Recently Jackpot City launched its mobile version. At the moment this mobile casino becomes more and more popular. Jackpot City mobile casino has registered more than 500 players within short period of time. Now Jackpot City mobile casino is running a special secret promotion every day of the week. Those who log in the mobile casino or access a specified game will be chosen randomly and given gifts or cash prizes. A spokesperson at the casino said that the player feedback was very positive. These bonuses can reach hundreds of dollars only for being seen in the mobile casino. That is the way the casino wants to say ‘Thank you’ to its players.

There are also regular promotions at Jackpot City mobile casino. It offers a 150% welcome bonus to a max of 150 credits in the wagering currency. Regular players are eligible for bonuses on Friday that is called Bonus Day. They select players basing on the deposits which they have wagered during the week.

But the most popular casino promotion is the free Loyalty Points scheme. Every time players bet they get loyalty points and then can turn the points into credits to use for wagering later. 200 loyalty points cost €1.

Another scheme at Jackpot City mobile casino is Auction Mania. For each loyalty point that the player earned he also earns one Auction Point. These points are bidding on different luxury items like widescreen TV sets and luxury vacations. Bidding is simple. Players click on the selected item and then enter their bid. After the auction has closed the winning player gets the notification while the others get credit for made bids.

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Many British online casinos have decided to change the locations and move to some offshore places. The reason of this migration is quite clear, The UK has raised the taxes for internet gambling sites. Certainly online casinos have understood that it’s much easier to find more attractive place. There is one more reason besides of the lower taxes, these places are less regulated. Among the casinos which move to other places you can find such popular sites as William Hill and Ladbrokes. For instance William Hill has already chosen the new place and the headquarters is situated in Gibraltar. The most part of the reputable online casinos which has been working in UK are going to do the same.

The taxies is the main reason because online casinos leave the United Kingdom, we can compare them and understand that it’s much profitable for the casinos to operate at the offshore regions. If you have the headquarters at the offshore location you pay 1.5%, but if you have registration in UK you will pay 15%. Gibraltar always encourages online casinos and companies working in the sphere of internet gambling, attracting them by the lowest taxes.

Some of the online casinos have the great plans for their future development because they will be free moving to the offshore regions. In that way the British Sports League is going to open the online sports book aimed to the fixed games. Operating in Gibraltar or other offshore means that the online casino does not report about anything.

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Platinum Play Casino which is the part of the well-known Fortune Lounge Group has recently published various playing guides and strategy of games at their web site. Though at the latest press release online casino has been going to help the Baccarat players and performed to the general public the strategy, we can find it this information at the Baccarat guide. But the reasons of this fact are quite clear, Baccarat is a kind of game where we can hardly find any possible strategy; it doesn’t offer any opportunities besides of playing as the Banker or betting on the hand of the Banker. So we hope nobody will be disappointed by the missing of this “strategy”.

Frankly speaking there is only one game described at the site, which has the real strategy, this is Blackjack. Platinum Play also offers the Basic Strategy Card, in a case you are interested in some strategies concerning such games as Video Poker or Craps, it’s better to look for the other source of information. But Platinum Play Guide is good for you if you just wish to learn more about the gambles you can play at the casino and to know the peculiarities of navigation.

Platinum Play offers much interesting for newbies or players who are not familiar with the Microgaming software, so you will be able to find the classification of games performed by the Viper which is the latest Microgaming software platform, the list includes Slots, Video Poker, Roulette, Blackjack, Craps and other popular games, which total number is over 250.

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Nowadays we find more and more examples of new tendency appearing in modern gambling industry. In time of the global crisis many companies try to find new ways for their future development and make the partnership deals with the representatives of other spheres of business. For instance Bodog Entertainment has been involved in coffee industry and some other companies focus on the airline industry. The airlines are interested in such kind of collaboration, because in a case internet casino gambling appears on board of the airplanes, it will influence positively on the travelers. Moreover the governments think over the problem of online casino gaming as it is a nice way to increase the state budget.

The most part of the airlines has to decrees the cost of the tickets in order to return their clients. In that way Ryanaire, this is the well-known discount operator in Europe, has decided to attract people providing the service of online gambling. But now is only the idea, which is needed to be considered. There is no any information about existing online casinos and internet gaming operators which will provide such service. Certainly this partnership can be extremely profitable for both of the sides.

It’s quite difficult to say for sure if such tendencies are positive or not. Many countries revise its attitude to the problem of gambling, but the most interesting fact that some of them make some restriction and the other decide to be more loyal. Casinos which are situated at the cruise ships are not surprising, probably the airline gaming will be also usual thing.

