Totesport. This contract is a multi-year agreement with the UK Company. According to this agreement Cryptologic will provide their slot machines to the sports betting site. Currently they’re slotted to offering their latest 6 games, which are going to be both Cryptologic-branded and unbranded slots. Yet the promised slot machines are just going to be released, although the players can expect that these slot games will be analogical to or based on the Cryptologic’s top revenue slot games. The abovementioned slot games will become available to the players a bit later – that is, in the 3rd quarter of the year 2009.
32Red Becomes Multilingual
32Red is one of the leading online casinos, it attracts much attention of the general public in Europe. European market is the target of this gambling site, that’s why in order to expand the business, this casino has declared about the release of new languages. This decision to add 11 new languages is the first step of the international marketing strategy. Today 32Red performs 6 gambling sites translated into different languages, in other words all the necessary information and services are available for the wide range of people in their native languages.
These 6 already existing translations except of English include German, French, Italian, Chinese and Japanese languages. If you speak one of them you can easily use all the facilities of the online casino. Other 6 languages, among them you find Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian and Greek, are available in the suite of games, but 32Red doesn’t have the full site translation into these languages, but some sites are under development and soon will be ready.
Nowadays many online casinos try to penetrate into new markets or strengthen their positions that’s why the process of translation of the whole information about online gambling is very popular. Because after it, online casino becomes accessible to the wider list of gamers. 32Red is the winner of different competitions for the title “the best casino”, this renewal will confirm its high reputation. New gamers will be able to enjoy perfect software, nice service and use all the online casino’s features in different languages.
The latest News from Devilfishpoker.com
Popular series of online poker tournament Final Table from Hell returns to Devilfishpoker.com, it will be performed to the best poker players which will gather the next five weekly Devilfish Bounty tournaments at the single table tournament which was organized on the 14th of June with the assistance of Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, the site ambassador.
Now Devilfish playing poker in Las Vegas, he takes part in the WSOP, that’s why he can’t play Devilfish Bounty. So the special weekly EUR250 bounty has been organized till the moment he returns for meeting with the 5 best players who win Final Table from Hell 2. The structure is rather simple the Devilfish Bounty tourney is organized each Thursday, five winners will play against the Devilfish himself in short-handed tournament. The winner will win EUR1,000 while the prize for the second place is equal to EUR500.
This tournament will give the opportunity to the poker players to show their skills. The last tourney was over quite positive for the participants, the first place took the “adsdad” from the UK, “zexim8″ from Hungary became the second. Speaking about the success of the site ambassador Dave Ulliott, he became the fifth in the event on the 13th of May. Now Ulliott try to win his second golden bracelet of the WSOP champion, so the poker fans taking part at his tournament on the Devilfishpoker.com have some time to brush up the games, because the ambassador is sure he will win the Final Table from Hell.
Online Casino 32Red Expanding Global
Online casinos have concluded that the best way to make a good profit is to stay on top of the market. The online world opens seemingly limitless possibilities for the players unlike land-based casinos. A lot of new websites targeting at larger audience are being constantly opened up by online casinos. For this they create sites supporting several languages. For some large-scale online casinos it doesn’t sound surprising as they already practice it, but 32Red online casino has decided for the first time to open the doors to the world. Their site will be offered in eleven different languages. They were awarded winning of the 2003 Best Casino Award.
Players from all over the world will get the access to 6 new websites to learn what is currently offered – which games, bonuses, and other services and promotions. For that they are not obliged to play first. Now 32Red online casino is available to French, German, Italian, Chinese and Japanese. There are 350 online casino games offered at this casino. Among them you will definitely find what you need: poker, video poker, slots, and arcade options. Don’t forget about the range of table games provided at 32Red.
The main statement of online casino is that they really understand the players’ preferences and do their best to satisfy players’ needs. A new customizable option for players of 32Red has been introduced, which regards the welcome options and loyalty bonuses. No other casino has ever provided such customizations. Expanding around the world 32Red broadens its assortment, now four new casino games are offered to the players. They include 3 new slots and one table game. The games are powered by Microgaming and are available on the new websites along with the UK. There is also an online support, provided to the customers by 32Red to make their online gambling experience good for all.
May statistics little better
May 2009 statistics released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board this week showed a moderating decline. Gaming revenues were down 8.34 percent in May and off 13.71 percent for the year to date, with revenue on the Las Vegas Strip down 6.36 percent for the month and down 15.31 percent for the year.
The May result compared with a statewide gaming revenue decline of 14.07 percent that was reported for April 2009.
“The revenues that came out today from Nevada indicated that the declines (on the Las Vegas Strip) weren’t as large as some other recently reported declines,” said Matthew Jacob, an analyst with Majestic Research. “I think there are some expectations out there that this is potentially the beginning of a recovery for the industry,” he added. However, he cautioned that his firm’s proprietary data were still not showing the kind of improvement that some investors expect to materialise in the next few months.
Some casino stocks were still down as much as 80 percent or more over the past year and a half.
“We think recovery is going to take longer than maybe the more bullish investors are expecting,” Jacob said.
Jeffrey Logsdon of BMO Capital Markets said in a client note that the statewide results were “clearly a less worse scenario” than the 13.7 percent decline seen in the year-to-date period.
