Online casino gambling

In three year agreement collaboration with Finnish Internet gaming company Alands Penningautomatforening (PAF), an online gambling website was launched by Atletico Madrid, one of Spain’s top football clubs and Primera Division sides.
Apuestasrojiblancas.com is available in both English and Spanish and offers a full variety of betting and gaming services including sports betting, casino, poker, bingo, lottery, slots, and skill games which are all connected to the Atletico Madrid brand.
According to Anders Wiklund, Head of Business to Business at PAF, they are pleased that Atletico Madrid’s official gaming site has already gone live. It is their true honor that they can be able to offer their fans a very special and unique online entertainment service.
Commercial General Director of Atletico Madrid Juan Carlos Moya added that they have been taken a big step in terms of developing and meeting the demands and trends on the market. With the release of their new gaming site, they believe that they’ve met and communicate with their fans in a modern way because of the new technology.
Part of the proceeds will be donated to Maxi Rodriguez’ charity project in Rosario, Argentina, in co-operation with the Atletico Foundation.

CryptoLogic Limited, a world leader in Internet casino and branded gaming software, today announced the launch of a new downloadable game lineup that features Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the blockbuster hit and top-selling video game in 2007. The new games, which also include the eagerly anticipated Millionaires Club III, multi-line video slots Samba Nights, Reel in the Cash, and Penguins in Paradise, a new card game in Double Deck Blackjack, and enhanced versions of Single Deck and Progressive Blackjack, are available exclusively to players at Intercasino.com, Casinojoy.com, and dtdcasinos.com.

CryptoLogic is also releasing 25 new instant play versions of its most popular downloadable slot games, including many of its leading branded slots and enhanced versions of European Blackjack and European Roulette. These games will be available at Intercasino.com on April 9, 2009.

“CryptoLogic’s branded casino games remain the bread and butter of our business – and the keys to our profitability and growth in 2009 and beyond,” said Brian Hadfield, CryptoLogic’s President and CEO. “We deliver a truly unique customer experience by bringing the world’s top video game titles to the world’s top Internet casinos.”

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision Publishing, Inc., Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is the best-selling first person action game of all time, having sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, based on data from NPD Charttrack and GfK. This explosive-action thriller arms gamers with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower, and transports them to the most treacherous hotspots around the globe to take on a rogue enemy group threatening the world. The 25 pay-line slot game features rich graphics, animation and sound effects that replicate the acclaimed game experience.

CryptoLogic has also recreated the feel of console game play in the interactive bonus round, where players become SAS soldiers and can eliminate enemy combatants to win free games and cash prizes.

Reel in the Cash

Players cruise down the river to their favourite fishing hole in this fun, light-hearted river adventure. Landing on three or more fishermen triggers the Fishing Follies bonus feature, where players can fish for extra cash. Reel in the Cash features up to 20 lines and gives players a chance to pair one of the world’s favourite pastimes, fishing, with the chance to win life changing prizes.

Samba Nights

In CryptoLogic’s first-ever 50-line slot game, players will groove to the Brazilian beat as showgirls dance across the screen and the player has a chance to win free games and cash prizes. The game features stacked wilds that offer players the chance to win 100,000 times their line bet.

Penguins in Paradise

In this wave-riding adventure, players join Mr. Penguin as he rides the waves in a stunning virtual paradise. The 25-line slot game features a bonus round where players perform tricks in front of a panel of penguin judges. If the penguin wipes out while performing the trick, a consolation prize of two times the triggering bet is awarded. A free game feature is awarded when three or more scattered drink symbols appear, tripling all prizes.

Millionaires Club III

CryptoLogic’s record-breaking Millionaires Club is back in a third version that includes stimulating graphics and exciting bonus rounds. The Millionaires Club series has awarded some of the largest jackpots in Internet casino history, including a record win of US$8 million in 2007.

In the new third version, players can play up to 20 lines in a game that celebrates the finer things in life with rich animation, sound and attention to detail. The bonus feature is triggered when three or more logos appear. Players must find three jackpot tokens to trigger the jackpot round prizes and any stop of a prize amount pays out the winnings.

