Gamble More Online Gambling News Blog The gambling industry is filled with news about internet gaming. Good news, bad news and news about things you didn't even know you needed to know. A lot of what's out there, though, is either made up of boring technical jargon or filled with press release hype that's simply a waste of your time.
So Gamble More's Gambling News Blog is here to bring you daily news updates that cut through the casino clutter, giving you the most important news of the day, together with our personal commentary on what's going down. Here's what's happening in the casino industry right now.
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Tuesday, 07 March 2006 |
 A brand new television show will be gracing our screens on Saturdays nights 11pm-1am, starting 15 April 2006. Hot on the heels of other smash hits on the gambling reality TV circuit, like King of Vegas and the Mansion Poker Dome Series, Bodog.net’s unique approach to online gambling is about to change the face of televised poker.
The TV series is going to hit the ground running, if ESPN’s recent drama series, Tilt, is anything to go by. Tilt showcased the popularity of poker, betting, casinos and gambling – and went to prove how large an audience a TV show dedicated to gambling can draw. And the World Series of Poker has always been a blockbuster.
Partnered with Bodog is huge sportscaster Fox Sports Network. And with their broadcast of Mansion Poker’s Dome Series in the bag, Fox isn’t slowing down. The FSN TV channel will soon be a poker player’s dream come true, with the launch of Bodog’s new reality TV show, featuring Bodog founder and Chief Executive, Calvin Ayre. The six-part TV series will be co-hosted by Bodog boss Ayre himself and so, quite unsurprisingly, the new reality show is called Calvin Ayre Wild Card Poker.
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
 The casino bosses at Golden Palace Online Casino have done a lot of weird things in their time. Publicity stunts have ranged from buying odd-shaped grilled cheese sandwiches through to bidding on body parts and sending streakers into sports events. They've pretty much tried everything to get people to sit up and take notice of their gambling sites - but one thing they haven't done before is own an Oscar (the gold-plated Academy Award type). But now they do!
No, they didn't sneak in a cameo role in one of the 2006 Oscars' winning films. And they weren't on the t-shirts of any of the best actors or actresses (not this time anyway) in any of last night's movies. So how did Golden Palace Casino wangle an Oscar statuette of their very own? The good ol' fashioned American way, that's how. They paid for it. $30000 smackeroos in cold, hard greenbacks. But surely The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences isn't that hard up for extra cash? They aren't - but it appears Morris Stoloff liked the idea of $30k in his back pocket in exchange for his Oscar that he won for writing the musical score for the 1960 film, 'Song Without End'!
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Friday, 03 March 2006 |
 With internet casino and poker games all taken care of, the world's best online gaming software provider (Microgaming) is setting its sights on the hottest new gambling trend: internet bingo. But rather than try play catch up, they're taking the smartest possible route for their players and themselves. They're integrating the best online bingo software they could find - from a company called Bingotek, which was started by the original founder of Gambling.com!
Internet bingo has taken the world by storm and is widely tipped to take over from online poker as the most popular game to gamble on. Unlike poker or casino games, bingo has a wider appeal: it's friendlier, brighter and you have such a blast while playing that it doesn't really matter if you lose a couple of bucks along the way. One look at Bingotek's pioneering online bingo brand, BingoDrome.com, and you're hooked. Bingodrome has so much on the go, so much to win and so many easy ways to play. It's an entirely new flavor of gambling! And if this is a sign of things to come, it's no surprise that online bingo is fast overtaking everything that came before it.
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Wednesday, 01 March 2006 |
 Think back to a time before PayPal. Can you believe that we actually put our credit card numbers into those who-knows-how-safe checkout forms, before crossing our fingers, closing our eyes and hoping that we wouldn't be charged 20 times at the end of the month. That all changed when our quick online payment buddy pitched up on the scene. PayPal revolutionized online payments and e-commerce transactions and made it possible to send and receive money instantly online. You can even send cash to an email address!
