Jesus M., a Spanish player hit a massive jackpot at Casino Tropez while playing the casino’s exclusive Global Traveler slot. He started with a single bet and a spin of the reels and after playing just over an hour he won a colossal €1,005,000 prize.

Jesus M., the 32 year old player from Madrid was really excited and totally happy with his win. In his recent interview as the winner with Marius Valentin, manager at Casino Tropez, he said that he was absolutely shocked by his immense win. Jesus loves playing slots and the games he enjoys most are Desert Treasure and Global Traveler. He added that as a rule he played at Casino Tropez every day.

Jesus found Casino Tropez when surfing the net. He said in his interview that he liked the overall look of the online casino, the graphics and without any doubt the games.

At the point after the casino has recently launched two new slots, Greatest Odyssey and Geisha Story, the Casino Tropez players have more than 100 games to choose from. The casino impresses with 54 slot machines, 9 of which have progressive jackpots that are huge.

Casino Tropez is one of the most famous and respectable casinos powered by Playtech, the leading online casino software developer. The casino members can play at Casino Tropez by using three different methods: download, flash and with the help of their mobile handset. Nowadays players can play a suite of online games including Desert Treasure at Casino Tropez Mobile.

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As December with the holiday season is just around the corner, many of us are thinking how to pay all the bills, and to buy gifts. If you do not know what to do with a ‘little’ cash in hand, why not signing up for the enormous $100,000 slots tournament that is run the following month at two sister websites.

Online Vegas and Golden Casino are going to give its players some holiday cheer, and one of the best ways to do so is to offer tons of free cash and give players an opportunity to win a piece of the big $100,000 prize.

The slots tournament is scheduled to run from the 1st December to the 15th December, and if the fortune smiles on you, you will have sufficient time to do holiday shopping!

The most staggering thing about this slots tournament at the two sites is that the tournament is a freeroll that means players do not risk a single cent of their money, but they can win a lot of cash!

If you are a player at Online Vegas or Golden Casino, you will get $100 free to play with at the tourney. You cannot certainly use this cash anything else, this money must be invested only in the tournament.

The winner of the massive slots tournament will put in the pocket a huge $50,000, and all the qualifying players will share the rest of the tournament pot.

In case your balance drops below $20 that leaves you out of the tournament, you will get an allowance from the casino sites to buy your way back in for $25. It is sure to be a tiny price to pay for the opportunity to win up to $50,000!

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Recently a land casino developer and online software provider has made the newest partnership. They are Cryptologic, the leading online casino and gaming software provider based in Ireland, and NextGen Gaming, the manufacturer of slot machine based in Australian. The two companies decided to work together and make an exclusive multi-year deal.

For both companies the partnership terms give full play in collaborating. NextGen is in charge of designing and branding new, innovative slot machine games, and, Cryptologic in its turn has exclusive rights to offer these slots to the online casinos. Moreover, the companies have decided to combine their distribution and sales networks that actually will give Cryptologic the right to license these games to land and online casino operators.

The main idea of this partnership is that casino operators needn’t look for anything else than Cryptologic suite of games as the best branded gaming content. Cryptologic and NextGen have gone a long way on this point. In fact, both companies know one another quite well, and they worked successfully together in the past. Maybe you remember the highly popular Marvel Comics Superhero Slots? This slot is the result of collaboration between these well-known companies, Cryptologic and NextGen. So is the recent Street Fighter II video slot.

The two companies’ Chief Executive Officers are pleased that they signed a longer commitment to each other. It is a unique agreement for Cryptologic that gives the company a broadened reach all over the world’s gambling industry. NextGen will broaden their own suite of slot games with the most exclussive and innovative names in the gambling industry.

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The online gambling world has been looking forward to the final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) almost 4 months.  The WSOP organizers specially included three month break to spark interest in the tournament and the final event.  And now Dennis Phillips has over $9 million waiting for being wagered against 8 other gamblers to win the 2008 title of World Series of Poker Champion.  Phillips is 53 years old from St. Louis, he who played for seven days of No-Limit Texas HoldEm in July before the playing was completed.

The play resumed on 9 November, 2008 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Phillips and his opponents were different when they sat down at the final table to play.  All of them have a wager in the $32.6 million; each has already paid $900,670 for 9th place finish on 15 July.

