Online Casinos News Guide

Titan Poker, which is the largest online poker room on the iPoker Network, has announced that it has dealt its Billionth Hand on May 27. It also announced that a player named “wootrigged” who belonged to Finland won a prize of $55,000. Five other players at the same table received a sum of $5,000 each, just for participating in hand number 1,000,000,000.

The Billionth Hand promotion, which was launched by the website a number of weeks ago, awarded players sums that exceeded $420,000 in prizes. The countdown of the billionth hand started when the 950,000,000th hand was dealt. Lots of dollars in cash were awarded to players daily as Titan Poker neared its gigantic billionth hand.

Players were able to track the progress of the countdown by logging onto the Titan Poker software, or onto the Titan Poker website. Members of the site also received regular updates of the countdown progress. The day the hand was dealt, the players involved were immediately informed when they started to play on a winning hand.

The site continuously awards its players with large cash prizes. The online poker room is presently awarding $3,600,000 to players at the second European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP II). The website regularly awards its players with seats for major poker tournaments like the European Poker Tour and the Aussie Millions. In a few months the site will be sending its players to the World Series of Poker 2008 in Las Vegas, and the Asian Poker Tour in Manila.

The Mecca Bingo club which is located at North Street in Exeter saw one of its members win a huge bingo jackpot of £639,000. The lady won on Sunday at the Platinum playoff National Bingo game. The winner works as a hospital admin assistant and prefers to remain anonymous.

The winner said, “I am still in shock over the big amount I have won. I had two or three brandies due to which I have woken up with a heavy head today.” She added, “I am thankful to god that it was a bank holiday yesterday so I could get used to the thought that I had won a huge sum.”

She went on to say, “I have been a member of the club since 1993. I drive to the club every Sunday along with a couple of my friends to play bingo.” The quote ended with her saying, “I had won a sum of £60 earlier that evening before I hit the jackpot. When I got home I told my husband who was also shocked and he also needed a brandy.”

The win was the largest in the clubs history. The winner has two sons and three grandchildren. The winner would buy a shed for her husband so that he could store his lawn mover and she planned to buy a new car.

The All Bingo Club which is a member of the well known Jackpot Factory Group, and is an active online bingo hall, has announced the launch of its refer-a-friend program. The programs pays its players $5 for every friend the member introduces to the club.

There is no limit put on the number of friends a player can bring in, the bonus automatically gets deposited to the player’s bonus account once the friend signs up and makes his initial deposit. 

Mikki G., the Manager of the club said, “We have a very good site where players can chat with their friends whilst playing a game of bingo. We are growing fast and we want to keep our speed by making our bingo hall the most attractive for our players.”

He added, “ to do this we have to provide players with low entry fee games, regular promotions, and cash back on every deposit they make at the casino.”

The site was launched a month ago, and has already attracted interest from bingo enthusiasts and online casino players. The site offers a generous $5 introductory offer which is credited directly into new player accounts within seconds of them registering.

Miki went on to say that, “with player migrating from land based casinos to online rooms, it will be the players themselves who will help online casinos to recruit new players. Keeping that in mind we have launched this refer a friend program.”

Totesport which is one of United Kingdoms sports betting sites will be hosting this month a large number of opportunities for players to bet on a huge range of popular sporting events. These events are being presented by the site which will have the most attractive odds and also the latest information on the events.

Among the popular events the site is preparing for this month is Euro 2008, which is the largest football tournament of Europe starting in the month of June.

The tournament will feature 16 teams, with a wide range of the continents leading players. Fans can now visit the group’s website and bet on the individual group winners and the eventual tournament winners. The bookie favorites for the eventual winners are Germany with the current odds being 3/1. Football fans will get a chance to bet on other football events like the FA Cup, the FA Premiership and the Coca Cola Championship.

Cricket fans will have the chance to bet on the Test Series between England and New Zealand, which is proving to be very popular. The odds being placed on the English team winning the match are 1/4.

Totesport is also accepting bets on next month’s Twenty20 Cup and the 2011 World Cup. Basketball fans can place bets on the National Basketball association action going on and bet on the latest action.

The site is popular with people who bet on sports events as it is able to update its fans with the latest score and the company owned radio gives full commentary and timely results on all the sporting action.

Three British players made a large pot of money while playing at the Malta-based online casino CantorCasino.com. The three won $158,000 in total prizes. These regular players, belong to the Leeds region and got their winning sums the very next day.

The first winner is 30-year-old Steve Wright, who works as a company director. He won a sum of over $83,969 while playing CantorCasino’s Spanish blackjack game. The second person to win money was online player Catharine R who won 52,342 on the same Spanish blackjack game. The third person who wished to remain anonymous was awarded a sum of $21,686.

Wright speaking about his win said, “This is not the first time I have won on the site. Though this win is not my biggest win ever.” He added, “The sites games have a low house edge, so one can take his time to master the game and at the same time win a big bonus.”

When Wright was asked what he would do with the large sum, he said, “I have wanted to buy a BMW Z4 for a long time. I think I will buy that with a portion of the money.”

Mike Leys, Marketing Director for Cantor Casino.com said, “The site was proud of its high payout percentage. It is a great day for us that a trio of our regular players has won large sums of money.” He added, “Just last month the site had a pay out percentage 97.8 percent. We have made all the payments to our players the next day.”

The website CantorCasino.com offers a selection of distinctive games such as Stat Jack, which counts the cards for the player’s. It also offers regular casino games like blackjack, roulette and slots.

The large $2,900,000 progressive jackpot on the Mega Moolah slot machine is becoming bigger as the time ticks by. This is taking into account the fact that one lucky player was able to win a sum of $5.5 million in jackpot just last week.

