The tour organizers and some of the traditional and online casino players anticipating the event say that the 5th season of the European Poker Tour (EPT) is expected to be the best one. The four preceding EPT’s were a success, poker players from Europe rushed to the events and entry into the poker tournaments generated the biggest prize pools in a tourney to date. The EPT welcomes players of different levels from online casinos amateurs to the poker pros who arrive at the event to win another title.

The 2008 EPT is being sponsored by the Pokerstars.com online casino and poker site yet again. The Tour lasts for several months and travels via 9 European locations, for the first time, France is one of the Tour’s locations. All the tour’s locations will welcome the online and land casino gambling industry to take part in the competitive poker tournaments.

According to John Duthie, The CEO for the EPT program, the new EPT comprises all the events that have made the past four seasons so successful with record fields throughout Europe and unprecedented prize pools. He said, “We set very high standards and our aim is to improve on in fifth Season.” Record numbers of players took part in the fourth season of the online and land casino poker event. This year’s event expects record-breaking numbers of players to participate in. That means that the prize pools at every lap of the tournament could also exceed past amounts. The EPT stops specific schedule is available at the official site.

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One of the biggest cheating scandals that ever happened has burst out in the internet-based casino gambling industry. And Absolute Poker, one of the world’s biggest online poker cardrooms, may have been involved in it. In fact all this bad publicity hurts the Absolute Poker base of loyal poker gamblers. Last week a US poker player at the company’s site won $246,000 that is for losing in fact! Absolute Poker provides some of the world’s biggest bad beat progressive jackpots, and this bad beat payout is the second biggest in the online gambling industry history. Online casinos and poker rooms’ gamblers are seldom rewarded for losing; exactly this thing makes bad beat poker rooms very exclusive.

This kind of jackpots is launched when a gambler looses having a hand that must have been a winning one (four of a kind or higher). When a gambler utilizes both of his/her pocket cards and gets quads, he/she wins the progressive jackpot having been built from all the rakes from preceding poker hands. It’s worth saying that while the majority of online casinos forbid US gamblers to play at their sites, US gamblers are allowed at Absolute Poker.

So, the Atlanta winner, nicknamed BUDYLOVE, triggered the Bad Beat progressive jackpot payout having four nines. And BUDYLOVE was not the only player at that table, the jackpot of $741,000 was shared out between all the gamblers at the table. BUDYLOVE got the biggest part of that jackpot, $131,000. The others had a $100,000 to split.

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Two months ago Microgaming released Pub Fruity, their first mobile version fruit machine. And these days 32Red, the leading British online casino, has announced that they added it, together with 2 other mobile casino games, to their Spin3’s mobile software platform. An improved mobile game offering at 32Red is popular with the UK and European betting scene.

Now, besides Pub Fruity, 3 Card Poker is available via GameWire mobile platform powered by Spin3. At the present, the full suite of mobile online casino games at 32Red is Roulette, Blackjack, Baccarat, Keno, Double Magic, Jacks or Better video poker, and the well-liked progressive jackpot video slot games, Major Millions, Fruit Fiesta, and Treasure Nile. Other popular games are the Scratch’n Score tickets and Tomb Raider, the non-progressive video slot about Lara Croft’s adventures.

Jaydeep Chakravartty, the mobile platform manager of 32Red Casino, said that he is glad how swift 32Red is moving ahead in the mobile gambling world. On the whole he was thrilled about 3 Card Poker and the new Pub Fruity games provided by Spin 3, the part of the Microgaming group. Without any doubt the quality of Spin3’s platform is the highest, and the security is the same as if a gambler played through a personal computer connecting to downloadable online casino or 32Red’s Flash.

For anybody who doesn’t know anything about 32Red, they provide one of the best gaming suites to the European and UK players. Though they don’t accept US players at the moment, it may change in future if the UIGEA gets canceled. Besides online casino games, 32Red has active poker room with over 400 active tables and a live bingo room.

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In accordance with a recent study on the online gambling prevalence in Germany, a number of online gamblers are increasing a lot. A study was released by the Forsa research group commissioned by ICT. The results of the study have showed that online gambling is higher than before and the amounts will continue growing over the next several years. The study’s report shows what types of online gambling the Germans prefer. It found out that betting and the state lotto are popular. Though, the interest in gambling at internet casinos is growing.

