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 Best Online Casinos Archive (March 2005)
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Online Casinos Get Cost-Effective Payment System from Chimera
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| Online gaming software provider and e-commerce services company Chimera Technology Corp. announced that, starting this month, it is releasing a new payment system for licensees. The new system, called the "724Pay" program, allows licensees to issue special debit cards to their clients, providing them with an immediate payout option. |
| Thursday, 31 March 2005 |
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Online Casino Payment Service Adopts Identification Aid to Stop Fraud and Underage Gambling
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| UK payment service provider DataCash announced today that it signed an agreement with communications solutions provider BT to license the latter's URU™ identification service. URU will help online casinos using DataCash payment services to thwart underage gambling attempts and fraud. |
| Wednesday, 30 March 2005 |
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Macau: Casino capital of the East and perhaps the world
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| Macau is on its way to become the new gambling headquarters of the world, nabbing the title from current holder Las Vegas. Already this year, Macau is expected to exceed Vegas in gambling revenue, which has helped the Chinese-ruled nation boast an economic growth rate of 25 percent. |
| Tuesday, 29 March 2005 |
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Casino Data Imaging Makes First Time Sales in Three North American Jurisdictions
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| A provider of data visualization and report writing solutions for the casino industry, Casino Data Imaging (CDI) announced that its flagship product, Casino CAD© v4, was sold to two states in the U.S. as well as one Canadian Province for the first time. |
| Monday, 28 March 2005 |
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UK Online Betting Site Betfair Considers Flotation
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| It seems that with each passing month, an increasing number of online gambling sites are eying stock exchange flotation. UK internet betting portal Betfair is the latest online gambling site to allegedly consider such a move. |
| Sunday, 27 March 2005 |
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Online Skill Game Provider SkillJam Cuts Deal with Certus
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| SkillJam Technologies Corporation, a provider of online skill-games played for cash, signed a licensing agreement with game developer Certus A/S to use Certus brand games on the SkillJam network.The addition of these new games marks SkillJam's attempt to hit the European online skill gaming market, which is expected to take off in the coming years. |
| Saturday, 26 March 2005 |
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UK Gambling Bill Unlikely to Pass in Light of Elections
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| England's much debated gambling bill is unlikely to pass, should Tony Blair go ahead with plans to call for general elections in May. On April 4th or 5th, Blair is expected to visit the Queen, requesting that she dissolve Parliament. |
| Friday, 25 March 2005 |
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Compulsive Gambling in Oregon Affects More Women than Men
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| An Oregon State Agency monitoring compulsive gambling declared that women have surpassed men in rates of gambling addiction. According to the survey, Oregon's compulsive gamblers number 32,000 women and 29,000 men. |
| Thursday, 24 March 2005 |
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Online Gambling Company Bell Rock Gaming Celebrates First Birthday
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| Belle Rock Gaming, an online gaming company, operating seven online casino sites as well as three online poker rooms, is celebrating its first birthday with a number of promotions for players frequenting any of its ten sites. All in all, Bell Rock Gaming is giving away a whopping 3,200,000 gaming credits, with ten players winning 10,000 gaming credits each day. |
| Wednesday, 23 March 2005 |
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Online Casino Getminted Appoints former 888.com Senior Staff Member
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| Online casino site Getminted.com recently appointed Pasquale De Lucia to its senior staff. De Lucia joins Getminted following a three year stint at fellow online casino company, 888.com. His stated duty is to initiate a new High Roller program to reward players for investing big bucks playing Getminted games. |
| Tuesday, 22 March 2005 |
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Online Gambling Site Casino Fortune Chips in for Tsunami Relief
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| Online gambling site CasinoFortune.com recently contributed 40 fishing boats to benefit Sri Lanka's fishing fleet, which suffered major losses during December's Tsunami disaster. In total, Sri Lanka lost more than 22,000 boats to the disaster. |
| Monday, 21 March 2005 |
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Former Casino President's License Reinstated
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| Gary C. DiBartolomeo, the former president of Caesars Atlantic City Hotel Casino is being given a second chance. The gambling executive was banned from the industry four years ago after he was discovered to be hiding a compulsive gambling problem. |
| Sunday, 20 March 2005 |
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Online Sports Betting Comes to Bulgaria with SportingBet and GIG
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| SportingBet, the online sports betting and casino giant, recently expanded its deal with Global Interactive Gaming (GIG) to integrate GIG's services on its Bulgarian site. GIG, a subsidiary of Interactive Systems Worldwide Inc., supplied the Bulgarian site with SportXction(TM), its play-by-play sports betting system. |
| Saturday, 19 March 2005 |
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Online Gambling Legislation Considered in 3 States
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| In the wake of North Dakota's highly publicized online poker legislation, two additional states have received attention for considering online gambling bills of their own. In addition to North Dakota's online poker bill, Illinois and Georgia are considering bills that would allow online lottery play. |
| Friday, 18 March 2005 |
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U.S. Claims Top Spot in International Representation at ICE 2005
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| ATE Online, one of the internet's leading information providers for the casino and gaming industry, recently published attendance statistics for this year's International Casino Exhibition (ICE), which took place this past January at London's Earls Court. |
| Thursday, 17 March 2005 |
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Summit Launches Online Casino Project
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| Summit Entertainment Group, Inc., the budding owner and operator of casinos and entertainment destinations, recently announced plans to launch its first online casino. As part of these plans, Summit sealed a contract with FutureBet Gaming Systems to commence development of its "Summit Online Casino." |
