Manchester wins Super Casino Bid

Yes its Manchester that has won the UKs first Super Casino license, this is great news for my home town, also with the recent news that the BBC will be moving there head quarters to Manchester and now the area will get Europes largest Land based Casino.

The Manchester Casino bid organisers promised £265 million of investment in the deprived Beswick area where the casino would be located, saying 2,700 direct and indirect jobs will be created by the development.

The new Manchester super casino will host 1,250 unlimited jackpot fruit machines as well as table games such as blackjack, roulette, poker, craps and many others.


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Staff at all Grosvenor Casinos call a Strike

Croupiers, cashiers, valets and restaurant staff at all Grovesnor Casinos across the UK staged a walk out yesterday in protest at pay, this 24 hour walkout started on Thursday morning.

A spokesperson from the Transport and General Workers Union said that there had been no headway made in resolving the row over a 3.5 percent pay offer.

Transport and General Workers Union said that around 350 took part in the 24 hour workout, although management said that they were disappointed in the action of some staff and the actual number of strikers was 73.

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32RED RECORD JACKPOT WIN

32 Red Casino celebrated one of the biggest ever jackpot wins at an online casino, after the King Cashalot slot machine was hit for over GBP1million thats around USD1.9m

The Australasian female player was a VIP member at 32Red and was at home late on Tuesday evening when she started to play at one of her favourite online casinos. Beleve it or not but this was the 32nd time she had visited 32Red since joining and within a few minutes, she was an instant millionaire as the five King Cashalot symbols slotted into place – winning her a massive £1,000,641 ($1,987,698) for a bet of only £2.25!

She said of her win… ‘I still can't believe it. I don't think it has sunk in. I'm numb! I remember almost in slow motion how the kings dropped into place and the jackpot window appeared. I'm still finding it difficult to believe that such good fortune could happen to me. Thank you 32Red!’

Mr Ed Ware, CEO and founder of 32Red was overjoyed by the news of the jackpot win, which will go down as one of the biggest in history…

He went on to say, "Everyone at 32Red is delighted at the good fortune bestowed upon one of our players. For this to be one of the biggest ever wins online is just amazing. Add to that it is the 32nd time she has played at 32Red, you have to say that 32 really is a lucky number for her!, Not only is this the biggest ever online jackpot win at 32Red, more importantly it means that our customer can now celebrate Australia Day this Friday in style!"

King Cashalot is just one of over twenty progressive jackpots available at 32Red, all of which are part of the Microgaming Progressive Jackpot Network - the largest online progressive jackpot offering on the internet.

Roger Raatgever, CEO of Microgaming said, "This latest King Cashalot payout is the highest sum ever won on the Microgaming Progressive Jackpot Network and delivers our eleventh millionaire in less than four years. Our progressive has paid out over $225m in winnings during this period and with the Mega Moolah progressive now sitting at over a million dollars, it won’t be long before there is another player joining the millionaire club."

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NEW UK GAMBLING LAWS

A recent survey conducted TouGov and pkr.com has revealed that there is little public resistance to the UK government plans to license and regulate gambling online as part of the new Gambling Act which comes into force in September.

The results of this survey are a part of a Poker UK 2007 report issued by online poker site, pkr.com, this servey saw 63 percent of 4,630 respondents supporting Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell’s policy to regulate the online gambling industry from within the UK.

These new laws even received backing from non-gamblers with over 50 percent agreeing with government plans and only 14 percent not agreeing with the new proposals. The survey also pointed out that licensing and regulation plays a small role in players’ choice of online gaming sites. Nearly two thirds of those surveyed, 63 percent, believe that it is crucial for an online gambling site to have a licence, while only 5 percent see licensing as ‘not important at all.’


The British public also put in a vote of confidence for the future of UK casino industry with 70 percent saying they would trust a poker room or casino that is licenced in the UK.

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32 Red Best Casino 2006

Once again 32Red has been voted the Best Online Casino by top watchdog and player advocate, Casinomeister. That makes an unprecedented four times in a row 32 Red Casino has won the top award, which goes to prove theu are really the best in the business when it comes to casino player experience and customer service!

32Red is the UK’s favourite Online Casino, www.32Red.com was today celebrating after scooping the top gong from the online casino industry’s leading watchdog and player advocate, Casinomeister.

Following on from being awarded ‘Best Online Casino’ in 2003, 2004 and 2005, 32Red have now added the 2006 prize to make it an unprecedented four years in succession.

Bryan Bailey of Casinomeister today commented that 32Red fully deserved this year’s accolade and their success as one of the leading online casinos… ‘32Red continuously stands above their peers and competitors as a top casino.’

He added that the real reason behind 32Red’s success came down to the people behind the scenes… ‘It's the people behind the casino. 32Red are trailblazers of transparency in an industry full of secrecy and cloaking devices. Long before it became vogue to go public, 32Red made no secret who was behind this well oiled machine.’