“With this launch, CryptoLogic demonstrates its ability to create innovation in the online slot category through unique spin mechanisms and functionality – while always staying true to the essence of every brand,” said Justin Thouin, CryptoLogic’s Vice President, Product Management and Business Development. “This demonstrates why CryptoLogic is the partner of choice to the world’s largest entertainment brands.”

Boasting more than 280 games, CryptoLogic has one of the most comprehensive casino suites on the Internet today with games featuring some of the world’s most famous action and entertainment characters. CryptoLogic has earned rave reviews from industry peers and players alike, and in 2008 earned Gambling Online Magazine’s Top Casino Software award for the fourth consecutive year. Based on the votes of players around the world, it is widely considered the industry’s top honour.

The High Heels Poker Tour and Academy will be offering a 1-day all women’s poker academy with poker pro Susie Isaacs who will offer her insight, expertise and experiences as a professionally ranked poker player.

Susie Isaacs is best known for:

• Being the first woman to win the World Series of Poker ladies championship back-to-back in 1996 and 1997.

• In 1998, placed 10th in the World Series of Poker $10,000 event vying for the one million dollar first prize.

• Isaacs became the second woman in history to accomplish such an outstanding finish.

• She holds the record for most times in the money at the World Series of Poker ladies event.

• 2008 Fall Classic Golden Nugget Ladies Championship.

• Winner Championship at the 2008 Wildhorse Poker Round-Up.

• Her high achievements in competitive poker and the poker industry resulted in her being one of only four women in the world to be inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2008.

• In the spring of 2008, she will be inducted into the Seniors Poker Hall of Fame. Isaacs has written poker related articles and stories under the title of “Chip Chatter” that have appeared in a variety of magazines since 1988.

• In 1999 Isaacs had her first book published. Entitled MsPoker: Up Close and Personal. Her newer books are 1,000 Best Poker Strategies and Secrets, MsPoker: I’m Not Bluffing, a two-book set, and Queens Can Beat Kings.

• Her latest literary offering is her first novel titled, White Knight, Black Nights, Poker is Skill, Life is the Gamble.

In addition to Ms. Isaacs, the HHPTA has a number of other professional female poker players on their teaching staff including Barbara Enright, JJ Liu, Karina Jett, and Kristy Gazes, just to name a few.

Tuition to this academy is $495 and includes a free-roll into Saturday’s HighHeelsPokerTour Ladies Event. Women, who participate in upcoming academies, will benefit from a hand-by-hand instruction, individualized attention from the top female pros in the industry and leave with personal feedback from their instructor. The women who attend any academy will also receive promotional give-a-ways, prizes and much more.

The High Heels Poker Tour (HHPT), the all women’s poker tour will be holding a ladies only event during the East Coast Poker Championship at Turning Stone Casino Resort in Verona, NY on May 16th. The buy-in for this tournament is $180 starting at 1 pm. This is the third HHPT ladies tournament event held at Turning Stone Resort Casino.

Political opposition Conservative Party claimed that there are nearly a quarter of a million more people that gambled online last year when compared to 2007.
It was estimated by the gambling Commission that 7.4 percent of online gamblers had already developed a betting addiction. Tories suggested that there are even additional 17,760 people at present that has a problem too. They criticized on the labor government for failure to crack down online gambling sites which are based overseas, which has lesser securities such as contact numbers of customer support and limits on stakes. These sites will block from advertising in the UK market not unless they meet the regulatory standards of Gambling Commissions. Same with the remote licenses which will only be issued only once company comply with the rules. This is stressed by the MPs oppositions.
There would be an additional charge to adopt a standard British kite mark which will be a proof advises to their customers that their site is approved and safe.
The shadow gambling minister said in his speech, “The Government has been happy to sit idly by and do nothing to stop the surge in unregulated online gambling. With each year that passes more people are getting addicted to these sites which offer little consumer protection. Companies that advertise here must meet the UK’s regulatory standards. We must ensure that online gambling is done in a responsible and safe environment.”
Department for Culture and Sports objected on the Conservative’s calculations. They stated that there is only 0.6 percent of the population that is remained stable in gambling addiction up to present. The spokesman added that there is no basis on Conservative’s claim and that level of gambling problem has not risen since 1997. It doesn’t mean that because more people are gambling online is there’s also an increase with problem gamblers.
It was reported last year that there are 3.36 million adults, which is 5.6 percent of UK populations have been gambling online compared to 3.12 million or 5.2 percent the year before. This preponderance of gambling continues to occur on the National Lottery.
It is being proposed by the firms that an online gambling site can only obtain a license to advertise in UK if they are registered in UK or within European Economic Area. Or they can also obtain license if they are based in a country on the white list of approved nations like Antigua and Barbuda, Gibraltar, Malta, Alderney and the Isle of Man.

