The biggest must for any online or land based casino is the games. (Duh.) Just having games, though, isn’t enough. Any good casino must keep the games coming. Both land based and online casino goers are ever evolving. There is also a wide range of tastes and likes when it comes to casino goers. Some may like the classics. Some may like the high tech, surround sound, three dimensional graphic slot machines that come with their own built in seat. There are some casino goers that are loyal to specific games and their sequels and updates. Still, there are some that want to find a new favorite every time they go to their local casino or visit one online. Some feel the search for new games is just as much fun as actually playing.

The online casino industry knows all too well that they have to keep new games coming in. Online casinos do not have the foot traffic of their land based cousins. There are also know restaurants, shops, bars, shows, or hotel rooms. Online casinos and gambling sites depend almost entirely on the games they offer. In order to keep their patrons happy they must keep them interested with new games. Again, these games can employ the latest technology, make use of the coolest new themes, or be variations on old classics. They can even be games that are exclusive to a particular online casino. Either way the player must never get bored. Once they do they will move onto another casino that has new and different games.

One of the most popular group of online casinos and gambling sites comes from the Fortune Lounge Group. Their network of online casinos, poker rooms, and gambling halls include 7 Sultans, Desert Dollar, Giggle Bingo, Platinum Play, Poker Time, Royal Vegas, Vegas Palms, and Vegas Towers. Of course, you must realize by now that one of the online casinos from the Fortune Lounge Group has a new game or two…or three. The online casino Royal Vegas Online Casino has recently announced that they are adding three new games to the already impressive list of games.

Royal Vegas Online Casino is proud to unveil that they will be hosting a brand new three dimensional version of the popular classic slot game Sterling Silver. The game requires special 3D glasses and, according to a statement by the online casino, “creates a more realistic visual appeal in the game, adding that extra dimension of believability to the simple and elegant silver symbols.”

The second new game to the Royal Vegas Online Casino is Riviera Riches. This is a slot game with an added casino bonus. It has a roulette style bonus feature that increases a players chance to win large sums of cash and/or credits. The third new game to the Royal Vegas Online Casino is a video poker game. Video poker machines are often just as popular as the slots and Reel Play Poker: Jacks or Better. What makes this new video poker game different is the attention to the graphics. This game has the same type of graphics found in the best slot machines.

Those who oppose gambling on sporting events or gambling of any kind have many valid arguments. Of course, the top of the list is the potential development of gambling addictions and underaged gambling. There are crime elements that always rear their ugly heads. Officials from both professional and amateur sporting leagues always worry about how gambling may cut into the integrity of their respective sports. As long as their have been organized sporting events there has been organized gambling on those sports. With that much money going back and forth it is tempting, and often easy, for unscrupulous individuals to take advantage of the situation. Those with enough influence and/pr money can easily dictate the outcome of a game, match, series, or tournament. We have seen it happen in almost every sport. It is the black eye on sports, and every sporting body is doing its best to fight it. With online gambling becoming more and more prevalent, sporting league have to keep extra vigilant against match fixing. In just the past few weeks, there have been several instances of these match alleged fixings.

Football (or soccer) is the most popular sport in the world. That means that gambling on the sport is huge. Not long ago there was an international match in South America between Argentina and Nigeria. The Nigerians won 4-1. The world’s biggest soccer regulation body FIFA noticed that there were some unusual gambling patterns associated with the match. FIFA keeps an ever watchful eye on gambling. When they noticed odd patterns the immediately launched an investigation into match fixing. Officials at FIA stated that they were working, “… closely with colleagues at the FIFA Early Warning System,” during their investigation. They went on to say that they are receiving a lot of cooperation in Europe, South America, and Asia in relation to their investigation. This is still an ongoing investigation though, and there is no proof that any players, managers or referees were involved in illegal activities. This is FIFA’s way of assuring soccer fans and sports gambling enthusiasts that they are actively fighting match fixing.

The drama continues on the other side of the globe as the oldest soccer league in Korea is also under investigation for match fixing. Their have been rumors of bribery and corruption in the K-League. Again, this goes back to gambling. Six K-League players along with two gambling brokers have been detained and charged with trying to fix matches. Korean officials are saying that anyone who comes out with information and/or confessions from now until June 13 will be shown leniency with prosecutors.

As if that wasn’t enough there is another match fixing/gambling scandal taking place in Europe. Again, irregular gambling patterns were noticed with the Greek professional football association. These patterns took place from 2009 to 2010. The allegations are serious enough that the governing body in Europe, UEFA, has suspended the entire league. There have even been reports of violence over some matches. UEFA saw no other way but to suspend the league until everything can be sorted out.

