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		<title>Online Roulette News</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important online casino roulette tips which help you to win are the special offers and bonus programs, casinos always compete with each other and try to attract more gamblers inventing something very special. If you looking for such bonuses you can find a lot of things which are really worth to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most important online <a href="http://www.netbet.org/online-roulette-tips.html">casino roulette tips</a> which help you to win are the special offers and bonus programs, casinos always compete with each other and try to attract more gamblers inventing something very special. If you looking for such bonuses you can find a lot of things which are really worth to try.</p>
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		<title>Betfair rehiring to fill the gaps</title>
		<link>http://online-casinos-nation.com/2011/06/11/betfair-rehiring-to-fill-the-gaps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 06:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betting exchange Betfair has announced the appointment of Michael Bischoff as Director of Information Systems.
Bishoff joins Betfair from a role as Director of Global Technical Services at LCH.Clearnet, a financial instrument clearing house serving international exchanges and OTC markets. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Betting exchange Betfair has announced the appointment of Michael Bischoff as Director of Information Systems.</p>
<p>Bishoff joins Betfair from a role as Director of Global Technical Services at LCH.Clearnet, a financial instrument clearing house serving international exchanges and OTC markets. </p>
<p>Key aspects of the position include leading a team of 120 technologists and the co-ordination of the company&#8217;s information systems across Europe and the USA.</p>
<p>The appointment follows a spate of resignations in Betfair&#8217;s middle and senior management structure this year, sparking a disquieting belief that the company lacks direction.</p>
<p>Commenting on his appointment, Michael Bischoff said: “I am very pleased to be joining Betfair at this exciting time for the company and I look forward to bringing my experience in the media, telecoms and most recently, financial services sectors, to bear in this new role.”</p>
<p>Tony McAlister, Chief Technology Officer of Betfair added: “I am delighted to welcome Michael to Betfair as part of a senior technology team which continues to grow in stature and strength. Michael’s experience serving major international stock exchanges will help us as we continue our global expansion.”</p>
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		<title>Live and taking bets in Southern Australia</title>
		<link>http://online-casinos-nation.com/2011/01/28/live-and-taking-bets-in-southern-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian interactive media company Two Way Limited confirmed the launch of its TV wagering service TAB ACTIVE in Southern Australia this week.
The service has been offered to Tabcorp customers in Victoria and New South Wales since 2008 and has been extended to TattsBet customers in Queensland this month. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Australian interactive media company Two Way Limited confirmed the launch of its TV wagering service TAB ACTIVE in Southern Australia this week.</p>
<p>The service has been offered to Tabcorp customers in Victoria and New South Wales since 2008 and has been extended to TattsBet customers in Queensland this month. </p>
<p>Viewers of the three Sky Racing channels on Foxtel are able to access the current days racing and wagering information as well as place bets through their existing wagering account with the local TAB operator.</p>
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		<title>RealDealPoker show in Amsterdam</title>
		<link>http://online-casinos-nation.com/2010/04/18/realdealpoker-show-in-amsterdam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RealDealPoker, the only online poker site to deal real cards, demonstrates the revolutionary system at the Casino Affiliate Convention in Amsterdam this week. People trust what they see and what they see at RealDealPoker is a mechanical dealing machine like the ones in Vegas dealing brand new decks of actual playing cards. Paul Gambrill, Affiliate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RealDealPoker, the only online poker site to deal real cards, demonstrates the revolutionary system at the Casino Affiliate Convention in Amsterdam this week. People trust what they see and what they see at RealDealPoker is a mechanical dealing machine like the ones in Vegas dealing brand new decks of actual playing cards. Paul Gambrill, Affiliate Manager for RealDealPoker, will be on hand to talk to prospective poker affiliates about why players trust the unique system and how that affects an affiliate&#8217;s bottom line.</p>
<p>RealDealPoker will launch shortly. Until then, curious poker affiliates can get a preview of what&#8217;s to come on the RealDealPoker channel on YouTube where creator Gene demonstrates the revolutionary online poker product.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our players will play higher stakes and stay with the site longer than any other site online,&#8221; said Gambrill, previously Head of Poker, Casino, Sportsbook marketing for two leading UK betting and gaming companies. &#8220;It&#8217;s all about trust.&#8221;</p>
<p>RealDealPoker patented Cut N&#8217; Shuffle® system was designed to deter or eliminate the use of Bots. It scrambles, shuffles and deals real decks of cards, digitizes the results and then translates them to its online poker table games. It records real shoes of cards and then plays those, rather than relying on a computerized random number generator. This allows the system to offer players a &#8220;cut function&#8221; and the deployment of &#8220;burn cards&#8221;. The system also produces fully audited hand data through its Game Check function.</p>
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		<title>Man dies after falling off escalator at A.C. casino</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer: &#8220;A man was fatally injured after falling from the escalator at the Pier Shops at Caesars, a mall connected to the Caesars Atlantic City casino.
