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Contrary to many reports in the mainstream media the US$4.1M Mega Moolah jackpot was not won at US-Blackjack.  One of the reasons for this is simple – US-Blackjack does not even offer the game!

The controversy of the winning Mega Moolah jackpot was finally settled by Microgaming software group, after CEO Roger Raatgever issued a statement this weekend.

Mega Moolah’s $4.1 million jackpot hit on the Summertime slot game last week, spurring a number of online casinos to claim that the win originated at their sites.

Some of the Microgaming partner sites to claim the win were Blackjack Ballroom and Crazy Vegas, and confusion continued to reign as gamblers remained unsure about which casino was the correct one.

However, Roger Raatgever finally ended a few days of controversy after he stated this weekend that the winning casino was actually Spin Palace, a member of the Palace Group of casinos.

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Mahjong club would like to congratulate the following players who won seats in the World Series of Mahjong that will take place later this month at the Venetian Resort in Macau.

The Main Event seat was won by Frank Yao from Canada and the Riichi Event seat by Shao-Fu Lu of Taipei – Taiwan.

“I was thrilled when I received the picture below of Shao-Fu Lu taken at the 2008 Asia Mahjong Open where he managed to come first!  The prize for that was $30,000 – we are hoping he tops that with a great win in the 2010 World Series of Mahjong!” said Adriaan Brink – CEO of Mahjong Club.

Winner of the Riichi seat in the Mahjong Club WSOM qualifier

The world’s largest mahjong tournament, the “World Series of Mahjong” (“WSOM”), will return to Macao this summer for the third time! The long-awaited tournament will be held from August 19-22, 2010 at the prestigious The Venetian® Macao-Resort-Hotel. Registration begins today at The Venetian Macao, the official registration venue for WSOM. Mahjong players do get ready to step on the glamorous mahjong “Avenue of Stars” and enjoy the thrilling experience!

The third World Series will include two separate tournaments, namely, the 3-day single-elimination Main Event World Championship and the US$1,000 buy-in Riichi Rules Tournament. The buy-in fee for the Main Event is HK$5,000 (US$650), plus HK$500 registration fee. The second World Series paid out the highest US$1 million prize money in the mahjong history, while the prize pool for this year will be based on the number of participants in each exciting tournament. The top 32 places in the Main Event will be awarded prize money according to the rankings.

The Main Event Champion will receive the top cash prize, a World Champion necklace, an unique Venetian Mask sponsored by The Venetian Macao, and a free invitation to the fourth WSOM Main Event in 2011. All tournaments are open to any mahjong player who is at least 21 years of age and ready for the money and fame. The WSOM will employ a simplified World Series of Mahjong Rules® for the 13-tile game, and a scoring system that is fair to all different players in the world.

For more information on Mahjong Club :

www.mahjongclub.com

Adriaan Brink – adriaan@mahjongclub.com

For more information on the World Series of Mahjong :

Anna Leung (852) 9667-2487 and (852) 2521-0860, anna@starbiz.com.hk,

Nicola Lau (852) 9673-9372 and (852) 2512-2966 , nicola@starbiz.com.hk

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22 April 2010 - Scottish-born Grant Fraser (30) and a married dad of two, has just been appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of VueTec Ltd, the company that owns and operates the hugely successful online casino, DublinBet.com.  VueTec Ltd is the company behind the revolutionary DISTANCE GAMING™ software that allows customers the ability to bet in a live casino online from the comfort of their own home.

Just nine years ago, Grant graduated from the University of St Andrews not knowing what career path to take. Today, he is one of the youngest deputy CEO’s in Scotland.

Grant has previously worked for CR Smith, Setanta Sports and Dog Digital before taking up his current post. On his new DublinBet.com venture, Grant explains: “I’m really excited to take DublinBet to the next level and I want to create the best possible team. I plan to surround myself with people that are in some ways better than me! Success breeds success and I also subscribe to the adage that hard work pays great rewards.”

Grant’s first job has made a lasting impression. “I was part of the first-ever CR Smith Graduate programme. Owner Gerrard Eadie was a huge influence on me. I learned everything there was to know about how to run a successful business from one of the best entrepreneurs in the country.”

At Dog Digital in Glasgow, Grant gained valuable experience in the world of the web, which has made the unique opportunity of DublinBet.com even more appealing to him.  He joined VueTec after being impressed with the revolutionary software that makes the DublinBet experience truly unique.

Any DublinBet customer can go online and take part in live games going on within the highly respectable Fitzwilliam Casino & Card Club in Dublin.  This can be for ‘play credits’ (for fun) or for real money.

“It is not a “virtual casino” but a proper brick & mortar casino with a great atmosphere. When you choose the game you want to play – whether it is roulette, blackjack or another one of their exciting live games – it is actually being played in the Fitzwilliam Club at that exact moment.

All live results are determined from a real game and are not computer generated. Consequently, customers trust the results and it is no surprise that DublinBet.com is growing rapidly across Europe and the world. DublinBet strongly promote safe and responsible gambling with a strict over-18 policy in operation.

To relax, Grant loves golf, football and tennis although with both his children being less than two he seldom gets the chance to play these days!

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Leading US facing online casino US-Blackjack.com has made the leap to industry leader Realtime Gaming software.

“We had a great launch with our initial software” said Casino Manager Jason Field, “but in the end we wanted to offer the much wider choice of games and superior game play that you can only get with the RTG software”.