The Jackpot Factory, a leading online slots casino group known for first-rate customer support, today announced the launch of four new exciting online casino games: The Great Galaxy Grab Video Slot, Mayan Princess Video Slot, Stunt Pilot Video Slot, and Lucky Eggsplorer Video Slot.

The Great Galaxy Grab has a space-travel theme and out-of-this-world 3-D graphics. But the truly unique feature of The Great Galaxy Grab is the six levels of bonus games. Every time a player successfully completes a bonus game, he becomes eligible to advance to the next level. And if he leaves the game for any reason, he can return 5 minutes later or 5 months later and continue from exactly the level at which he left off.

Mayan Princess takes players into the world of the Mayans, an ancient South American culture that disappeared centuries ago. The beautiful Mayan Princess is a wild symbol, and the Mayan Pyramid unleashes the free spins feature.

Stunt Pilot is a 5-reel 30-payline online slot machine with a bonus feature that awards free spins for every stunt that the acrobatic Stunt Pilot successfully completes, with all payouts doubled during the free spins.

Finally, there is the comical Lucky Eggsplorer video slots with the expeditions of the rooster explorer. For all the silliness, Lucky Eggsplorer has serious slot features including a wild symbol, a scatter symbol, and free-spins features.

David Brickman, the Jackpot Factory’s Vice President of Player Affairs, said, “The Jackpot Factory online casinos are especially proud to be introducing the new Great Galaxy Grab video slot game. The ’storyboard’ feature, which means that a player can leave the game and then return to the same level he left off, is a first in online slots play, and we are proud to be a part of this historic development.”

As reported by the Orlando Sentinel: “With gambling a central debate in the Legislature’s budget battle, the Senate steamed ahead with its casino gambling package Tuesday, setting up a three-week cliffhanger on whether Republican legislative leaders can cut a deal on a sensitive political issue.

“The budget-writing Ways and Means Committee approved a measure, on an 11-7 vote, to give Seminole resorts full casinos, complete with craps tables and roulette wheels.

“Another bill to give blackjack to South Florida racetracks and jai-alai frontons is scheduled for a Monday vote.

“The Senate is pitching its gambling deal as a must-have at a time of sharply declining revenues. Legislators are in session until May 1, but they’re off the rest of this week for the Easter and Passover holidays. That leaves just three weeks to hammer out a deal…”

Crown has saved USD 1.4billion when they pulled out their bids from 3 US casinos instead of striking a smaller deal.
Larry Gandler, a Credit Suisse analyst said that Crown has a capacity to produce 1.79billion USD acquisition from multiple of 7x earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. He also confirmed that Crown saved an equivalent of 70cents per share when they did not proceed with the Cannery acquisition. He estimated that Crown would have been overpaid by 700million USD.
There may be plenty of bargain deals in the US casino market but it is still regarded too risky until revival started to show signs of revival.
Mr. Gandler suggested that Crown should look at the Australian market instead of pushing deals with US and China, where the City of Cream resort is due to open in June. It would be difficult for Crown to deal with potential sellers in the US. Their entry to North America is considered disaster with almost 1billion USD of value vanished.
If team up with Tatts Group, Crown can carve up an entity and they can be able to fund an acquisition to Tabcorp, owner of Sydney’s Star City casino. This deal that has been suggested for years can be a complicated one and can be described as “low probability”.
An analyst of US gambling industry said that the pullout of Crown did not actually reflect poorly on Cannery, which emerges from the rubble of the deal $US370 million richer and still in possession of its four casinos.
“Cannery was one of the rising companies in the gaming industry. Cannery’s going to proceed ahead, this time with a much fatter bank account,” the senior vice-president of Spectrum Gaming Group, Joseph Weinert told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Crown shares closed at $5.90 on Friday which is 70cents higher.

