The French newspapers have recently indicated that France could comply with EU policies by 2009 if everything goes just fine in the approaching weeks and months. Most of the European and world’s internet-based casinos gambling industry has monitored intensely current policy and legislative changes of the French government seeking any hint that the state is planning to open French monopolistic online gambling market. And though the last President Nicolas Sarkozy’s approval is pending still, the majority considers that legislation to license will be passed and France will regulate the internet casinos gambling industry in the future weeks.

France is one of the ten member nations of the European Union that currently violates EU policy concerning free trade between the states of the EU. Now ten EU states have protectionist and restrictive legislation limiting access of other EU member states’ players. But with current warning from the European Commission, France seems to be the first of the mentioned nations to prefer compliance to a case before the ECJ.

However the French government is highlighting that these legislative changes aren’t a reaction to the involvement of European Commission, but a consequence of new technologies in the internet-based casinos gambling industry. In accordance with state papers, all is ready for passing the new regulatory legislation in France. Once all the approvals are ready it is expected that France will investigate the accurate regulation and licensing framework which will be able to support the online betting and gambling industry of the country.

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The Blue Square casino gambling site has promoted for the players of the site the seats to the Final event of UEFA Championship League that is held next month. This current promotion is rather unique to this online casinos gambling website, that is why interested gamblers ought to foresee heading over to BlueSqCasino.com in case they want to win a trip to the UEFA Final, and the entry into this event is in fact easy for players.

Blue Square online casino is licensed out of Alderney (one of the English Channel Islands) and it belongs to the Rank casinos gambling group, a company that works inside a wide variety of the internet gambling industry sectors. This latest Blue Square online casino promotion differs from numerous other promotions since players are registered automatically in order to win the seats to the UEFA Championship League Final event every day they play at the gambling site.

The UEFA Final event is highly anticipated competition for the world’s football industry and will be held in Moscow at the Stadium of Luzhniki. The winners of Blue Square online casino will receive 2 category-one tickets to the Final together with four-star hotel and flight to the event. The Blue Square promotion is now running at its casino website and will be holding all this month, finishing on 30th April. The casino will notify the winners at once (within 24 hours) after ending the drawing, and after that they’ll have to prove they’ve met all other restrictions for travelling abroad, for example, passport and age limitations.

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Intertops, one of the highly-respected and most developed internet casino groups in the world is celebrating the 10th anniversary now. When the casino was started in 1998 as one of the first in the world, most people were doubtful as they had also been when Intertops Online Casino had started the first online sports book in the year 1996, but now it’s clear, they prove to be wrong. Intertops isn’t only a success, it prospers, and these days it’s celebrating ten years on the internet casino gambling market.

The casino group is sure that the major reason for Intertops’ success is in trust for the name of the company. Michl Posch, Intertops Head of Marketing explains that the online casino has paid out all the winnings as responsibly and speedily as it can, and exactly this does set them apart. Even though it seems to be basic, many internet casino operators don’t put it at the top of their list of priorities. Intertops has been doing this for more than twenty-five years, and their online casino tenth anniversary evidences that trust is the core of their success.

The casino also thinks the persistent addition of new-fangled games is a main feature in its vast success, adding that it guarantees renewed interest in internet gambling. Intertops has worked with Microgaming since its beginning, and its collection of games numbers the hundreds. The Tomb Raider is the latest addition, and has already gained huge popularity. Michael Corfman of gambling evaluation website congratulated Intertops on ten years of honest work!

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The online gambling industry is a constantly changing environment of already existing and just emerging companies. And Boss Media has recently announced a new purchase, which will enhance existing instant games offerings of the company a lot. Boss Media together with Dynamite Idea, a world leading supplier of fixed odds games have completed the acquisition agreements and now players can access to the whole platform of Dynamite Idea by means of Boss gambling websites. Dynamite’s platform will let Boss efficiently and rapidly expand into the instant games sector of gambling industry.

