The Online Casino Gambling Blog

Antiguan online casinos should be experiencing a huge increase in sheer numbers soon with its recent inclusion on the UK White List of foreign online casinos. The White List is comprised of foriegn online casinos that are allowed to advertise throughout the UK. This list protects gamblers in the UK from viewing ads by unlicensed online casinos which may in fact be elaborate hoaxes designed to strip players of their hard earned cash unfairly.  

With this new ability to make itself heard the Antiguan online casino community has already had an upswing in new casinos applying for Antiguan licensing. The government in Antigua expects almost a one hundred percent increase in revenue from this industry within the next year. This is great news for the general Antiguan economy which took a great hit two years ago when financial transactions between US gamblers and foreign online casinos were banned. This new influx of ad revenue and players from the UK should be just the remedy the Antiguans online casino economy needs.

Alright so gambling’s not just a pastime for you, it’s a hobby and you enjoy it and maybe you’ve brought it home from the casinos with you. You’ve gone online and played at a few casinos and seen how fun it is. Well now you can make your online gaming experience even more true to life with a poker table mouse pad like this one that I found on www.pokerpadz.com. I think it’s a really neat idea. It’s made out of the same felt poker tables are made of and is excellent for mousing around. 

  I particularly like the ’signature poker pad’, the manufacturer suggests you take it with you to your next big poker tournament and have your favourite poker players autograph. The world poker tournament one is a great one too, while the ‘pokerpadz’ logo doesn’t really do much for me. What do you think?

So you’re making your first foray into the world of online gambling, you download the software, install it and now there you are faced with flashing lights and bright text encouraging you to make a choice. Where will you dive in?

Slot machines are actually probably your best bet, they require almost no skill and yet their payoff with the bells and the whistles and the clinking sound effect of coins rattling into your cup when you win is so worth it! The slots work well for a first time player online or in person, plus it gives you a chance to really experience what winning or losing will be like in real games. Some people just can’t handle losing, not even at 25 cent slot machines and that’s an important fact to know about yourself.

However, if Slots don’t sound like your thing then here are some tips - choose a game that interests you, choose a game you can afford to play, more importantly choose a game you can afford to lose at because beginners luck won’t run that far. Ideally as a new player whatever game you choose check it out and see if there are trial games that let you play without actually having to bet money as it will take a few rounds of anything before you get the hang of it.

If you haven’t been living under a rock lately then you know that socializing on the internet has been taken to insane new levels with websites like myspace, facebook, etcetera. These social networking sites may have like all viral media spread from the teeny-bopper crowd but nowadays even my grandmother has a myspace! For those of you in on the facebook craze you know all about those fun little apps that allow you to play games, war against your friends in a zombie horde or send them smilies. Well now thanks to RummyRoyal.net a play-for-free website Rummy will be available as a facebook app. It will be designed around teaching the game, playing against live opponents and eventually tournaments will be had.

Now I know what you’re thinking: Rummy on Facebook? That’s awesome for me! Now I can get my gambling on without having to download anything and it’s true you don’t! It’s good business sense for RummyRoyal.net too as a company spokesperson proclaimed: spreading the word of mouth on such far reaching communities like Facebook is key to making players aware of and enticing them into the parent site RummyRoyal.net and its sister company RummyRoyal.com which is a pay per play website where you can bet actual cash on your rummy games once you’ve used your Facebook to master the how of playing. RummyRoyal.net also plans to have Myspace and Bebo this year as well.

Attention all Jackpot Hunters (and I know you’re out there) here’s today’s tip if you’re looking for the biggest haul take a gander over at the Microgaming website where the current jackpot is close to 8 million dollars! (And no that’s not in monopoly money!) However if you’re from the US we’re sorry but you’re going to have to sit this one out as Microgaming doesn’t allow US players.

The biggest progressive online slots jackpot ever recorded of over 5 million dollars is yet to be won at Mega Mollah so you might want to head over there too. Boss Media’s Aladdin’s Lamp progressive video slot game is now worth almost 2 Million Euros, The jackpot over at King Cashalot is currently worth over 1 million dollars as well. The jackpot on Real Time Gaming’s has fallen from over 1 million dollars into the 9 hundred thousands due to some big wins at their Shopping Spree and Mid Life Crisis video slots. Still a respectable pot I say!I see those dollar signs spinning in your eyes, what are you waiting for? Get out there and start gambling!

You ever wonder what the odds are on your hand when you’ve got two pair or when you hit a royal flush or when your hand is so crappy you might as well flush it down the toilet? Well there’s a really useful poker odds caclulator found here http://www.cardplayer.com/tools_tips where you can find out your odds for ‘regular’ poker, Texas Hold Em and Omaha style poker with a few clicks of your mouse. 

Have you always wanted to be a professional gambler? Well if you’re based in the UK near London, Blackpool and Warwickshire enrolling in a few courses at the National Gaming Academy (NGA) could help. Yes that’s right there’s a school for gamblers now. The NGA has three campuses that opened in 2008 and are associated with several accredited universities and offers diplomas in: Foundation Degree in Casino Management, Foundation Degree in Gaming Machine Technology, Classes for these diplomas include Gaming in the UK Context, Operations Management, Law for the Leisure/Gaming Industry and Security Systems and Fraud Detection.  The Blackpool school offers the courses in a training casino which gives the students a real idea of what it would be like to work in an actual casino. Who knows if the schools take off in a few years we could have freshmen majoring in Poker or Blackjack. Wouldn’t those grades be something to write home about?

William Hill a bookie agency is being sued by Graham Calvert a gambling addict for letting him continue placing bets. Calvert asked to be banned by this agency when he first confronted his gambling addiction and his account was closed for the company’s minimum six months. This practice is called self exclusion and is common in gambling establishments to protect the welfare of gambling addicts in preventing them from being able to gamble with their bookie of choice.

Two months later Calvert had a relapse and opened up a new account with William Hill under his own name with no hassle despite having made the company aware of his addiction and opting into the self exclusion facility. Calvert then placed a bet for £347,000 (Mr. Calvert a highly skilled greyhound trainer makes an average of £30,000 per month, his bet was worth almost as much as he makes in a year).  Calvert lost that bet.

Gambling addiction, like alcohol or drug addiction is a disease that can only be controlled with the support of the entire community. William Hill was derelict in their duty to aid Mr. Calvert in fighting his addiction when he had already turned to them for help, after all the whole point of having a self exclusion policy is to prevent incidents like this from happening. Calvert’s lawyers have filed a  £2,000,000 suit against William Hill who claim to be dedicated to “supporting responsible gambling initiatives”. Clearly they dropped the ball in this case and should end up paying the price for it.

We live in a time of ever expanding technology, never before have so many options for entertainment and communication been laid out at our finger tips. Cell phones especially have been making leaps and bounds in versatility over the last few years you can play music on your phone, check email on your phone, you can even check stocks on your phone now, well right around the corner according to Casino Phone Technology is the ability to gamble via your cell phone from wherever you are waiting in line at the bank, stuck in traffic on the way home, wherever.

Casino Phone Technologies, a Nevada based company, is in the process of developing m-Casino which will allow you to import casino software onto your phone to play the games you know and love, making casinos completely portable to you. The company is enthusiastic about their product and look forward to launching it fairly soon.