| Wednesday, 16 March 2005 |
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Binion's Says Goodbye to Its Horseshoe Name and Logo
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| The historic Binion's Horseshoe hotel-casino is getting a makeover and a name change. The famous Horseshoe name and insignia are being stripped to make way for the new "Binion's Gambling Hall and Hotel." |
| Tuesday, 15 March 2005 |
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CryptoLogic - a winning hand in Online casinos and Poker
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| CryptoLogic, one of the leading online casino software providers, operating a wide range of superb online casinos on the web, released financial records for the previous year. According to the publicized high figures, the company’s popularity is warranted and online casinos using this software are blossoming with success. |
| Monday, 14 March 2005 |
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Online casino is getting ready for March of madness
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| BetUS.com, one of the more senior licensed online casinos and sports betting organizations in the world, recognized by two prominent jurisdictions, Canada and Costa Rica. Over 500 people are currently numbered among BetUS.com employees who cater security and safety for more than 100,000 casino clients. The members can benefit from Vegas Style online casino games, interactive poker and wagering on a wide variety of sport games. |
| Sunday, 13 March 2005 |
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African Palace scores high on Online Casinos gambling
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| Lots of shining faces were seen after playing at the African Palace, one of the first South African casinos, which scored big time in online casino industry. With players in United States and South Africa and elegant gaming setting the winning combination was proven once again. |
| Saturday, 12 March 2005 |
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Online Casinos are blamed for a customer misidentification
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| International All Sports, the online casino company blames the Commonwealth Bank in a multi-million theft from a Western Australian bank branch, setting forth its negligent internal management. |
| Friday, 11 March 2005 |
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Online Casino customers are bombarded with unfathomable prizes
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| River Bell Online Casino is smoothly penetrating into 2005 joviality of winning routine, started after a season of holidays featured by abundant payouts. Since January 1st, the firm has proudly recorded the most impressive number of Progressive Jackpot payouts. In the lapse of the same period, River Bell Online Casino has managed to bestow the highest number of large distinct payouts, amounting to more than $5 million. |
| Thursday, 10 March 2005 |
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Online casinos bring addiction concerns to many Canadians
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| An intriguing survey on online casino gambling was recently conducted, by The Canadian Press. The results have shown that fifty-six percent are against this leisure, one-quarter had no problem with it and the rest dispersed somewhere in the middle. Those numbers suggest that more than half Canadians seem to think playing for cash is an unacceptable venture, hence online casinos better be blocked. |
| Wednesday, 9 March 2005 |
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Tribal casinos - stricter oversight is a must
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| Indian casinos must have a fortified supervision, since the industry is booming and the U.S. government should strive to prevent the once dominating style of mafia corruption that besieged Las Vegas. Indian casinos have generated a windfall of proceeds that surged from $200 million back in 1998 up to $18 billion found today, which asks for additional scrutiny. |
| Tuesday, 8 March 2005 |
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The great casino merge is gearing up
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| The great merge will occur in the upcoming days if Shareholders from Harrah’s and Caesars Entertainment voice their support on this enterprise. The prominent Grand Casinos in Mississippi might soon be renamed if Harrah Entertainment will eventually adopt their parent company. |
| Monday, 7 March 2005 |
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Las Vegas casino giants are threatened by the lottery intrusion
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| It sounds almost incredible that lottery, the lightest form of casino gambling was vetoed for about 150 years in Las Vegas and only lately the state received a proposal suggesting to remove the long existing ban from the Nevada Constitution. |
| Sunday, 6 March 2005 |
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Pawlenty hits a casino deal with Indian tribes
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| Tim Pawlenty is currently holding negotiations with three Indian tribes on the matter of casino legalization. Up to two metro-area casinos are prospected to rise receiving a proper licensing, tribes in exchange have to free the Legislature from authorizing any more casinos in the near future. |
| Saturday, 5 March 2005 |
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Missouri casinos ousted a man from it's property
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| DeLuna, who's spent 12 years of his life imprisoned on charges associated with mob skimming of gambling revenues yielded from Las Vegas casinos, has been ousted from all the Missouri casinos under the Missouri Gaming Commission regulation. DeLuna is planning to file an appeal on this action, which has to be done within 30 days. |
| Friday, 4 March 2005 |
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No casino licensing – no reason to move into casino industry
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| The governmental deregulation of casino licensing induced Willian Hill, the bookmaker to relinquish his plans of transferring into the world of casino industry. The full attention of chief executive David Harding was concentrated on super-casinos, patiently awaiting the opportunity to make large investments, since the sector was praised as one of the more fruitful in terms of money generating power. |
| Thursday, 3 March 2005 |
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Gambling councilors are staged across Ontario
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| The figures from 2001 which were updated this year show that about 340,000 Ontario residents are suffering from a moderate to severe gambling ailments. Out of those people approximately 80,000 are categorized as compulsive gamblers. |
| Wednesday, 2 March 2005 |
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Alberta hotel hit a deal with Century Casinos
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| This week Century Casinos company has made a transaction with a hotel in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to allow establishing casinos on its property. The company submitted cash on $3.0 million Canadian dollars ($2.4 million) in return for having 56.4% interest. Final arrangements of the procedure are now completed by the Century Resorts Alberta. |
| Tuesday, 1 March 2005 |
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