Boss Media has been a pioneer of sorts for the internet casinos gambling industry. It’s one of a small number of companies that has moved confidently into the online gambling market of South America; and despite the fact that they have faced a number of setbacks there, Boss Media moves on insistently into just new and emerging internet casinos gambling markets. As regards Dynamite’s acquisition, lately Boss has elaborated an instant gaming platform which relies on flash technology. Now the Dynamite’s acquisition will let Boss establish quickly this new offering with online players of Boss Media.

Eric Matsgård, the Vice President Products, explains why his company opted for Dynamite, he said that Dynamite Idea is a leading software provider with a successful instant games portfolio. Boss thinks that their new instant casino together with fixed games portfolio of Dynamite, is a very forceful offering for online operators.

The new Dynamite Idea games portfolio will be at Boss Media internet casinos in the instant future since the two companies have already finalized the deal.

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The international internet gambling industry has several conferences every year where industry professionals gather for different reasons from all over the world. Some of the conferences are specially designed to show new technology that is modified to the ever-changing online gambling industry demands, whereas other conferences are purely informative. The forthcoming 4th annual EGB (European Gambling Briefing) is an informative networking chance for virtual casinos delegates worldwide. Delegates who will attend this event can hope to hobnob with the delegates from the biggest gambling companies and authorities in the globe: PartyGaming, 888, the European Commission, Holland Casino, and there will be also delegates that represent the Norwegian and Swedish governments.

The European Gambling Briefing attracts delegates from all the world’s main internet gambling industries including Asian gambling industry, a rather new market of South America, and South Africa’s market that will completely regulate and license its online gambling industry in the upcoming months. Last year there were 150 online casinos delegates at the EGB. This year event that will be held in Amsterdam on 13 - 14th May, 2008 is expected to draw in more delegates than before.

As regards the topics that are going to be raised at the event, the casino gambling delegates that will attend the European Gambling Briefing can expect to get information, analysis and also debate on the existing problems that the online gambling industry is facing such as the situation in the EU with reference to state-run online gambling monopolies, the protectionist legislation of the US forbidding foreign online gambling operators.

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World Poker Tour Enterprises and the most prestigious Spanish casinos operator, Grup Peralada announced that the second WPT event will be in Casino Barcelona on 21 – 27th May, 2008.

According to the Founder of WPT, its CEO and President, Steve Lipscomb, last year the World Poker Tour Spanish Championship was extremely successful. So, the decision was made to get back to Spain and extend the partnership with Grup Peralada.

Grup Peralada takes part in many activities such as winegrowing, gaming, culture (Peralada International Music Festival), golf, hotels and wellness, car or plastics industry; it has also a lot of experience in organizing tournaments of poker. Grup Peralada, particularly Casino Barcelona, with more than one hundred and twenty events annually is known to be a leader in poker events of high level and sets the standards in the gaming sector of Spanish.

It’s expected that the May event will draw more than 400 gamblers.

Now the WPT official site is running every week online satellites to provide players with the opportunity to win the 5000 Euros main event buy-in and 300 Euros entry fee event for €6. In Casino Barcelona there will be also Super Satellite No-Limit Texas Hold’em poker (buy-in 200€ + 20€), including unlimited add-on and re-buys, beginning at 3 p.m. on 21, 22 May. On 24 May the main event starts at Casino Barcelona.

There were 226 gamblers from all around the world in The World Poker Tour – 2007 Spanish Championship with professionals such as Erik Seidel, Gus Hansen, Juha Helppi, Christer Johansson, Isabelle Mercier, and many others. Austrian Markus Lehmann won €537,000 first prize and the title of World Poker Tour Spanish Championship.

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The European Commission answers for guaranteeing that the twenty seven member countries comply with principles and policies of the European Union. The Commission centers discussed lately the internet-based casino gambling industry in every country of the EU. Though most EU member nations have open and free online gambling markets, almost a dozen nations aren’t still in complete compliance due to legislation and efforts to defend state-run casino gambling monopolies. Charlie McCreevy, Commissioner has pursued these countries with negotiations, talks, requests over and over, and alas, some nations still refuse to obey policies of the EU concerning the internet gambling industry.

