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Harrahs finally enter online casino market

Caesars casino is the new online casino opened by Harrah’s, the biggest name in gaming that has been holding back to enter the gambling market for a very long time. First deposit matching bonuses are available at Caesars up to £500. The casino is powered by Dragonfish and is not accepting US or german players and instead these players from these locations will be redirected to Harrah’s bricks and mortar casinos page. Caesars has casino has 3 variations of blackjack, 30 video slots, 16 slot machines, table games such as poker craps baccarat and hold em.

How online casino advertisements are viewed by children

Nowadays online casino adverts can be seen across the net on non gaming sites such as Hotmail or Facebook and on TV, but how is this affecting the youth of today? IPSOS mori a survey organization sponsored by the national lottery commission composed a survey on this exact question measuring children’s attitude to gambling offline and on the Net. The survey was across 9000 children aged 12-15 and found that Children were less likely to purchase scratch cards and play casino games.

“Rates of problem gambling have fallen since 2005-06: 2% children were identified as problem gamblers compared with 3.5% in 2005-06. It is likely that this drop reflects falling levels of gambling among children over time, particularly on potentially more addictive forms of gambling such as slot machines.” 78% of the children could recall seeing a gambling advert on TV or online, and 82% who gambled in the last 7 days remembering seeing an advert recently. ASA the advertising standards agency monitors gambling advertisements and protects children from gambling ads that appeal to them like the slapstick ones Intercasino tried to run which have been banned as they appealed to kids. ASA constantly comes under scrutiny from online casino operators for being too strict yet other people believe they are not strict enough, but in today’s culture with gambling being so easily accessible they have to watch strictly over advertising as gambling addictions can be more easily formed and harder to stop with casinos being in homes 247.

Tags: ASA, children, gambling among children, online casino, online casino advertisements
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Online casino boss jailed for eight years

Tam Chi Wai’s online casino business which had wagers through it of $2,000,000,000 and 3000 staff has been cracked down upon by the police. Tam has been given 8 years in jail and a $3,000,000 fine. This illegal operation was set up in 1999 and was run in Hong Kong where online gambling is illegal apart from state run lotteries. Hundreds of bank accounts were held by members to store the illegally gained money.

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Online casino operators suffer the recession

Online casino operators are now suffering the recession after players at online casinos withdraw their casino deposits to put into their bank accounts. With a sudden rush of online casino withdrawals online casinos are certainly suffering. After Lasseters casino closed this week there has been a bit of uncertainty in the air and therefore people have been withdrawing more so than ever from their online casino accounts. Ausvegas closed the week before, then followed by Lasseters will any other online casinos close down because of loss of profits like Lasseters suffered, only time will tell.

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Czech’s starting an online casino

The czech republics biggest lottery operator Sazka is in the process of setting up an online casino ahead of online gaming legislation to make online gaming legal in the Czech republic. The new online casino will be released with free games to encourage players and once the law changes real money games will be able to take over. They aim to build the brand in the czech republic before the law change, this is a bit of a gamble as it is not one hundred percent that the law will actually change.

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Anti casino bonuses after playing Casino Tropez for the last hour

As you may already know JackpotAvenue is not a huge fan of bonus hunting. I did a bit of bonus hunting for the last hour and ended up at Casino Tropez. I got a 100% match bonus but withdrawing it proved difficult. The wagering requirements as usual for most online casinos were high and made it hard for me to withdraw all in all it encouraged me to gamble everything I had because I was so annoyed with the difficulty of withdrawal, this I remind you is how many online casinos make their money and one thing we do not want to advertise on our site. I stand by my point of not being into bonus hunting and advising players that bonus hunting is a waste of time and you are better of finding high payout casinos with good casino customer service than wasting your time with bonus hunting.

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888.com hit the spam record

888.com players and casino affiliates have reported that 888.com spammed them the highest of any online casino. As soon as 888.com set up a new site or partner site the emails flood in they never seem to stop spamming. 888.com remains top of Google for the keyword online casino despite the spamming they have partaken in. The sites great and the game play is good I personally have always enjoyed gambling at 888.com but the spam alone is enough to put me off ever gambling at 888.com again. Since the day I opened Jackpotavenue I was advised and in these words “keep away form 888.com like the plague” by a fellow casino guide operator. He had been in the industry since the beginning and new the ins and outs of their business. Many guides still recommend them but this is solely down to the facts that either they love the game play of the site so much or the commissions and players they receive due to the strength of the band is too much to give up. I am pretty sure they would be the only answers. You don’t hear of people talking wonders about the customer support and white hat methods employed by the site for optimum customer satisfaction, no you don’t.