&#8220;The accident happened about midnight Saturday, Atlantic City Police Sgt. Angelo Maimone said. The man was taken to the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer: &#8220;A man was fatally injured after falling from the escalator at the Pier Shops at Caesars, a mall connected to the Caesars Atlantic City casino.</p>
<p>&#8220;The accident happened about midnight Saturday, Atlantic City Police Sgt. Angelo Maimone said. The man was taken to the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, where he was pronounced dead, Maimone said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The man&#8217;s name and other details were not released pending further investigation, Maimone said. Caesars did not return a call yesterday seeking comment. The security office at the Pier Shops also declined to comment&#8230;&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Lenders seek to move Fontainebleau case to liquidation</title>
		<link>http://online-casinos-nation.com/2009/11/17/lenders-seek-to-move-fontainebleau-case-to-liquidation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of secondary lenders for the bankrupt Fontainebleau Las Vegas filed a motion on Friday asking to do something the court itself has already indicated could happen: Move the case to liquidation. 
The motion notes that the project has been in bankruptcy for three months and the developer has made no meaningful progress with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A group of secondary lenders for the bankrupt Fontainebleau Las Vegas filed a motion on Friday asking to do something the court itself has already indicated could happen: Move the case to liquidation. </p>
<p>The motion notes that the project has been in bankruptcy for three months and the developer has made no meaningful progress with its lenders to get it restarted. The motion also notes that the bankruptcy court issued a partial denial of a motion asking the court to order lenders to restore funding to the project. Fontainebleau cited the lenders&#8217; decision to deny $656 million in funding as the reason for its bankruptcy filing. </p>
<p>&#8220;With completion of the project by debtors not possible, a sale of the project to a third party and liquidation of the remaining assets is the only visible course to realize any meaningful value for creditors,&#8221; the motion said. </p>
<p>The motion was filed by a group of five funds, called the term lender steering group, including Los Angeles-based Canyon Capital Advisors, which recently acquired the Greek Isles; New York-based Carlyle Group; and Guggenheim Investment Management. </p>
<p>More than $16 million of the group&#8217;s cash collateral has been used since the bankruptcy filing. The term lenders hold more than $1 billion in loans. </p>
<p>Judge Jay Cristol said during a Sept. 16 hearing where the project&#8217;s lawyers asked for more time in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection that &#8220;I think we can go three weeks (more), but not much longer. I&#8217;m very fearful the wheels are coming off.&#8221; </p>
<p>The developer has been in court-ordered mediation with unnamed parties. The Review-Journal reported in July that Apollo Management, which owns half of Harrah&#8217;s Entertainment, was interested in the project. </p>
<p>Last week, Penn National Gaming emerged as possibly being in talks to acquire the multibillion-dollar project. Gaming analysts expressed skepticism that the Wyomissing, Pa-based company would complete a deal for the project, which is 70 percent finished and has been estimated to need $1.5 billion to complete. </p>
<p>Fontainebleau Las Vegas and two affiliates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors June 9, listing assets and debt of more than $1 billion each. </p>
<p>Fontainebleau Las Vegas could not be reached for comment. The project is on 24 acres on the corner of Las Vegas and Riviera boulevards.</p>
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		<title>Antigua Online Casinos in the Clear Despite Stanford</title>
		<link>http://online-casinos-nation.com/2009/10/13/antigua-online-casinos-in-the-clear-despite-stanford/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tiny Caribbean island of Antigua &#038; Barbuda has long been known as a haven for offshore online casinos seeking to do legitimate business. In fact, Antigua, along with the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, was the first legitimate licensor of online betting destinations, ranging from sportsbooks to online poker rooms, back when online gambling first started [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The tiny Caribbean island of Antigua &#038; Barbuda has long been known as a haven for offshore online casinos seeking to do legitimate business. In fact, Antigua, along with the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, was the first legitimate licensor of online betting destinations, ranging from sportsbooks to online poker rooms, back when online gambling first started getting popular in the late nineties. Antigua simply was the place to go for true regulation, unlike Costa Rica, which simply handed out licenses.</p>