The game Mega Moolah has a jungle theme and is an exciting five reel, twenty-five pay-line slot machine. It has a four-tiered jackpot system, with free spins, and a monkey that tells the player his fortune. It has four levels in its progressive jackpots, the Mini Progressive, which begins at $10; Minor Progressive, which begins at $100; Major Progressive, which begins at $10,000; and Mega Progressive, which begins at an incredible $1,000,000. These four level jackpot system ensures that the total jackpot available is always high, and stays appealing to its players.

The Casino Rewards group, which consists of 18 online casinos including CasinoClassic.com, CaptainCooksCasino.com, BlackJackBallroom.com and CasinoKingdom.com, is trying to make online gambling more exciting for players by offering each player one hour of playing online poker for free. The player can try any of the 200 odd games for one hour at the casino free of cost. It also continuously offers players new promotions and different bonus promotions. The group websites also feature 15 other jackpot games that include table games, slots and card games.

With the group sites average payout rate being 97%, the odds of a player winning are better then at a land based casino. No wonder players are preferring to play from the security and comfort of their home, then going to a noise filled land based casino.

Playtech which designs, develops and licenses software that is used by the Casino Gaming industry has announced the release of a new mobile slots game Desert Treasure. The game which has already had a successful run as an online game is the latest addition to the number of games on its mobile platform.

Desert Treasure which is an alluring new slots game takes players on a journey to the old Arabia, a beautiful world which is filled with the charms of Arabian princesses, hidden oases and golden pyramids. It is an exciting 5-reel 20-line multi-spin slot game which captures the player’s imagination with its vibrant graphics and realistic sounds. It offers a top prize of 10000X bet per line.

In the exciting bonus round, players go into a sparkling desert oasis, and can select from a choice of twelve vases and treasure chests in search of riches. This latest software is provided by Playtech to a number of the leading internet casinos including Manchester United Casino - which is the official online casino of Manchester United Football Club.

The company has brought the knowledge it has accumulated all these years, in the online gaming market to the mobile gaming industry. The mobile gaming platform of the company is part of its pioneering united platform called the Information Management Solution. The Information Management Solution platform is used by the company for its online, land-based and mobile platforms, which are fully inter-compatible. The company’s mobile product is supported on a wide range of hand sets ranging from the entry level to the high-end smart-phones. It’s mobile games has the latest technology that successfully replaces the feeling of playing on a computer, and it includes a wireless cashier.

The last week was a good time for a Greek customer of the online casino site Sporting bet. It flew him and five of his friends to London, so that he could collect his winning amount and celebrate. After drinking to his victory at the company’s office, the winner who works as an office assistant was taken for lunch by the company with his five friends. Later the winner and his fiancée went out to shop.

The winner had bet a small amount €27 on the Super Seven’s online slot machine and won the large sum. His win was the largest amount won by a Greek online and also the biggest win on the site.

The CEO of the company said, “The amount won is huge and I am happy for the player. He is a loyal and regular player of the site.” The CEO added, “I hope the experience of the win remains with him for a long time.”

The winner stated that he played on the site every weekend for a few hours. He added, “Though this win is huge I have no intention of quitting my job. The winner’s fiancée added, “Our wedding will be bigger and sooner then expected.”

The CEO added, “The aim of the web site is to make the experience of the customer from depositing to winning a wonderful one. We have hundreds of visitors coming to our site daily. His win is an example how our site produces winners.”

A player who is yet to be identified has won a $35.3 million jackpot in South Carolina. The player had bought his Power ball ticket in South Carolina and won the sum in a draw held on Saturday.

The numbers on the winner’s ticket that was bought in West Columbia were the same as the winning 6 numbers which were 12-14-15-21-43, Power ball: 30. The power play was three. If the winner collects his entire payments in one go, he will take home a sum of $17.2 million. The winner of the large amount will be identified on Sunday.

The second ticket that won an award was bought in Honea Path. The numbers on this ticket matched the first five white balls in the draw held on Saturday night.

In a press statement issued on Saturday, the executive director of the South Carolina Education Lottery, Ernie Passailaigue, said, “The last time a jackpot was won in the state was April Last year. It was won in Florence and the person won $15 million.” The release added, “The time was ripe for a person from the state to win the jackpot again.”

There were other winners in the states of Minnesota, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. The numbers on the tickets of these winners matched the first five winning numbers. But the tickets missed the Power ball, which entitled them to $200,000. In South Carolina two winners had the numbers on their tickets matching first four white numbers. These two winners won $10,000!

Titan Poker, which is the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, has announced that it has presented talented poker player Greg Metzak with a cheque of 40,000 Euros this week. The cheque was awarded to Greg, who is a 23 year-old psychology student from Canada for his performance at the Euro City Poker Tour (ECPT) in Madrid. Greg got the chance to play in Madrid after he won an online free roll tournament which was hosted by Titan Poker only for its top VIP Players.

For Greg this was the first time he was playing at a live tournament and was traveling for the first time to Europe. Despite his lack of experience the Canadian student defeated a number of experienced players and won the first prize. He stated, “I thank Titan Poker for giving me the chance of traveling to Europe and registering a win. I cannot ask for more.”

Even though he has won, he intends to keep quiet about his winning till he gets home. The second place at the tournament was won by another Titan Poker player Ingo Nassall from Germany who took home a cash prize of 23,000 Euros.

The website regularly awards its players with seats for major poker tournaments like the European Poker Tour and the Aussie Millions. In a few months the site will be sending its players to the World Series of Poker 2008 in Las Vegas, and the Asian Poker Tour in Manila.