Featuring many variants of Blackjack including Vegas Blackjack, European Blackjack, Pontoon, Face up 21, Match play 21, Super 21 and the Perfect Pairs add-on the new casino has a full and comprehensive blackjack suite.

Add to this Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, War, Red Dog, Texas Hold’em Bonus Poker, TR Card Poker, Vegas 3 Card Rummy, American and European Roulette, Craps and Sic Bo and the range of table games is impressive.

With 84 slots and a similar number of Video Poker variants, including Deuces Wild, Loose Deuces, Bonus Poker, Jacks or Better and Double Jackpot; US-Blackjack.com now delivers a quality and comprehensive selection of casino games.

For fast game play, player friendly game odds, superior game odds and friendly customer support there is really no better place to play than US-Blackjack.com.

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The global recession has caused a lot of turmoil in the finances of governments over the last year. Radical times call for radical ideas and governments all over the world are looking for stable ways to generate revenue on an ongoing basis into the future.

A lot of the old certainties about what types of revenue generating and taxation can be relied upon have been swept away and this situation is causing governments to look beyond their traditional taxation base for answers to the difficult questions.

The online casino industry has a couple of outstanding features in this regard. While online casino revenues have been down over the last year, the industry has shown that it can perform better than most in a recession and also unlike a lot of other types of online business, the industry does tend to generate a good number of jobs wherever operations are based.

Gibraltar as an example has benefited greatly from providing an attractive regulatory and taxation environment for the online casino industry. Will 2010 be the year that we see other jurisdictions start to compete as a base for the industry as well?

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Although no solid figures have come out yet, industry sources suggest that blackjack has been very popular in ration to other game options over the Christmas period.

One thing that there has been plenty of in recent time in the online casino industry is new games, branded games and variations of traditional games.

While the vast majority of this would come under the banner of being a marketing exercise, the ongoing level of interest in the classic games such as blackjack in the face of all this additional competition is remarkable.

Nor is this simply a trend that has emerged over the Christmas period. This follows a line that we have been seeing for some time now where traditional games such as blackjack and roulette have been holding up very well in terms of consumer interest despite all of the newer alternatives vying for attention in the marketplace.

The new year may bring all sorts of uncertainties for the online casino industry but it would seem that consumers can sill be relied upon to reach for the classics.

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One thing that most people don’t expect from online casinos is to have their losses returned but that is exactly what has happened as a yet unnamed online casino has agreed to return 500 thousand Euro.

There are some other important parts to the equation. The money was gambled by an employee of an (also) unnamed company. It would now seem that this particular employee is a problem gambler and had embezzled the money from the company.

While the situation of the the online casino agreeing to return the money is unusual, the circumstances surrounding the incident have made it both potentially a legal and public relations nightmare scenario.

Swift movement on the part of the online casino has headed of both these problems and when if the casino is eventually named their action may actually turn out to be a very smart move as most of the reporting of this incident so far has been very positive.

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Due to the optimism surrounding the possibility of the introduction of a regulatory environment in The United States at some stage during 2010, we have seen quite a bit of activity lately from companies looking to get a foothold fro entry into the market if and when it materializes.

The Greek online gambling and online casino company, Intralot, is the latest operator to take this kind of position by buying a stake in U.S. gaming company CyberArts. Intralot also has the option to buy a controlling share in the future.

Intralot is a very large operator whose interests run well beyond just the online casino sector and into sports betting and lotteries as well.

CyberArts does not currently offer services in the U.S. even though it is a U.S. company but the move still positions Intralot to very quickly offer services to U.S. customers if the UIGEA ban is lifted.

With this prospect in place at some stage in the coming year we can expect to see more moves like this from companies hedging their bets on an opening up of The United States for business again at some stage in the near future.

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As the decade draws to a close, the retrospectives of the first decade of the 21st century are everywhere. The prevailing perspective on the decade invariably features something about it being the decade when the Internet went mainstream.

In the broader sense this is certainly a reasonable suggestion. When one looks at the microcosm of the online casino industry, one must be prepared for a much steeper curve of history.

The last decade is the majority of the history of this industry and the rapid nature of change and development is mind boggling at times.

The online casino industry is virtually unrecognizable from what it was a decade ago. As a rough guide to understanding the level of change, perhaps, the idea of a child entering its teenage years would be a better prism through which to view the situation.

Not unlike a teenager, the online casino industry has experienced severe growing pains and as certainly come into fairly heavy conflict with authority.

As the smoke begins to clear, it is not unreasonable to hope that the teenager that is the industry is starting to show signs of becoming a young adult. While regulatory conditions continue to be difficult, there are also signs that broader society is starting to accept this teenager as well.

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Despite all of the difficulties that the online casino has had to face up to recently, it would appear that there is no shortage of new operations getting into the market.

Sources in a number of different jurisdictions suggest that the number of applications to operate online casinos from those bases will be well up in the coming year.

This is based on the number of preliminary applications that are currently in the pipeline and the level of interest from individuals and companies who have not made any formal applications at this time.

There are a number of possible reasons as to why this is happening at this time.

One of the main one is that it is generally accepted wisdom that quite a lot of the regulatory difficulties that the industry has suffered with in recent times will be sorted out in 2010.

The hope on this front has generated a lot of optimism within the industry and and it would now appear that the optimism is starting to take the shape of real activity on the ground.

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