<p>Of course, that all changed when other areas of the world began to pass online gambling legislation, calling for the creation of their very own regulatory commissions. Take the UK, for example. Being a world leader, the UK passed the UK Gambling Act 2005 with provisions calling for online gambling regulation, and has hence served as a magnet for online casinos seeking the highest credibility obtainable, albeit extremely high taxation is now beginning to drive off top name brands.</p>
<p>In other words, Antigua and Barbuda&#8217;s online gambling landscape is not like it used to be. That doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;ve lost credibility in the internet betting world. Even though Antigua (along with Kahnawake, interestingly enough) had to fight to get on the UK&#8217;s online gambling whitelist - thus allowing Antigua licensed online casinos to advertise in the UK - they got on it, nonetheless. Yet, there are certainly fewer operators based out of Antigua these days - and no thanks to the passing of the UIGEA, a.k.a. attempted U.S. online gambling ban.</p>
<p>The one thing that did look like it might possibly hurt Antigua&#8217;s credibility was the recent financial banking scandal at the hands of billionaire banker Allen Stanford. Largely based out of Antigua, Standford&#8217;s bank, Stanford Financial, was shut down when U.S. authorities uncovered an eight billion dollar investment scheme.</p>
<p>The good news is that Stanford refused to do business with any online casinos or gambling-related businesses for that matter, citing his Southern Baptist convictions. Never mind the fact that Stanford is being sued by the Las Vegas Bellagio casino resort for over a quarter of a million dollars in unpaid gambling markers, aka casino credits to gamble with. Still, this means no tied-up assets for Antigua-based internet betting operators and their players. If anything, the scandal has prompted the Antiguan government to take a closer look at how their Financial Services Regulatory Commission oversees financial matters. Online gambling regulation goes on in Antigua&#8230;and rightfully so.</p>
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		<title>Taiwan group protests gambling growth</title>
		<link>http://online-casinos-nation.com/2009/09/27/taiwan-group-protests-gambling-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taiwanese anti-gambling demonstrators protested outside the country’s Ministry of Education building in response to the department’s policy of subsidizing university courses that teach students on how to staff and run casinos. The group claims that the government is wasting the taxpayer’s money and leading people into dangerous gambling addictions. The protestors are also responding to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Taiwanese anti-gambling demonstrators protested outside the country’s Ministry of Education building in response to the department’s policy of subsidizing university courses that teach students on how to staff and run casinos. The group claims that the government is wasting the taxpayer’s money and leading people into dangerous gambling addictions. The protestors are also responding to an upcoming referendum to establish casino gaming on one of the offshore islands. </p>
<p>An official with the country’s Department of Higher Education denied the idea that the university courses encouraged gambling. Rather, the courses are intended to teach students how to manage casinos as well as other tourism operations. According to a department spokesperson, the courses have nothing to do with teaching players how to gamble nor encouraging students to make wagers on their own. </p>
<p>Early this year, the Taiwanese government passed a law that allowed outlying islands to vote on whether or not they wanted to have casino gambling available in their areas. Later this week, citizens in the county of Penghu are scheduled to vote in a referendum on establishing the first casino in the country’s history on the tiny island. </p>