CEO and founder of 32Red Plc, Ed Ware, said of the win… ‘To win this top accolade for the fourth year in succession is a truly amazing feat. This award is a testament to the hard work put in by all the staff here at 32Red. Our goal is to make the player experience at 32Red Online Casino the best you can possibly get and as we now go into 2007, it is now our challenge to continue to do so.'

Ware also thanked the Casinomeister himself, Bryan Bailey for the recognition of the work put in by 32Red over the last four years… ‘I’d like to thank Bryan on behalf of everyone at 32Red for this award. I would also like to thank every one of our customers for their patronage and their kind words.’

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BSkyB set to buy 365 Media Group

BSkyB is set on the purchase of 365 Media Group, owner Bet365, Casino365 and others, the news is that almost 60 per cent of 365’s shareholders giving the thumb's up for the deal.

365 Media Group also owns and operates gambling websites such as online casinos clubonthepark and totalbetcasino.
If this deal were to be agreed, BSkyB would gain access to 365 Mrdia group's extensive network and access to a web audience of over nine million users. This deal would significantly increase BSkyB’s market share within the online entertainment sector.

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New William Hill Cubis 3D Slot Game

These 19 new great casino games from Wiliam Hill Casino, including a world first, Cubis is the first 3D Slot Machine game.

CryptoLogic's Vice President, a Mr Justin Thouin says that this new Casino Software Development is our first casual game slot, based on Bejeweled, the fast-paced, gem-matching game, has quickly become a player favourite. With all of the success of Cubis online, on phones and on iPod, we expect a tremendous reception for this brand new slot, too.

The slot version of Cubis will feature a three-dimensional board, intense graphics, a variety of game backgrounds and hidden secrets. With up to 15 winning lines and possible payouts worth 50,000 coins, players can wager as little as one penny to as much as $300 per play.

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MP Calls for Cap on Gamging Credit

An MP from Scotland has called for all credit card companies to place a spending limit on the amount that online gamblers can spend online.
Scottish, Angus MP Mike Weir, from the Scottish National Party (SNP), has called for a credit limit to be set at GBP1,000 a week, and also asked that gambling sites set a limit of one credit card per person.
This plea comes after a spate of cases where gambling addicts have spent thousands of pounds using other people’s cards.

APACS, which represents the card industry, say there are significant technical problems with the idea and see the solution in treating the player’s addiction at their source.

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Big Winner at InterCasino

One lucky InterCasino member has won big time playing the great online casino game Progressive Caribbean Stud Poker, InterCasino member HMDS won GBP159,535.

Its been a good ten years since InterCasino first started hit the internet and now they are one of the biggest names in the gaming industry, offering all the classic casino games and slots.

With big prizes being won every day and progressive jackpots over the GBP5 million mark, InterCasino is a first class UK Online Casino

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Poker offers at Titan Poker

Make the final table three times in a row at any participating tournaments at Titan Poker and you will play in The Tournament Titan - a freeroll with $1,000,000 in Guaranteed Prizes, and all this will be limited to only twenty players!
Only 20 players will compete for ALL the cash in The Tournament Titan, and you can be one of those twenty players!.

All you have to do is make the final table three times in a row at any of our participating tournaments! The first 20 players to achieve this will compete against each other in The Tournament Titan - a freeroll with a guaranteed $1,000,000 prize pool.

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HSBC TAX ON GAMBLERS

HSBC credit card users will soon see a new bank charge on the statment, the bank’s planned increase in card fees across all online and telephone gambling, bringing it in line with its financial service competitors.
From the 1st February this year, HSBC card holders will be charged the cash advance rate rather than the normal purchase rate, meaning that they will immediately pay interest at between 21.9 percent and 27.8 percent instead of between 15.9 percent and 22.9 percent.
However, customers will not be charged a one-off fee, which is applied to other cash transactions such as buying foreign currency.

A spokesperson from HSBC said "This is one of a number of changes we have made to our credit card offering recently to bring us in line with the competition".
There is currently no uniform policy on charging for online gambling across the UK credit card industry, with providers such as Lloyds and Barclaycard charging such spending at their lower purchase rates, whilst MBNA and RBS/NatWest and Egg charge at the cash advance rate.

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Playtech Striks a Deal with PartyGaming

Playtech the online gambling software producer has announced that it has struck a deal with PartyGaming to power the gambling websites that PartyGaming has agreed to buy from Empire and Intercontinental Online.
A statement from Playtech said, 'Under the terms of the four-year agreement, the online gaming websites currently operated by Empire and Intercontinental will remain exclusively on the Playtech platform.'
The websites that are being acquired by PartyGaming in this business move, include NoblePoker.com, Clubdicecasino.com, EnterCasino.com, MissBingo.com, FairPoker.com and MagicBoxCasino.com.
The deal between Playtech and PartyGaming is conditional on the successful acquisition of Empire by PartyGaming which was officially announced last week. PartyGaming confirmed that it was to buy the gaming assets of Empire Online for GBP19.2 million and Intercontinental Online for £GBP14 million.
My Mitch Garber from Partygaming explained, These acquisitions represent excellent value for our shareholders and are consistent with our strategy.

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