Online Casinos News Guide

The online poker room, Full Tilt Poker known for their profitable tournaments has continued to be ranked as the second largest online poker room in the world. Some time ago the online poker room had launched an ‘Iron Man Challenge’ promotion. The promotion was giving away awards to top players that had collected a large number of poker points in a single day. The room has now announced an improved ‘Iron Man’ promotion that will offer players many more rewards.

The original promotion gave players rewards when they took part in the most hands with free cash, beneficial bonuses and entries to Freerolls worth up to $100,000. The site has now announced a bigger promotion that awards players a mid-year bonus and new Freerolls. In the old promotion, players were given rewards according to their loyalty status; the new promotion will award players who spend time at the site above and beyond that of the top Iron Man tier. A player who collects 50 plus points in a single day, will earn extra rewards for use in Full Tilt’s exclusive ‘Iron Man Store’.

As per the new promotion, a player will be eligible for the new mid-year bonus if they maintain their Iron Man status throughout the month. This will earn them extra bonuses worth up to $100 per month. The higher a player’s Iron Man status, the more bonus cash he/she can earn for a given month.

The UK based online gambling operator William Hill has announced that the Clover Rollover virtual slot has topped two million dollars for the first time. The jackpot has been attracting players from around the world. It also revealed that the jackpot was never won since it made its debut in March 2007 and this has resulted in the jackpot amount being so high.

To win the jackpot, a player must bet the maximum two-dollar per line stake and then win five lucky shamrocks on one line. The jackpot also has many smaller prizes available that include a $20,000 reward off 20 cents per line stake where players increase their chances by playing up to five lines on each spin.

In other news, the online bookies have announced that they will sponsor, for a three-year period the Lincoln Handicap which was inherited following their acquisition of Stanley Leisure. The £100,000 Lincoln Handicap which was traditionally hosted at Doncaster, will be hosted at Redcar this year. This has been necessitated due to the 18-month redevelopment of the South Yorkshire venue. The card will also feature the Hills-sponsored Brocklesby, Spring Mile and Cammidge Trophy.

William Hill Director of Racing and Public Relations, David Hood said: “We are happy to renew our sponsorship of the race, which we sponsored till 1997. The redevelopment of the old venue has meant that the three day event would have to be broken up. This has been prevented due to the help we received from Redcar and the event can now be held on a single day.”

The online casino River Belle  which is a part of Belle Rock Entertainment has announced the launch of a new Online Slot game called Cashapilla.

The new slot game is a stacked wilds game, with wild symbols coming in strips. These wild symbols can cover every single possible symbol on a reel, which means big wins for lucky players. But the Wild symbols are not the only symbols available, there are free spins, multipliers, scatters and gamble features also available.

The game has been designed by the software design team at Microgaming, which is one of the largest online casino software developers around. Microgaming has developed software for popular casinos like River Belle Casino.

Online slot games like Snakes and Bomber Girls are yet to be released so the early praise for Cashapilla is just the start. Though the game has just debuted online now, it has been well known in Australia for quite a long time now.

A number of popular casinos have adopted the game and there are many others waiting to grab it. Online slots is becoming popular as developers are investing money, bringing in new music and graphics and better ideas to ensure the games popularity.

River Belle online casino was launched in 1997, and since then it has become one of the most well-known and respected casinos in the industry. The casino is a part of the Belle Rock Entertainment –which is a super-group of online gaming brands, comprising of seven online casinos.

It has now become a regular feature for players to win money while playing at the Lotsaloot progressive jackpot. These wins are becoming a common feature at the Vegas Partner Lounge online casino group, if events of the past four weeks are anything to go by. Marc R won a sum of $63,708.46 while playing on the Lotsaloot progressive jackpot slot at Sun Vegas online casino on July 21 2008. Just a day later another Vegas Partner Lounge player Dale P. bet a sum of money playing the same jackpot at the 777 Dragon casinos and he came away with the second prize of $34,196.04.

These two latest wins bring the total amount won on the Lotsaloot progressive jackpot being played at Vegas Partner Lounge to a massive $198,003.32. This large sum was shared between five players from Cinema, Crazy Vegas, River Nile, Sun Vegas and 777 Dragon respectively, and they won the sum since the end of June 2008.

Mr. Austin Green, the Vegas Partner Lounge spokesman, remarked, “The wins are fantastic. Since the jackpot is played at 60 different casinos that use the Microgaming Platform.” He added, “I would go on to say that the jackpot has our casino name written on it.”

LotsaLoot is a 3 reel 5 line slot. It is a progressive slot which means it has a progressive jackpot which is activated when a player bets five coins per spin. LotsaLoot has a wild symbol (Lotsaloot symbol). The highest regular jackpot (not the progressive jackpot) is 2,500 coins. If a player bets 5 coins on a spin the progressive jackpot is activated.

Mike ‘Sir Watts’ Watson, who is just 24 years old, is a proud winner of over 1 million dollars for the World Poker Tour’s Bellagio Cup IV.

The 24 year old was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and now calls Toronto his home. He has spent more then a year in the Masters program at the University of Waterloo when he made a choice that would, in the beginning surprise his parents, but it eventually led to his win in the World Poker Tour’s Bellagio Cup.

He carefully checked his options, and then eventually had the strength to tell his parents who are both university professors, that he was dropping out of school. In doing this he was leaving behind the security of an elite education to pursue a career in the unpredictable world of poker.

The winner admits, “I did not like what I was studying. I had to write a thesis on a subject that I did not find interesting.”

He added, “It took a long time to reach the decision to drop from college. Explaining the decision to my parents was not easy, but they have been supportive of my decision since they have seen my success.”