<p>Anti-gambling protestors are also organizing to defeat the Penghu referendum as well as trying to close the university casino management classes. The leader of one of the country’s teachers’ unions stated that she has seen the lives of her students and their parents destroyed by gambling debts, and thus opposes any growth of gambling in the island nation. A number of other activists want to stop casinos from taking root. </p>
<p>One graduate student from the Penghu area is organizing a group of residents to vote down the referendum. He said that the influx of tourists and the level of changes to the island’s infrastructure to house them would be overwhelming to the small area and destroy much of its natural beauty. Also, since the casino license lasts for five years, other islands will start building casinos and Penghu will lose its monopoly on the industry.</p>
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		<title>bwin launches GTECH G2&#8217;s new mini-game</title>
		<link>http://online-casinos-nation.com/2009/08/23/bwin-launches-gtech-g2s-new-mini-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[bwin will be amongst the first GTECH G2 licensees to offer the new Casino Dice mini-game developed by GTECH G2&#8217;s subsidiary, Dynamite Idea. Both the new Casino Dice and the popular Triple Chance Hi Lo are now offered in full, mini and mobile versions at bwin and will soon be available at other GTECH G2 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>bwin will be amongst the first GTECH G2 licensees to offer the new Casino Dice mini-game developed by GTECH G2&#8217;s subsidiary, Dynamite Idea. Both the new Casino Dice and the popular Triple Chance Hi Lo are now offered in full, mini and mobile versions at bwin and will soon be available at other GTECH G2 powered online casinos and gaming suites.</p>
<p>Casino Dice is a single number draw game where players try to predict the roll of a pair of dice. When players correctly predict the combined total of a pair of dice, they win and get a chance to double their money.</p>
<p>&#8220;Quick, easy to play mini-games like Casino Dice have proven to provide an excellent supplemental revenue stream for licensees of G2&#8217;s casino, poker and sportsbetting products,&#8221; said Dominic Mansour, Head of Casino &#038; Games at GTECH G2. &#8220;By combining the resources of Dynamite Idea, Finsoft, Boss Media and St Minver, and with the strength GTECH behind us, we are able to offer operators a broader range of igaming products than other games and back-end providers.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve found that many of our customers enjoy playing simple side-games. They like the pace and their odds of winning.&#8221; said Kevin O&#8217;Neal, Press Officer of bwin. &#8220;For bwin as a &#8220;House of Games&#8221; it is important to offer our customers alternatives, and products from GTECH G2 integrate well with our management systems.&#8221; </p>
<p>Casino Dice was developed by the games designers at Dynamite Idea, one of four leading digital gaming companies acquired by lottery industry giant, GTECH to form GTECH G2, their new interactive gaming division. The Dynamite Idea team specializes in developing innovative online interactive betting games including several unique hi lo, dice and number games.</p>
<p>In addition to the new products in its suite of mini-games, GTECH G2 is also adding two new games to their Boss Media download casino. Keno Cash and 4Play Hi Lo Bingo will now be included in the downloadable games at online casinos.</p>
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		<title>APT to star as backdrop in Chinese poker film</title>
		<link>http://online-casinos-nation.com/2009/07/24/apt-to-star-as-backdrop-in-chinese-poker-film/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AsianLogic, owners of the Asian Poker Tour, are delighted to announce a historic first for poker in Asia. The hotly anticipated Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival, taking place 12-23 August 2009 at the Galaxy Starworld, will be featured in a ground-breaking Chinese language poker movie. Many believe the film will have a similar impact on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AsianLogic, owners of the Asian Poker Tour, are delighted to announce a historic first for poker in Asia. The hotly anticipated Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival, taking place 12-23 August 2009 at the Galaxy Starworld, will be featured in a ground-breaking Chinese language poker movie. Many believe the film will have a similar impact on poker in Asia as the 1998 Hollywood film Rounders did in the western world. </p>