Sometime after PayPal became the payment middle man of choice, with online gamblers everywhere relying on its powerful safety mechanisms to protect them from the shadier gaming sites out there, it was snapped up by eBay. Surprisingly, eBay turned out to be far more conservative when it came to gambling on the internet and, in no time at all, gamblers were left stranded with a PayPal account that could send and receive funds anywhere on the planet, except to or from an online casino.
Over time, gamblers learnt to make do. Wire transfers and NETeller accounts became the new payment options to rely on. And because casino players had been left out in the cold for so long, everyone just stopped wondering if things would ever change. But from out of the blue, they just have. PayPal has announced that gamblers in the UK can again start to use their PayPal account to process payments at the leading online betting shop in Europe: Betfair.
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Monday, 27 February 2006 |
 If you've been on the internet gambling scene for a couple of years, you've undoubtedly heard of (and possibly played at) Windows Casino. Or perhaps one of the other casinos in the Windows Casino Group like Gold Key Casino, Portofino Casino or Magic Oasis Casino. Unfortunately it hasn't been all good news for the Windows crowd, mostly because they've been featured in some interesting media reports connecting them to some odd goings on out in cyberspace. But that's all about to change, with the ultra-credible King Solomon's Casino Group stepping in to buy them out and save the day for Windows Casino players and fans.
Even ex-Windows Casino skeptics are pleased. This is a second chance, a whole new future, for Windows and their other internet gambling brands. King Solomon's on the other hand controls some of the biggest casino brands out there: King Solomon's Casino, Geisha Lounge Casino and Grand Aces Casino are all well-known favorites to online gamblers who've played and won with King Solomon's over the years. And we are talking years here. King Solomon's took their first internet bets in 1998 and they have the experience, know-how, customer support and service to give Windows Casino everything it needs to clean up their act and come out sparkling, as a brand new King Solomon's casino to be proud of!
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Friday, 24 February 2006 |
 Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your usual old favorites, Microgaming steps in to liven things up and create more online winning opportunities with 4 brand new online casino games! As always, Roxy Palace Online Casino is the first casino out of the starting gates - the games are ready and waiting for you to enjoy. As if having a choice of over 150 games at Roxy Palace wasn't enough, the world is now your enormous gambling oyster! Best of all, this sensational new gaming quartet comes with some of the hottest new graphics, rule twists, features and game themes available anywhere on the internet.
Ladies and gentlemen, will you put your hands together and fire up your credit card for Wheel of Wealth Special Edition slots, Kathmandu video slot, Multi-hand Vegas Downtown Blackjack and All Aces Video Poker! What a fantastic variety! Whatever you like to play, all gamblers have been well looked after in this new selection because there's a new game in every gambling category: slots, table and video poker. And though there's four more casino games to choose from, there's really only one casino worth picking when it comes to playing the best new games AT the best online casino: Roxy Palace!
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Wednesday, 22 February 2006 |
 Playing poker online is often a very rewarding experience - not only in terms of winning cash but also in terms of earning a name for yourself as a good player within the internet poker community. As you scale the ranks, you'll learn to separate the the fish (poker players who are just coming in with little or no skill but lots of money to burn) from the sharks (poker pros who know the game, have honed their skills and are ready to gobble up the new fish coming online every day).
In theory, this is a great plan. All you have to do is learn the ropes, practise your game, play according to perfect poker strategy rules, read your opponents, bluff like a pro, kick back and wait for the fish to wander into your territory. There's just one problem. One thing you can't control, no matter how much you try to master everything else. The luck of the draw - it can be your best friend or your biggest nightmare. How many times have you cursed the river - and blessed it a couple of hands later? Unfortunately, multiplayer poker (Texas Hold'em for one) leaves far too much to chance. So Thwart Poker reinvented the rules to create a new poker game that puts the balance of power back in the hands of the most skilled player at the table!
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Monday, 20 February 2006 |
 It's that time of year again: when tears run like rivers, emotions flare and millions of fans watch from around the world, absolutely glued to their television sets! Simon Cowell is on the prowl for that elusive X factor in season 5 of the smash hit TV talent show, American Idol!
