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This weekend Crazy Slots online casino will be hosting a special online tournament called Weekend Madness. The slots tournament will run from 8.00 PM on Friday June 25 to 7.45 PM on Tuesday June 29.

The online slot game selected for this event is Ja Man. This is an appropriate choice. It is mid summer and the islands of the Caribbean are the perfect place to be. Ja Man has the blue seas and even bluer skies along with golden sands and lush greenery. Players can jive by the beach bar or enjoy the solitude of a secluded beach. The local man and woman will be there to help them. The man will substitute for other symbols and the woman offers a fixed jackpot of 5,000 coins. Ja Man awards up to 25 free spins that can have a multiplier of up to 10 times.

Players at Crazy Slots online casino can participate in the Weekend Madness for an entry fee of $10. They will be given a starting chip stack of $325. If the player’s balance falls below $25, he can rebuy another stack of $325 for a rebuy fee of $10. There is no limit to the number of time that a player can rebuy and hence the scores achieved can be very high. The guaranteed prize pool offered by Crazy Slots online casino for this event is $30,000. The top winner will get $10,000. The second and third place winners will get $2,500 and $1,200 respectively. The prize pool runs very deep. In all 1,000 players will share the prize pool.

There are other online tournaments that will drive players equally crazy. A freeroll tournament will be held from Saturday June 26 to Sunday June 27. There is a nominal rebuy fee of $1.99. The prize pool is $2,500. This will not be disbursed as casino credits but as loyalty points. The designated slot game is Dynasty. Dynasty has a Japanese Samurai theme with some nifty animations during winning combinations. Another online slots tournament especially for low rollers will be held on Friday June 25. This has an entry fee and a rebuy fee of $1.99 and a prize pool of $1,500 casino credits. The slot game is the ever popular X Marks the Spot. Here players can literally go on a treasure hunt with both a free spins round and a bonus game on the second screen.

Crazy Slots online casino is powered by software from Vegas Technology. Though the focus of Vegas Technology is on online slots tournaments, events in blackjack and video poker are offered as well. The online casino is licensed in the gambling jurisdiction of Curacao.

After its recent makeover things have improved for Silver Oak online casino. It has announced that its members are now receiving $500,000 in winnings each month. And since “Spring is in Bloom” with the sun shining and the honey bees doing their business Silver Oak online casino wants to offer something extra to help members grab a share of the fantastic monthly winnings.

This something extra is the Sweeter Than Honey bonus. The bonus is a whopping 160% of the deposits. This spring offer is only available to members who have made real money deposits totaling at least $100 in the current month. The bonus code is MAYBEE. Players must remember to enter this code while making the deposit or else the bonus will not be credited to their account. The Sweeter Than Honey bonus is a special one. Normal deposit bonuses have to be wagered 30 times along with the deposit before players can withdraw their winnings. The wagering requirements for the Sweeter Than Honey bonus are only 5 times. This is an opportunity not to be missed. As in the case of other bonuses at Silver Oak online casino, this bonus is not cashable. Players can withdraw only the winnings from the bonus after completing the wagering requirements and not the bonus amount.

Silver Oak online casino invites all members to “claim our Sweeter Than Honey bonus and then start playing your favorite games!” However there is one restriction on the games that can be played. Players must have played at least one Real Series video slot machine to meet the wagering requirements. Actually this is hardly a restriction because the Real Series video slots are the best and most popular offering at Silver Oak online casino. There are over 80 such games to choose from. Silver Oak recommends Triton’s Treasure. However players are free to choose as they want to. Two excellent new Real Series video slots were released last month. One is Hockey Hero with ice hockey as its theme. Audio visual animations depict events from ice hockey games and the Free Spins and Win-Win features offers bonus payouts. Lucky Last is the other video slot and has the popular Irish theme. The newer Real Series video slots have two randomly triggered progressive jackpots, whereas the older slots had only one.

Silver Oak online casino is powered by software from Realtime Gaming and licensed in the gambling jurisdiction of Costa Rica. Another reason for the recent increase in its popularity is the enhancement of the welcome bonus. Now the welcome bonus offered is 100% of the deposit subject to a maximum of $1,000 for the first ten deposits. Therefore new players can avail of up to $10,000 as free money in all.

Aladdin’s Gold Casino has good news for the players, it offers special bonus programs for wagering. But in contrast to the most part of such promotions, this one covers all games you can find at the casino. That’s why is the great way to enjoy your favorite games and get the prizes. You can participate in this action from the 12th till the 14th of March.
Speaking about this promotion we should mention it consists of two bonus sets. The first of them is used for wagering on scratch cards, slots and keno. You will get 60% of your deposit up to $1,000. The next stage is the 50 bonus coupons which give you a chance to win up to $50,000 of a week bonuses. The online casino has the reasonable system of wagering requirements, you have to make the deposit for 25 times, before you withdraw money. All casino games take part in this bonus program, so you can get bonuses playing four kinds of scratch cards (Hot Dice, Lucky 8s, 5 Diamond Blackjack and Magic 7s), slot news (Golden Lotus and Triton’s Treasure) and so on.
The second bonus set relates to such popular games as video poker, blackjack and table games. The size of the bonus is 45% from the sum of your deposit up to $1,000. You will also have 50 coupons bonus, but you need at least 50 deposits till the moment you will be able to get money. You can try several video poker versions such as Pick Em, 7 Stud or Mystery Bonus.

