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The Soccer Fever will be played out over four stages. In Week 1, which ran from June 18 to June 23 players had to back a team to make it to the Round of 16. The results will be known by June 25. Those players who are successful will win a share of 5,000 credits. Players should also have wagered as much as they could on the slot game Agent Jane Blonde on Sunday June 20. Again, the players who have backed the right teams will get the Bonus Rewards earned on Agent Jane Blonde on June 20 tripled by Platinum Play online casino.

Week 2 of the promotion will run from June 25 to June 29. Players will have to choose a team that will reach the quarter finals. During this period the slot game designated for triple Bonus Rewards Points is Liquid Gold. Again successful players will win a share of 5,000 credits and get their Bonus Rewards points earned tripled by the online casino. The third week of the Soccer Fever promotion will be held from July 2 to July 5. Players have to predict one team that will qualify for the semi finals. As usual up for grabs is a share of 5,000 credits and triple Bonus Rewards Points on the slot game Fortune Finder. July 7 to July 10 is the period for the final leg of the promotion. Here players at Platinum Play online casino have to predict who will win the Football World Cup. In keeping with the grandeur of the occasion the prize pool has been doubled to 10,000 credits. There is a bonus as well. If the team chosen by the player in the Round of 16 wins the World Cup the prize will be doubled. For the Week 4 the slot game for triple Bonus Rewards Points is again Agent Jane Blonde and players have to wager on it on Sunday July 11.

Platinum Play is powered by software from Microgaming. It is a brand of the Fortune Lounge group of online casinos and is licensed by the Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta.

The Bonus Slots Magic promotion has always been popular at Roxy Palace online casino. Recently the pot has been sweetened for the players because the online casino has jacked up the monthly prize pool to $50,000. The promotion is divided into preliminary rounds and a final round.

The next preliminary round is starting on May 4 and will run till May 06. During this period players have to wager on any of the slot games offered at Roxy Palace online casino. A wide range of slot games are available. They include mega spin slots, three reel slots, video slots, fruit machine slots and progressive jackpot slots. Players who wager the most during the promotion period will share the grand prize pool allocated to this part of the promotion. In addition the top three players will go through to the Bonus Stage for the month. The preliminary rounds will be held every midweek and weekend. The winners of these rounds will enter the Bonus Stage, where they will compete for a share of an extra $4,000. In order to qualify for this promotion, players must deposit at least $100 during event hours. Roxy Palace online casino assures that every qualifying player will receive a prize.

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Roxy Palace online casino is powered by software from Microgaming. Tomorrow three new Microgaming slot games will go live at the casino. They are ThunderStruck II, Queen of the Jungle and Lady in Red. Roxy Palace is licensed by the Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta.

Matchroom Sport and PartyPoker have recently announced the dates of the 4th annual Women’s World Open at PartyPoker.com.

The 4th PartyPoker.com Women’s World Open will be held in London, England, on the 23rd of March and 24th of March, in this event 24 of the most brilliant female poker players of the world will take part.

Among the names who already confirmed to participate are Betfair pro Annette Obrestad, Women’s World Open III winner Aisling Collins, Team PartyPoker’s Kara Scott and runner-up Wooka Kim.

Along with them other professionals are scheduled to take part: Laurence Grondin, Stefanie Bergener, Shelley Rubenstein, Pippa Flanders, Maria Demetriou, Christine Klecz and winner of the second season Soraya Homam.

The buy-in in this event makes $3,000 which creates a prize pool of $72,000 in the tournament. According to the event’s format, the top 2 players from each of 3 deep-stacked 8- handed heats will carry their chips all way through to the 6-handed final table.

“Last year Aisling Collins really proved that Britain has got talent, but the same we can say about Japanese Wooka Kim,” said a spokesperson at PartyPoker. “Both women will be very strong rivals for the title of the winner this year. We have made the stacks deeper, so the competition will be extremely fierce.”

Eddie Hearn, the Matchroom Sport director, said he is very excited about the forthcoming action.

“The PartyPoker.com Women’s World Open has become very popular with gamblers, simple viewers and broadcasters during the last 3 seasons,” Hearn said. “Continuing to grow, the game has undergone some changes in our formats which enables the viewers to watch a deeper-stacked game more skillfully and excitedly, in this event the players can surely showcase their skills and flair.”

TV-commentary will be given by Jesse May, the presenting duties will be shared between Tatjana Pasilic and Kara Scott. Later this year coverage of this event will be broadcast first on Five in Britain and then also internationally distributed.