At his side are his not-so-faithful co-judges, the beautiful and talented Paula Abdul and the hip and happenin' cool dude Randy Jackson. Presenting the 2006 series of this world-famous musical talent search, as always, is the impressive Ryan Seacrest and his bigger-than-life co-host, Ryan Seacrest's Ego! But possibly most exciting of all is that Sportbook.com has added an extra boost of adrenalin to the thrilling contest by taking bets on who'll make the seriously exciting next phase of the competition: the Top 10.
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Wednesday, 15 February 2006 |
 Fourth in line after casino games, poker and bingo, skill-based gaming is the next big thing in the world of online gambling. As a new form of casino entertainment, skill gaming has everything going for it: (1) the games are multiplayer, (2) the games are familiar to everyone so the rooms will fill up quickly with loads of new players to compete against, (3) the games are player-to-player just like online poker, so you aren't trying to beat the house computer and overcome impossible odds and (4) these are the classic games that you know and love - and if you've mastered any of them at family gatherings, this is your chance to turn small-time fame into instant internet cash in your pocket!
As we speak, all the major casino software providers are doing their best to leapfrog each other to be first past the skill gaming post. Many missed the poker boat or got in too late - and online bingo is about to boom. But skill-based gaming has the potential to be bigger than anything before it because because it doesn't feel like Vegas-style gambling. It's more like a friendly bet between a few friends. Ever played rummy for 1c a card 'just to make it interesting'? With a whole world of classic gamers out there, everyone wants a piece of the pie - and it's not just the big boys that are coming out to play. SkillExtreme.com is the newest independent skills kid on the block and they're playing hardball, with some fantastic new games and some cult favorites that are guaranteed to be a (profitable) hit!
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Monday, 13 February 2006 |
Double the fun, double the action, double the casino cash - all for free! Double Vegas is a brand new casino promotion just launched by the trailblazing Fortune Lounge group of online casinos. They've taken two of their top-performing casinos and joined them at the hip with an invisible bridge to non-stop gambling excitement! So now, when you deposit $100 at Vegas Towers Casino, you'll get $100 in free casino credits at Vegas Villa Casino! Why play at just one casino when you can get two casinos for the price of one, with twice as many games to choose from and double the chance to win loads of real casino cash?
Hot on the heels of its previous groundbreaking internet casino promos, Fortune Lounge's Double Vegas Buy One, Get One Free offer has widened eyes and wallets for the fourth time in a row. Previous casino promotions in the Fortune Lounge stable included a Free Spin offer, 15 Minutes for Free and an unbelievable-but-true Money Back Guarantee. The Double Vegas promo is another industry first and has proved beyond all reasonable doubt that Fortune Lounge puts their money where their mouth is - and even more of it in the pockets of their lucky casino players!
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Wednesday, 08 February 2006 |
 It's been two years since we last lived through the thrill of the torch relay, the adrenalin and the patriotic spirit in each of us as we cheered for our country at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Well, the Summer Olympics actually. Because 'the Olympics' that most people refer to is, technically speaking, the main Olympics event covering summer sports every 4 years. But 2 years after the previous Summer Olympics and 2 years before the next one, the Winter Olympic Games is hosted to give sportspeople the chance to compete on a global level in all the winter sports.
Before the Beijing summer Olympics kicks off in 2008, the this year's Winter Olympics will open in Turin (called Torino by locals) in Italy on 10 February and will run until 26 February 2006. Leading up to the opening ceremony, the Olympic Torch has almost completed its journey from the temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece - it will arrive in the main Olympic stadium in Turin on Friday where it will light the cauldron and continue burning until the completion of the closing ceremony on the 26th of February. From the minute that first flame starts to flicker until the final puff of smoke and the fat lady sings on 26 Feb, Sportsbook.com will be running results and props sports betting on every aspect of this year's spectacular Winter Games in Europe.
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