But I’d like to remind you of the fact that Germany is one of those EU member-nations that have strict monopolistic gambling regulations. In January the German government implemented restrictive legislation blocking overseas online casino companies from accessing German online gambling market. But despite the regulations, increasing number of German players is gambling on the internet.

The research study indicates that about 2.2 million Germans visit the online casinos for some form of online gambling. The amount of players has certainly grown for the past years. It also shows that the amount of profit in the German online gambling industry increases sharply. According to Forsa’s study reports now the online casino gambling market produces €2.2 billion, they predict that this number is going to grow up to €5 billion in two years.

In accordance with the study German online players are mainly visiting the websites for lotto, 700,000 Germans. Then goes internet betting, 500,000. And 430,000 Germans gamble online casino poker.

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Internet casino players and the residents of the United Kingdom generally ought to beware of identity theft that is on the rise in Britain. Wealthier people might simply become the targets of malefactors. Experian, one of the world’s top credit information bureaus, has recently released a Victims of Fraud Dossier that is necessary for everyone to read and keep in mind. The Dossier contains information about English areas which are targeted most by criminals. Though identity theft happens via credit cards, mail, and the like, online casinos players and participants of e-commerce can also appear to be the victims to identity theft.

Now analysts recommend people who live in a certain district and meet certain salary ranges ought to look into internet monitoring services. The credit monitoring services watch a person’s credit for suspicious activity and alert the company and a person automatically. Early detection is essential to prevent continuing damage to a person’s credit score, and the monitoring services are easy and without any hassles.

The Dossier showed that in the United Kingdom there was a 66% growth in identity deception cases that was a considerable jump in comparison with the last year. But then more people are aiming to the e-commerce and online casinos. Helen Lord, Experian’s Director of Fraud and Compliance, says, “The striking grows of identity theft that we have seen for the last years coincided with the growing organized criminals involvement of in this area.” According to Benjamin Franklin, “An ounce of prevention is a worth a pound of cure”, thus online casino players and individuals ought to consider online monitoring services.

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Never before has online gambling at the Mansion sites been so highly lucrative for the gamblers. A number of new promotions have recently been launched at Mansion. These promotions put money directly into the player’s pockets, and many of them are simply for playing at the site. Competitive sign-up incentives are offered on the online gambling site, and deposit bonuses up to $50 per reload is also offered for gamblers already registered on any of the Mansion online casinos or poker sites. In addition to some promotions that linked with several of the Mansion most popular online slots, there are some bonuses players can get and therefore increase their bankroll just by playing at the site.

The reload bonus at $50 is for already registered players, and is an incentive for online players to go on playing at Mansion. Rewarding devoted players, Mansion can boast a great base of simultaneous gamblers whilst the sign-up incentives increase the total player-base of the site. Right away this signup incentive means that online players who will register at the site on a Wednesday get an extra bonus as much as $100 that is 100% of the initial deposit of a player.

As regards the specific promotions, the most recent bonus promotion is connected with Beach Life, one of the popular progressive slot games of Mansion, there players can hit over $1,000,000 as the jackpot builds. Progressive jackpots are very popular on the Internet and at all the main online casinos, but having a $20 weekend bonus, Beach Life players have an additional incentive for playing at Mansion.

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Is the USA doing their best to salvage revenue which will unavoidably be paid out to a growing amount of WTO members looking for free trade compensation because of the UIGEA or American officials are serious about attempting to put in force a ban on payment processing companies that help US citizens to make deposits and withdrawal for online gambling? Well, the answer is likely to be the one and the other.

First, let’s remember the latest US prosecution. Nothing like the case with Neteller, when two former founders of Neteller were arrested and brought before the court, Citadel Commerce, one of the most recognized payment processing brands, entered a non-prosecution agreement with the US Justice department for knowingly processing “unlawful” internet gambling transactions.

Together with Neteller, Citadel was one of the leading internet casino and poker room eWallets in the industry before the UIGEA had been passed, it has processed more than $2 billion from 2003 to 2007. Even after the UIGEA had been passed, Citadel continued to do business with American clients. After Neteller had been demolished Citadel received the warning and stopped doing business with the US customers. Nevertheless, US officials using their intimidation tactics claimed that they always had laws to declare Citadel’s services illegitimate.