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Intertops online casino is friendly to the USA players, Intertops Red offers the largest progressive jackpots accessible to the US gamblers. Jackpot Pinatas progressive jackpot is the greatest one, it comes over the limit of $1.6 million. But besides of it two jackpots more can rich seven figures mark, they are Aztec’s Millions and the combination of Mid-Life Crisis and Shopping Spree slot machines.
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Despite a soft Q3 performance, Boyd Gaming remains serious about their intentions to acquire the bankrupt Station Casinos’ assets. While Boyd’s multi-billion dollar Echelon Place project remains on hold (for at least 3-5 more years according to recent reports), Boyd Gaming has been aggressive in their pursuit of a Stations buyout.

On Sunday, Boyd Gaming filed a new motion that would support the acquisition of an examiner. Station Casinos have, up to this point, refused to entertain offers. In October, they filed an extension of their exclusivity period which gives them an additional three months in which to design and present a viable reorganization plan. Boyd’s motion would bring in a third party that would weigh the reorganization plan against competing bids.

Boyd Gaming currently represents 16 casinos throughout the United States, including the four Las Vegas Coast casinos that compete with the Station Casinos for local business. Many analysts have suggested that Boyd Gaming’s weak position in the local market has been the company’s downfall and that their acquisition of the Station Casinos would give them an obvious leg up in the local sector.

Don’t be fooled by advertisements offering free casino cash, because the truth of the matter is that it’s not free. Some bonuses are more “free” than others. For example, all online casino bonuses require players to wager a certain amount of money before becoming eligible to cashout any winnings. This “wager-requirement”, also called play-through, generally ranges from 10x to 50x. Furthermore, most of these bonuses only permit wagers at certain games - mainly slots and other games with higher House Edges.Blackjack is usually excluded from the list. And of those that do allow blackjack to meet the play-through, it is often just a small percentage of the wager (2-10%), in essence making the play-through that much larger. A true blackjack bonus, therefore, should be one that allows 100% of Blackjack wagers to meet the play-through requirement, which although will be higher than play-through requirements for slots bonuses, should still be reasonable.

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Dating back to the big seizure of Neteller funds shortly after the passing of the UIGEA, the State of Louisiana has clearly been no friend to online gambling. Despite forward progress in liberalizing the U.S. facing online gambling industry to better protect citizens and impose strict tax guidelines which could very well help fund costly projects like public option health insurance (to the tune of $62.7 billion over the next decade, according to Price Waterhouse Coopers), Louisiana continues doing all it can to impede online gambling in the U.S. Recently, they were successful at seizing $365,000 from a bank account apparently used by Golden Casino to pay players their winnings. This basically means one thing. 1) Don’t gamble at Golden Casino if you reside in Louisiana. Not only is Louisiana doing nothing to reimburse Louisiana residents affected by the seizure (despite claims that their actions are motivated to protect citizens and NOT Louisiana’s land-based casino gambling institutions), they are blotching things up for players in other states. The good news is that Golden Casino is a fully licensed, insured and regulated online casino in the jurisdiction of The Netherlands, Antilles (Curacao). $365,000 is a small dent for a place like Golden Casino - and players needn’t worry about not getting paid. Golden Casino has an impeccable track record for paying players their rightful earnings, albeit delays do sometimes occur. Residents of Kentucky, Oregon, Maryland and Missouri should also use caution when gambling online.

Everyone will agree, even the online casinos themselves, that it’s always good news when a player wins a big jackpot. And when I say big jackpot, I mean really big jackpot. In the online gambling world, there are millions up for grabs at any given moment, and the reality of actually becoming a millionaire gambling at an online casino does indeed exist.

Take, for example, the recent Ј1,031,985 progressive jackpot win by a player in the UK. Struck on the popular Microgaming software network, which quite frankly, has the largest aggregate jackpots of any other online casino software network in business today, the news wasn’t that surprising considering just how many millionaires have been spawned over the short 10+ years online gambling has been in existence.

Details of the win show that it was hit on the popular King Cashalot video slot, which can be played from any Microgaming Casino (so long as you are not from the U.S.) See the OCS Microgaming Casinos page for our top picks. Currently, the largest aggregate progressive jackpot is the wildly popular Mega Moolah video slot, no valued at approximately $/Ђ/Ј 5.25 million.