There is no doubt that poker has had a popularity explosion over the past ten years or so. Poker has grown from a back room game, to a national sport. Once it was a game only for professionals, and that group was a small and select one. Then came the advent of online poker. This brought almost every game of poker to the masses. The beauty of online poker was it allowed for those who wanted to play poker but were intimidated by the poker rooms in casinos to play and develop their own style. Online poker sites tend to cater to all levels of play. Some even offer free games for those who are new to the game. These online poker players have gone on to play in, not only casino poker rooms, but some of the big live tournaments. Of course, that was just the start of the rise in poker’s popularity. Poker can now be seen on television…a lot. Live poker events and poker shows were once relegated to late night on local TV or obscure cable channels. However, now, worldwide networks such as ESPN broadcast the big poker tournaments on their channels and online. Then there are the poker shows that pit celebrities and/or professional poker players against each other. In short, poker can be found on TV and is viewed by everyone.

Right now the World Series of Poker is taking place. This year’s World Series of Poker Main Event from the Rio All Suites Hotel Casino is boasting more coverage than any other World Series of Poker event in history. It is being broadcast on the ESPN family as well as several online sites. This is truly a big year for the World Series of Poker and is proof positive that poker has found a worldwide, mainstream audience.

As exciting as that is, the World Series of Poker Main Event isn’t the only World Series of Poker event being televised. In the United States the cable network Versus is showing the highly anticipated World Series of Poker circuit series. This series is held throughout the poker season in casinos and poker rooms throughout the country. It all leads up to a national championship that comes with a bountiful purse and a World Series of Poker championship bracelet. The World Series of Poker Circuit season is complete and now poker lovers are anxiously awaiting to see how it all unfolded.

The Versus cable network reaches in to seventy-six million homes across the Untied States. They are known for carrying not only major sports, but sports that tend to get lost in the mainstream. It seems they are the perfect network for live poker tournament action. The airing of the World Series of Poker circuit season has already begun. Versus will be showing two, one hour episodes every Thursday night starting at 9 pm ET. The television production arm of the World Series of Poker, Poker Productions, is responsible for the airing of the different World Series of Poker circuit events. The team at Poker Productions have already stated that it was an exciting year and they are ready for the entire country to see it.

We all knew that when the United States Department of Justice went after the online gambling and poker industry last April that there would be a virtual avalanche of after effects. There would be online poker and gambling sites shut down. There would be lengthy and costly legal battles. There would be online poker and gambling sites that would systematically pull out of the United States, while at the same time other online poker sites would try to fill the void. There would also be lots of disgruntled online poker players in the United States that would be left in limbo. These poker players would have millions of dollars tied up, and the indicted online poker sites would have to reimburse their bankrolls. We also knew that many in the online and live poker industry would try to distance themselves from any operation that may have been committing major crimes such as money laundering, bank fraud, and conspiracy. DoylesRoom was one of the online poker rooms indicted. Seeing the writing on the wall the online poker site’s namesake, Doyle Brunson, abruptly ended his relationship with the site. There were several television sponsorships that were also terminated along with networks pulling commercials by the affected online poker sites.

One of the most publicized dramas coming out of Black Friday is the feud that has recently commenced between one of the top online poker sites in the world and one of the best poker players in history. Phil Ivey is considered to be one of the top poker players of his generation. He is a multi-winner of the World Series of Poker and other live tournaments, as well as being one of the top online poker players in the industry. Phil Ivey has long been associated with the online poker site Full Tilt Poker. They have enjoyed a good relationship. Mr. Ivey is often (if not always) seen wearing the Full Tilt Poker logo at live poker tournaments and events. This relationship, may be coming to a bitter end.

Earlier this month Phil Ivey announced that he will not be attending the 2011 World Series of Poker. He is doing so in protest. He has been upset that his home online poker site has not acted fast enough to repay online poker players in the United States that were affected by the actions taken by the US Attorney’s Office in New York. Phil Ivey is also suing the marketing software arm of the online poker company, Tiltware. Mr. Ivey stated that he was frustrated and embarrassed with the lack of action taken by Full Tilt Poker

Of course, the online poker site was quick to fire back. They stated that they thought the actions taken by Phil Ivey were self serving and were doing more harm than good for the people that he was trying to stand for. They noted that the lawsuit was creating more delays with the repayment of American online poker players. The online poker site also stated that the made offers to Mr. Ivey that would help expedite they reimbursement process. This soap opera has just begun. Stay tuned.