Now Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has issued some warnings to a number of stubborn nations in case they continue to operate state-run internet casino gambling monopolies. Germany has even passed new limiting legislation whilst in the talks with the European Commission. As expected some nations are negotiating and working with the EC in order to find some way to be in compliance with trade policies of the EU while the national gambling and betting markets are being still opened up to foreign opponents.

According to Commissioner McCreevy those nations which are refusing to reach a settlement with the Commission concerning the liberalization and new legislation of the casino gambling market may be brought up just before the ECJ on the basis of non-compliance. McCreevy said, “We have a dialogue with some members… but we’ll proceed to the European Court with those which we can’t reach agreement with.” We will see the following months what countries want to come into internet gambling compliance and what countries will face possibly court time.

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Online players have just lost another poker gambling site, Pharaoh’s Poker Palance. The casinos gambling site is not any more operating online poker or any types of gambling and the site management has given account holders retrieving account funds instructions and other details relevant when the internet casino site is closing down. The online gambling industry is a severe business and although without doubt there are successful new internet-based gambling websites popping up often, the majority of gamblers would rather play at a familiar and respected online poker gambling Web site for safety reasons. Sorry to say Pharaoh’s is made to shut its doors.

According to Pharaoh’s management, though the account holders will get all their account money back without any problem. They say if you’ve deposited real money with any payment method different from credit card you will return your deposit equal to your actual deposit amount after considering credits, losses or balances. This concerns only real money and on real deposits only. If you’ve used a credit card then you’ve already received instructions on how to recoup for your funds.

It seems enough easy for the internet-based casino gamblers that have their accounts at Pharoah’s Poker Palance, and so far there haven’t been any complaints from the players that the Pharoah’s is just withholding account balances. It was a niche online poker site; it wasn’t an affiliate of any other popular online gambling sites that exist on the Web nowadays. There wasn’t any firm information why exactly this poker gambling site was enforced to close although management will possibly release such information in the following weeks.

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What will happen in future with the UIGEA of the USA? This question is going to interest everybody after the Congress made a decision to debate the online casino gambling issue in Washington in April. Why has this issue gone back to Congress of the USA? The law against casino gambling was once passed back in the year 2006 and then the intention was to ban this act totally. They tried to do this first by prohibiting the internet-based casinos to accept funds from the citizens of the US. When they couldn’t control the companies’ offshore monetary management, the USA banned to deposit funds from the banks to the casino directly.
Against all the odds internet-based casino gambling is not going to die.

Now a great number of the citizens of the USA play at the online casinos regularly, and the banks can’t almost control over this issue. In spite of this, they go on spending millions of dollars every year to block such transactions, and keep on failing. Consequently, now many are bringing into question the practicability of the UIGEA.

As a good deal of people still playing at an online casino, it’s also doubtful whether the UIGEA has been profitable by any means to the USA since it was introduced. On 2nd April, 2008, the Congress discussed these issues in the House Committee on Financial Services. So far the best possible result can be the regulation and enforcement act introduction, proposed not long ago by Barney Frank. It could make legal online gambling and put an end to the questionable UIGEA.

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Barcrest, the top European developer of touch-screen multimedia and games for the pubs and leisure industry, has made a decision to release a new variety of casinos fruit machine games for the mobile telephone users. The company that is based in the United Kingdom decided to follow an investment agreement between Million 2-1, the developer of interactive games and IGT, the parent company.

The investment agreement between these two companies was considered to be a strategic step in plans of IGT- UK to develop and start on their own variety of branded Barcrest fruit machine games just for the gambling market of the mobile telephones. The first released mobile phone game will be grounded upon the fruit machine that is called “Hi 5″ that has exclusive progressives and some other exceptional functions like those that are found on brick and mortar casinos fruit machine games. IGT-UK is planning to find new markets for the games of Barcrest as well.

“In accordance with Chris Sheffield, the Million 2-1 Chief Executive, there is an increasing demand for casinos fruit machine games for mobile phone that must be developed and just based on traditional land-based casino games equivalents, and that the gaming industry is certainly responding to it. Also he has clarified that at the moment mobile phone games are very actual prospects for the large gaming companies like IGT-UK and since the gaming market really matures they’ll start to see the more complicated products rollout for the mobile telephone.”

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