The online casino Smart Live Casino has just launched the latest product that will be added to their existing array of live-dealer casino games.
Smart Live Casino’s main area of expertise is in delivering live dealer games and content in real time. The range of games is broadcast via the Internet and on satellite television on Sky TV.
The company has just added live baccarat to its stable of available games.
Live roulette and blackjack have already been extremely successful for the company and in particular the television aspect of the output has brought in many new players that would not have found the games via the Internet. Anther interesting aspect to the approach of this company is how it has utilized the lower cost of satellite broadcasting to make niche content viable in a medium normally associated with high running costs and a need to keep the subject matter broad.
InternetSafety.com has just announced that it has developed that it has developed and currently is powering the new BetStopper software for the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation (NSGC).
NSGC are offering this as a free tool to families in Nova Scotia in an effort to try to stop online youth gambling.
This is the first software of its kind that is specifically targeted at this type of Internet activity. BetStopper utilizes InternetSafety.com’s award-winning web filtering technology and is designed to prevent users from accessing online gambling sites.
There will still be some need for interaction at installation from the parents to set appropriate filters but if successful, the company hopes the give the software a broader rollout in the future.
World Poker Tour(R) (WPT) which has been a leader in the area of land-based poker tournaments all over the world is at it again.
WPT has just published details of its highly anticipated 8th season in the United States. This promises to be their largest undertaking to date and follows a steady trend of growth over the soon to be eight year run of the series.
This time out it will be a 12-stop tour. The tour is going to be filmed in High Definition this time. From a television perspective the tour will be broadcast on Fox Sports in the United States. The whole new season starts off next month at The Bellagio in Las Vegas.
It would seem that The Hard Rock Group has had enough success in Europe with it’s restaurant chain that it is now finalizing plans to build hotel-casino resorts on the continent as well.
The rollout of this new project will begin with a Las Vegas style casino and hotel in Bezenyne. This location is very central and about 150 miles from Budapest in Hungry.
As a rule of thumb, Europe has been much more progressive in it’s approach to legislation and regulation of both online and offline casino operations. The clarity in the legalities of operation would appear to have been a factor in the Hard Rock Group’s decision.
This is thought to be only the first of a range of similar ventures that the company is considering in Europe over the next few years.
The Online Casino 32Red and Swansea City Football Club have just concluded the largest shirt sponsorship deal in the club’s history.
The Gibraltar based casino is reported to have paid a very significant six figure sum to secure the deal.
The is not the first foray into football club shirt sponsorship for the online casino.
32Red previously were the shirt sponsor of the Premiership club Aston Villa from 2006 until 2008. It seems that the online casino company was keen to get back into football sponsorship and had been talking to a number of other clubs before finally settling a deal with Swansea City.
Barney Frank is probably the most knowledgeable and well read American politician when it comes to the legal quagmire that the online casino industry faces in terms of trying to operate in The United States.
Unfortunately, Frank is also the head of the US House Financial Services Committee. In case you hadn’t noticed, there is a massive recession underway in the industrialized world and in the U.S. this is one of the committees that is central.
Needless to say, Mr. Frank has his hands full with larger matters than the legal woes of online casinos right at the moment. This situation does seem to set back the idea of any action being taken in the short term to alleviate the current unworkable situation.
Tribeca Tables, the online poker software solutions provider, recently completed a deal with Gambling Federation the online casino company (GFED). Under the terms of the deal GFED will distribute the Tribeca software to operations with licenses from GFED.
Commodore Casino which is one of the flagship brands in the GFED stable will the the first operation to make the switch to Tribeca software.
This deals positions Tribeca as a major software solution provider within the industry as it adds GFED to its list of other major clients such as Victor Chandler and Golden Palace.
The Société des Bains de Mer (SBM), holder of the game monopoly in Monaco has just posted its results for the financial year running 2008-2009.
One of the main headline figures to emerge from this particular report is the drop in turnover of approximately 19%.
Two of the main factors that need to be taken into account in the context of assessing these figures are the global economic downturn and the ban on smoking that came into place in Monaco in November 2008.
While the international financial woes have done damage to businesses everywhere, the Monaco casinos also had to deal with the additional problem of the introduction of the smoking ban as well.
Some details are starting to emerge on the upcoming film about online casinos starring Leonardo DiCaprio. While the project for the most part is still shrouded in mystery some stuff has started to circulate.
It now seems that DiCaprio is going to be producing this project as well. He is currently still doing some work on a Martin Scorsese movie to be released 2 October 2009.
There is still no word on a shooting schedule but the fact that he is producing the online casino movie would suggest a very central involvement rather than just an actor for hire approach to the project.
A leading provider of television and Internet bingo software solutions Parlay Entertainment has launched the Entraction online bingo network.
This network is more geared towards the European market. It encompasses such brands as Play Cherry.
Because of its European bias the network offers games that are not only based in English. It also offers its games in a multitude of other European languages including German, French, Swedish, Finnish and many others.
The parent company also runs a network of poker sites based in Malta so with that experience it will be very interesting to see how they do in their expansion into other areas of the online gaming industry.
