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Online casino offers plastic surgery promotion

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

A new online casino has launched a promotion where the winner will receive a full body surgical makeover from a leading Costa Rican plastic surgeon.

The promotion runs from mid July to September at the Celtic Casino, a relatively new casino that offers a number of live casino games as well as the usual array of [...]

iPhone Pokies - pokies app for iPhone launched

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

It’s only been a couple of weeks since the global launch of the iPhone 4, Apple’s latest release of its award winning smart phone, and already online gambling companies have been quick to jump on the Apple band wagon.  News reached us today that Probability, the gaming software company that is listed on the UK [...]

World Cup hits online gambling profits

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

The recent run of poor financial results experienced by leading online gambling companies has been attributed to the huge popularity of the football World Cup.  PartyGaming, one of the biggest online gambling operators, whose markets stretch from the UK to as far as Australia from their European base have seen their poker and casino activity [...]

Federal Court expected to approve Australian Productivity Commission Report

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

According to news reports emanating today from Australia, it looks likely that the Federal Government will approve the Productivity’s Commissions Report on gambling which will see a raft of new reforms implemented within the Australian gambling and pokies sector.

The major headline grabbing changes will see the introduction of a maximum $1 bet per spin on [...]

Vicotorian Government accused of pokies license fire sale

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

The Victorian Government has been accused of a fire sale in issuing 10 year pokies licenses for a sum many believe is well below their market value.  The auction of 10 year licenses to run 27,500 pokies machines was expected to fetch $3 billion, but the actual figure ended up well short of this at [...]

Online gaming growth boosts William Hill profits

Friday, April 30th, 2010

William Hill the UK based gambling group has seen 25% growth in its Q1 egaming revenue compared to the same period last year.

Much off this has been attributed to the new Orbis powered sportsbook platform which has a new in-running product that enables bets to be taken during sporting events. This has resulted in them [...]

Mines bigger than yours – the top 5 celebrity jets

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Following the recent announcement of plans by the Melbourne Crown casino to buy a $30 m Gulfstream G550 jet, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at the top 5 private jets as owned by celebrities to see what you get for your money.  You will need to take down a couple [...]

Paddy Power does a Hollywood

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Paddy Power, the Irish bookmaker that also runs a leading online casino site face a potential legal battle to keep their ‘Hollywood’ style sign up in the British countryside.
The sign, which at 82 metres long and 15 meters high is bigger than the world famous Hollywood sign has been placed in a prime location in [...]

Bally U Spin

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

This week saw the second annual Caribbean Gaming Show take place in the Dominican Republic. Whilst we were there, we took the opportunity to not only top up our tans but also to take in some of the latest developments coming out of Bally Technologies, one of the brightest stars in the pokies market.

Visa Exit US Online Gambling Market

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Making a deposit at an online casino with a Visa or MasterCard credit card will be a thing of the past for US citizens following recent changes introduced by the credit card giants.