Besides Phillips there were Canadian Scott Montgomery, a well-known poker pro, and Darus Suharto.  If one of them could win, he might have been the first Canadian to win the main WSOP event.  Tuan Lam who was second in the 2007 main WSOP event, Ylon Schwartz, Kelly Kim, Peter Eastgate, David ‘Chino’ Rheem, and Ivan Demidov, a 27 year old semi-pro from Russia, according to chip count he is in second place behind Phillips.

All of the nine players that won a seat at the final table generated additional earnings from the game, interviews and endorsements, which were viewed on ESPN. As a rule, ESPN holds the final table in November.  The final table wrapped up yesterday with Demidov and Eastgate competing for the first place. Eastgat won $9.15 million first place pot and winner’s bracelet.

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After four intensive days of poker during the first PokerStars EPT Hungarian Open at the Las Vegas Casino in Budapest, the British, Will Fry won the first prize of $759,456 and a seat to the €10,000 EPT Grand Final that is in Monte Carlo. The 28-year-old player defeated 531 players in the $5,544 sell-out tourney.

In his interview Fry said that he was going to make charity donations with his winnings.

Fry has been playing Texas HoldEm for eight years and three last years he has been playing professionally, specializing in cash games.

In one of the most impetuous heads-up plays in EPT history, Fry could manage to top Ciprian Hrisca, a 35-year-old Romanian player. The final hand started with raises and re-raises till all the chips finished in the middle preflop. Hrisca had Ac6d against Fry’s pocket JdJs. After the board brought Qs6c10dKcQc, Fry won the championship with queens and jacks and Hrisca finished in second place with $436,688.

Fry said that he got such good cards first for many years.

71 Hungarian gamblers and a lot of players from around the world took part in inaugural European Poker Tour Budapest tournament. 157 PokerStars gamblers competed in the four-day event, 104 of them had won the seats on PokerStars.

John Duthie, EPT founder, said that the European Poker Tour proved again that they could move into developing markets like Hungarian one and offer sell-out tournaments. He added that the local players offered overwhelming support and gamblers from worldwide were happy to attend this event.

The next PokerStars EPT is at Casinos Poland at the Hyatt Regency Hotel from 15 to 19 November.

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Today the leading software development company, CryptoLogic has announced an exclusive licensing deal with GigaMedia Limited. At the point CryptoLogic will provide their casino software across the very popular Everest Gaming platform, a GigaMedia offering.

The signed deal is a multi-year licensing agreement where CryptoLogic will be the only provider. CryptoLogic will launch its instant play casino this quarter in a number of languages, a full roll-out with more language is being planned on the first quarter of 2009. The contract was signed through WagerLogic, the subsidiary of CryptoLogic.

Brian Hadfield, President and CEO of CryptoLogic, said that the core strengths of CryptoLogic were the development of the most innovative online games in the industry and licensing the unique gambling software to the best gaming sites all over the world. Hadfield added that this partnership with GigaMedia Limited demonstrated that the world needed their very successful gambling software. The company will go on focusing on this strength and will move forward.

GigaMedia licenses some of the highly popular and successful multi-lingual entertainment offerings on the Web, such as Everest Poker, one of the biggest world’s poker sites.

CryptoLogic has over 200 games that is one of the most exhaustive casino selections on the Web at the moment. The company has earned excellent reviews from industry’s peers as well as players. In 2008 CryptoLogic got Top Casino Software Award of Gambling Online Magazine for the third time. Thousands of readers, website visitors and players vote for the award. It is the top honour of the industry and it is widely recognized.

This agreement combines the award-winning online casino experience of CryptoLogic with established and evolving player base of GigaMedia.

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PartyCasino has announced the launch of the new slot game based on the most famous and very popular theme ‘The Terminator’ at the biggest online casino in the world. The game is the latest film themed slot that has been launched on PartyCasino and is replenished a collection of slots with the names of the greatest Hollywood’s movies. Every day PartyCasino pays out its players more than $10 million as winnings and keeps on expanding at a good bat.

The Terminator slots game has 5 reels and 20 pay lines. As I have already said the slot is based on the cult film and it erases your previous gaming experience. There is a horde of high tech robots, police cars and all the things you could expect from the world famous motion picture. You can play making the minimum bet of one cent, and get a maximum jackpot of $500,000. A player can wager on a max of 20 pay lines.