June is here and that means two things, high school graduations and the World Series of Poker. The 2011 World Series of Poker kicked off on at the end of May. It will run the entire month of June and come to its big finish at the beginning of July. It is well known that this year’s World Series of Poker will be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, ever. The crowds and the players have gathered at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The buy-ins have been paid. This year there is more television presence. The 2011 World Series of Poker will have more coverage than any other World Series of Poker before. It will be broadcast on the ESPN family of sports cable channels. There will be massive online streaming and coverage. Organizers, Caesars Entertainment, have stated that almost every hand of every round can be seen in some fashion. Now that so many players are qualifying for the World Series of Poker by way of online poker sites, the field is bigger than ever, and that means, so too, are the jackpots. There are more World Series of Poker championship bracelets to hand out. There could not be more excitement over this year’s World Series of Poker.

There is, although, more excitement over next year’s World Series of Poker. The 2011 Main Event is barely a week old and the casino, poker, and gambling community is already talking about the 2012 World Series of Poker. Of course, most of next year’s event will look like this year’s event. It will still be held at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It will still feature some of the best players in the world combined with the newest hopefuls. There will most likely be ramped up television, internet, and media coverage. Some people are going to win some jewelry and a lot of cash, while most will just enjoy the experience of it all.

However, organizers for the World Series of Poker have announced there will be one more event, and this one will be a big one. At a press conference on Thursday, June 2, Caesars Entertainment revealed that the 2012 World Series of Poker will have a one million dollar event. This type of high roller poker action will surly bring out the biggest names in poker and gambling. Already fifteen players have confirmed they will take part in the event. They include Patrik Antonius, Johnny Chan, Tom Dwan, Tony G. and others.

Even though such a high stakes, star studded event is enough to create its own publicity, that is not where the good news ends. The big 2012 one million dollar World Series of Poker event will also have a charity feel to it. Caesars Entertainment stated that 11.1 percent of the proceeds to the gambling event will go to Montreal based ONE DROP. This charity helps fight poverty and provides a safe access to water. We all knew that the 2011 World Series of Poker was going to be a big event. 2012 is already riding that wave of momentum.

There is a new promotion available at the online gambling site, GossipBingo.com. This promotion is called Spin and Win and is for the people who play the instant games available on this site. Every month there will be two grand prizes given away. This month players can win a thirty-two inch television set by playing European Roulette or a thirteen inch Laptop by playing Monopoly on a Roll. Basically, the winner of the competition will be the player who wagers the most on one of these games. For every twenty-five dollars wagers, players will receive one point. The person with the most points on the leader board will win the prize. Also, the second and third place finishers will receive five thousand reward points each. These reward points are called Gossip Points and can be redeemed for cash to buy bingo cards. Players can also earn these points just by buying bingo cards. For every ten pence card purchased the player will receive one Gossip Point. There points can also be won in the various chat games available on this site.

This online gambling site also offers a variety of other promotions as well. Bingo a Go Go offers two different prizes every month just for playing bingo. The player who purchases the most bingo cards for the month will receive a free Sony Playstation 3. The person who plays the most bingo games will receive a two hundred fifty pound gift voucher. Also the runners up for these games will receive five thousand Gossip Points each.

There is also a welcome bonus for new players to Gossip Bingo. Players will receive five pounds just for registering with this online gambling site. In addition to this free money, these players will receive a two hundred fifty percent bonus match on any deposit these players make, with a minimum of ten pounds and a maximum of one hundred pounds.

This online gambling site also offers Pre-Buy Jackpot games every day of the week. For these games, the players just buy cards for the specific games and the site will do the rest. Players don’t even have to be online at the time of the games. If a player wins, the site will contact them. These games are as follows. Superstar Sunday is a seventy-five ball bingo game that offers cards for one cent each. Makeover Monday offers cards for two pence for a ninety-ball bingo game. Tinseltown Tuesday is a ninety ball bingo game and has bingo cards for ten pence each. Wannabee Wednesday is a ninety ball bingo game with bingo cards for fifteen pence each. Kiss n’ Tell Thursday offers a ninety ball bingo game with the cards costing twenty-five pence each. On Fridays, players can play Fame and Fortune Friday, a seventy-five ball bingo game, for twenty-five pence per card. Finally, on Saturdays, players can buy twenty-five pence cards for the Soapstar Sunday game, which offers players a ninety ball bingo game. For these games, the jackpots range from one hundred pounds for the Superstar Sunday and Makeover Monday games to a whopping one million pound jackpot for the Fame and Fortune Friday bingo game.