A couple who were both members of Casinomeister.com, an Internet gambling information site, have married each other after one year of courtship.

The couple connected to each other through an online gambling message board, trans-continental phone calls, email and IP messaging. The couple living thousands of miles apart but common interests formalized their relationship this week when their marriage was announced.

They first came into contact with one another in June last year, and romance blossomed as they shared knowledge, opinions but above all a great sense of humor on both their pastime of choice and life in general. These exchanges of messages bloomed into private messages, emails and phone calls between Sweden and the United States on a daily basis, with Christmas and New Year 2008 jointly celebrated via the Internet.

The groom “Swede” informed that he and his new bride “Cynthia,” who owns a construction products company in the States, met face-to-face in London. They spent a week in the city visiting shows and restaurants. Swede stated, “It was among the best weeks in my life.”

The couple parted ways at London’s Heathrow airport and returned to their own countries. Swede decided then that he wanted to make their relationship more permanent and closed his antiques auctioneering business and began planning for his move to the United States. The couple got married and is now planning their future.

The total prize money in the powerball jackpot has climbed over $54 million!

The Powerball draw was slightly delayed but was officially held on Saturday evening.

Due to the lotteries strict security rules, the draw was not held until all the state sales data sites were secured. The draw was held under the supervision of the independent audit firm of LWBJ, L.L.P. and a local law enforcement officer.

The winning number that was drawn last Saturday was 6, 28, 46, 53, 55 and the Powerball was 2. The Power Play multiplier was 3.

Though there was no jackpot winner one ticket sold in state of Maine won a sum of $600,000 cash. There were two other winners hailing from Arizona and Pennsylvania that won $200,000. An additional 424,409 tickets across the nation won a total of $19,377,153 in prizes.

In other prizes that were won on Saturday, the numbers on 24 tickets matched 4 of the winning numbers and their number matched the powerball for them to carry home an estimated $10,000. Five additional tickets were also bought with the Power Play option and multiplied their winning sum by 3 times to $30,000 cash.

A total of 86,183 winning Powerball tickets multiplied their prizes by 3. Players were able to do that by purchasing the Power Play option for one dollar. With Power Play the player multiplies his Powerball winnings from 2 to 5 times. The lotteries sold more than $2.56 billion in Powerball tickets in FY08. That translates into more than $743 million for worthwhile state projects.

Titan Poker which is one of the largest online poker rooms on the iPoker Network is now offering its exciting services in Russian.

This makes the site available to players across the world in twelve different languages. The poker room is now available in English, Danish, German, French, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Dutch.

Titan Poker has seen a large rise in players that live in countries that speak Russian due to its expanding cash prizes and tournaments on offer for players.  The site felt the need to translate itself into the Russian Language, to make it easy for Russian players, who otherwise would have to get a foreign language translated on their own.

The site manager Robin Steele said, “We as a company take special care to meet the language needs of all our players. We want to provide them with the best online gambling environment.”

Steele added, “We have added Russian and are in the process of adding additional languages onto our website to add to our players comfort.”

Titan Poker regularly hosts large cash prizes monthly for its players and is now guaranteeing more than $16,000,000 in monthly prizes. The site will host a $2,500,000 Guaranteed Prize Tournament in September, which will be its biggest ever guaranteed prize tournament.

The online casino 888.com has launched a new online slots game called Euro Reels. The game has drawn its inspiration from the European Football Championship, and allows players to show their football skills during the bonus rounds. 

Euro Reels is a 20-line slot game, which gives players the opportunity to win $380,000 if they hit the jackpot. This online slot game also offers a number of innovative and fun features, which includes the bonus Cash Cup round, special free spins, and a number of other exciting features.

If a player hits three or more bonus symbols on the screen, this will start the special Cash Cup bonus game. In this game, the player should be able to kick the ball past the goal keeper in order to score a goal. If they manage to get all five balls past the goal keeper, they will win the Euro Cash Cup grand prize.

Though this does not mean the end of the bonuses. If a player manages to get three scatter icons on the screen, he or she will receive free spins, allowing them to play without having to risk their own money. Wild symbols also appear during the game, which can be substituted for any symbol except for the scatter and bonus symbol.

The casino offers advances in technology, that make the players game faster and easier to play. A player can use shortcut keys to increase lines, decrease lines, increase or decrease bets, take a spin, and an assortment of other handy shortcuts.

Totesport which is one of the leading sports betting and online casino firms has launched its brand new exclusive, members-only ‘Emerald Club’ at its casino.

Membership to the Club will be accessible to casino customers on an invite-only basis and many of the sites valued players have already been garnering the rewards of the Club.

Members of the Club will be entitled to receive exciting monthly offers and promotions from the casino that will be above and beyond the standard offers. The club will offer its members different casino promotions daily, presenting a unique reason for players to play at Totesport Casino.

Once a player is a member of the club they will be entitled to claim the best bonuses and cash repayments the casino has to offer. Members should look out for Double Comps Days, Cash backs and many more extraordinary online casino promotions throughout the month. Players should expect to receive an invite after depositing and playing their first time at the casino.

The membership of the club also offers players the chance to become one of the casino’s exclusive Emerald Club VIPs. If one becomes part of that club the bonuses and incentives reach a whole new level.

The more a member plays, the greater the chances of becoming an Emerald VIP. The casino analyzes every member’s play on a monthly basis and will promote those players showing the greatest loyalty based on visits, time-played, variety of bets, and regular deposits.

At the casino players have the option of downloading software packed with over 100 games or playing directly in the comfort of a web-browser.