Island Stud Poker can be called the most popular online poker game of the last weekend. This exiting version of poker offers great jackpot. One lucky player has won the main prize, which is equal to $104,834. This payout is the first which has been hit this year.
As a rule the top jackpot of Island Stud Poker is won once a year, but in fact there are no any limits. The largest prize which has been hit before is $94,000. This game has much in common with the games in the traditional land based casinos, in other words you have to have the royal flush to get the jackpot. Certainly it’s not easy, but playing Island Stud Poker you have some more opportunities to win the prize. You need to hit strait flush, four of a kind, full house or flush in order to get some part of the top jackpot, the payouts for the mentioned combinations are not so high, but also very attractive. You can try this game only visiting Online Vegas Casino, which works on the Vegas Technology software platform.
Vegas Technology is one of the leading software developing companies, at the online casinos you can find such popular games as blackjack, roulette, various slots and many others. Online Vegas Casino is famous for its weekend tournaments, it provides large amount of exiting games and gives you the opportunity to win nice prizes. This recent payout in Island Stud Poker is the remarkable event, but you can find more interesting games in this casino.

For the fifth time in the past twenty years, voters in the state of Ohio faced a referendum on the introduction of casino gaming in the state. The previous four times, the measure failed, even as neighboring states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia expanded access to slot machines and table games, pulling in Ohioans and their dollars across state lines.

On Tuesday, voters passed the measure, Issue Three, which would allow for companies to establish casinos in the state. The referendum passed by a margin of fifty-three percent to forty-seven percent. The measure would create zones for casinos to start up near the state’s major metropolitan areas of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, and the state capital, Columbus. Also, the new amendment would set a one-third tax rate for casino operators and specifies how the influx of new government revenue would be spent.

Dan Gilbert, owner of the National Basketball Association’s Cleveland Cavaliers, was one of the main backers of the referendum. He and his partners in the casino plan paid for numerous advertisements that promised an influx of over thirty thousand new jobs if the measure passed. With the diminished economy, the reduced tax base and a double-digit unemployment rate facing the state, voters appeared to make their decision based on such promises.

With his recent victory, Mr. Gilbert has announced that he is planning on “lighting (Ohio) up like Las Vegas”. After the state establishes its gaming board, he plans to break ground on new casinos in the state within the next twelve months. He estimated that he and his partners, including casino firm Penn National Gaming, Inc., spent over US$35 million on the ad campaign to get the measure passed.

Opponents to the measure are still expressing their dismay at what they see as a blight on the state. A spokesperson for one anti-gambling faction stated that the voters made their decision out of economic despair rather than on the merits of casino gaming. Another voiced their fears that the introduction of casino gaming would increase crimes such as theft, prostitution and assault in the areas near the casinos.

If you’re a big fan of blackjack, then you will likely want to have a go at blackjack tournaments, which offers an added dimension of sociable fun, not to mention greater winnings minus the risk factor. When you’re playing against other players, you can’t really say the casino is cheating you. Just like bonuses, while most online casinos will offer free roll slots tournaments and video poker, Blackjack is usually left off the tournament schedule. What makes one online blackjack casino’s tournament offering better than another is generally a larger selection of tournaments - namely, both single table and multi-table tournaments

If you’re looking for one of the best selections of online blackjack tournaments and a good chance at staking claim to guaranteed tournament pots, US-facing Rushmore Casino’s Blackjack Bowl tournaments are the way to go. First off, for anybody unfamiliar with the Blackjack Bowl, it’s one of the longest running and largest blackjack tournaments offered at an online casino.

For Rushmore, this is the third season of the Blackjack Bowl, in essence making it Blackjack Bowl III. Unlike a normal slots or blackjack tournament lasting only a few days, or even a couple of months for that matter, Blackjack Bowl spans twenty-one months. No matter that the tournament has already started (there are roughly over 120 days left), because tt’s an ongoing tournament that awards cash winnings along the way, with a prize pool hovering around the $50,000 mark.

Blackjack Bowl III is broken into three stages, the first of which ia a collection of three weekly tournaments every Monday, Thursday and Saturday. Monday’s tournament is called the $7 Playoff and has a $7 entry fee. The prize pool is $25, with $15 going to first place, $7.50 going to second and $2.50 to third. Thursday’s tournament has a $14 entry and a $50 prize pool. Saturday’s contest has a $21 entry and divvies out $75 to the top three finishers. It may not sound like much, but this is just the beginning. Furthermore, and most importantly, the top winners get to move onto the second stage of the tournament. Think of the weekly tournaments as a great way to experience tournament action while winning a few extra bucks at the same time.