Indeed, ESI (Entertainment Systems Inc.), the company that owns Citadel Commerce agreed to pay out $9.1 million in order to avoid prosecution as a fine (Neteller was forced to pay $136 million).

The most interesting feature of the agreement is that Citadel must agree to stop from wrongdoing for the following 18 months.

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In spite of being closed to the American online players, Playtech Software has contrived to succeed for itself in Europe and recently in Asia. Playtech was one of the first software providers that boomed in the nineties.

Without any doubt Playtech is still very popular and often appears in newspapers in connection with big wins, new partnership deals or casino licensees. Latterly, their popular video slot games, Millionaire’s Lane and Ultimate Fighters, appeared in newspaper headlines after three enormous jackpots had been won, two of them were hit by a single player in the same day.

Tom O., the Norwegian player, won the two jackpots, first was $75,000 on Ultimate Fighters, and then $101,000 on Millionaire’s Lane. Tom O. was playing big bets that were covering all the paylines that shows that if you’d like to win a lot on slots, you should take some risk. Felipo P., from Italia won even more than Tom O. He hit ?200,240 on Millionaire’s Lane.

Somebody could say Millionaire’s Lane had got a “loose” run, but I believe it was the no fear approach that these players took to the reels. One really good reason why they won is because they were playing with great quantities of free bonus money.

It’s one of the perquisites of welcome bonuses. Though you need to play via the money certain number of times, if you make big enough bets and have sufficient padding to get you via the low’s and high’s, basically, you’re holding out longer to hit a big jackpot. Certainly, luck always matters, thus do not expect to win constantly.

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A number of online casino gambling sites just stand apart from other companies, like is the case with PokerStars, the world’s largest internet casino poker gambling site. They have just announced a new promotion encouraging thousands of registered gamblers of the site to donate some money in support of the survivors in the recent earthquake in China. The site’s promotion actually gives an opportunity to people worldwide to support to those who survived in that terrible earthquake.

This promotion acts in the form of an online poker tournament. Players who want to donate in order to give help to the earthquake victims can already pay the money from their PokerStars accounts to buy-in to one of the special tournaments. In fact there aren’t any tournaments that are taking place from these donations; however, their structure made it very easy for the online players to make use of a process they already know to donate money.

As regards the donating specifics, internet casino players pick one of the designated tournaments with the buy-in sum that matches the donation they want to make to the survivors. Players can donate from $10 to $100. A 100% of the funds contributed by PokerStars’ players will go to the Red Cross in order to use in support of earthquake survivors in China. In addition, the PokerStars gambling site has taken the entire spirit of donation to an entirely new level by wholly matching customer donations. After the period of donation comes to an end, PokerStars will give the money to the Red Cross.

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Everybody could be surprised if he/she knew about the amount of money that 3,500 gamblers can spend playing online in a month. Well, if you could see the player database of the UK-based Pitch Entertainment or PitchGaming.com, you’d see that this amount is more than £2 million in bets each month. At the moment, these numbers can be identifiable by means of NetPlayTV, who acquired the whole gaming database of PitchGaming.com for £125,000 not long ago.

The agreement of the database acquisition also includes the thing that Pitch Entertainment visitors should be redirected to LiveRoulette.com, the popular online gambling roulette site of NetPlay that in its turn is promoting LiveBlackjack.com, the latest TV gaming site of NetPlay. Customers now can find these services on SKY Channel 847; while Pitch Gaming’s services are on Sky Channel 848 (Pitch TV is on Sky Channel 842).

I think it is necessary to explain what TV gaming programming is in fact. Like live dealer internet casinos services such as NetPlay and Pitch TV let bettors log online as they do at a normal online casino, make bets, and watch the live broadcast then.

LiveRoulette.com of NetPlay started in 2005 is one of the most popular TV gaming service in the United Kingdom. They currently hand out a number of big winnings every month.

Pitch Entertainment provides TV gaming programming as well, but they also specialize in mobile telephone betting. Pitch Entertainment provides internet casino betting through Wager Works software (for real and fun money), live TV gaming, and mobile phone gaming. They are available for the UK players and don’t accept users from the USA and France. However, everybody can play their casino games for fun money.

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