The latest of several million dollar prize pool events in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series XI has been concluded, earning the winner $245 696 and change. Event 17 was a $322 buy-in NLHE 6-max with rebuys which attracted 1 091 entrants. With a large number of rebuys and add ons, the final prize pool soared to 1 178 000 – well over the one million dollars guaranteed by Full Tilt Poker.

Steven ‘UFman2′ Burkholder emerged the winner after starting the heads up with Shawn “jordankickz” Busse trailing in chip count. Busse had a more than 4 to 1 advantage at 4 589 269 to Burkholder’s 1 671 231, setting the scene for a tough, aggressive match in which the gap between the two talented players closed and re-opened several times before Burkholder was able to bring the match to a successful conclusion.

Busse’s second place finish was worth $163 797.60, and third finisher Daniel “imabigkidnow” Kelly was still in six-figure territory with his win of $116 661.60.

Burkholder’s $245 696.40 payday is the fourth big-money tournament win for the player in recent times – all at Full Tilt.

This year’s World Series of Poker epic in Las Vegas will again feature a four month break before the final table action takes place in the NLTH main event, and there will be a new one-time $40 000 buy-in tournament at the start of the series to commemorate its 40th anniversary of the championship.

The break was introduced at the behest of television executives last year, and delayed the final table of the world’s richest poker tournament to allow ESPN television broadcasts to air without viewers knowing the outcome. The entry field of tournament field of 6 844 players was reduced to nine final tablers in July, but the final table action did not start until November, when 22-year-old Danish player Peter Eastgate became the event’s youngest winner and won $9.15 million.

Tournament and cable network officials said ratings went up 50 percent for last year’s final table, which aired the same day play finished.

Phil Hellmuth, an 11-time gold bracelet winner at the series, said most players think the main event’s break is good for the game, allowing for more buildup to a winner and creating a bigger spectacle when the final nine players finally square off.

The 2009 World Series of Poker, starting May 27 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, will have 57 gold bracelet events, up from 55 last year. The main event starts July 3 and its winner will be honoured on November 10th.

Gone from the series are five re-buy events, in which players were allowed to buy themselves back into the tournament after they got knocked out.

Kentucky racecourse owner Churchill Downs is to fully exploit its privileged position vis-a-vis online gambling with expansion projects led by racetrack president Steven P. Sexton.

Horseracing is one of the special exceptions to anti-Internet gambling laws devised by US politicians in what can only be seen as either vested interests or commercial protectionism, creating significant problems for the United States on the international trade scene through World Trade Organisation disputes.

Business First reports that the Louisville-based Churchill Downs announced Monday that it has created a subsidiary to expand online gambling operations and other entertainment ventures that will be led by Sexton, who will serve as president and CEO. Churchill has consequently begun a search to find someone to replace Sexton as president of the Louisville track, the company revealed in its press release.

Sexton joined Churchill Downs Inc. in 2001 as president of Arlington Park Racecourse. He has been president of Churchill Downs racetrack since 2002 and has been a vice president of the parent company since 2006.

Churchill Downs officials did not elaborate further on the new Internet venture.

“The racing, gaming and entertainment we provide customers are very interdependent, regardless of whether they are delivered on-site at our tracks, casinos and OTBs, or online via TwinSpires.com or other online sites,” Churchill Downs Inc. president and CEO Robert L. Evans said in the release.

“In the currently tough economic environment, many companies are announcing reorganizations and layoffs intended to reduce costs. Our changes here, however, are about aligning the right leaders at CDI with the strategic growth opportunities we believe exist.”

The state of Kentucky remains a focus of online gambling attention following the protectionist attempts by Governor Steve Beshear last year to seize and confiscate the domains of online gambling companies he claims have offered services to his constituents. The case, and the initial findings of a county court judge, triggered serious litigation led by organisations such as iMEGA and IGC, which forestalled the confiscation attempts by appealing to a superior court. That court’s three judge ruling, expected soon, will have major implications for the freedom of the Internet…and for the owners of the 141 domains in question.