As mentioned, there is a second stage of the Blackjack Bowl III tournament, and it’s called the Bowl of the Week. This is when the prize pools start to sound more interesting. Every Sunday night, the Bowl of the Week takes place, offering a $1,000 prize pool, with first place pocketing $420, first runner up receiving $250, third place nabbing $150, fourth place earning $100 the fifth place finisher on the winner’s list getting $80. For players who did not win seats during the weekly qualifying tournaments, buy-ins can be had for $55.

The third stage of the Blackjack Bowl III fittingly is the Bowl of the Month. With a $2,000 prize pool, this tournament is double the pot of the Bowl of the Week, thus giving out double the winnings for the top five finishers. Like before the top five finishers of each weekly bowl will be given a free seat to the Bowl of the Month, while buy-ins can be had for $99.

As you might have surmised, all of this leads to the final event of the Blackjack Bowl III. This is the Blackjack Bowl, and has a massive prize pool of $21,000. Again, all the players who made the winner’s list for all the preceding weekly and monthly bowl tournaments will receive free entry into the ultimate blackjack tournament, with the top 12 finishers receiving cash winnings and $7,000 going to the first place winner alone. Even if you did not participate in any of the weekly and monthly blackjack bowls, entry into the grand finale can be bought with a $250 entry fee.

Ready to kick the dealer and casino out of the equation and get started competing in Blackjack tournaments against other players? We highly recommends Rushmore Casino.

Casino profits skyrocket in the first quarter of 2009.

A report appearing in Bloomergs news service this week seems to suggest that the gambling drought that has plagued Asia for a long time could finally be receding. Macau’s online casino returns for the first quarter of 2009 escalated, indicating resurgence from a slump prompted by the global financial downturn and visa restrictions obligated on visitors from mainland China.

In comparison to the last quarter of 2008’s 24.1 billion Patacas, this years first quarter’s earnings escalated by 8.1 percent to 26 billion Patacas ($3.2 billion), according to data obtained from the Macau Gaming Inspection Bureau Website. There was a 13 percent profit slump from the first quarter 2008, when the casinos reaped a whirlwind record 29.8 billion Patacas.

The global financial turndown and visa restriction forced by the Chinese authorities in an attempt to curb gambling by mainland citizens has really damaged business prospects for Macau Operators. The former Portuguese colony has seen casino earnings slump for three quarters in a row through December 2008.

One of the worst hit operators, Las Vegas Sands Corp., has indicated this month it is contemplating to resume construction of its building projects which stalled in Macau in November because of the anticipated windfall in casino earnings that are improving tremendously.

Authorities from Guangdong, Macau and Hong Kong convened in February to consider easing visa restrictions.

When the World Series of Poker reached their “November Nine” last month, the poker media focused their attention on chip leader Darvin Moon and veteran pro Phil Ivey. At the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker Main Event, another member of that final table is making a story of his own. Steven Begleiter leads the event with 426,100 in chips. He also led at the end of Day 1.

Mr. Begleiter’s closest competition is poker pro Prahlad Friedman with 382,700 chips. Mr. Friedman has never made a WPT final table, but he does have a WSOP bracelet from the 2003 US$1500 buy-in pot-limit hold’em event. He has also been featured on several WSOP broadcasts over the last few years, the most infamous of which involved a disagreement with poker pro Jeffrey Lisandro during the 2006 WSOP Main Event.

Another notable poker pro in contention for his first WPT title is Billy Baxter. Mr. Baxter has seven WSOP bracelets, with his most recent coming in the US$1500 buy-in Razz event in 2002. While most of his experience comes from draw poker games during the 1970s and 1980s, Mr. Baxter does have experience at a WPT final table; he finished third at last year’s WPT Invitational and earned US$20,000.

When play restarts on Monday, seventy-three of the two hundred seventy-nine who began the tournament will take their seats. Only the final twenty-seven survivors remaining will see a return on their investment, with the last six to make their appearances on the TV final table. The final table for the WPT Legends of Poker US$10,000 buy-in Main Event will start Wednesday 26 August and will be broadcast early next year.

The top prize will be US$1,009,000 and an entry into the US$25000 buy-in World Poker Tour Championship Event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

As we predicted last month, the famous but cash-famished World Poker Tour has been sold. Only a week after surprising analysts with positive Q2 numbers, the WPT has found a new home with Gamynia Limited. There was a time when the WPT’s estimated value was in the hundreds of millions, but sources are reporting the final price for the brand was a mere $9.075 million plus a small share of future revenues.

While the sale won’t be official until it is ratified, 39% of stockholders have already given their blessing. WPT President Steven Lipscomb was playing it coy with reporters last month, but he released a statement on Monday supporting the move, saying that Gamynia’s resources would help the WPT to “realize its full potential.” The Tour’s current but soon to be former owner, WPT Enterprises, announced that they will use proceeds from the sale toward non-poker related business ventures.

WPT fans that were concerned about the future of the tour can rest easy. Gamynia is expected to take an aggressive approach toward revitalizing and expanding the brand. They’ve already tapped leading marketing and consulting firm Hardway Investments (the same people that brought us Titan Poker, Europa Casino, and Casino Tropez) to helm the brand’s comeback. Since Season Eight of the WPT is already underway, there won’t be any major changes until Q4 when the sale is finalized.