Gambling is meant to be fun. It does not matter if it is at a casino, online, poker room, bingo hall, race track, or the lottery. Gambling has been and will continue to be entertainment. There are those that have been able to make a living gambling. This is not by accident, and any professional gambler will tell you that luck has little to do with their success. They have studied their craft, and know how to play, and sometimes influence, the odds. They make calculated risks the same way a investor on Wall Street does. Even though the great majority of us realize all of the things, there are some who do not. Gambling addictions and compulsive gambling are real problems. Many consider to be the same type of medical issues that relate to tobacco and alcohol addictions. Those who, literally, can not get enough of gambling can lead themselves into ruin. Not only that, they can cause the ruin of others around them including family members, friends, co-workers, and others who depend on them. Sometimes, these stories evoke our sympathies. There are those who are down and out and honestly feel that if they can score one big win they will be able to live their life normally again. However, there are just as many stories of those who take advantage of others just to support their trips to the casino or to the racetrack, and, now a days, online. This is one of those stories.

A New Zealand man was recently handed his sentence for crimes committed against his company of employment and their clients. Richard Arthur Watson, now fifty-eight years old, has been employed by the family owned Ross Group since 1978. Over those thirty-plus years, he had become a respected accountant and eventually became the Ross Group’s head accountant. The last decade or so, though, Mr. Watson began to stray. His close to $300,000 a year salary did not seem to be enough for him. He began visiting the casino, and then began visiting the casino way too much. His trips to the Sky City Casino became what his lawyers called an addiction. This habit or compulsion saw Mr. Watson steal almost $5.4 million from his company. He reportedly made over 150 fraudulent transfers acquiring the money. He would take his swindled cash to the Sky City Casino where he would spend almost all of it playing in the casino’s VIP room.

The family who owns the Ross Group was forced to dip into personal savings to keep the business running. Mr. Watson’s lawyers stated that he was remorseful and had clear problem. The judge sympathized with the gambling addiction, but stated that didn’t make up for the greed. The judge stated, “It seems to me you did feel you had some entitlement to steal despite a large salary and additional substantial bonuses.” He went on to state that he was disappointed that Mr. Watson had a clear to choice to stop and never did and would not have had the audit not caught him. Mr. Watson will now spend the next six years in jail.

There is a lucky winner at the online site, QuatroCasino.com. This German player won just over fifty thousand euros by playing the progressive jackpot Fruit Fiesta online slot game.

The progressive Fruit Fiesta online slot game has five reels and fifteen pay lines. Created by Microgaming, this game offers a progressive jackpot to those players who hit five fruit fiesta symbols on the fifteen pay line. If five of these symbols are hit on any other pay line the player will win nine thousand coins. The next highest jackpot is seven hundred fifty coins for five seven symbols. After that, the next highest jackpot is four hundred fifty coins for hitting four fruit fiesta symbols. This fruit fiesta symbol is also the wild symbol and will substitute for any other symbols except the scatter symbol. The scatter symbol is the scatter melon symbol. If three of these symbols are present on the reels, the player’s bet is multiplied by four. If four of these symbols are hit, the multiplier is forty. If five of these symbols are present, the player will win four hundred times the bet. This means that a player could possibly win three hundred dollars per spin if the player is playing the max bet of seventy-five cents. The denomination for this online slot game is a nickel, so the maximum bet per line is seventy five cents.

There are a variety of different games from which to choose on this online gambling site. In fact, there are four hundred thirty to be exact. These games include a number of online slot games, table games, card games and progressive jackpot games.

Quatro Casino has several promotions available. One of these promotions is a sign up bonus. This bonus gives new players one hundred dollars free worth of scratch off cards. Players can keep whatever they win. This site also offers a promotion called Rewards Buddies. Players just have to refer a friend. This promotion has three levels and these levels are based on how much the newly-referred friend plays on this site. For every ten dollars wagers by the referred friend, the player will receive one to three VIP points depending upon the game being played. Once the player earns at least one thousand of these VIP points, the buddy can be “redeemed” for cash. Level one allows a player to earn up to one thousand dollars. Level two allows up to three hundred dollars. Level three allows up to one hundred dollars.

This site has a loyalty reward program called Casino Rewards. This program allows every player to earn VIP points. Every one hundred of these VIP points is worth one dollar in chips. Not only can players earn these VIP point at this online gambling site, but any other online casino that is a member of this program as well. There are currently eighteen online casinos that use this loyalty program. Also players can play these casinos in a variety of different currencies. These currencies include pounds, euros, US dollars and Canadian dollars. Members in this program offer a variety of different promotions. Players can earn over ten thousand dollars in bonuses in the first year alone.

