Microgaming is reasonably considered to be one of the very fruitful online gambling software developers in the world. In October Microgaming casinos released four new online games. They are three new slots and a new variant of European Blackjack Gold.

One of the new slots is Jonny Specter. This slot released before the Halloween is one of the best online games. Jonny Specter is a hero like well-known heroes in the blockbuster “Ghost hunters”, he catches dead spirits. The game graphics and music immerse the player in the atmosphere of Halloween.

The slot has 5 reels and 20 pay-lines full of fun and entertainment with wild symbols and free bonus features.

Bobs Bowling Bonanza is one more slot from Microgaming. It is a 5 reel, 30 pay-line slot with a wild and scatter, bonus game and a unique feature called ‘Perfect Game’ bonus. If you hit a strike symbol you can bowl down the reels.

Spike’s Nite Out is a 5 reel, 15 pay-line slot with dogs playing poker. You needn’t to be a poker pro to hit the huge jackpot of 150,000 coins! If you get the Doggy Time symbol on the reels, the bonus game will be launched. The slot is good for low-rollers as a minimum bet is $0.01. Don’t miss the opportunity to play this amazing slot!

Multi Hand Perfect Pairs European Blackjack Gold
One more new addition to the great Microgaming’s suite of games is its first-class European Blackjack game. It is “Multi Hand Perfect Pairs European Blackjack” which received “gold” status. Improving the standard European Blackjack with an opportunity to make side bets on a “Colored Pair”, «Perfect Pair”, or “Mixed Pair”, this new variant of blackjack is certain to draw the attention of blackjack fans.

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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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The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has recently announced that one more ad is banned from the UK mass media. The ASA’s criterion of “appropriateness” seems rather specific and this is not the first ad which has been forbidden. The ASA regularly bans some add which doesn’t comply with its standards and the problem is online casinos which play for this add rather seldom agree with these decisions proclaiming that the contest is questionable in accordance with the UK advertising position. This strange situation shows us that ASA has very specific criterions and can interpret the same situations in different ways, so it is a real good luck to understand the reasons of one or other decision.

The most likely answer to the reason of this global misunderstanding because of the very stringent advertising codes is the fact that the age of the codes is definitely small: they have been approved just the last year. The advertising organizations now try to help to the online casinos and the gambling industry as a whole to understand better the fact of the matter. The internet gambling sites probably will succeed in choosing appropriate advertising campaigns when understand better the advertising codes and all the prohibitions.

Some of the ASA’s guidelines are hardly clear to the general public, they are written in laymen’s terms. All the companies involving in the marketing process, including gambling sites and publicity agents will have to understand what is appropriate for the UK audience and what imply unfavorable habits according to the new law.

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The trilling news has recently appeared in the internet: UK gambler Matt Styles won nearly GBP 200,000 in popular online game! Certainly it is an impressive sum, but the most interesting fact in this story is that the player has hit the top jackpot just in one day after his 21 birthday. It’s rather difficult to imagine a better present, isn’t it? Matt Styles really feels a double luck. About one year ago Ladbrokes decided to start a new project and open new internet gambling site, the company has yet celebrated a year of a successful work when a size of the progressive jackpot which has been paid out has come to the 200,000.

The system of progressive jackpots is extremely popular in the online casinos all over the world, first of all because of a chance to win a large sum in one spin of the reel. UK gambler Matt Styles has become the first lucky man who has hit such large jackpot at Ladbrokes. Ladbroke’s Deal or No Deal is the gamble with the system of the progressive payouts and it had built to GBP 196,633 during the year of functioning.

Deal or No Deal is one of the most popular games of such kind in the UK, it is based on the subject of the well – known TV show with the same name.
Meanwhile the 21-old winner has rather serious plans to the prize. He tells that he is going to buy a new car and to travel a little, but the rest of the money he’d like to invest.

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According to Warwick Bartlett, the Chief Executive for Global Betting and Gaming Consultants, predictions concerning the world’s online casino gambling industry are still worth. Bartlett adhered to his last year’s predictions that said that the world’s online gambling industry would keep on growing hugely the next five years. At the moment those online casinos that are in the parts of the world suffering from an economic crisis have doubted these figures but Bartlett persists in his opinion and keeps saying that the global online industry is going sturdy and will really benefit from the rise in fuel and food price.

The matter is that players do not really want to go anywhere from their homes due to the rising costs on from a gallon of milk to a tank of gasoline…but at the same time the same players do not want to give up their playing habit and rush to the world’s online casinos for gambling. Now all the world’s paper are talking about the crisis in the US economy but it seems that the EU and United Kingdom are going to have the same problems and may enter a recession in the following months.