The player, who is known only as Mr. S. due to privacy laws, made a Ј2.25 wager to get the reels to relinquish their prized wares. Not a bad return at all. While he most likely spent more than that leading up to the jackpot, Mr. S. surely got his money’s worth and should be considered very lucky being in the right place at the right time.

Now, all he has to do is wait patiently for his one-time payment. While the typical procedure at online casinos is to pay out large jackpots in installments, since this was a true progressive jackpot, the player receives all the cash up front. Not even tax money is taken out, although it is highly advised players do so on their own. It’s safe to say that after winning a Ј1 million plus jackpot, hiring an accountant would hardly make a dent.

According to a preliminary press release, the player is on record saying that he wasn’t just shocked when he saw the payout, but that he was flabbergasted. He called in the nighttime early morning hours to verify if it was true and when told, yes, Mr. S. he was going to enjoy a celebratory brandy nightcap.

Moneybookers, the popular European web based money transfer service provider, has selected Tero Pollanen, to act as the chief of its anti-fraud department, one of the many new engagements undertaken by Moneybookers’ to double its workforce since the start of the year 2008.

Before the current undertaking, Pollanen was a senior Manager, employed in the Fraud and Strategy Department at Lloyds TSB, which is one of the UK’s largest high street banks. He will be charged with the onerous task of heading Moneybookers Risk and Anti-Fraud Team, spearheading the steady expansion and accomplishment of fraud deterrence.

Due to an unprecedented escalating expansion, Moneybookers has had to double it’s workforce from one hundred and fifty employees at the beginning of 2008, to close to 300 by March of 2009. There are also plans underway to increase the workforce by an extra 100 recruits, by the end of 2009 to meet the demands occasioned by the exponential online casino business growth. The online money transfer provider has lately posted the highest records so far for 2008, featuring staggering amounts of Euro 2.4 billion in trade volumes, and revenue amounting to Euro 18.7 million. The company is also projecting another great year, by building on that thrust, throughout the current year. This year Moneybookers customer base hit the seven million mark.

The co-CEO of Moneybookers Nikolai Riesenkampff has shown his delight to welcoming to his team Mr. Tero Pollanen, since he believes that he is taking with him lots of experience, which he will be employing to improve the security of the system currently being used. Mr. Riesenkampff also added that Mr. Pollanen will be a welcome supplement to his team of anti-fraud experts, which will be leading the industry, as Moneybookers looks for new ways in which to improve its business.

The online company Moneybookers has been established in London in the year 2001 and the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom is the authority that regulates its processes. It runs a global online payment system offering business an amalgamated access to more than 60 payment choices, in more than 200 countries around the globe.

The participants at the final table of the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event in Los Angeles will get their chance at the US$1,000,900 first prize.

One of those fortunate finalists is “November Nine” member Kevin Schaffel. Mr. Schaffel leads the final six players with 2,234,000 chips. He will be sixth in chips when the World Series of Poker Main Event final table reconvenes on 10 November.

Since the inception of the “November Nine” format last year, Mr. Schaffel is the first player to make both the November Nine and a World Poker Tour final table. Last year, Russian poker pro Ivan Demidov finished third at the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, and then finished second behind eventual champion Peter Eastgate at the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas.

Mr. Schaffel’s closest rival is Day 3 chip leader Todd Terry with 2,219,000, followed by online poker pro Prahlad Friedman with 1,476,000. Mr. Friedman is probably best known for his altercation with Jeffrey Lisandro during the 2006 Main Event, as well as the “rap” he performed for a segment of the ESPN television coverage. He also made a deep run in this year’s Main Event, finishing 64th and earning US$90,000.

The short stack at this table is poker pro Toto Leonidas with 580,000 chips. Mr. Leonidas won the 2003 United States Poker Championship in Atlantic City, New Jersey, earning US$388,000. He also has a WSOP bracelet from winning the US$1500 buy-in Seven Card Stud event in 2003. Although he has won several preliminary WPT events, he has never been on the TV table.

Another November Nine member and former chip leader in this event, Steven Begleiter, made the final nine, but missed the TV table when he finished in ninth place. He attempted to bluff off Todd Terry with king-three of hearts. Mr. Terry called with ace-queen of clubs, neither player connected with the board and Terry’s hand held up. Mr. Begleiter earned US$39,240 for his efforts.

In an interesting twist, none of the six players who will compete for the title have ever made a WPT final table before. The combination of familiar faces in new places, along with amateur players Sam Stein and Mike Krescanko, will make for entertaining viewing when the episodes air early next year. The final table will start 26 August at 4pm PDT.