“Our channel checks continue to confirm that Memorial Day weekend was full, albeit at promotional room pricing,” Logsdon said.
JPMorgan’s Joseph Greff said the Strip’s results were the best since September 2008’s 5.2 percent decline.
Nevada casinos won $889 million from gamblers in May, down 8.3 percent compared with their May 2008 win, the official figures revealed. The decline marked the 17th month in a row that the clubs reported declines. The slump persisted despite several Las Vegas events, including Jimmy Buffett and Dave Matthews concerts and the Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton boxing match.
“With a weak month even with the amount of special events going on in Las Vegas, it indicates that we might not be at the bottom yet, that things are still declining at a pretty steep pace,” Control Board analyst Frank Streshley said.
With one more month to report, casino winnings for the 2009 fiscal year total just under $10 billion so far - down 13.7 percent.
Gamblers wagered $12.6 billion during the month, including $10.1 billion in slot machine bets. The balance was wagered on table games.
The report also notes the state collected $50.8 million in taxes based on the May win. That was down 19.9 percent from a year earlier. The collections were the last for the fiscal year that ended June 30, and brought the tax total to $655.4 million, down 15 percent.
Streshley said the fiscal-year tax total was nearly $8 million lower than the figure projected only two months ago by Nevada’s Economic Forum, whose estimates were used by state lawmakers in approving the state’s budget.
A statewide game-by-game breakdown shows that casinos’ slot winnings were off 12.9 percent. Thanks to big losses by baccarat players in Las Vegas, table games were up 1.1 percent compared with May 2008.
Slots accounted for $563.3 million of the total win. That included $260 million won by multi-denomination slots, down 8.3 percent. Penny slots were second, with a win of $156.7 million, down 0.4 percent.
Live games accounted for the balance of the May total. That included $96.2 million won from baccarat players, up 36.6 percent; $87.2 million won on blackjack tables, down 12 percent; $31.1 million on craps, down 18 percent; and $29.2 million on roulette, up 8.6 percent. Sports books won $5.6 million, down 11.4 percent.
Betting exchange is in the good place
Betfair was the subject of a glowing article in the publication Venture Beat this week which looked at the UK betting exchange’s astute move into American horse racing.
The move legally exploits the “carve-outs” in the often confusing US political deal-making process and discriminatory federal laws that permit online betting in horse racing.
Betfair is strongly positioned in the sector following its acquisition of the Los Angeles-based American TV Games Network (TVG), an online horse race betting company with its own TV channel, for $50 million in January 2009.
Though it operates in only 16 states, the ten-year-old TVG operates the largest legal online gambling web site in the U.S., says Tony McAlister, chief technology officer of Betfair. And its horse racing channel reaches a massive 72 million households.
The Venture Beat article reveals that Betfair is now preparing to launch a social network around the TVG web site to stoke interest in betting on the sport.
It is also building applications to let people bet on horse races from sports bars via their mobile phones. To do this, Betfair will have to add about 50 people to its U.S. staff, currently around 170, and another 150 elsewhere. In the United Kingdom, the company has 1 400 employees.
Gerard Cunningham, president of Betfair USA, told Venture Beat that TVG’s web site is currently a Web 1.0 experience. But three weeks ago the company launched Ultimate Track Streaming, a media player on the site that can stream high quality videos of live horse races to viewers. It has also set up blogs for gamblers and a Twitter feed.
Future plans include the addition of live chat so that gamblers can discuss a race as its happening, says Cunningham That should be popular, since gamblers can bet on a race as it progresses.
TVG has apparently stayed out of 34 states because of unclear state gambling laws or strict prohibitions. It has rivals who aren’t quite as cautious, but Betfair is larger than competitors such as Youbet, Xpress Bet and Twin Spires.
Venture Beat opines that one possible hurdle Betfair faces is how to re-energise interest in horse racing, which has seen declining enthusiasm among gamblers. The rewards for success are considerable, the article notes - physical horse racing wagering levels are around $14 billion in the United States, of which TVG is currently handling around $500 million, leaving plenty of room for online expansion.
Betfair appears to have recognised this, and believes that, properly marketed, both online and terrestrial wagering could achieve substantially higher levels. The company is also hopeful that individual states looking for additional tax revenues and competing with other states may make them more amenable to extended horse race gambling.
Cunningham said that these factors all point to good growth prospects ahead, even if only the status quo in maintained.
“By and large, Betfair draws more gamblers because it can more efficiently set favourable odds than bookies, who build their own commission into the odds,” Venture Beat concludes. “Its servers match about 1 000 bets a second, which means it’s about as busy as a stock exchange. The privately held company has six data centers to support the traffic. In the year ended April, 2008, it reported earnings of $69.5 million on revenue of $396 million. (It is not required to disclose earnings but does so).
TVG’s racing channel is based in Los Angeles while its website will be based in San Francisco. Tony McAlister, Betfair’s chief technology officer, was in San Francisco this week, to recruit web developers for the company from Silicon Valley.
Betfair employs more than 400 computer engineers among a global workforce of 1 600 and its betting platform processes more than 5 million transactions on an average day.