Two Connecticut casinos have reported their revenues for the month of April. Slot machine revenue was up for Foxwoods Resort Casino by 9.3 percent, while Mohegan Sun’s slot machine revenue declined. The increased revenue at Foxwoods is largely due to the increased amount of free play given to consumers. This free play was given out to slot players in order to draw these players into the casino and to sort of compensate them for rising food and gas prices. In fact, just over eight million dollars of free slot play was given out at the Foxwoods Resort Casino for the month of April, while in March this casino posted around six and a half million dollars and about five and half million dollars in February. Mohegan Sun didn’t give out as much free play as Foxwoods in April or March and the decline in slot revenue is evident.

Revenue, or win, for the Foxwoods Resort Casino was up to just over fifty-seven million dollars as compared to around fifty-two million dollars last year. Also, handle for this resort casino increased just over eight percent. Mohegan Sun’s win for April decreased to around sixty-one million dollars from about sixty-three million dollars. Handle was also down for this resort casino by 4.5 percent.

The Foxwoods Resort Casino is Native American casino and offers three hundred forty-four thousand square feet of gaming space. This space includes around sixty-five hundred electronic gaming machines, three hundred eighty table games and one hundred poker tables. The table games available include Baccarat, Blackjack, Caribbean Stud Poker, Craps, Casino War, Let It Ride, Sic Bo, Pai Gow Poker, and Three Card Poker. Poker games include Texas Hold’em, Seven Card Stud and Omaha eight or better. This casino is also a charter member of the World Poker Tour and offers two of these tournaments each year. There are thirty-eight options for dining at this casino, ranging from gourmet restaurants to express service. There are five hotel options available here as well, which include the Grand Pequot Tower, The Villas at Foxwoods, Great Cedar Hotel, Two Trees Inn and the MGM Grand at Foxwoods.

Mohegan Sun opened in 1996 and offers three hundred fifty thousand square feet of gaming space that includes three different casinos. These casinos are Casino of the Earth, Casino of the Sky and Casino of the Wind. In the Casino of the Wind there are over seven hundred slot machines and over twenty-five table games. There is also a forty-two table poker room, that provides daily poker tournaments. The Casino of the Sky offers over twenty-one hundred slot machines and more than one hundred table games. There is also a non-smoking gaming area available here. The Casino of the Earth offers over thirty-five hundred slot machines and almost two hundred table games. Also at this casino, there is the Hall of the Lost Tribes, which is a fully enclosed non-smoking area that features six hundred slot machines and twelve table games. There are thirty one restaurants, ranging from fine dining to quick snacks. The resort offers twelve hundred luxury rooms and suites and a twenty-two hundred square foot spa.

Every online gambling site offers promotions to draw in their customers. The ones that are found to be the most productive to the overall generating of the revenue are those that either offer a big payout at the end, or something free in the beginning. Some online sites will offer credits to newly registered users, and give them the opportunity to take advantage of the “Try before you buy” system. Now the folks at FancyBingo are going to offer up a free promotion, but this one will have a special twist. They are not only opening the doors to online players for free, they are also going to keep it open for four days in a row.

This new online promotion will be only available to new depositing online gamblers to take advantage of. To pair up with this promotion the online gambling site is also allowing those players the ability to get up to 50 percent on their reloads. That means each time they pay to reload they will essentially be getting one and a half for each one that they put in. The last part of this promotion that they are offering includes a 300 percent first deposit bonus. This bonus could equate to £50.

The games that are offered at this online gambling and bingo site range in the amount wagered. They start with as little as one penny to get the patrons interested in play. Once you feel comfortable playing for pennies you can then work your way up to more risky wagers. AS with any good online gambling site, the success of the company will depend on how much they take in the requests of their paying customers. Recently FancyBingo underwent some changes to their site per some of the suggestions of the patrons that play there.

FancyBingo online offers two types of Bingo play, the 75 and 90 ball games. With each of these games, players have the opportunity to win one of the £50 jackpots that are guaranteed. Each hour a different player wins, so it is worth it to sign up fast and start taking advantage of the four consecutive days of free play.

Another promotion offered by the online bingo site deals with not only cash, but also different rewards. When players deposit their money every four days, they gain access to a whole new realm of possibilities. This includes £1200 in jackpot games that occur every day as well as Free Bingo between the hours of 9 am and 11 pm and finally Free Daily Play Games.

This is an exciting time at FancyBingo and it seems that they have found a way to streamline their online website, therefore making it even easier for the online gambler. Now all of their games are under the Bingo tab, and the other tabs are clearly marked for ease of use. They have cut down on the amount of clutter that the site had before and have focused their attention on making everything clear and easy for their patrons.