UK Casino Sites

A spokesperson from Sportingbet has confirmed that two of its managers, together with several people from Maslin Properties have been arrested in Turkey. While online casino operations are an exciting and lucrative career, no one would have believed that it had an element of danger attached to it. However, we have heard of people being arresting in Turkey for playing bingo, so I suppose online casino operators present in talks in the country would have its own associated risks. Maslin Properties is the marketing company in Turkey who handle the Sportingbet account.  Continue reading →

Cellphone casinos have been punted by industry experts as being the “next big thing”. First we had land-based casinos, then online casinos, next it is going pocket sized and onto our cellphones, creating even more convenience for the casino lover. Brian Wright, who has been pretty vociferous in the news lately, he is the Director of the Remote Gaming Association and a leading figure in the industry, has said that it is difficult to assess just how big mobile gaming will grow. But with the advancements in technology growing in leaps and bounds mobile phones offered the casino enthusiast with a viable platform for anywhere anytime gaming.

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The famous or shall I say infamous Las Vegas Casino, Caesars Palace has recently featured in two UK hit box office movies. The Las Vegas gambling hot spot made many appearances in the film about blackjack, 21, is now at number six on the UK box office list. The casino venue was also used in the smash hit, Iron Man, the leading actor, Robert Downy Junior is seem playing craps at Caesers, when he chooses to gamble instead of attending an awards ceremony that is supposed to be honoring the character played by the actor. Continue reading →

There was a point in time when Antigua and Barbuda provided licenses for hundreds of online casinos, unfortunately this took a turn for the worse when the US declared that they had enacted the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, and now there are just a handful of online casino operators in these countries. Continue reading →

Intertops casino originated in London in 1983. Initially they began operations with a UK Bookmakers License. In 1992 they relocated to Austria and accepted the first ever online bet in 1996. Intertops then took their online business to Antigua in 1997 and created the first igaming WAP sites. They are now celebrating their 10th Birthday and in the process giving away two prizes, one for a player from Europe and another for a player in the US. Continue reading →

The UK Casino Group, Grosvenor, part of the Rank Group, offers a really good training programme for new employees, it is one of the most well respected casino training programmes in the industry, running a course of six weeks and teaching one or all of the following games:

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The UK Governments initial plan for the Super Casino issue was originally to have an unlimited number, they then changed it to forty, then eight. The final decision was to have only one super casino, after that, a crisis regarding problem gambling. Then it appeared that the UK Government had a conflict of interest as the Deputy Prime Minister had been hosted by the American casino tycoon, Philip Anshultz who proposed and investment in the Millennium Dome that was dependent upon him winning the bid for the super casino. Then against all expectations Manchester was chosen as the site for the first super casino licence. Continue reading →

Recently the first ever online trade show, the Online Casino and Affiliates Convention was held. The virtual convention provided a platform for the world-wide marketing of the online casino industry allowing all participants to interact with each other before making their presentations. The conference kicked off on the 27^th Mar5ch 2008, at 12 noon and was run until 11pm that night.

This is the first time ever in internet history that a virtual trade show has been convened. The trade show was specifically designed for the online casino industry. It was free to participate for all online casino professionals and affiliates. But other related industries were also involved and included Mobile Telecom, Forex, Payment Processing, Sportsbooks, Affiliate Marketing, Software and Venture Capital. Pringo Networks provided the software platform for the virtual conference.

One of the most successful and prominent features of the conference was the real-time interactive chat, by making use of this, online casino professional were able t communicate with one-another by live chat and live video as well as B2B. This conference ultimately was a world-changing event allowing online casino affiliates the prospect of identifying new opportunities, without having to go to all the trouble and expense of traveling to far reaches of the earth.

Taking advantage of the newly relaxed casino advertising regulations, Grosvenor Casinos is planning to launch a new and lavish advertising campaign. This advertising blitz is planned for both their land based and online casino operations and will cost approximately ?1.5 million and plans to embrace a variety of UK media. This means that they will be making use of all the media outlets available in the UK. i.e. cinema, press, radio, television as well as direct marketing strategies. The aim of this campaign is to create a better perception of casinos and gaming, in particular online casinos.

Grosvenor casinos are a subsidiary of the giant Rank Group and have developed tag lines such as “There’s a first time for everything” and “you’ll never know until you try”. Prominently featured in the advertisements are the new Grosvenor casinos in Blackpool, Luton and Manchester together with their online casino operations. The advertising spots feature lifestyle images of people having a good time dining, gambling and enjoying cocktails in the casinos and also having a great deal of fun playing online. Although many other casino, bingo and gamin companies have used the more relaxed advertising laws to their advantage, Grosvenor claims that their particular form of advertising holds a very different message.

It is without doubt that advances in technology are one of the pivotal factors in innovations for the online casino industry. Warrick Bartlett, Chief Executive of Global Betting and Gambling Consultants claims that as online gamblers are now getting more access to innovative technology such as high-speed broad band connections, they will be able to enjoy horse racing and other gambling activities on their cell phones.

There are also other casino games that people will always use their cell phones to play, games such as blackjack, poker and roulette, people like to play these games as they are familiar to them. But sometimes people become bored of playing the same old casino games and as technology advances and more and varies forms of these games are created, online players find a new interest in them.

He also said that online casino lovers are pretty promiscuous and they will move from site to site to seek new and more advanced forms of gaming, they are also cost conscious and they seek out better value for money. Online casino operators have to take all of these factors into cognizance and keep their sites up-to-date and interesting.