Belgium has made the decision to change the legislation of gambling en online casinos, in order to comply with the rules of the European Union (EU) they are going to legalise online gambling in order to compete with its land based counterparts. The new rules are so strict, that the European Commission will probably never favour the new casino legislation.
The new legislation, to allow internet gambling in Belgium, is prepared by Secretary for the Coordination of Fraud Prevention, Carl Devlies, and advanced to the EC and Belgium’s judicial review branch.The new legislation should legalise online gambling, but would place strict requirements on licensing. Only land-based casinos who are licensed will be allowed to open an online casino, e.g. if a casino wants sport betting on their site but not on the land based casino, then they are not allowed, which is not fair. The second problem is with foreign online casino companies who want to open a site in Belgium, if they do not have a licensed casino on land, they are not allowed. These problems are against EU regulation. Attorney Perrine Pelleier said: “We question whether the requirement to have a physical presence in Belgium constitutes a restriction on the freedom of establishment guaranteed by European law.” This would ensure that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must block payments to and from gambling sites, even though this action in countries such as America, Australia and other countries also did not work.
PartyCasino.com expects that a record will be broken, while their Gold Mega Jackpot rose to over 1.5 million dollars. To break the record, the Gold Mega Jackpot have to surpass the astonishing amount of 1.571.974 dollar, which was paid to a player on 8th of October 2006.
PartyCasino is one of the best online casinos in the world, with a wide arrange of casino bonus games. A spokesperson for PartyCasino said: “This has really taken us by surprise! We have been monitoring the Gold Mega Jackpot thinking there was a chance that the record could be threatened but it has escalated faster than we ever imagined in the last 48 hours. Now it only needs to grow over 71,974 dollar more to hit the landmark! We thought the record may be broken back in February but this time it is under serious threat!” The Gold Mega Jackpot games available at PartyCasino.com are: The Godfather, Super Star, Super Joker, Super Fortune Wheel, Super Mystic, Gone with the Wind and Mega Fortune Wheel. Online casino PartyCasino.com offers more then 50 games, and pays out more then 10 million dollars every day to online gambling players. They also have licensed slot machines like the recently released Rambo. Do you want a shot at the Gold Mega Jackpot? click the banner, play at PartyCasino, play one of the Gold Mega Jackpot games to get a shot at the online casino bonus jackpot.
CryptoLogic, the leading developer of casino software and casino games has signed a multi year contract with Betfair. Cryptologic will provide Betfair with at least 10 new licensed and unlicensed slot machines. The first games will be available for Betfairs 2 million customers at the end of the 2nd quarter.
Betfair is a software company, which creates transaction exchange software for saver casino gambling, which is used by many company’s, the games will be launched through the Orbis Technology’s Open Bet Fixed Odds Games (FOG) platform. Cryptologic announced a deal with Orbis in December of 2008. Since the first transaction in 2000, Betfair is now handling over 6 million transactions per day for their 2 million customers who gamble online. They can pick their own odds, and even bet when a match is already started. Besides transaction software, Betfair also provides casino games, one of which is Betfair Poker. The online casino games will be playable next to the 75 games already provided by Betfair. The 2 company’s have already worked together in 2004, when Betfair launched their poker site with software of Cryptologic’s subsidiary, WagerLogic Limited. Betfair has been named UK company of the year for the second time. CryptoLogic has more then 280 games and has raked in the Gambling Online Magazine’s Top Casino Software award for the fourth time this year, which is seen as the highest honour in the online casino market.
The Crown Casino in Melbourne Australia, found 36.000 dollar in false casino chips, the casino decided to remove all of the 1000 dollar chips from circulation. An employee detected 36 false chips after thoroughly checking the 1000 dollar chips.
The spokesperson for the Crown Casino, Gary O’Neill says all of the 1000 dollar chips were checked very carefully by employees of the casino gambling company. At the moment 13.700 chips are checked, 36 of which were false. O’Neill said: “Anybody who’s an expert in the detection process could easily pick them up.” The casino has back-up chips for all chip denominations, to keep the chips legitimate the bonus casino has replaced all of the 1000 dollar chips with a different shade of blue. O’Neill says to be clueless of how long the fake chips where in circulation. “We believe they probably weren’t in circulation all that long, but we really don’t have an accurate estimate of how long that they were there. We have sophisticated detection systems. In this case we uncovered the fake 1,000 dollar chips. There are no more fake chips as far as the $1,000 chips are concerned, because we withdrew all of them.” As for the other chips, the investigation is ongoing. Cheating and fraud has always been a big problem for casinos and online gambling, with current day technology, detecting cheating and fraud is a lot easier.
The department of justice in Switzerland received the order, to create a draft legislation, with the purpose of licensing an regulating a small number of internet gambling businesses. They do want to keep the ban on gambling through phone and interactive TV. The change in legislation has to be put before the parliament.
Annalists and experts of online casinos and casino gambling predict, that the new forms of gambling will produce an estimated 21.9 million dollar annually. Online lotteries and gambling online is still allowed under Swiss legislation. The order came after a growing number of illegal online casinos. Gambling in Switzerland, their financial background is one of the best in the world, has changed rapidly the last 8 year when unlimited stakes were introduced for the first time. Casinos in Switzerland are being heavily monitored by the government, casinos are required to pay strict attention to financial, under-age and problem gambling issues.
Party Poker, part of PartyGaming is one of the leading online poker rooms in the world. They are forced to stop their magazine advertising campaign for their guaranteed 2 million dollar prize game, after the ASA (Advertising Standards Agency) regards the ad to be ‘misleading’.
The promotional advertisement contains the text “Players win more at Party Poker” supported with the text “Poker Players Research Ltd Opinion Poll, May 08, sample size 10.000″. The ASA ruled that this is a subjective statement, after receiving only one complaint. The ASA stressed the fact that the statement, generated from a poll of 10.000 Party Poker players, did not give a fair reflection of the public opinion towards the site. Additionally, the ASA noted that the ad suggests that you can generate more profit at Party Poker, then on any other online casino, which is off course unsubstantiated. The ASA also stated: “We noted that the ad stated ‘play for 2 million dollar guaranteed prize pool…’ and considered that readers were likely to understand that they could win more money playing at Party Poker than at other sites. We considered that readers were likely to interpret the claim ‘… people love to gambling and win at PartyPoker.com’ as a subjective one that was based on the expression of the poll participants opinion.” The Party Poker ad is one of the latest online gambling ads to be scrutinised by the ASA, a few weeks ago the Landbroke TV ad was banned.
An internet gambling company based in Panama is being charged in US district court by Station Casino in Las Vegas. The company is called Smart Answer (S.A.), and the lawsuit also states Susana Gonzales as a defendant. Station Casinos claims that S.A. violates the copyright of Station Casino on some of the names of their holding.
The lawsuit stated specifically internet casinos ‘boulderstation’, ’sunsetstation’, and ‘palacestation’ as names that were being used by S.A. The lawsuit states: “The defendant’s actions have disrupted or are intended to disrupt plaintiff’s business by, among other things, redirecting internet users away from plaintiff’s websites and directing them to the online gambling website of the defendants, linked to the infringing domain names.” The sites then proceed to the online gambling website: Golden Casino. The defendants did not respond to the charges against them, but they are familiar with this type of lawsuit. Last year, MGM Mirage filed a complaint against S.A. and was rewarded with a 2.2 million dollar judgement and an injunction against S.A. The company is still to pay the fine, but MGM has stopped pursuing it, they feel it would be too hard to get. It is a shame for the good name of internet casino gambling, that these kind of companies are involved in illegal activities.