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The world of internet gambling includes different spheres of our life, though its development slows down because of the global economic problems it doesn’t stop. Software developing companies and online casinos always offer new services and features. Many years the UK is one of the regions which treat loyal internet gaming, so the gambling market is quite successful. But the government carefully controls online casinos and all other operators working in the industry, they have to demonstrate responsibility and protect the players and their interests. The next step after the widest spread of mobile gaming is the special television.

NetPlayTV is the company which works under the problem of television base for gambling, if it succeeds virtual casinos will exceed the limits of the specialized internet sites. According to the latest regulations of EU, TV gambling can’t be classified as the interactive entertainment, furthermore this kind of activity will be accessible to the general public only during the night time. In spite of the great tolerance UK government takes care much about young generation and think over the problem of the underage gaming. That’s why in order to protect children new TV has been classified as the teleshopping, it means it is available only from the midnight to 6 a.m.

NetPlayTV has announced about its partnership deal with Channel Five, they will work together under TV and online casinos’ content. This is a good start for NetPlay, if it broadcasts in night time with the help of already existing affiliates of Channel Five.

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The result of the long-running case has been recently known to the general public. The US Department of Justice accused the Bet-on-Sports internet casino, its founders and operators to put it more precisely. Initially it has been the project of DoJ, for some time it has been operating illegally on the USA market, but this fact doesn’t connect with the UIGEA. The company and its founders Gary Kaplan and David Carruthers have been accused in frauds, moreover the case against the last one hasn’t finished yet.

The founder of the scandalous online casinos Kaplan has already paid some significant fines and even has been put into prison. There has been brought in a verdict of not guilty of Kaplan and Carruthersbring, but later the investigation continues. The new result of the process indicated that the family of one of the founders, Gary Kaplan, has been guilty in criminal charges. He has to return more than a million of dollars to the government, because they are gained illegally.

Several persons has already pled guilty, there are the personal assistant and brother and sister of Gary Kaplan among them. According to the court decision they have to pay several million of dollars. For DoJ the main thing is the guilty plea, the process against Kaplan and Carruthers goes on, so they can be returned guilty for their illegal activity and operation of online casino. But it’s absolutely clear that this case isn’t connected with the UIGEA and USA restrictions for internet gambling activity.

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Ivobank which one of the newest banks operating in the sphere of internet gaming has declared about beginning of the work with Betsson, this company is widely known for its betting activity. Ivobank has the great potential and in future it has the good chances to become the key banking operator working in the internet gambling industry. The company had the successful start, it was launched in 2008. The numerous services of internet banks become more and more attractive and important. Today the sector of land banking changes rapidly and many of its representatives become intolerant to some kinds of gambling or just have to reduce the number of providing support. For instance the Royal Bank of Scotland has stopped to provide its services and make transactions to the online casinos operating in Scandinavian countries.

Ivobank doesn’t have such kind of restrictions, so Scandinavian market is probably the main aim of Betsson. But this company is not the only client of the bank, among the customers can be found Unibet and Expekt. Ivobank has relations with some well known, reliable companies, but some of the internet gambling operators haven’t understood yet all the advantages of online banking, because such bank knows very well all the peculiarities of internet business.

Online bank is completely secure and the funds are protected carefully like in land based banks, moreover Ivobank is backed by the government. But internet bank has some more advantages and offers to the customers extra services when you need to make the transactions for the online casinos.

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It seems that Australian government takes over the task to establish order in the sphere of online gambling. Recently the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification Board have rejected the title of new game Sexy Poker. The release of the casino game has been planed later this year, it is based on the Wii platform. But from the point of view of the government the customers probably will not be able to find and play this game legally.

In fact there is nothing new in the concept of the game, stripping-incentive concept is used quite frequently in the different games including poker. Why does this game face with the restrictions?

The OFLC has the highest rating of MA15+, the Board has passed the special anti-nudity rule which is the base of the Classification of Films and Computer Games. According to this rule the companies are forbidden to use nudity in the games, that’s why the launching of Sexy Poker is questionable.

In a case you have the experience of playing strip poker, you know that clothes are the betting currency. The same idea is the base of the Sex Poker, playing this game you can see six female opponents and after every round the number of clothes will be reduced. Because of the fact the nudity is the main plot and the key point of the product, the game almost doesn’t have any chance to overcome the MA15+ standard. But in contrast to Australia the game has already passed successfully all the tests in Europe and some other countries.

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