The state of the American economy has no great affect on the internet gambling companies anymore as so many of the main players have completely or partially withdrawn from the industry. The slowing European economy is a cause for concern, but not actually. Warwick insists that the EU players will go on registering and that online gambling companies with multifarious interests will still benefit from an increasing Eastern European industry.

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The forthcoming presidential election in the US is considered by the online gambling industry as one of the greatest chances that the industry has in order to overturn the very controversial Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. After the UIGEA had been passed in 2006, the United States have received a huge number of problems concerning international relationships with countries like Antigua and the 27 member states forming a part of the European Union.

The Bush Administration stands behind the online gambling ban and has to permit various revisions to the questionable legislations in spite of requests from the US financial establishments. So, the gambling community is pinning the hopes on an administration change in the US and predicts that, if Barack Obama is elected, he is the most likely to change an existing online gambling legislation.

As the election is coming nearer, many in the internet casino gambling industry have analyzed carefully election policies of both candidates, in other words they have made an analysis of the Republican and Democratic platforms, candidates’ statements, and other things.

In accordance with the analysis results, Anthony Cabot, Las Vegas lawyer, has concluded that Obama is likely to be the better vote, at least from the point of view of supporting the internet casinos. The UIGEA considers online gambling at the online casinos illegal and whilst not punishing the American gamblers, the current drafting of the legislation places the burden of implementation directly on the shoulders of the banking industry of the United States.

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The online gambling industry is the great force in the world that is expanding over the globe quickly and entering all the countries on the planet over the following decade. The internet gambling industry has certainly been criticized a lot, but all the critics on the Earth have been unable to slow down this massive industry. The recent news concerning the world’s internet casino gambling industry is the announcement that Spin3 is going to bring mobile casino gambling into the online market of South America in the upcoming year. The company will provide South American players with a wide range of mobile games. At the point South America is mostly untouched by the online casino gambling and gaming industries and a lot of European companies are looking at this market as potentially a very lucrative one.

Spin3 is among the best world’s mobile casino gambling companies. The company is connected with the Microgaming software company and per se the mobile games designed and released by Spin3 are among the best games on the planet. This week news from Spin3 is focused on the fact that Spin3 will visit the SAGSE event that is in South America this week later. Spin3 will showcase the company’s mobile online gambling platform that is powered by GameWire.

Matti Zinder, CEO for Spin3, has said that one of the main reasons that the mobile gambling company is entering the market is thanks to a great demand for mobile online gambling with the necessary lawful and regulatory framework that is in the South American market.

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The online casino gambling industry of the United States has been a resourceful business since the Federal Government of the US passed the disputable UIGEA. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act prohibited foreign internet casinos from accessing American players and imposed large fines on any company that violates this. The majority of the main world’s online gambling companies withdrew from the US online gambling industry; some others stayed behind and have continued offering a gambling in spite of the possible consequences. Other gambling websites nevertheless, such as Duplicate Poker.com, could manage to offer a modified form of poker gambling and circumvented the US restrictions from removing the element of chance from poker.

Duplicate Poker was able to provide players with a wide range of payment methods and managed even to promote its gambling services in the states which ban online poker. Duplicate Poker was a swift success during the past year for players who did not want to submit to process transactions at the internet casinos and instead of that they rushed to Duplicate Poker.

Last week, on October 5, Duplicate Poker.com shut its virtual doors to its internet casino poker players, saying that the world’s financial crisis is a main reason why the company could not stay afloat. And whereas it was not a big surprise to many in the gambling industry that have watched the finances of the company, it is an outstanding example of the negative affect that the economy is having on the online casino gambling industry.

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Someone may think that it is ridiculous that Kentucky wants to confiscate over 140 gambling domain names. Confiscating the domains of online world’s business operations, the majority of which are based outside of the United States, just seems impossible.

Poker Players Alliance, the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association and Bluegrass Institute hope to prevent this event. A recent decision of Thomas Wingate, Franklin County Circuit Judge, gives Kentucky the power to seize the gambling domain names based on the idea that they provide illegal gambling services.

Formally, there has not been a court ruling on the issue just yet. The above-mentioned decision of Judge Wingate allows a temporary confiscation of the domain names that State representatives have agreed to forbear from closing the domains conducting negotiations with lawyers of the domain owners. A hearing for this is set on coming Tuesday; it will be exciting to see what the opposing sides have prepared for it.

Beshear, the State of Kentucky Governor, wants to stop the online betting industry and regardless of the fact if you are for online gambling or not, it is hard to disagree that it is bad public policy. Taking into consideration that Kentucky runs lottery that allows bettors to buy second-chance tickets through the web, the online casino gambling and poker persecution is truly hypocritical.

The fact that Governor Beshear thinks all the betting activity at internet-based casinos and poker rooms can generate millions in revenue for the State seems more ironic. Most people are sure that it is their fundamental right to decide on their own to gamble online or not.

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