<p>The movie is provisionally titled &#8216;Poker King&#8217; and will be directed by famous Chinese language director Chan Hing-Kai and Janet Chun and, produced by Amy Chin and Chan Hing-Kai. It tells the story of two bitter poker rivals competing for world championship glory. The cast will be all-star, A list Chinese actors and pop stars with a cinema release across the region set for later this year. Actors with the coveted starring roles include Louis Koo, Sean Lau Ching –Wan, Stephy Tang, Cherrie In and Josie Ho. </p>
<p>There have been several famous gaming films in the region, most notably the 1989 Chinese language classic &#8216;God of Gambler&#8217;s&#8217; starring Chow-Yun-Fat which spawned dozens of spin-offs – but &#8216;Poker King&#8217; is set to be the first release that focuses on poker. </p>
<p>Tom Hall, CEO of Asian Logic, owners of the Asian Poker Tour said: &#8220;This is a very exciting project and is sure to provoke even more excitement about The Asian Poker Macau Festival in August. Players across the region and throughout the world are encouraged to come to the Starworld and play at the Asian Poker Tour Macau – the movie crew will be needing lots of extras and even players to take on roles if they choose! Rounders, starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton, is always highlighted as a key catalyst for the growth of poker in the western world. &#8216;Poker King&#8217; has the promise to deliver this and potentially much more. Gross revenue from poker in Macau is estimated to have risen by 400% in 2008 alone and continues to rise and with this blockbuster movie the game could become even more popular in a land where baccarat is king. Think of how many people have seen Rounders and at least quadruple it and you can only speculate at the kind of impact &#8216;Poker King&#8217; could have on the game. We&#8217;re delighted to be involved.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Asian Poker Tour Macau is a hotbed for the world&#8217;s top poker professionals and negotiations are ongoing about giving the Tour&#8217;s sponsored ambassadors &#8216;The Poker Pack&#8217; significant roles in the film. The Pack includes recent World Series of Poker bracelet winners JC Tran and Steve Sung, as well as Quinn Do, Nam Le, David &#8216;Chino&#8217; Rheem and Kwang Soo Lee. Together, they are amongst the most feared players on the world circuit. </p>
<p>The Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival will run from August 12–23, 2009 at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino in Macau. Last year, the event attracted some of the most famous names in the game. Poker legend Doyle Brunson was one of those that attended and said: &#8220;I thought Las Vegas was the gambling capital of the world but I was wrong, it feels like coming home.&#8221; The Main Event was won by 20-year-old US hotshot Yevgeniy Timoshenko, who scooped US$500,000 after emerging triumphant from the star-studded field that featured players from over 40 countries. Timoshenko has gone on to become one of the hottest talents in the game after taking down the WPT Championship earlier this year. </p>
<p>This year&#8217;s Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival will be bigger and better with 12 days of non-stop poker action and fun. The buy-in is set at US$4,300 (US$4000+$300). Aside from the Main Event, the Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival will feature the largest range of side events ever seen in Asia - guaranteed to make the poker fest even more exciting and appealing to players at all levels. Organizers and tournament director Matt Savage promise a lengthy and varied side event schedule that will appeal to all tastes, details of which will be confirmed in the near future. High-limit games and sit-n-go tables will run throughout the duration of the festival. </p>
<p>The last Asian Poker Tour event was held in the Philippines in January 2009 and was won by Manila rounder Neil Arce, who scooped US$185,000 for first prize after overcoming a field of 262 players from over 40 countries. The runner-up was the Republic of Korea&#8217;s Steve Yea, who repeated his second place in the Asian Poker Tour Macau 2008. </p>
<p>Like 2008, online qualifiers are also expected to flock to the StarWorld as the Asian Poker Tour continues to gain support from leading online poker networks hosting satellites to the Main Event. The Asian Poker Tour is supported by the iPoker Network, Titan Poker, DafaPoker, PKR, PartyPoker, , 32 Red Poker, Betfriends, Ongame Network, Red Kings.</p>
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