Casino Games Club http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk a casino blog Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:51:14 +0000 en FOXY FLUTTER’S ADVENT CALENDAR http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/foxy-flutter%e2%80%99s-advent-calendar/ http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/foxy-flutter%e2%80%99s-advent-calendar/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:50:01 +0000 admin http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/?p=14 Everyday from 1st to 23rd December Foxy Flutter are giving away £100 for three lucky Foxy Flutter account holders.

What’s more on Christmas Eve, the last day of advent, the three winners will receive a higher prize of £1,000 each.

All, Foxy Flutter account holders have to do is visit the Foxy Flutter site, login and click on the date on the Advent Calendar.  If you are one of the three names that is revealed behind the door then you have won the cash prize.

Each winner is selected at random from Foxy Flutter’s database.  However, to qualify to be in with a chance of winning the cash prize you must have gambled at least a fiver on the site (excluding multi-player bingo and poker) during the past 30 days.  All in all there will be 72 lucky winners in this giveaway.

]]> http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/foxy-flutter%e2%80%99s-advent-calendar/feed/ World Series of Golf to Expand http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/world-series-of-golf-to-expand/ http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/world-series-of-golf-to-expand/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:19:39 +0000 admin http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/?p=12 The World Series of Golf (WSOG), which is a televised golf tournament held in the United States that combines the sport with gambling is set to go online, by offering online players the chance to play in tournaments on some of the world’s best golf courses.

An online gaming platform is currently being developed that combines the gambling of Texas Hold’em with the skill of golf.  The game will provide pictures of famous golf courses and allow punters to gamble Texas Hold’em style on the games.

WSOG CEO Terry Leiweke said, “Capitalising on the popularity of the World Series of Poker and internet-based gaming, the World Series of Golf is launching an international platform.  Soon, playing tournament style golf on some of the world’s finest golf courses will be just a few keystrokes away.”

The WSOG will also be expanding with more high-stakes international golf tournaments in the pipeline.

]]> http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/world-series-of-golf-to-expand/feed/ 08/08/08 is Lucky Day for Online Slots Players http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/080808-is-lucky-day-for-online-slots-players/ http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/080808-is-lucky-day-for-online-slots-players/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:41:32 +0000 admin http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/?p=7 The number 8 is considered a lucky number in Chinese culture. That’s way the Chinese organised the start date of the Olympic Games in Beijing to be 08/08/08 with the start time at 8 minutes past 8 o‘clock.

The Chinese word for 8 is extremely similar to the word for wealth which is the reason the Chinese believe this to be a lucky number.

This luck was experienced by an online casino player who scooped a progressive jackpot by playing the Lotsa Loot 5 Reel slots game at Golden Tiger Casino. The French player won almost £27,000 for a single spin of the reels on 8th August.

A progressive jackpot is a jackpot which gets bigger each time a player plays the game. Earlier this year one lucky slots player scooped $5.5 million with just a $0.50 bet. Many progressive jackpots are worth millions both in land and online casinos. Getminted Online Casino for example offer two progressive jackpot slots – Megajackpots Cluedo and Megajackpots Monopoly PASS GO. The current progressive jackpot stands at a life changing sum of around £1.92 million which can be won on either game and is rising all the time. When a player wins this jackpot in either game, the progressive jackpot for both games will be reset to £1.5 million.

]]> http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/080808-is-lucky-day-for-online-slots-players/feed/ The Legality of Online Gambling in the US http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/the-legality-of-online-gambling-in-the-us/ http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/the-legality-of-online-gambling-in-the-us/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:41:00 +0000 admin http://www.casinogamesclub.co.uk/?p=3 The ban on online casinos in the USA badly affected several online casinos who were forced to shut down their US businesses.  Many British companies saw their revenues fall dramatically as they were forced to leave the world’s biggest internet market.

The Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA) came into law in the USA in 2006.  The law relating to internet gambling is extremely complicated but I will try to make some sense of it.  Each separate state has its own gambling laws in addition to the UIGEA.  The UIGEA doesn’t actually ban online gambling outright but makes money transactions over the internet from the act of gambling illegal.  However, US operators are allowed to offer punters, horse racing and fantasy sports betting as well as online lotteries.  Overseas internet sportsbooks as well as online casinos are banned from accepting payments from customers in the USA.

This has led to strong international disagreements between the USA and its trading partners most notably the EU.  There has been international pressure for the USA to lift its restrictions on online gambling.

Many of the US gambling community are backing Barack Obama for President in the forthcoming presidential election as they feel he is more likely to reverse the UIGEA than his rival John McCain.

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