The Terminator slot has two bonus game features. The first is Sarah Connor bonus game where you play as the Terminator and you must terminate Sarah Connor. Here, you are pursuing Sarah Connor annihilating all targets on your way. All targets that you have terminated give you an award. The second is Kyle Reese bonus game, the well-known street clever resistance fighter of the future. Being Reese your task is to hold off Skynet forces as long as you can. Here you win a prize for every defeated tank and hunter-killer.

A spokesman at PartyCasino has said that the online casino has already developed a suite of slots that is like a collection of Hollywood great movies and there will be more in future.

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The leading online gambling provider CryptoLogic announced the launch of its newest selection of casino games on Wednesday. The company is expanding its wide suite of games by adding European Blackjack, a new variant of European Roulette, a Casinomeister slot and a slot with the “King Kong” theme.

The King Kong slot game is a 5 reel, 25 pay-lines game with two bonus game features: “King Kong Smash” and “King Kong Goes Ape”. The bonus games incorporate videogame elements. After the bonus has been won, the second screen with an animated scene of King Kong on the top of the Empire State building is opened. The aim of the player is to smash planes to win a mystery prize or free spins.

Also CryptoLogic is given exclusive rights to Casinomeister slot for the half a year. Casinomeister is a popular magazine full of information and news concerning online casinos gambling industry events. The slot will have 30 lines and players are given the chance to get as much as 100,000 times their initial bets.

The final announcement of CryptoLogic is “Casino Bonus Pack.” This promotion includes European Blackjack and an upgraded European Roulette. The new blackjack is upgraded and has a resizable window, auto-strategy and auto-bet features. It has the rules of original European Blackjack, but the dealer does not get the second card until all the players complete their hands.

Moreover, the pack includes 25 pay-line slots; all of them have its own theme and bonus game features.

The new games are already ready for play at InternetCasino and William Hill and soon will be available via other licensees.

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While many in the online gambling community are waiting for the results of the Kentucky seizure case, Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association has started to resist an attack instead. iMEGA’s headquarters is in Washington, DC, and they are fighting Kentucky’s Governor, Steve Beshear on the front lines of the struggle. Last week the company filed a writ of mandamus asking the State’s Court of Appeals to cancel the ruling of Judge Wingate.

We would remind you that in the middle of October 141 online gambling domains were seized by court decision, and the sites’ activity was blocked by the state. iMEGA requested the Appeals Court to interfere in the case and Ed Leyden, iMEGA’s President, decided not to wait for a final decision. Leyden said that the seizure hearing would have become the death penalty. The damage was already done and the harm was irreparable. The case mustn’t have gone as far as it did.

17 November 2008 was the first day of the final forfeiture hearing, however, because of the economy crisis it was postponed till December 3. Joe Brennan, Chairman and CEO of iMEGA, issued a press release where he stated that the lower court disregarded Kentucky law as it had used an old obsolete law to justify the capture of the domain names. There is a newer registered law that has made iMEGA feel that they had to go to the Court of Appeals.

According to the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, only Congress can regulate commerce with other nations. At the point, Kentucky is stepping over their borders by trying to seize the domains.

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The internet gambling industry is the fast growing sphere with the strong potential which is developing day by day all over the world. This is a part of global market and the government should be attentive, because online casinos have serious power and must be regulated carefully. We need the players’ advocacy group not only for the gamers defend, but for keeping in a good order the whole industry. Now eCOGRA undertakes these functions, it has been growing during the last two years and is able to satisfy all the needs and demands of the online gambling market. The company offers to the internet sites “Safe and Fair” seal in the case they agree to the investigation of the company policy and working methods.

The new gambling site 32Red has received the latest accreditation from eCOGRA. It has successfully passed all the Association’s inspections and has got a passing grade. This is a great accomplishment, now the internet site has positive reputation of honest and reliable organization. With the help of “Safe and Fair” seal 32Red is able to distinguish itself from the great amount of the other companies without certificates.

The system “Safe and Fair” seal is not only a system of one time accreditation, but the permanent control of the company activity. The internet gambling sites which go through the regular eCOGRA checking declare that they have transparent and clear financial affairs and good reputation, they guarantee all the payouts and the gamer visiting such online casinos feels safe and confident.

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